Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 12/16/2007

Acts 22:21-28

Life Lesson (verse Acts 22:21)

Our heavenly Father knows best. Trust Him.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 22:21)

God has a plan for your life.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 22:22)

If you read and study your Bible, it will keep you from a lot of scriptural and spiritual error.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 22:24)

Don't assume when people are angry at someone, that the person has done something wrong.

Acts 9:28-30 NKJV

28 So he was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out.29 And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to kill him.30 When the brethren found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus.

Jer 29:11 NKJV

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isa 55:8-9 NKJV

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Isa 42:6-7 NKJV

6 "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles, 7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

Isa 49:6 NKJV

Indeed He says, 'It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

Isa 60:1-3 NKJV

1 Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

Matt 22:29 NKJV

Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Matt 12:3 NKJV

But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

Matt 12:5 NKJV

Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

Matt 19:4 NKJV

And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

Matt 22:31-32 NKJV

31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,32'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

Luke 2:25-32 NKJV

25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.27 So he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the law,28 he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said: 29 "Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word; 30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation 31 Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, 32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel."

Acts 13:46-47 NKJV

46 Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said,"It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.47 For so the Lord has commanded us: 'I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

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