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Word of Grace Studies is a church in Monroe, WA, dedicated to changing the lives of believers through equipping them to live out who they are in Christ by edifying the body of the Christ (the Church).

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  • Matthew 1:8–11 Uzziah to Jeconiah | Curse, Exile & Christ’s Dual Claim

    Matthew 1:8–11 Uzziah to Jeconiah | Curse, Exile & Christ’s Dual Claim
    2026/09/20
    Picking back up in Matthew, the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, is examined in detail. Some names carry little besides their place in the list; others carry the promise of the Messiah who will rule from David’s line.David is the king God chose. Israel chose Saul; God appointed David, a man after His own heart who, despite failures, pursued the Lord. Solomon followed. He was known for wisdom and a generally good reign until foreign wives turned his heart after other gods.Rehoboam caused the split. He rejected the counsel of Solomon’s older advisers, increased the burden, and the ten northern tribes broke away. Two kingdoms remained. Abijah walked in the sins of his father. Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and corrected much that his father had done, though he did not remove everything. Jehoshaphat taught the people the law of the Lord, sent priests throughout the land, and sought peace with the north, which later brought trouble.Joram (Jehoram) walked in the way of Ahab, followed false gods, died of a painful intestinal disease, and was not mourned. Matthew then jumps from Joram to Uzziah. Joash, Amaziah, and others stand between them. Athaliah and other royal mothers sought to destroy the seed; Joash was saved by his sister.Uzziah became king at sixteen (2 Chronicles 26:1). Early he sought the Lord in the days of Zechariah and prospered (2 Chronicles 26:5). Strength produced pride. He entered the temple to burn incense, a duty reserved for priests. Leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests (2 Chronicles 26:19–20). He was thrust out, lived isolated until death, could not govern or enter the house of the Lord, and was buried in a field adjacent to the royal tombs because he was a leper (2 Chronicles 26:23).Jotham judged the people while his father lived as a leper (2 Kings 15:5). He did what was right according to all Uzziah had done, yet the high places were not removed and the people still sacrificed there (2 Kings 15:34–35). He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.Ahaz walked in the way of the kings of Israel, made his sons pass through the fire to Molech (2 Kings 16:3–4; Leviticus 18:21), stripped the temple and palace to pay the king of Assyria (2 Kings 16:8), and after seeing an altar in Damascus ordered Uriah the priest to copy it and set it in the temple in place of the bronze altar of the Lord (2 Kings 16:10–16).Hezekiah rejected his father’s way and did what was right according to all that David had done (2 Kings 18:1–3). He opened the doors of the temple his father had shut, sanctified the priests (2 Chronicles 29:3–19), destroyed the high places, sacred pillars, wooden images, and the bronze serpent that had become an idol called Nehushtan (2 Kings 18:4), and reinstituted the Passover on a national scale, inviting even Ephraim and Manasseh (2 Chronicles 30:1).Manasseh did not merely drift. He rebuilt the high places Hezekiah had destroyed, raised altars for Baal, made wooden images, worshiped the host of heaven, made his sons pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood (2 Kings 21:3–9). His evil exceeded that of the nations the Lord had driven out. The fall of Jerusalem and the exile are explicitly tied to the wrath provoked by Manasseh (2 Kings 24:3–4; Jeremiah 15:4).Amon did evil as his father had done, served the same idols, and forsook the Lord (2 Kings 21:20–22). His servants conspired and killed him in his house. The people of the land executed the assassins and made Josiah king (2 Kings 21:23–24; 2 Chronicles 33:25).Josiah began to reign at eight years of age (2 Chronicles 34:1). He did what was right, walking in the ways of David and not turning aside. He purged idolatry, broke down altars and images, beat them to powder, defiled Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom to stop child sacrifice, and removed mediums and household gods (2 Chronicles 34:4–7). While repairing the temple the Book of the Law was found. He kept a Passover such as had not been seen since the days of the judges (2 Kings 23:21). Yet the Lord did not turn from the wrath aroused by Manasseh (2 Kings 23:26). Josiah was killed by Pharaoh Neco at Megiddo (2 Kings 23:29).From Josiah Matthew lists Jeconiah and his brothers, carried away to Babylon (Matthew 1:11). Intermediate sons of Josiah reigned briefly and were deposed by Egypt or Babylon. Jeconiah reigned three months and ten days before the siege. The curse on Jeconiah declares him childless as to the throne: none of his descendants shall sit on the throne of David or prosper in Judah (Jeremiah 22:24, 30).This genealogy is Joseph’s line. Because Joseph descends from Jeconiah he has no legal right to the throne. Mary’s line, given in Luke 3:31, comes through Nathan, son of David by Bathsheba (1 Chronicles 3:5). Nathan carries the blood right without the Jeconiah curse. Jesus alone holds both the legal claim through Joseph’s house and ...
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    34 分
  • Abide in the Son and the Father | 1 John 2:18–28

    Abide in the Son and the Father | 1 John 2:18–28
    2026/09/20
    The study continues in 1 John toward the end of chapter 2, focusing on verses 18–28 and the word abide.1 John 2:18–28: It is the last time. Antichrist will come; even now there are many antichrists. They went out from us, but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would have continued (abided) with us. They went out that it might be made manifest they were not all of us. You have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things. These things are written because you know the truth, and no lie is of the truth. The liar is the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Let that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. This is the promise: eternal life. These things are written concerning those who seduce you. The anointing received from Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you. The same anointing teaches of all things and is truth and is no lie; as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. Little children, abide in Him, that when He appears you may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.Meno means to stay, to reside, to call a place home, to make yourself at home—not only physical location. The same word appears in verse 19 of the antichrists, three times in verse 24 (the King James uses abide, remain, and continue for one word), and three more times in verses 27–28 of the anointing and of abiding in Him.1 John 2:14: the Word of God abides in the young men, and they have overcome the wicked one. What is heard, taught, and read in the Word can abide in a person. It can also go in one ear and out the other, or be learned and ignored so that it is not at home.Abiding in the Son. John 15:4–5: Abide in Me and I in you. The branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine; neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him brings forth much fruit; without Me you can do nothing. A dead branch may still be attached; abiding is being at home and not uncooperative with the vine that feeds it. A Christian can bear fruit or be carnal without losing salvation or attachment to the vine. Carnality means not abiding correctly.Romans 6:20–23: When you were slaves of the sin you were free from righteousness. What fruit did you have in those things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. Now, having been made free from the sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto holiness and the end eternal life. The wages of sin is death; the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Unsaved fruit was from the sin nature. Saved people have opportunity for fruit unto holiness, yet can still hinder fruit by carnality.John 15:7: If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you will ask what you want and it will be done to you. In this the Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples. John 15:16: You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give you. The qualifier is abiding in Him and His words abiding in you.1 John 3:18–24: Love in deed and in truth. If our heart condemns us not, we have confidence toward God. Whatever we ask we receive from Him because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. This is His commandment: believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another. He who keeps His commandments abides in Him and He in him. By this we know He abides in us: by the Spirit He has given us. Commandments are not stored off to the side while another agenda is at home.1 John 5:14–15: This is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. If we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know we have the petitions we asked of Him. Asking is not for anything you want; it is for anything He wants. James 4: you ask amiss that you may consume it on your pleasures. Using asking correctly teaches what the will of God is.John 15:9–10: As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Abide in My love. If you keep My commandments you will abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.1 John 3:4–6: Everyone doing sin is also doing lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him is no sin. Whoever abides in Him is not sinning. Whoever is sinning has not seen Him neither known Him. Present tense: the one currently abiding is not currently sinning. This is not a claim that one abiding once never sins again. It is John’s way of speaking of spiritual ...
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    47 分
  • Doubt, Cowardice and Lying | How Satan Attacks Christians

    Doubt, Cowardice and Lying | How Satan Attacks Christians
    2026/09/18
    The lesson continues the Christian Life series on Satan and demons, focusing on ways they attack a Christian. Previous sessions treated independence from God, Job, discouragement, and disappointment. Three further attacks are taken up: doubt, spiritual cowardice, and lying. The aim is awareness so that the believer can respond without fear and, later in the series, take up the defense.Doubt is set against faith. Several Greek words are rendered “doubt.” The passages used here employ diakrino. The word can mean to distinguish or to differ from another; in the middle or passive it is often “doubt,” because one is differing with oneself and second-guessing what is so.Matthew 21:18–22 records the withered fig tree. Jesus tells the disciples that if they have faith and do not doubt they will not only do what was done to the tree but may speak to the mountain and it will be done, and whatever they ask in prayer, believing, they will receive. Christians are expected to walk by faith; doubt is the opposite.James 1:5–7 applies the same contrast to asking. If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and does not upbraid, and it will be given. Let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. The one who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed and is not to think he will receive anything from the Lord. Asking is for what is in God’s will; wisdom is such a request. Asking while wondering whether it will work is not asking in faith.Romans 4:19–20 gives Abraham as the positive example. He was not weak in faith. He did not consider his own body as good as dead, about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Unbelief is unfaith. Faith and this kind of doubt cannot coexist regarding the same promise.Faith is a piece of the armor of God, the shield of faith in Ephesians 6, to be treated later. Romans 14 shows why doubt is dangerous: one cannot act on faith and on doubt at the same time. In the matter of food, nothing is unclean of itself, yet to the one who reckons it unclean it is unclean. Love limits liberty so a brother is not destroyed. Happy is the one who does not condemn himself in what he allows. But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith. Whatever is not from faith is sin. Satan can take an otherwise innocuous act and make it sin by bringing the person to do it without believing it is right.Satan and demons often work first on frame of mind, attitude, or mental state, then present an action. Job shows the same pattern: long labor on the inner life aimed at getting him to curse God, which he never did. The sin nature campaigns through what appeals. Satan’s method is frequently different: produce a state, then an act that may not in itself look like a listed sin.Spiritual cowardice is such a state. It is fear that begins to govern behavior. Luke 22:31–34: the Lord tells Simon that Satan has asked to have “you” (plural, the disciples) to sift them as wheat, but He has prayed for Simon that his faith not fail, and when he is converted he is to strengthen the brethren. Peter claims readiness for prison and death. Jesus answers that the rooster will not crow before Peter has denied Him three times. After the arrest, Peter denies the Lord three times by the fire (Luke 22:54–62) and weeps bitterly. Between the warning and the denials he had even struck with the sword; fear of prison and death then changed his conduct. The denials are lies produced by that fear.2 Timothy 1:6–9: Paul reminds Timothy to stir up the gift of God. God has not given a spirit of cowardice (deilia, timidity that affects behavior, not general phobos), but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Timothy is not to be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord or of Paul His prisoner, but to share the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. Given who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do, such cowardice is not logical. Unpleasantness may be ahead, as the garden showed of the Lord, without calling the path off.1 Peter 5:8–9: be sober and vigilant, because the adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour; resist him steadfast in the faith. The roar is not appealing; it is meant to freeze. Peter knew the method from his own denials.Lying is itself an action and is tied to Satan. Acts 4:34–5:11: early in the church, possessors of lands sold them and laid the prices at the apostles’ feet. Ananias and Sapphira sold a possession, kept back part with the wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion as if it were the whole. Peter asks why Satan has filled Ananias’s heart to lie to the Holy Spirit. The land was their own before and after the sale; they lied not to men but to God. Ananias expires; about three hours later Sapphira repeats the lie and likewise expires. The reasoning was...
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    56 分
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