We Are Called
The Text
Romans 6:6–11 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
The Devotion
This is the power of God in salvation: the gospel of Jesus Christ. He has called us to eternal life. But how can this be since we are sinners--dead in our trespasses and sins. (Ephesians 2:1) How can dead men look upon the risen Christ and be saved into eternal life? (John 3:14-15) How can the dead look into their dead, sinful hearts and twisted minds and choose to follow the Christ?
John 11:32–37 As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died!" When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. "Where have you put him?" he asked. "Lord," they told him, "come and see." Jesus wept. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Couldn't he who opened the blind man's eyes also have kept this man from dying?"*
Our Christ putting on the most whole display of what happens to dead sinners when they are dead in their trespasses and sins and cannot make themselves alive again. They cannot tilt their dead heads and look up with their dead eyes and see the risen Christ. No! They cannot stir up within themselves with their dead hearts and wicked desires, turn and follow Jesus.
We cannot, in our very best efforts, unalive ourselves.
He has stepped from the infinite into the finite, heaven into earth, from glory into humility--condescending to our level, taking on flesh. He has come to give us his Spirit and the Father's heart. He has come to renew our minds, open our eyes, turn on our ears, awaken our mouths, and give us life!
He has come to set the captives free!
He has come to heal the sick!
He has come to raise the dead!
Jesus came into this world to save sinners!
John 11:38–39 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. "Remove the stone," Jesus said. Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there is already a stench because he has been dead four days."
We were born sinners as the children of God. Four days? Try since Genesis 3. Our original parents sinned against the holy God, and they were cast out. But look at this incredible calling: "I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel." (Genesis 3:15) Before God cursed Adam and Eve and the earth, he called to them to believe in the Almighty God. And the curse of sin and death of Adam doesn't even belong to Adam! How do I know? Before they were exiled from the garden, Adam and Eve believed the gospel that was called to bring them from death to life.
Genesis 3:21 The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.
This is the gospel, and stop me when you have heard this before: God would offer the sacrifice of his only begotten Son. Because of the perfect obedience and the death of his Son, he clothes us with the righteousness of his Son.
God promised the snake crusher and the death destroyer. Let us see if he delivers.
John 11:40–42 Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you heard me. I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me."
Jesus, God who took on flesh, dwelled with us, condescended to us, and became us, and walked this earth in perfect obedience to the law of God, was always in right-standing and perfect love and affection with his wonderful Father. And the Christ, being the only begotten Son, was not going to do anything he had not seen his own Father do, turns his eyes upon the Almighty God and gives thanks for what God is about to do.
The Christ--as human as you and me. Experiences the dreaded, scorching heat of the day. Fights off the sickness-inducing waves of the sea when he goes commercial fishing with his buds. Hungered. Thirst. Sleepy. Tired. Lonely. Homeless. Sad. Angry. Frustrated. Tender. Gentle. Grieved.
And all his Godliness and his humanity stood right in front of death. Chances are, if you stare down Death, Death is going to win. Yet, in this instance, death is staring down the Son of Man. "What would Christ dare to do?" Death thinks as he perches over his most recent trophy--Christ's best friend's dead, rotting corpse. What does the Christ think he is going to do now?
Christ, whose face is still hot from weeping, turns his eyes down from the heavens and stares straight through Death. To defeat Death here, Christ is so mighty, powerful, good, and holy that he doesn't even have to acknowledge Death. He calls with a thunderous voice:
"LAZARUS, COME FORTH!"
What do you think happened when you were born again? What do you think happened when you arose from death into life? What do you think happened when you first believed?
You were called by the Almighty Triune God himself.
CHILD OF GOD, BELOVED ONE OF GOD, COME FORTH!
For all the advances and the mere power that mankind wields, they have no power to stop death. Yet, our Christ, fully God and fully man, calls forth sinners from the dead and makes them alive to God forever and ever.
This is the power of God in salvation--the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.
The Scriptures
Psalm 113
1 Hallelujah! Give praise, servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.2 Let the name of the LORD be blessed both now and forever.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of the LORD be praised.
4 The LORD is exalted above all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God— the one enthroned on high,
6 who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap
8 in order to seat them with nobles— with the nobles of his people.
9 He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!
Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
Genesis 6:11–22 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth. “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks. “Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive. Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.” And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.
Genesis 12:1–9 The LORD said to Abram: Go from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you. So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the LORD there, and he called on the name of the LORD. Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.
Genesis 17:19 But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.
Genesis 37:3–11 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a long-sleeved robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him. Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” “Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said. Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had?” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you?” His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
Genesis 49:24 Yet his bow remained steady, and his strong arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
Exodus 15:10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Deuteronomy 3:24 Lord GOD, you have begun to show your greatness and your strong hand to your servant, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can perform deeds and mighty acts like yours?
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.
Deuteronomy 34:12 and for all the mighty acts of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua 6:5 When there is a prolonged blast of the horn and you hear its sound, have all the troops give a mighty shout. Then the city wall will collapse, and the troops will advance, eaChronicles man straight ahead.”
Joshua 22:22 “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows, and may Israel also know. Do not spare us today, if it was in rebellion or treachery against the LORD
Judges 6:11–12 The angel of the LORD came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites. Then the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, “The LORD is with you, valiant warrior.”
Judges 13:1–7 The Israelites again did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines forty years. There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoah; his wife was unable to conceive and had no children. The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Although you are unable to conceive and have no children, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer, or to eat anything unclean; for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines.” Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring angel of God. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name. He said to me, ‘You will conceive and give birth to a son. Therefore, do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth until the day of his death.’ ”
1 Samuel 16:11–13 Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” he answered, “but right now he’s tending the sheep.” Samuel told Jesse, “Send for him. We won’t sit down to eat until he gets here.” So Jesse sent for him. He had beautiful eyes and a healthy, handsome appearance. Then the LORD said, “Anoint him, for he is the one.” So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully on David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
2 Samuel 1:19 The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
2 Samuel 1:21 Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, or fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was defiled— the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
2 Samuel 1:22 Jonathan’s bow never retreated, Saul’s sword never returned unstained, from the blood of the slain, from the flesh of the mighty.
2 Samuel 1:25 How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
2 Samuel 1:27 How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!
1 Kings 19:11 Then he said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the LORD’s presence.” At that moment, the LORD passed by. A great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and was shattering cliffs before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
1 Kings 19:19–21 Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him. Elisha left the oxen, ran to follow Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” he replied, “for what have I done to you?” So he turned back from following him, took the team of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s wooden yoke and plow, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he left, followed Elijah, and served him.
2 Kings 8:13 Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog, do suChronicles a mighty deed?” Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
1 Chronicles 27:6 This Benaiah was a mighty man among the Thirty and over the Thirty, and his son Ammizabad was in charge of his division.
1 Chronicles 29:24 All the leaders and the mighty men, and all of King David’s sons as well, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 13:3 Abijah set his army of warriors in order with four hundred thousand fit young men. Jeroboam arranged his mighty army of eight hundred thousand fit young men in battle formation against him.
2 Chronicles 13:17 Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and five hundred thousand fit young men of Israel were killed.
2 Chronicles 14:11 Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God, “LORD, there is no one besides you to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, LORD our God, for we depend on you, and in your name we have come against this large army. LORD, you are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder you.”
Nehemiah 9:32 So now, our God—the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God who keeps his gracious covenant— do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us, our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.
Job 24:22 Yet God drags away the mighty by his power; when he rises up, they have no assurance of life.
Job 26:14 These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?
Job 34:17 Could one who hates justice govern the world? Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,
Job 34:20 They die suddenly in the middle of the night; people shudder, then pass away. Even the mighty are removed without effort.
Job 34:24 He shatters the mighty without an investigation and sets others in their place.
Job 35:9 People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.
Job 36:5 Yes, God is mighty, but he despises no one; he understands all things.
Job 37:6 For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,” and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,
Job 41:25 When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.
Psalm 20:6 Now I know that the LORD gives victory to his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories from his right hand.
Psalm 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle.
Psalm 45:3 Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side. In your majesty and splendor—
Psalm 50:1 The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks; he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Psalm 58:1 Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly?
Psalm 71:16 I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.
Psalm 80:10 The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
Psalm 89:13 You have a mighty arm; your hand is powerful; your right hand is lifted high.
Psalm 93:4 Greater than the roar of a huge torrent— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
Psalm 99:4 The mighty King loves justice. You have established fairness; you have administered justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Psalm 106:2 Who can declare the LORD’s mighty acts or proclaim all the praise due him?
Psalm 110:2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion. Rule over your surrounding enemies.
Psalm 132:2 and how he swore an oath to the LORD, making a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:
Psalm 132:5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Psalm 135:10 He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Psalm 145:4 One generation will declare your works to the next and will proclaim your mighty acts.
Psalm 145:12 informing all people of your mighty acts and of the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Psalm 150:1 Hallelujah! Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty expanse.
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 30:26 hyraxes are not a mighty people, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
Song of Solomon 3:7 Look! Solomon’s bed surrounded by sixty warriors from the mighty men of Israel.
Isaiah 1:24 Therefore the Lord GOD of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will get even with my foes; I will take revenge against my enemies.
Isaiah 6:1–8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphim were standing above him; they each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another: Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Armies; his glory fills the whole earth. The foundations of the doorways shook at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke. Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies. Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said: Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for. Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking: Who will I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me.
Isaiah 8:7 the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River— the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill over all its banks.
Isaiah 9:6 For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 10:13 For he said: I have done this by my own strength and wisdom, for I am clever. I abolished the borders of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.
Isaiah 10:21 The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.
Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will divide the Gulf of Suez. He will wave his hand over the Euphrates with his mighty wind and will split it into seven streams, letting people walk through on foot.
Isaiah 13:4 Listen, a commotion on the mountains, like that of a mighty people! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations being gathered together! The LORD of Armies is mobilizing an army for war.
Isaiah 28:2 Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one— like a devastating hail storm, like a storm with strong flooding water. He will bring it across the land with his hand.
Isaiah 34:7 The wild oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat.
Isaiah 43:17 who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty one together (they lie down, they do not rise again; they are extinguished, put out like a wick)—
Isaiah 49:24 Can the prey be taken from a mighty man, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
Isaiah 49:25 For this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken, and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered; I will contend with the one who contends with you, and I will save your children.
Isaiah 49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. Then all humanity will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will give him the many as a portion, and he will receive the mighty as spoil, because he willingly submitted to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
Isaiah 55:10–11 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return there without saturating the earth and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.”
Isaiah 60:16 You will nurse on the milk of nations, and nurse at the breast of kings; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 60:22 The least will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; I will accomplish it quickly in its time.
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this coming from Edom in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah— this one who is splendid in his apparel, striding in his formidable might? It is I, proclaiming vindication, powerful to save.
Jeremiah 1:4–5 The word of the LORD came to me: I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 8:16 From Dan, the snorting of horses is heard. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all its residents.
Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD named you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. He has set fire to it, and its branches are consumed with the sound of a mighty tumult.
Jeremiah 32:18 You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Armies,
Jeremiah 48:17 Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations, everyone who knows his name. Say, “How the mighty scepter is shattered, the glorious staff!”
Jeremiah 51:55 For the LORD is going to devastate Babylon; he will silence her mighty voice. Their waves roar like a huge torrent; the tumult of their voice resounds,
Lamentations 1:15 The Lord has rejected all the mighty men within me. He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah like grapes in a winepress.
Ezekiel 17:17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast company will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
Ezekiel 26:11 He will trample all your streets with the hooves of his horses. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
Ezekiel 26:19 For this is what the Lord GOD says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
Ezekiel 32:18 “Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and bring Egypt and the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld, to be with those who descend to the Pit:
Ezekiel 37:1–6 The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by his Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry. Then he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I replied, “Lord GOD, only you know.” He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live. I will put tendons on you, make flesh grow on you, and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you so that you come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 39:18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.
Ezekiel 39:20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and all the warriors. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’
Daniel 4:3 How great are his miracles, and how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Joel 2:5 They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.
Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Luke 1:13–17 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John. There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother’s womb. He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.”
Luke 1:49 because the Mighty One has done great things for me, and his name is holy.
Luke 1:51 He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has scattered the proud because of the thoughts of their hearts;
Luke 1:52 he has toppled the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly.
John 6:44–47 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to me—not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father. “Truly I tell you, anyone who believes has eternal life.
John 11:25–27 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” “Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”
John 11:38–44 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. “Remove the stone,” Jesus said. Martha, the dead man’s sister, told him, “Lord, there is already a stench because he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me. I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me.” After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”
Acts 13:17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.
Romans 1:15–17 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
Romans 4:17 As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations— in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
Romans 11:29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
Galatians 1:15–16 But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
Ephesians 1:19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.
Ephesians 2:1–3 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
Ephesians 4:29 No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.
Hebrews 11:34 quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time,
Revelation 5:2 I also saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”
Revelation 10:1-2 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire, He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.
Revelation 18:8 For this reason her plagues will come in just one day— death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.
Revelation 18:10 They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come.
Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, In this way, Babylon the great city will be thrown down violently and never be found again.
Revelation 19:18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of military commanders, the flesh of the mighty, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”