Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Mt. 22:37 I am glad that every puzzle comes with a picture of what it’s supposed to look like when it’s all put together or I would have a hard time doing it. One needs the big picture. But it’s also …
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God? Mt.22:31 We need to know the truth about the resurrection of the dead. There are many reasons for this, the primary one being the one that the apostle Paul emphasizes in his letter to the …
Ye do err, not knowing . . . the power of God. Mt. 22:29 We need to know the power of God. Our Lord is addressing the unbelief of the Sadducees with respect to the resurrection. They just didn’t believe that God could do it. Therefore they erred. But we also can fail to appreciate the power of God …
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. Mt. 22:29 It is essential that we know the Scriptures. We are living in a day awash with information. It used to be that statisticians had to deal with the problem of the paucity of information and how …
Behold, a sower went forth to sow. Mt. 13:3 The parable of the sower as explained by our Lord is fairly straightforward. Nevertheless, despite its interpretation by Jesus, it has suffered under the hands of others. In our day, this parable is often interpreted in a way to make all the soils …
In Exodus 6, God makes these amazing promises to Israel: "And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. And I have also established my covenant with …
And [Jesus] said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. Mt. 21:13 How important is the worship of God to us? Ask the Puritans. In 1662, 2000 Puritan pastors were ejected from their pulpits for refusing to use the English Book of …
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two …
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30; 20:16, 25-28 God is generous: his mercy reaches to the heavens and he sovereignly grants his mercy to the least deserving. This is the lesson of our text. Which means that we should beware of serving God from mercenary …
Blessed art thou, Simon Barjonah. Mt. 16:17 Our Lord’s response to Peter is just as important as Peter’s answer to his question. The Great Benediction deserves our examination just as much as the Great Confession. And our Lord tells Peter that it is a blessed thing to confess Jesus as the Christ, …