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 …
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. Mt. 12:8 Many of us at one time or another have struggled with how to apply the Fourth Commandment to our lives: “Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.” There are a number of problems. One problem is that, strictly speaking, the Sabbath Day …
I'm referring, of course, to the ruler of Babylon at the fall of the empire to the Medes and Persians in 539 B.C. He is an interesting figure because for a long time scholars took the book of Daniel to be a later work of fiction; after all, everyone knew that Nabonidus, not Belshazzar (as seems to …
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. Romans 12:10 Or, as the ESV translates it: Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. One of the ways the love commanded in verse 9 is manifested is in a family spirit …
"[How] shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed according to thy word" Psalm 119:9. The question is revealing. Notice the psalmist doesn’t say, “ Why should a young man cleanse his way?” Neither does he ask, “ Shoulda young man cleanse his way?” He has already moved past the point that so …
Called to be saints. Romans 1:7 In the NT, there are two different types of calling. There is the general call of the gospel, which is the call that goes out to all men to repent and believe the gospel. This is what is being referred to, for example, in Matthew 22:14, when our Lord says that …
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God. Romans 1:7 Let us not miss the implications of this grand statement. Every believer is loved by God. Now, I want to push back here at a notion of the love of God that waters down the force of these words. It comes from a failure to distinguish between the …
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Mt. 6:13 Commentators on this verse to this day have spent a lot of time trying to sort out the difficulty of this petition. The difficulty comes in like this. The word behind “temptation” is the Greek word peirasmos, and could be …