Luke 12:1-3
WARNING AGAINST HYPOCRISY AND COVETOUSNESS. The leaven of the. Pharisees:... [ Continue Reading ]
WARNING AGAINST HYPOCRISY AND COVETOUSNESS. The leaven of the. Pharisees:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE MEANTIME, WHEN THERE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE, INSOMUCH, THAT THEY TROD ONE UPON ANOTHER, HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO HIS DISCIPLES FIRST OF ALL, BEWARE YE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, WHICH IS HYPOCRISY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED THAT SHALL NOT BE REVEALED, NEITHER HID THAT SHALL NOT BE KNOWN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, WHATSOEVER YE HAVE SPOKEN IN DARKNESS SHALL BE HEARD IN THE LIGHT; AND THAT WHICH YE HAVE SPOKEN IN THE EAR IN CLOSETS SHALL BE PROCLAIMED UPON THE HOUSETOPS. While the assaults of the Pharisees and scribes were going on, while they were attempting everything in their power to discredit J... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
True fearlessness:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE NOT FIVE SPARROWS SOLD FOR TWO FARTHINGS? AND NOT ONE OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN BEFORE GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT EVEN THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED. FEAR NOT THEREFORE; YE ARE OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARROWS. As friends Jesus addresses His disciples, a title showing His love and trust in them, John 15:14. They should have no fear of those that can injure and destroy the body, if God should... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS ME BEFORE MEN, HIM SHALL THE SON OF MAN ALSO CONFESS BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
Confessing Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT DENIETH ME BEFORE MEN SHALL BE DENIED BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER SHALL SPEAK A WORD AGAINST THE SON OF MAN, IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM; BUT UNTO HIM THAT BLASPHEMETH AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAGOGUES AND UNTO MAGISTRATES AND POWERS, TAKE YE NO THOUGHT HOW OR WHAT THING YE SHALL ANSWER, OR WHAT YE SHALL SAY;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE HOLY GHOST SHALL TEACH YOU IN THE SAME HOUR WHAT YE OUGHT TO SAY. In order to impress upon His disciples the necessity of an open and fearless confession, Jesus solemnly refers to the final judgment. A confession of Christ before men, an open proclamation of the truth and a steadfast defense... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE OF THE COMPANY SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, SPEAK TO MY BROTHER THAT HE DIVIDE THE INHERITANCE WITH ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
Warning against avarice:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, MAN, WHO MADE ME A JUDGE OR A DIVIDER OVER YOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE HEED, AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS; FOR A MAN'S LIFE CONSISTETH NOT IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THE THINGS WHICH HE POSSESSETH. While Jesus was addressing the multitude, there came an interruption. A man in the crowd asked Him to speak to his brother about dividing the inheritance... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM, SAYING, THE GROUND OF A CERTAIN RICH MAN BROUGHT FORTH PLENTIFULLY;... [ Continue Reading ]
The parable of the rich man:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THOUGHT WITHIN HIMSELF, SAYING, WHAT SHALL I DO BECAUSE I HAVE NO ROOM WHERE TO BESTOW MY FRUITS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, THIS WILL I DO: I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS AND BUILD GREATER; AND THERE WILL I BESTOW ALL MY FRUITS AND MY GOODS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL SAY TO MY SOUL, SOUL, THOU HAST MUCH GOODS LAID UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE THINE EASE, EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GOD SAID UNTO HIM, THOU FOOL, THIS NIGHT THY SOUL SHALL BE REQUIRED OF THEE; THEN WHOSE SHALL THOSE THINGS BE WHICH THOU HAST PROVIDED?... [ Continue Reading ]
SO IS HE THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT RICH TOWARD GOD. The foolishness of covetousness and of trusting in riches could not be brought out more emphatically than in this parable. A certain rich man's land had proved very fertile, it had yielded a bumper crop. This was God's blessin... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE WHAT YE SHALL EAT; NEITHER FOR THE BODY WHAT YE SHALL PUT ON.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF TRUST IN GOD AND PREPARATION FOR CHRIST'S COMING. Warnings against care:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIFE IS MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BODY IS MORE THAN RAIMENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSIDER THE RAVENS; FOR THEY NEITHER SOW NOR REAP; WHICH NEITHER HAVE STOREHOUSE NOR BARN; AND GOD FEEDETH THEM: HOW MUCH MORE ARE YE BETTER THAN THE FOWLS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHICH OF YOU WITH TAKING THOUGHT CAN ADD TO HIS STATURE ONE CUBIT?... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE, THEN, BE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT THING WHICH IS LEAST, WHY TAKE YE THOUGHT FOR THE REST? There is a close connection between the warning spoken to the people in general and that addressed to the disciples in particular, for covetousness may have its root in care and worry for the matters of this... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSIDER THE LILIES, HOW THEY GROW; THEY TOIL NOT, THEY SPIN NOT; AND YET I SAY UNTO YOU THAT SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT ARRAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE.... [ Continue Reading ]
A lesson from the fields:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF, THEN, GOD SO CLOTHE THE GRASS, WHICH IS TODAY IN THE FIELD, AND TOMORROW IS CAST INTO THE OVEN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL HE CLOTHE YOU, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SEEK NOT YE WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK, NEITHER BE YE OF DOUBTFUL MIND.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL THESE THINGS DO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD SEEK AFTER; AND YOUR FATHER KNOWETH THAT YE HAVE NEED OF THESE THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT RATHER SEEK YE THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU. The lilies of the field, with their velvety texture and their inimitably gorgeous colors, present the second object-lesson. For they do not ply the needle, neither do they spin or weave. And yet they are not only cl... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR NOT, LITTLE FLOCK; FOR IT IS YOUR FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE TO GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The little flock:... [ Continue Reading ]
SELL THAT YE HAVE, AND GIVE ALMS; PROVIDE YOURSELVES BAGS WHICH WAX NOT OLD, A TREASURE IN THE HEAVENS THAT FAILETH NOT, WHERE NO THIEF APPROACHETH, NEITHER MOTH CORRUPTETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO. Only a little flock is that of the disciples in the midst of the great mass of the nations of the world; only a few, a mere handful, that are earnestly and anxiously seeking the Kingdom. But these shall not fear, for the Kingdom shall be the... [ Continue Reading ]
LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED ABOUT AND YOUR LIGHTS BURNING;... [ Continue Reading ]
Christian alertness:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE YOURSELVES LIKE UNTO MEN THAT WAIT FOR THEIR LORD WHEN HE WILL RETURN FROM THE WEDDING, THAT, WHEN HE COMETH AND KNOCKETH, THEY MAY OPEN UNTO HIM IMMEDIATELY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS WHOM THE LORD WHEN HE COMETH SHALL FIND WATCHING; VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU THAT HE SHALL GIRD HIMSELF, AND MAKE THEM TO SIT DOWN TO MEAT, AND WILL COME FORTH AND SERVE THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF HE SHALL COME IN THE SECOND WATCH, OR COME IN THE THIRD WATCH, AND FIND THEM SO, BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS KNOW, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN WHAT HOUR THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND NOT HAVE SUFFERED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN THROUGH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE YE THEREFORE READY ALSO; FOR THE SON OF MAN COMETH AT AN HOUR WHEN YE THINK NOT. A state of watchful waiting is that which is expected of the Christians of the last days. They shall be like servants whose master has gone to his wedding-feast and expects to return home with his bride. Their loins... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PETER SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, SPEAKEST THOU THIS PARABLE UNTO US, OR EVEN TO ALL?... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter's question and the Lord's reply:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SAID, WHO, THEN, IS THAT FAITHFUL AND WISE STEWARD WHOM HIS LORD SHALL MAKE RULER OVER HIS HOUSEHOLD TO GIVE THEM THEIR PORTION OF MEAT IN DUE SEASON?... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED IS THAT SERVANT, WHOM HIS LORD, WHEN HE COMETH, SHALL FIND SO DOING-.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF A TRUTH I SAY UNTO YOU THAT HE WILL MAKE HIM RULER OVER ALL THAT HE HATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AND IF THAT SERVANT SAY IN HIS HEART, MY LORD DELAYETH HIS COMING, AND SHALL BEGIN TO BEAT THE MEN-SERVANTS AND MAIDENS, AND TO EAT AND DRINK, AND TO BE DRUNKEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF THAT SERVANT WILL COME IN A DAY WHEN HE LOOKETH NOT FOR HIM, AND AT AN HOUR WHEN HE IS NOT AWARE, AND WILL CUT HIM IN UNDER, AND WILL APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE UNBELIEVERS. See Matthew 24:45. Peter interrupted the Lord with the question whether the parable, and therefore also its... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, AND PREPARED NOT HIMSELF, NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's summary:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT KNEW NOT, AND DID COMMIT THINGS WORTHY OF STRIPES, SHALL BE BEATEN WITH FEW STRIPES. FOR UNTO WHOMSOEVER MUCH IS GIVEN, OF HIM SHALL BE MUCH REQUIRED; AND TO WHOM MEN HAVE COMMITTED MUCH, OF HIM THEY WILL ASK THE MORE. The Lord here states the principle according to which punishments are... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM COME TO SEND FIRE ON THE EARTH; AND WHAT WILL I, IF IT BE ALREADY KINDLED?... [ Continue Reading ]
The dissension caused by the Gospel:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM TO BE BAPTIZED WITH; AND HOW AM I STRAITENED TILL IT BE ACCOMPLISHED!... [ Continue Reading ]
SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH? I TELL YOU, NAY; BUT RATHER DIVISION;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR FROM HENCEFORTH THERE SHALL BE FIVE IN ONE HOUSE DIVIDED, THREE AGAINST TWO AND TWO AGAINST THREE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FATHER SHALL BE DIVIDED AGAINST THE SON AND THE SON AGAINST THE FATHER, THE MOTHER AGAINST THE DAUGHTER AND THE DAUGHTER AGAINST THE MOTHER, THE MOTHER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW. See Matthew 10:34. The Gospel is to some people, whose min... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID ALSO TO THE PEOPLE, WHEN YE SEE A CLOUD RISE OUT OF THE WEST, STRAIGHTWAY YE SAY, THERE COMETH A SHOWER; AND SO IT IS.... [ Continue Reading ]
A last word to the people:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN YE SEE THE SOUTH WIND BLOW, YE SAY, THERE WILL BE HEAT; AND IT COMETH TO PASS.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HYPOCRITES, YE CAN DISCERN THE FACE OF THE SKY AND OF THE EARTH; BUT HOW IS IT THAT YE DO NOT DISCERN THIS TIME?... [ Continue Reading ]
YEA, AND WHY EVEN OF YOURSELVES JUDGE YE NOT WHAT IS RIGHT?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THOU GOEST WITH THINE ADVERSARY TO THE MAGISTRATE AS THOU ART IN THE WAY, GIVE DILIGENCE THAT THOU MAYEST BE DELIVERED FROM HIM, LEST HE HALE THEE TO THE JUDGE, AND THE JUDGE DELIVER THEE TO THE OFFICER, AND THE OFFICER CAST THEE INTO PRISON.... [ Continue Reading ]
I TELL THEE, THOU SHALT NOT DEPART THENCE TILL THOU HAST PAID THE VERY LAST MITE. See Matthew 16:2. It was a word of impressive warning which Jesus spoke to the people, as He had spoken to the Pharisees on a former occasion. The people in general had not profited by the Lord's ministry of preaching,... [ Continue Reading ]