5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. Read ChapterAll Versions Matthew 23:23-24 ...
The issue, then, was not fundamentally the fact that this young man owned possessions; the issue was that these possessions owned this young man. And by commanding this man to sell what he had, Jesus was zooming in on this man’s heart and exposing it for what it was....
Christ tells Peter the reason for being rebuked next, as Peter had spoken in zealousness towards his Master, but without being mindful of the matters of God, which were higher than just earthly things. So this “Rebuke” is contrasted with the “Command” to “Take up Our Cross”, as Pe...
Despite the material possessions we accumulate during our lives, they ultimately pale in comparison to life’s more timeless forms of riches. Money can’t buy eternity! Let’s all take thislesson about flowers in the Bibleas James tells us, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a f...
Verse Concepts Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 7 Verse Concepts Mark 12:30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 8 Verse Concepts Mark...
The comments on the text are on the whole quite simplistic and shallow, often doing nothing more than paraphrasing the verse to which they refer. Only very rarely do they quote from the Fathers to draw out the fuller meaning of the text, although a good collection of such quotations would ...
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we go to the last half of verse two and see what God is up to. It says that “the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.” When Caesar spoke, everybody listened, because he had the power of life and death over his subjects. When God spoke, He didn...
It’s all about loving. As the verse for today says, it’s not about the good service that we do to our fellow Men, it’s about the good service that we do for God, for the sake of God – and we can do nothing for the sake of God unless we are doing it because we love ...
The explanation of this piece of armor is right there in the verse – it is the word of God. And it is the only piece of armor that is both defensive and offensive. Greg Laurie explains further: “When we are tempted, the most effective weapon that God has given to us a...