Until we undergo the baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit, we will always be tempted to put our own ambitions and interests first. We won’t understand that our self-will and stubbornness stab Jesus, that our insistence on our own dignity and rightness hurts him. Every time we stand on o...
26 For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. Solomon again sees some value in wisdo...
An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, ofaddersanddartingsnakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation, 以賽亞書 30:6 論南方牲畜的默示。他...
Whoever does not keep it, but works on that day, is to be put to death. 15 KJV Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Wherefore the children of...
In prayer with his apostles—only hours before his death—Jesus petitioned: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you,the only true God,and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”...
.,);;.—,) The foundation of his apostleship,;.—,) a very proper epithet, comp. the preceding verse,ages, so. The silence on the part of God presupposes eternal knowledge,. The new Economy implies no change in God Himself; His own work is well known to Him from eternity. Comp....
To them the Bible is a sealed book, and the knowledge of The Son and The Father is only revealed to the few to whom The Son chooses. As a result, there are very few who fully understand the profound significance of this hard teaching. Please see also the study on Isaiah Chapter 29:...