Luke 11:1-4
A LESSON IN PRAYER. The Lord's Prayer:... [ Continue Reading ]
A LESSON IN PRAYER. The Lord's Prayer:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, AS HE WAS PRAYING IN A CERTAIN PLACE, WHEN HE CEASED, ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY AS JOHN ALSO TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHEN YE PRAY, SAY, OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME. THY WILL BE DONE, AS IN HEAVEN, SO IN EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE US DAY BY DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS; FOR WE ALSO FORGIVE EVERY ONE THAT IS INDEBTED TO US. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION; BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. The habit of Jesus of resorting to prayer as often as possible, but especially at times of great stress and menacing trouble, was well known to the disciples; but... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHICH OF YOU SHALL HAVE A FRIEND, AND SHALL GO UNTO HIM AT MIDNIGHT, AND SAY UNTO HIM, FRIEND, LEND ME THREE LOAVES,... [ Continue Reading ]
The importunity of prayer:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A FRIEND OF MINE IN HIS JOURNEY IS COME TO ME, AND I HAVE NOTHING TO SET BEFORE HIM;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE FROM WITHIN SHALL ANSWER AND SAY, TROUBLE ME NOT; THE DOOR IS NOW SHUT, AND MY CHILDREN ARE WITH ME IN BED; I CANNOT RISE AND GIVE THEE?... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAY UNTO YOU, THOUGH HE WILL NOT RISE AND GIVE HIM BECAUSE HE IS HIS FRIEND, YET BECAUSE OF HIS IMPORTUNITY HE WILL RISE AND GIVE HIM AS MANY AS HE NEEDETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAY UNTO YOU, ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU; SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVERY ONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED. An effective admonition to be instant and persistent in prayer. Note the vividness, but also the chasteness of the narrative: The friend, presuming upon the rights of friendship; the midnig... [ Continue Reading ]
IF A SON SHALL ASK BREAD OF ANY OF YOU THAT IS A FATHER, WILL HE GIVE HIM. A STONE? OR IF HE ASK A FISH, WILL HE FOR A FISH GIVE HIM A SERPENT?... [ Continue Reading ]
A further admonition:... [ Continue Reading ]
OR IF HE SHALL ASK AN EGG, WILL HE OFFER HIM A SCORPION?... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE, THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD, GIFTS UNTO YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM! Jesus draws a final lesson from the love which parents bear to their children. Whom of you, being a father, shall his son ask for bread, surel... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST CASTS OUT A DEVIL AND REBUKES THE PHARISEES. The miracle and its effect:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS CASTING OUT A DEVIL, AND IT WAS DUMB. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE DEVIL WAS GONE OUT, THE DUMB SPAKE; AND THE PEOPLE WONDERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SOME OF THEM SAID, HE CASTETH OUT DEVILS THROUGH BEELZEBUB, THE CHIEF OF THE DEVILS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OTHERS, TEMPTING HIM, SOUGHT OF HIM A SIGN FROM, HEAVEN. Luke makes the historical setting of this story very meager, stating merely the fact that Jesus cast out a demon that was dumb, but omitting to mention the Pharisees and scribes, since his readers would not have known what these persons re... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE, KNOWING THEIR THOUGHTS, SAID UNTO THEM, EVERY KINGDOM DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF IS BROUGHT TO DESOLATION; AND A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST A HOUSE FALLETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's defense:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF SATAN ALSO BE DIVIDED AGAINST HIMSELF, HOW SHALL HIS KINGDOM STAND? BECAUSE YE SAY THAT I CAST OUT DEVILS THROUGH BEELZEBUB.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF I BY BEELZEBUB CAST OUT DEVILS, BY WHOM DO YOUR SONS CAST THEM OUT? THEREFORE SHALL THEY BE YOUR JUDGES.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF I WITH THE FINGER OF GOD CAST OUT DEVILS, NO DOUBT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME UPON YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN A STRONG MAN ARMED KEEPETH HIS PALACE, HIS GOODS ARE IN PEACE;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN A STRONGER THAN HE SHALL COME UPON HIM AND OVERCOME HIM, HE TAKETH FROM HIM ALL HIS ARMOR WHEREIN HE TRUSTED, AND DIVIDETH HIS SPOILS.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME; AND HE THAT GATHERETH NOT WITH ME SCATTERETH. See Matthew 12:25; Mark 3:23. Jesus, by His divine omniscience, knew the thoughts of His enemies, even though He did not hear them, and proceeds to give them a line of argument that leaves them and their slanderous b... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN, HE WALKETH THROUGH DRY PLACES, SEEKING REST; AND FINDING NONE, HE SAITH, I WILL RETURN UNTO MY HOUSE WHENCE I CAME OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]
An impressive warning:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN, HE COMETH, HE FINDETH IT SWEPT AND GARNISHED.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN GOETH HE AND TAKETH TO HIM SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS MORE WICKED THAN HIMSELF; AND THEY ENTER IN AND DWELL THERE; AND THE LAST STATE OF THAT MAN IS WORSE THAN THE FIRST. We have here an exact and fitting description of the average "sawdust trail" and "New Year's reformation" and its results, where re... [ Continue Reading ]
A woman's judgment of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE SPAKE THESE THINGS, A CERTAIN WOMAN OF THE COMPANY LIFTED UP HER VOICE AND SAID UNTO HIM, BLESSED IS THE WOMB THAT BARE THEE, AND THE PAPS WHICH THOU HAST SUCKED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SAID, YEA, RATHER, BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND KEEP IT. The words of Christ may not have had much influence upon the hard-hearted Pharisees, but they certainly did make a deep impression upon an, certain woman in the crowd. Raising her voice, she called out, calling the mot... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE GATHERED THICK TOGETHER, HE BEGAN TO SAY, THIS IS AN EVIL GENERATION; THEY SEEK A SIGN, AND THERE SHALL NO SIGN BE GIVEN IT BUT THE SIGN OF JONAS THE PROPHET.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WARNING TO THE JEWS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS JONAS WAS A SIGN UNTO THE NINEVITES, SO SHALL ALSO THE SON OF MAN BE TO THIS GENERATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH SHALL RISE UP IN THE JUDGMENT WITH THE MEN OF THIS GENERATION AND CONDEMN THEM; FOR SHE CAME FROM THE UTMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH TO HEAR THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON; AND, BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MEN OF NINEVEH SHALL RISE UP IN THE JUDGMENT WITH THIS GENERATION AND SHALL CONDEMN IT; FOR THEY REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF JONAS; AND, BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN JONAS IS HERE. The altercation with the Pharisees and scribes after the healing of the dumb demoniac had drawn a large crowd, and, as a... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN, WHEN HE HATH LIGHTED A CANDLE, PUTTETH IT IN A SECRET PLACE, NEITHER UNDER A BUSHEL, BUT ON A CANDLESTICK, THAT THEY WHICH COME IN MAY SEE THE LIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
Parabolic warnings:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE; THEREFORE, WHEN THINE EYE IS SINGLE, THY WHOLE BODY ALSO IS FULL OF LIGHT; BUT WHEN THINE EYE IS EVIL, THY BODY ALSO IS FULL OF DARKNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE HEED THEREFORE THAT THE LIGHT WHICH IS IN THEE BE NOT DARKNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THY WHOLE BODY THEREFORE BE FULL OF LIGHT, HAVING NO PART DARK, THE WHOLE SHALL BE FULL OF LIGHT, AS WHEN THE BRIGHT SHINING OF A CANDLE DOTH GIVE THEE LIGHT. These proverbial, parabolic sayings of the Lord were favorite remarks of His when He wanted to drive home the great truth of the necessity... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS HE SPAKE, A CERTAIN PHARISEE BESOUGHT HIM TO DINE WITH HIM; AND HE WENT IN AND. SAT DOWN TO MEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOES UPON THE PHARISEES AND. LAWYERS. The Pharisee's offense:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE PHARISEE SAW IT, HE MARVELED THAT HE HAD NOT FIRST WASHED BEFORE DINNER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, NOW DO YE PHARISEES MAKE CLEAN THE OUTSIDE OF THE CUP AND THE PLATTER; BUT YOUR INWARD PART IS FULL OF RAVENING AND WICKEDNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE FOOLS, DID NOT HE THAT MADE THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT MAKE THAT WHICH IS WITHIN ALSO?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT RATHER GIVE ALMS OF SUCH THINGS AS YE HAVE; AND, BEHOLD, ALL THINGS ARE CLEAN UNTO YOU. See Matthew 23:1. While Jesus was still speaking to the people, a Pharisee that may have been desirous of becoming more closely acquainted with Him invited Jesus to take a meal with him, the earlier one of th... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WOE UNTO YOU, PHARISEES! IF OR YE TITHE MINT AND RUE AND ALL MANNER OF HERBS, AND PASS OVER JUDGMENT AND THE LOVE OF GOD; THESE OUGHT YE TO HAVE DONE, AND NOT TO LEAVE THE OTHER UNDONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
A threefold woe:... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE UNTO YOU, PHARISEES! FOR YE LOVE THE UPPERMOST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND GREETINGS IN THE MARKETS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE UNTO YOU., SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE ARE AS GRAVES WHICH APPEAR NOT, AND THE MEN THAT WALK OVER THEM ARE NOT AWARE OF THEM. The Lord proceeds to characterize Pharisaism by bringing out its most objectionable features. The Pharisees were very careful and scrupulous about paying th... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ANSWERED ONE OF THE LAWYERS AND SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, THUS SAYING THOU REPROACHEST US ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
The insulted lawyer:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, WOE UNTO YOU ALSO, YE LAWYERS! FOR YE LADE MEN WITH BURDENS GRIEVOUS TO BE BORNE, AND YE YOURSELVES TOUCH NOT THE BURDENS WITH ONE OF YOUR FINGERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE UNTO YOU! FOR YE BUILD THE SEPULCHERS OF THE PROPHETS, AND YOUR FATHERS KILLED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRULY YE BEAR WITNESS THAT YE ALLOW THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHERS; FOR THEY INDEED KILLED THEM, AND YE BUILD THEIR SEPULCHERS. A certain scribe, one of the teachers of the Law, who was sitting by, felt that the description which Jesus had just given of the Pharisees fitted his own case remarkably well.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD, I WILL SEND THEM PROPHETS AND APOSTLES, AND SOME OF THEM THEY SHALL SLAY AND PERSECUTE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The last woe and its effect:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE BLOOD OF ALL THE PROPHETS WHICH WAS SHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD MAY BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION,... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL UNTO THE BLOOD OF ZACHARIAS, WHICH PERISHED BETWEEN THE ALTAR AND THE TEMPLE. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, IT SHALL BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS! FOR YE HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE; YE ENTERED NOT IN YOURSELVES, AND THEM THAT WERE ENTERING IN YE HINDERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS HE SAID THESE THINGS UNTO THEM, THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES BEGAN TO URGE HIM VEHEMENTLY, AND TO PROVOKE HIM TO SPEAK OF MANY THINGS,... [ Continue Reading ]
LAYING WAIT FOR HIM, AND SEEKING TO CATCH SOMETHING OUT OF HIS MOUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT ACCUSE HIM. Jesus here revealed to the lawyers the counsel of God; for He Himself, the personal Wisdom, was the representative of the council of the Trinity. The children had inherited the character, the evil dispo... [ Continue Reading ]