They Were Righteous
Luke 18: 9-14 The Pharisee And The Publican CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The Audience addressed by this parable was the self-righteous crowd. They trusted in themselves that “they were righteous.” To illustrate their true unrighteousness Jesus compared a Pharisee to a Publican. Observe: The Pharisee’s: Confident Approach – “he stood and prayed thus with himself” […]
Philippians 2:5-13 The Mind of Christ
God wants to work his will in our lives and for him to be able to do this we have to have the mind of Christ – God was able to get done therough Jesus Christ what he wanted because Jesus had the right mind about what God was going to do through him and […]
Philippians 2:1-4 Others
Others Phil. 2 1-4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Salvation Army founder William Booth was on his death bed, he was visited by one of the managers of the telegraph system of London. The man asked Booth if he had a last message he would like to send to his Salvation Army officers around the world. […]
Matthew 15:21-39 The Canaanite Womans Request
In this lesson, we find a break in God’s dispensational dealings with the Jews. He heals the daughter of a Canaanite woman even though his ministry is exclusively to the lost sheep of the house of Israel [15:24]. He also heals the multitudes and feeds four thousand men miraculously. Before we study the healing of […]
Matthew 10:16-31 Opposition to the Kingdom
Jesus warned his disciples whom he had chosen to preach the kingdom that they would meet with opposition to the kingdom along the way. While they were to prepare the Jews for his kingdom, there were many who would resist them. They’d be like sheep in the midst of wolves. So here he told them how […]
Faith and Humility
Faith and Humility (Matthew 15:21-28) This is a very interesting passage in the Gospel of Matthew. It is one of the miracles that Jesus performed and it deals with a Gentile woman who is getting help for her daughter that is vexed with a devil. The spiritual application for us will be to see how […]