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Jesus spoke these words as He contemplated His earthly ministry with the urgency of one watching the sun descend toward the horizon.
So long as a person depends upon his own wisdom, power, and goodness, disquietude and unhappiness must follow.
The world has perpetually revolted against two great truths of Elohim's government.
Matthew 10:2 presents a roster that, examined officially, reveals Yahweh's sovereign hand in history's transformation.
When men and women engage their ambitions with fierce determination, they unwittingly declare independence from Elohim, attempting to wrest the government of the universe from His hand.
He labours most against our faith, and therefore we should labour most in fortifying it.
The original Hebrew *musar* (discipline, instruction) paired with the rod establishes wisdom in a child; conversely, a child left to himself brings shame upon his mother.
The Hebrew *chazon* (vision) encompasses prophecy itself: the preaching, expounding, and applying of Elohim's Word.
Yet these are not equal cases—they are a contrast wrapped in similarity.
The desire of the righteous shall be granted (Proverbs 11:23), yet wisdom often demands restraint in speech. A prudent man concealeth knowledge in six distinct circumstances. First, when it is opportune to withhold. Our Lord Jesus said, "I have yet...
Christians remain exposed to divine curse if guilty of the sins to which it appertains—not the curse of condemnation for believers, but the curse retained on record for those who practice wickedness.
First, when God's threatenings produce no alarm in us—when warnings of wrath fail to compel flight—we prove ourselves mockers.
Faith trusts Elohim's providence within His natural and moral laws; presumption demands divine intervention outside them.
The conception of a thing constitutes its first and largest half.
Isaiah 10:3 poses a devastating question: "What will ye do in the day of visitation?" Joseph Exell identifies three distinct types of divine visitation in 1887's *Biblical Illustrator*.
Brute courage, born of insensitivity to danger, fails the thinking man.
By grace, all believers become Abraham's descendants through three distinct mechanisms: *imitation* (walking in his faith's pattern), *succession* (inheriting his blessing), and *spiritual generation* (Abraham's believing reception of them as children, as Romans 9:8 confirms).
What does it mean to make light of Christ's gospel?
He visits rebellious generations with four gifts: the call—spoken through prophets, apostles, and conscience itself, articulated in earthquake and storm; the stretched hands—an open path to the Father with no obstruction, no forbidding, no upbraiding; the counsel—specifically directed at those...
When stationary, they rested; when it advanced, they journeyed.
As sap flows from roots through trunk, branches, and the remotest leaf, so genuine piety pervades the whole life of the godly man, imparting its spirit and character to everything he does.
The word *purse* (*zone*) referred to the hollow girdles Jews wore to carry money—yet the disciples were sent out stripped of such security.
Man, as a fallen being with alienated affections and distorted views, requires precise Divine direction.
The slothful man pursues an impossible contradiction: he craves wealth without labour, knowledge without study, and respect without merit.