Category: Devotional Readings

This chapter ends with a footnote on the Exodus time line...Exodus 7:25 GillAnd seven days were fulfilled,.... Or there were full seven days, a whole week:after that the Lord had smitten the river, and turned it into blood; here the miracle is ascribed to him; Moses and Aaron, and the rod they used, were only… Continue reading Exodus 7 – Seven Days…

There is almost too much to say about this passage.Max reads it well:  https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/kjv/Matt.4Just a few highlights:Notice Satan was the first to try to block Jesus' ministry to his people. Just like in the garden he begins with an implied question: If thou be the "Son of God", implying if you don't prove who you… Continue reading Matthew 4 – Opening Ministry of Jesus

Check my previous post on Matthew 3 and the reference to the WCF chapter on Good Works.Here we read: Jas 2:14  What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?Jas 2:17  Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.Jas 2:26  For as the body without… Continue reading James 2 – Faith or Works

Gill writes: Matthew 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits,.... That is, if you are truly penitent, if you have a proper sense of sin, and true repentance for it, do such works as are suitable to it, and will show the genuineness of it; forfruits meet for repentance are the same as "works meet for repentance", Act 26:20 and as a… Continue reading Matthew 3 – Two verses