Category: Devotional Readings

Luk 5:39  No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.I really like the final explaination Gill gives of the old wine.Much like...Jer 6:16  Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for… Continue reading Luke 5:39 – The Taste of Old Wine

I reprint this entirely.Acts 15:22-35 HenryWe have here the result of the consultation that was held at Jerusalem about the imposing of the ceremonial law upon the Gentiles. Much more, it is likely, was said about it than is here recorded; but at length it was brought to a head, and the advice which James… Continue reading Btw – Matthew Henry Commentary on the Letter of Acts 15

The church's letter to the gentiles comes up again in today's reading of Acts 21.That and several examples of the early first century prophetic office.Three times the churches exhortation is mentioned explicitedly in Acts.Act 15:20  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and fromfornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.Act 15:29  That ye abstain from meats… Continue reading Acts 21 – Words of the Prophets

CHAPTER XIII.Of Sanctification.I. They, who are once effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart, and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and personally, through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them: the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and… Continue reading WCF Chapter XIII – Sanctification