Let's begin at the end of the chapter.Why are these verses added after jesus' teaching on taking up our cross and counting the cost of being a disciple?Salt Without Taste Is WorthlessLuk 14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?Luk 14:35 It is neither fit for… Continue reading Luke 14
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Acts 16 – The tale of three women, and a few other things…
Just looking at this from the perspective of these three women, we can gleam some good doctrine.The first....Act 16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:Act 16:2 Which was well reported of… Continue reading Acts 16 – The tale of three women, and a few other things…
Isaiah 22:20 – Just a curious verse…
It caught me by surprise that I knew not who this was.Isa 22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:John Gill writes....Isaiah 22:20And it shall come to pass in that day,.... At the same time that Shebna was deposed from his high station:that… Continue reading Isaiah 22:20 – Just a curious verse…
Job 28 – The way is simple….
Earlier in the chapter there is a path that seems unfindable.Job 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:Job 28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.24 For he looketh to the… Continue reading Job 28 – The way is simple….