Today’s thought “You therefore must be perfect” (July 4) The above quotation is how today’s Matthew 5 ends. This chapter is normally called ‘the Sermon on the Mount’. It has been portrayed in films as Jesus teaching a whole crowd of people – but that is the opposite to what the text actually says; an… Read More Today’s thought “You therefore must be perfect” (July 4)
Reflections of/ on Jesus’ ministry Are all readings equally valid? Relation to course of Jesus ministry The ‘mystery’ of God’s kingdom – cf. The kingdom of heaven is like … (Matt. 13:24, 31, 33, 44, 45, 47) Tares: a reflection of opposition The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in… Read More Jesus the Storyteller 3 Reflections of/ on Jesus’ ministry
Like much of the teaching of Jesus, the story is simple but the message profound. Here the story is almost a one liner but when we think about its message, it affects us all. The parable is as follows; “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found… Read More The Hidden Treasure
The storyline is so simple yet the message is extremely powerful. The comments by Jesus are as follows; “The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, which, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.” (Matthew 13:45&46). We can imagine the… Read More The Pearl of Great Price
COLOSSIANS 3:1 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, SEEK those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of GOD. [~YAHWEH~ Elohim Yisraail.] * To remember Eph 2:5-6 5 (ASV) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together {1 } with Christ (by grace have ye been… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 72: Colossians 3:1: Christ seated on the right hand of God
THE KINGDOM OF GOD. I CORINTHIANS 6:9 BE NOT DECEIVED: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit THE KINGDOM OF GOD. * To remember not to be deceived “1 Now we beseech you,… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 63: 1 Corinthians 6:9 – Be not deceived for The Kingdom of God
NEW COVENANT MATTHEW 5:1&2 1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain: And when He was set, His disciples came unto Him: 2 And He opened His mouth, and taught them saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven – MATTHEW 7:13 Enter ye in at… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 28 The one teaching about the Kingdom
Excerpts from the Book of Matthew: from “The Holy Peshitta of the Assembly of Jerusalem.” Matthew 6:24: 24“No man is able to serve two masters, for he will either hate one and he will love the other; or he will honour one and he will treat the other with disrepute. You are not able… Read More Slave for people and God
