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There is a paradox in verse 27 – ‘work’ for that which the Son of Man will ‘give’ you. This prompts a question which Jesus will answer.
Human wisdom does not explain the way of salvation – 1:18; whom God calls to Himself – 1:27; nor whom God uses to make known the gospel – 2:4-5. When Timothy McVeigh was executed on 11 June 2001 as the Oklahoma City bomber who took 168 lives, he quoted …
Let us ask: ‘What? How? and Why?’
The basic principle is in 1 Cor.1:25. Friedrich Nietzsche attacked Christians as weaklings and fools. Essentially, the Bible agrees.
Isaac Watts:
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God;
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
The cross seems foolish and weak, but it is God’s means to save; it is true wisdom and …
Look at the cross, and divisions will fade.
First Corinthians deals with divisions (1 Cor.1-4), morality, especially sexual morality (1 Cor.5-7), asserting one’s rights (1 Cor.8-10), the role of women, together with the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor.11), the use of gifts (1 Cor.12-14), and the resurrection body (1 Cor.15). Martyn Lloyd-Jones once commented that First Corinthians was …
Psalm 80 is attributed to Asaph, not David, and Derek Kidner dates it about the time of the Assyrian threat. The tone is set in the first two verses – Ps 80:1-2. This is both a prayer and a song (see the superscription). God is addressed as the Shepherd …
Nahum is looking ahead to the fall of Nineveh in August 612 B.C. S. D. Snyman: ‘For many people living in well-established and stable democracies, a situation of severe oppression by a foreign ruler is hard to imagine.’ But it not about democracy; it is about godliness.
