Bible Commentaries

Genesis 13:10-11 — THE WORLDLY CHOICE ‘And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where.… Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan.’ Genesis 13:10-11 The lesson to be gained from the history of Abraham and Lot is obviously this: that nothing but a clear apprehension of things unseen, a simple trust in God’s promises, and the greatness of mind thence arising, can make us act above the world—indifferent,

Genesis 4:9 — cry—‘What good can we do?’ and ‘Of what earthly use is it?’; who find an excuse for doing practically nothing by quoting the words of Deuteronomy: ‘The poor shall never cease out of the land’; but (conveniently) forget the words which follow ( Deuteronomy 15:11). This despair of social problems is ignoble and unchristian. ( d) There is that of unfaithfulness, domestic sloth (of narrow-mindedness and narrow-heartedness); if such do not challenge God with the question—‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ they act

Psalms 31:20 — GOD’S PROMISE ‘Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy presence.’ Psalms 31:20 In the thick of human intercourse, amidst the shock and conflicts of human change, under the hot glare of human observation, out of doors amidst the dissonance of the common day, it is there that this wonderful promise of the Holy Ghost by the Psalmist

Jeremiah 30:11 — CORRECTION IN MEASURE ‘I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure.” Jeremiah 30:11 There are two kinds of punishments. There is the punishment which is punishment and nothing else. This was what befell the Kingdom of Israel. It was simply extinguished by the righteous judgment of God. But there is another kind of punishment besides

Deuteronomy 10:12 — GOD’S REQUIREMENTS ‘What doth the Lord thy God require of thee?’ Deuteronomy 10:12 The fact that God requires something of us is in itself sufficient to transform all life. It shows that He thinks of us and cares for us. Pause and consider what life would be without this conviction. Daniel Webster said once that the only doubt

Deuteronomy 34:4-6 — principalmente mediante vidas tranquilas. Tratemos de servir a Dios en nuestra propia generación, y luego, por Su misericordia, caigamos en el sueño, contentos si nuestras tumbas también pueden estar entre toda la multitud de los olvidados. Ilustración (1) 'La bienaventuranza superior de la vida celestial a la que Moisés fue trasladado, no pudo borrar mientras expiaba la pérdida de la oportunidad de entrar a Canaán. Hubo dos grandes desilusiones en la vida de Moisés: una cuando sus hermanos al principio

Mark 16:3 — THE STONE AT THE DOOR ‘Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?’ Mark 16:3 The text suggests various questions. I. Why was there ever a sepulchre on earth?—A sepulchre tells of sorrow, sickness, bereavement, death. How came it there? ‘By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.’ The sin of man, small so far

Luke 10:38-42 — THE TWO SISTERS ‘Now it came to pass, as they went, that He entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house,’ etc. Luke 10:38-42 This home of the two sisters is but the type of every Christian home, where Christ is or ought to be a perpetual guest, to be listened to with the inward service of Mary, or worked for with the active service of Martha. Every family is interested

Luke 11:23 — FOR OR AGAINST? ‘He that is not with Me is against Me.’ Luke 11:23 As we look around the world we see some are for Christ, and we see others are against Him. In fact, this is the thing which divides the whole world. I. If you are for Christ, yours is great joy.—Christ infinitely increases the joys of life and

John 11:25 — THE MOURNER’S HOPE ‘I am the Resurrection, and the Life.’ John 11:25 Our Church has chosen these words of comfort and of hope to be the very first to be sounded in the ears of Christian mourners as they bring some well-loved form to the churchyard—‘the garden of the dead.’ Before the lifeless body is committed to

John 14:15-17 — LA MISIÓN DEL ESPÍRITU DE VERDAD 'Si me amáis, guardaréis mis mandamientos. Y rogaré al Padre, y él os dará otro Consolador, para que esté con vosotros para siempre, el Espíritu de verdad. Juan 14:15 (RV) Es muy importante considerar lo que se dice que hace el Espíritu de verdad por nosotros. Él hace mucho más que darnos nuevos conocimientos. Él nos da conocimiento en verdad, pero es un conocimiento que nadie más puede dar, un conocimiento que

Romans 11:36 — GOD’S REVELATION TO MAN ‘Of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever.’ Romans 11:36 We are in great danger of losing much of the comfort and strength which we are intended to find in the Holy Scriptures by studying them, if we study them at all, or thinking of them in what I may call a fragmentary way. We read a passage here and

Romans 11:36 — LA REVELACIÓN DE DIOS AL HOMBRE "De él, y por él, y para él, son todas las cosas; a quien sea la gloria por los siglos". Romanos 11:36 Estamos en gran peligro de perder gran parte del consuelo y la fuerza que se pretende encontrar en las Sagradas Escrituras al estudiarlas, si es que las estudiamos, o pensar en ellas de una manera que puedo llamar fragmentaria. Leemos un pasaje

1 Corinthians 10:4 — THE SPIRITUAL ROCK ‘They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.’ 1 Corinthians 10:4 Observe that it followed them. God went before His people in the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire. I. Guidance.—So He was their guide. Christ followed them in all the wanderings that the Guiding Pillar led them through. It

1 Corinthians 3:11 — EL ÚNICO FUNDAMENTO DE LA IGLESIA "Nadie puede poner otro fundamento que el que está puesto, el cual es Jesucristo". 1 Corintios 3:11 En los últimos años esta creencia católica ha sido atacada. Los eruditos competentes vienen y nos dicen que la raíz del cristianismo no es una Persona sino una doctrina, que la Persona es solo el profeta, el predicador, el publicador

1 Corinthians 3:16 — EL TEMPLO DE DIOS "¿No sabéis que sois templo de Dios, y que el Espíritu de Dios mora en vosotros?" 1 Corintios 3:16 El Espíritu Santo no solo viene a convencernos de nuestro pecado, no solo viene a guiarnos por el camino de la justicia, sino que habita en nosotros. Y, por lo tanto, el hecho tremendo es este, que el Espíritu Santo dentro de mí le habla

Joshua 10:14 — A WONDERFUL DAY! ‘No day like that!’ Joshua 10:14 We shall speak of the power and art of making the sun to stand still. How may we, like Joshua, virtually lengthen out our day of life, how may we even make one day equal to ten? I. Obviously the first essential requisite is thought and earnestness.—It

Joshua 7:25 — eternity, our sin, like a bloodhound, runs us down. How precious to think that if our sin must find us, it can find us clinging to the feet of Jesus! There there is pardon for a guilty past; there there is power for an untrodden future. Illustrations (1) ‘When Benjamin Franklin was a young man, he was being shown out of the house of a friend along a narrow passage. As they went, his friend said to him, “Stoop, stoop;” but Franklin did not catch his words, and struck his head violently against an overhanging

2 Timothy 3:16 — WHAT INSPIRATION IS NOT ‘All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.’ 2 Timothy 3:16 Can we believe the Bible? Such a question may sound childish, or something worse. But it has become necessary to discuss it. I. The mode of inspiration is beyond human definition.—For seventeen centuries, at least, the Church of Christ deliberately

Judges 6:14 — GIDEON ‘And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?’ Judges 6:14 I. Gideon’s attitude towards God’s work, though not satisfactory, was due not so much to a flaw in his spirit as to a mental blindness to duty.—This could be, and was, easily amended. But the narrator goes on to show that there are other attitudes