Bible Commentaries

Exodus 10:1-29 — UNA CONFESIÓN INSINCERA Entonces Faraón llamó apresuradamente a Moisés ya Aarón; y él dijo: He pecado contra Jehová tu Dios, y contra ti. Éxodo 10:16 Las palabras "he pecado" aparecen nueve veces en la Biblia, y de las nueve podemos menos dos. En el séptimo capítulo de Miqueas son el lenguaje, no de un individuo, sino de una Iglesia. Y el uso que hace el hijo pródigo de ellos, por supuesto, no

Exodus 13:14-17 — ¿QUE ES ESTO? Y será cuando tu hijo te pregunte en el futuro, diciendo: ¿Qué es esto? que le dirás: Con mano fuerte nos sacó Jehová de Egipto, de casa de servidumbre, etc. Éxodo 13:14 El Libro del Éxodo introduce esa nueva época en la historia bíblica de los sacrificios cuando comenzaron a ser regulados por leyes fijas, para ser parte de una economía nacional. I. La ofrenda del primogénito fue la dedicación y consagración de

Leviticus 19:1-37 — LLEVANDO CUENTOS "No subirás y bajarás como chismoso". Levítico 19:16 I. Hablar mal es una manera fácil de agradar a otras personas: "El escándalo endulza muchas tazas de té". También es un pecado que cometen muchas personas excelentes, como la benevolente dama de la que Cowper escribió: Su superfluidad los pobres

Numbers 23:26 — sacrificio parcial y involuntario. Es, como Balaam, un hombre inseguro, indeciso y vacilante, con muchos mejores principios y sentimientos, pero con una maleza de maldad que no va a desarraigar por completo. III. De la historia de Balaam aprendemos: (1) la importancia para cada uno de nosotros de ser verdaderamente cristianos fervientes, de dar a Dios nuestro corazón y nuestro afecto; (2) la importancia de esforzarnos por someter por completo cada pecado separado al que somos tentados; (3) la gran

Matthew 13:30 — GROWING TOGETHER ‘Let both grow together until the harvest.’ Matthew 13:30 Our Lord emphasises the final separation at the last between the wheat and the tares ( Matthew 13:41-43). Meanwhile, both grow. Sin grows, and grace grows. I. Sin grows.—Of all figures in the picture-gallery of history, none is so appalling as

Matthew 14:21 — THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND ‘They that had eaten were about five thousand.’ Matthew 14:21 Of all the miracles worked by our Lord, not one is so often mentioned in the New Testament as this. I. Proof of Divine power.—This miracle is an unanswerable proof of our Lord’s Divine power. He called that into being which did not before exist:

Matthew 4:17 — CHRISTS FIRST SERMON ‘Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent.’ Matthew 4:17 It is interesting to note that our blessed Lord ‘began to preach’ immediately the voice of the Baptist was silent ( Matthew 4:12). I. Christ the Preacher.—He was not a teacher only, He was a herald, a proclaimer of a Divine message. As a model Christian

Matthew 9:2 — Despairing of all other help, she hastened towards Him, and joined the mighty multitude which all down the ages have touched Him. III. Because of Christ’s presence.—‘ Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid’ (St. Matthew 14:27). The disciples are tossed on the sea. The wind was contrary. ‘The darkness deepens.’ Then in the fourth watch of the night, just before the dawn ‘Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.’ Do not we too know what it is to be tossed on a dark sea

Mark 1:35 — IN A SOLITARY PLACE ‘He went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.’ Mark 1:35 We have only to turn over the pages of the Gospel and note, as we go, the similar allusions, and we feel that we have here what is in fact an incidental glimpse into the habitual practice of our Lord’s secret and separate life. I. Private prayer

Mark 4:40-41 — THE TWO FEARS ‘And He said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?’ Mark 4:40-41 A striking picture of two very different kinds of fear. The dissipation of the lower fear of natural cowardice rouses the higher fear of spiritual awe. I. The lower fear. ( a) It rises in circumstances of physical danger. This is naturally alarming

Mark 9:29 — all testified to the need there is for the spiritual observance of such times, if men are to keep their soul alive in them—and who are we that we should venture to set ourselves against such overpowering testimony? —Bishop Percival. Illustrations (1) ‘In prayer and fasting let us strive To keep our bodies down, To save our precious souls alive, And win a glorious crown.’ (2) ‘Matthew ( Matthew 17:21) gives our Lord’s answer more fully. His first words are, “Because of your unbelief.” In this,

Luke 1:38 — WOMAN’S TRUE AVOCATION ‘The handmaid of the Lord.’ Luke 1:38 The glory of woman only abides while it remains true to the instincts which God implanted. What these instincts are, what woman’s true avocation is, the Blessed Virgin helps to remind us. I. The turning-point in woman’s history.—In the thoughtful,

Luke 18:1 — ‘PRAY, ALWAYS PRAY’ ‘Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.’ Luke 18:1 I. The reality of prayer.—God’s mighty men have been men steeped in prayer. There are some in this church who can look back and remember instances when in trouble they have kneeled down to pray, and have known that they have been heard. The burden

Luke 9:55-56 — themselves—and see it done, too, with callousness and indifference—then that man may be very wise and prudent in the eyes of a hollow society, but he has lost the spirit of justice, which is the spirit of Christ. Rev. James Vaughan. Illustrations (1) ‘Renan tells us that in the pictures of the Greek Church Elijah is usually represented as surrounded by the decapitated heads of the Church’s enemies. And Prescott tells us that in the sixteenth century the brutal inquisitors of Spain tried to justify

1 Corinthians 11:28 — SELF-EXAMINATION ‘But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.’ 1 Corinthians 11:28 The porch to the sanctuary is self-examination. Let us, therefore, carefully consider this important and difficult subject of self-examination—a duty at all times, but especially essential to a right reception of the Holy Communion.

1 Corinthians 12:4-6 — THREE AND ONE ‘Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God Which worketh all in all.’ 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 The text treats of three sorts of diversities, tracing them to their respective unities. The unity finds its expression in diversity, and the diversity its life and motive in unity. Let us consider these units and triplets. I. Three

1 Corinthians 5:8 — THE FEAST OF JOY ‘Therefore let us keep the feast.’ 1 Corinthians 5:8 Why ought we to be happy in the resurrection of Christ? What are some of the true fountains of His resurrection? I. We rejoice simply in the thought that our Lord is happy.—Forty days after this day He had yet to serve on this earth

Joshua 5:13 — EL CAPITÁN DEL ANFITRIÓN DEL SEÑOR "Y sucedió que cuando Josué estaba junto a Jericó, alzó los ojos y miró, y he aquí, un hombre se paró frente a él con la espada desenvainada en la mano". Josué 5:13 I. Hay una lección aquí, que no es inapropiada para los tiempos actuales , en el hecho de que Cristo se apareció a Josué como un 'hombre de guerra'. ¿Se habría utilizado esa imagen, habría asumido Cristo esa forma, si toda guerra estuviera fuera de

2 Timothy 4:1-2 — PREACH THE WORD! ‘I charge thee … before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who shall judge the quick and the dead … preach the Word.’ 2 Timothy 4:1-2 You remember the context. St. Paul is near his last hour. He is dictating what is for us his dying letter, and he is close to that letter’s end. He is writing to a man whom he has delegated, now for some time, to a large work of organisation and

1 Peter 2:17 — BROTHERHOOD ‘Love the brotherhood’ 1 Peter 2:17 This is an instruction which commends itself to our conscience, but which we find difficult to obey. The love of brethren seems, in itself, a reasonable requirement; and it is so decisively demanded by our Lord Himself (see John 13:14; John