“Thus New Testament, or Old Testament writers before them, can build on earlier Old Testament texts that they interpret and develop creatively, though the creativity is to be seen in understanding such texts in the light of the further developments of a redemptive-historical epoch in the Old Testament, or developments in the light of the later events of Christ’s coming and work. In this respect, part of the creative development lies...

“A people that do err in their heart, & c. These words are not to be found in Nu 14:1-45; but the inspired Psalmist expresses the sense of what Jehovah said on that occasion. “They do always err in their heart”, (Heb 3:10). They are radically and habitually evil. They have not known my ways. God’s “ways” may mean either his dispensations or his precepts. The Israelites did not rightly understand the...

“Humility may be defined to be a habit of mind and heart corresponding to our comparative unworthiness and vileness before God, or a sense of our own comparative meanness in his sight, with the disposition to a behavior answerable thereto. …humility is an excellence proper to all created intelligent beings, for they are all infinitely little and mean before God, and most of them are in some way mean and low in comparison with some...

-FAITH: The essence of the disciple’s lack of faith is partly revealed in this section before and after this event in their reaction to the revelation of the cross. They had no realization of the redemptive work of Christ. They were plagued with a wanting gospel understanding. They lacked the active spiritual ingredients for deliverance, as the cross is the only ultimate ground for our alleviation of judgement and suffering. It is never a...

“Beyond Birth Control: The Population Control Agenda”. (Dr. Stan Monteith, M.D) Link: http://khouse.org/articles/1997/93/%20 Expositor’s Commentary: “How patiently and tenderly their Master deals with them! No doubt the same thought was in His heart again: “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?” But He does not even express it now. He takes an...