This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 110:4 'Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.' We begin our comments on this week's focus passage employing a quote from a Baptist preacher, born in Great Britain in the middle of the eighteenth century in the home of his maternal grandfather, who was at the time, a vicar in the Church of England. The quotation allud...

This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Samuel 2:18 'And Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.' David is subsequently made king over Judah. In 2:4 of 2 Samuel, we may read that;Andhis men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David over the house of Juda...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 103:8 'Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.' In this psalm of David, the grandness of the lovingkindness of Jehovah is on full display. We find reference to this in no less than four verses of this psalm, which one writer, having written a volume on this one psalm, was led to employ for the tit...

This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Corinthians 1:3 'Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.' Paul's second epistle to the church at Corinth, is considered, and fairly so, by many writers, theologians, and commentators, to bethebook, or epistle, of comfort. And this is surely the primary subject of this second epistle from Paul, the apo...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Corinthians 15 'Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached.' The apostle John has taught us, in the third chapter of his gospel account, where he has written in verses fourteen and fifteen, and saying there, these very solemn words of eternal life; And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must th...

This Week's Focus Passage: Judges 2:10 'And there arose another generation after them, that knew not Jehovah.' What immediately follows this tragic verse, is the tragic result of the truth of its' declaration, that the generation which came after Joshua and his fellows who had apportioned the land to the twelve tribes of Israel, did not know Jehovah; not that they did...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 'And such were some of you; but ye were washed.' The question is often asked, 'Is there an unpardonable sin?' If there, indeed, is such a sin, what is it; what is the unpardonable sin? Jesus has taught us, through His apostle, John, and in John's first epistle, regarding this very matter. John has written, in the last ch...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Corinthians 1:31 'as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.' Paul, in his first epistle to the 'Church of God which is at Corinth,' makes plentiful use of citations from both Isaiah and Jeremiah. The statement above which has been selected for this week's focus passage, is to be found in the writings of the prophet Jer...

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 16:1 'Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae.' William Hendriksen's legacy is a very popular series of commentaries on a large number of the books of the New Testament. We may read from the end flap of a jacket from one of his commentaries, that which serves as a biographical sketch: "William Hendriks...

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 10:13 'Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.' The above verse from the epistle of Paul to the church at Rome, is one of the key verses for the Arminian propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is not to say that it is a verse which would not be included as an important feature of the glorious Gospel of J...