This Week's Focus Passage: Job 2:9 'Dost thou still hold fast thy integrity? Renounce God, and die.' This has been, we imagine, a perennial problem among theologians and writers of commentaries, to explain or determine, with any good reason, just what the status, or spiritual climate of Job's wife was. It is more than remarkable that Satan left her to Job after virtuall...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 6:66 'Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.' We may read the 'pre-quel' to this disturbing verse, in the sixth chapter of the fourth gospel. The response of these 'disciples' did not transpire in a vacuum, but rather it was fostered in a crucible. That crucible was Truth; Truth in the Person of Jesus Ch...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 6:44 'No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him.' This one great and marvelous verse epitomizes, we firmly believe, the teaching of the Sovereignty of God in the salvation of man; any man, woman, child. We understand that the very first three words of this verse absolutely stick in the craw of unregenerate, sinful ma...

This Week's Focus Passage: Jeremiah 31:3 'Jehovah appeared of old unto me, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.' We are not able to forbear, including at the outset, a lengthy citation from the commentary on the book of Jeremiah, by that notable pastor and preacher, Dr. John Gill. Admitting the source of o...

This Week's Focus Passage: Isaiah 'For this is as the waters of Noah unto me.' We are not able to refrain, or forbear, from setting this blessed promise before our eyes and hearts in all its fullness, as contained in Isaiah 54:9-10: For this is as the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn th...

This Week's Focus Passage: Hebrews 11:1 'Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.' The above is an inspired definition of 'what faith is, and what it does.' Assurance and conviction are among the answers to the question of what faith is in the heart of the individual having experienced the new birth. For it is a gift granted at the ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Proverbs 22:6 'Train up a child in the way he should go.' One of the best known passages, or verses, from the Holy Word of God, is this verse six of the twenty-second chapter of the book of Proverbs where we find this exhortation, or instruction, from this book. The fullness, the completeness, of this fascinating verse, is stated here: Tra...

This Week's Focus Passage: Hebrews 1:1 'God having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets.' God having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in the Son, whom he appointed heir of all things The author of this book of Hebrews, or, the preacher of this ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Esther 6:1ff. 'On that night could not the king sleep.' We are able and blessed to witness, in the book of Esther, a remarkable account of God's Providence in the lives and history of His people, and their nation. The book of Esther, a book which perhaps does not get the attention it might, has not been the subject of a great many commentari...

This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 'That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely.' It would seem that one great end for which God gave His people the Holy Scriptures is that they would not want, or lack, any good thing. Paul informs Timothy and ourselves of this blessed reality when he relates not only that the Scriptures are the very Word of th...