Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar? Matthew 22:15-22 Paying taxes has never been a pleasant duty as a citizen of any city or county or state or nation. Wars have been fought over taxes and nations have crumbled under the weight of heavy taxation. Solomon greatly burdened Israel Read more…
Lord’s Day for the Lord’s Supper Just when is the Lord’s Supper to be observed? Many modern denominations observe it monthly, quarterly, yearly, and on days other than on Sunday. Catholics observe it every day of the week. Some observe it on Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. To most Read more…
Sowing & Reaping Galatians 6:6-10 – Part 2 In an article in The Forum on June 22 of this year was an article covering the first part of Galatians 6:6-10. In it we learned of several unavoidable laws concerning sowing and reaping that can be clearly observed in the laws Read more…
John’s Bout With Doubt Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities. And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Read more…
Goliath A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels. On his legs he wore bronze Read more…
The Sabbath and the Shewbread Matthew 12:1-8 The Ten Commandments include a prohibition against working on the Sabbath Day (Ex. 20:8-10).The word sabbath means “cessation” or “rest.” The term is first used in the Bible in Exodus 16:23. Therefore the Law of Moses forbade work on this day under the Read more…
Sowing & Reaping 6 Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh Read more…
The “Sad You Sees” of the Sadducees Matthew 22:23-33 Jesus having evaded the horns of dilemma by both the Pharisees and Herodians is now tested by the Sadducees. The Pharisees were the most populous, most popular, and most religious of the Jewish sects. In contrast, the Sadducees were perhaps the Read more…
Sonship in Christ 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Read more…
The Law: Prison Guard & Child-Guardian 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after Read more…