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Memory Verse: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith." Scripture for Meditation: 1 Cor. viii, 9-13; ix, 24-27.
Is it possible that there are any modern disciples who "reject the commandment of God that they may keep their own tradition"? * Matthew xv. 6. Mark vii. 9-13. This step, taken by Mr. Muller as to baptism, was only a precursor of many others, all of which, as he believed, were according to that Word which, as the lamp to the believer's feet, is to throw light upon his path.
Matt. iii. 13 TO iv. 11; Mark i. 9-13; Luke iii. 21, 22; iv. 1-13; John i. 30-34 In the circle about John all classes of the people were represented: Pharisees and Sadducees, jealous of innovation and apprehensive of popular excitement; publicans and soldiers, interested in the new preacher or touched in conscience; outcasts who came in penitence, and devout souls in consecration.
Scripture references: Ephesians 6:1-9; 5:25-33; Colossians 3:17-25; 1 Corinthians 7:12-17; Mark 10:2-12; 7:9-13; 5:19; 1 Timothy 5:4; Luke 15:6; Titus 2:1-15; Exodus 20:12,17; Deuteronomy 6:1-9. What is a Home? It has been answered that, "It is the unit of society."
That they turned aside also as to their manner of worship, and became sectarians, there is with no less authority asserted "For all their works they do for to be seen of men;" Acts xxvi. 5; Mark vii. 9-13; Matt. xxiii. 5.
It was said to her that she should lead those who were trying her spirit to look into the Scriptures, and that they would not find that any soul desirous of pleasing God had been so long deceived." See Life, ch. xxix. sections 9-13. De la Fuente thinks she means the religious state. See Life, ch. xxiv. section 8, and ch. xxxi. section 22. See Life, ch. xxiii. section 19.
Jesus Christ is so different when the Spirit glorifies Him by taking of His things and showing them unto us. III. The Holy Spirit reveals to us the deep things of God which are hidden from and are foolishness to the natural man. We read in 1 Cor. ii. 9-13, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.
First circuit of Galilee Matt. iv. 23; viii. 2-4; Mark i. 35-45; Luke iv. 42-44; v. 12-16. Cure of a paralytic in Capernaum Matt. ix. 2-8; Mark ii. 1-12; Luke v. 17-26. The call of Matthew Matt. ix. 9-13; Mark ii. 13-17; Luke v. 27-32. Jesus followed by multitudes from all parts Matt. iv. 23-25; xii. 15-21; Mark iii. 7-12; Luke vi. 17-19.
II. Verses 9-13 give the divine retribution announced. The immediate connection of sin and punishment is the teaching intended by this close juxtaposition of these two halves of our narrative. However long the chastisement may be in bursting, the divine resolve to send it is instantaneously consequent on the crime.
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