Mar 20, 2021
(Jer.31:31-34; Ps.51:3-4,12-15; Heb.5:7-9; Jn.12:20-33)
“Father, glorify your name.”
Jesus cries out in supplication to Him who is “able to save Him from death,” but He prays not to be saved from death, not to be saved from the sacrifice He must make, but only that in His death the Father might glorify His...
Mar 13, 2021
(2Chr.36:14-16,19-23; Ps.137:1-6; Eph.2:4-10; Jn.3:14-21)
“By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept.”
For “practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lord’s temple,” the people of God “were carried captive to Babylon.” For all their “infidelity” they were forced to watch as...
Mar 6, 2021
(Ex.20:1-17; Ps.19:8-11; 1Cor.1:22-25; Jn.2:13-25)
“The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever.”
Is it not fear of the Lord, Jesus would instill in the people as He makes “a whip out of cords” and drives those who buy and sell out of the temple? Is His great zeal not to purify His Father’s House of all...