by Frank Retief | Feb 15, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 6 verse 27-28. “I tell you who hear me: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who ill-treat you.” Jesus has just spoken about people being reviled and cast out because of Him. Now he tells us how we are to...
by Frank Retief | Feb 14, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 6 v 24. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.” The “woes” Christ pronounces here have no parallel in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. They are peculiar to the writings of Luke who wanted his friend Theophilus to know them. This...
by Frank Retief | Feb 13, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 6 v 20. “Blessed are the poor for yours is the Kingdom of God.” This passage reads very much as does Matthew 5 vs 7 where our Lord gives his famous “Sermon on the Mount”. Is this the same sermon? Probably not but in all probability a very similar sermon on a...
by Frank Retief | Feb 12, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 6 verses 18 &19. “…Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.” The opposition of the religious leaders would eventually lead to Christ’s death. He had no time to...
by Frank Retief | Feb 11, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 6 v 9. “Then Jesus said to them, ‘I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath; to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?’” This is the second instance where the practise of those days perverted a law that was intended for good. This time it did not...
