Luke 22:31-32 - And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Notice the change in pronouns, "you" and "thee." "You" is always plural in KJV, "thee" is singular. Satan desired to sift all the 12, which he did, and one fell out as chaff (Judas). Jesus prayed specifically for Peter, "I have prayed for thee."
See also Job 1, Job 2, regarding Satan's designs on children of God and God's sovereignty over it.
Luke 22:33 - And he [Peter] said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
Note: "Likewise said they all," - Mark 14:31.
"Peter loved the Lord and meant every word but knew not his own weakness." - Ironside on Luke, p. 654. Same note at Matthew and Mark.
See I Corinthians 10:12; Proverbs 16:18.
See full account of Peter's pride, Matthew 26:33-35; Mark 14:29-31.
"Let us be careful not to trust in our own strength, but distrusting ourselves to rely wholly on Him, that we may ever be true to the trust committed to us!" - Ironside, Addresses on Luke, p. 658.
Luke 22:44 - And being in an agony he [Jesus] prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Fulfilling Psalm 22:14.
Luke 22:45 - And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Notice, Even when exhausted from grief is no time to let our spiritual guard down.
This note also at Matthew 26:41 - "A man's regenerated spirit may have good intentions, but it must control his body." - Liberty Commentary. See Romans 12:1; Romans 6; Romans 7; Galatians 5:17.
Luke 22:49-50 - When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword? And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Notice, they asked the Lord, but did not wait for an answer!
See Christ's rebuke of Peter (the swordsman) in Matthew 26:52-54.
Notice how quickly we turn from being asleep when we should be alert, to being hyperactive when we should be quiet, passive and forbearing.
Luke 22:51 - And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
"How busy we keep the Lord putting on ears that we in our mistaken zeal have cut off." - Ironside, Luke, p. 649.
Luke 22:54 - Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
Instead of keeping close to the Lord and being plainly identified by all as a follower. Peter's attachment to Jesus would not let him drift completely away, but he followed "afar off." And so the carnal Christian or backslider. Same note at Matthew 26:58.
Luke 22:56 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
Unbelievers can spot a Christian. And this question is on their mind, "Art thou one of them, or one of us?"
Luke 22:65 - And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
Speaking against Jesus can only be called "blasphemy" if Jesus is God!
VM
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Notes in Last Chapter of Matthew
Matthew 28:16-17 - Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
This appointed meeting place is likely where the 500 brethren saw the resurrected Christ at one time, I Corinthians 15:6.
Matthew 28:18-20 - And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Go ye therefore - Based on the fact that all power is given unto Him, we go. So we go by His power, and the most powerful One is with us as we go. How can we fear to give out the Gospel?
Teach all nations - Literally, make disciples of [people from] all nations.
Baptizing them in the name... - Literally, baptizing them into the name. So it is their initiation into the right to be publicly called a Christian.
Notice also, it is not "the name of the Father and the name of the Son, etc..." But rather, "the name of the Father, and of the Son, etc..." The name is given once and is singular! It is one name for all three persons of the Godhead! A powerful evidence of the Trinity. Quote: "The 'name' is singular, followed by an elliptical clause indicating that the one name is the name of each person in the Trinity." - Liberty N.T. Commentary, p. 93.
Unto the end of the world - "World" = AION, the age. Indicates the Great Commission was not merely for the apostles, but for us all, till the end.
VM
This appointed meeting place is likely where the 500 brethren saw the resurrected Christ at one time, I Corinthians 15:6.
Matthew 28:18-20 - And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Go ye therefore - Based on the fact that all power is given unto Him, we go. So we go by His power, and the most powerful One is with us as we go. How can we fear to give out the Gospel?
Teach all nations - Literally, make disciples of [people from] all nations.
Baptizing them in the name... - Literally, baptizing them into the name. So it is their initiation into the right to be publicly called a Christian.
Notice also, it is not "the name of the Father and the name of the Son, etc..." But rather, "the name of the Father, and of the Son, etc..." The name is given once and is singular! It is one name for all three persons of the Godhead! A powerful evidence of the Trinity. Quote: "The 'name' is singular, followed by an elliptical clause indicating that the one name is the name of each person in the Trinity." - Liberty N.T. Commentary, p. 93.
Unto the end of the world - "World" = AION, the age. Indicates the Great Commission was not merely for the apostles, but for us all, till the end.
VM
Monday, January 16, 2012
Notes in Matthew Chapter Nine
Matthew 9:6 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Miracles are always confirmatory signs of the message and the messenger.
Matthew 9:16-17 - No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
The new dispensation "cannot be fitted into the forms of the old" (Liberty Commentary) or the beauty of BOTH will be lost. See also Luke 5:39.
Matthew 9:36 - But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Note: A burden for people's spiritual needs must result in compassion for them.
Matthew 9:37-38 - Don't let the chapter break into chapter ten break up the context. "Send forth labourers into his harvest" (9:38) is what He began to do in 10:1 and following. Context more clear in Luke 10.
VM
Miracles are always confirmatory signs of the message and the messenger.
Matthew 9:16-17 - No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
The new dispensation "cannot be fitted into the forms of the old" (Liberty Commentary) or the beauty of BOTH will be lost. See also Luke 5:39.
Matthew 9:36 - But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Note: A burden for people's spiritual needs must result in compassion for them.
Matthew 9:37-38 - Don't let the chapter break into chapter ten break up the context. "Send forth labourers into his harvest" (9:38) is what He began to do in 10:1 and following. Context more clear in Luke 10.
VM
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