“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6)   Chapter 53 of Isaiah is about the Messiah. If the Pharisees and Sadducees would have read the prophets, they would have recognized Jesus as the Messiah. But their focus and concentration of acceptable reading was only the Torah. And so, they missed their Messiah and misled their people. The practice of only reading the Torah still

“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.” (Lamentations 3:40)   The book of Lamentations is attributed to the Prophet Jeremiah. It consists of five books and laments the spiritual state of the people, God’s judgement and encouragement to return to the Lord. This chapter of Lamentations holds all three points. Our Scripture of study is an encouragement to return to the Lord.   Jeremiah encourages the people to search their ways and to try their ways. The Heb

“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit up into the wilderness, to be tempted by the Devil.” (Matthew 4:1)   We read this Scripture. We accept it. But do we wonder at such a declaration? The Holy Spirit led Jesus. This was the Will of God at work. And Jesus complied. It was with the intention of being tempted by the devil that Jesus went into the wilderness. He showed us how to keep from falling into temptation. Temptations will come. It’s a certainty. And we all get tempted. “No t

“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of...

“But the God of all grace, Who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you...