It wasn’t yet the season for figs, but Jesus curses a fig tree for its absence of figs. Why?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 21:17-19
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James and John requested to sit at Jesus’ right and left in His coming Kingdom, which resulted in resentment against them by the other disciples. Sadly, this incident foreshadowed thousands of future similar incidents when church leaders would attempt to exalt themselves.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 20:21-24
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David explains the alleged discrepancy between Matthew and Mark’s renditions of Jesus’ cursing of the fig tree, plus considers the deeper spiritual significance of the incident.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 21:17-19
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Since children are citizens of heaven, might they also be spiritually alive? And thus might they, when they reach an “age of accountability,” die spiritually, and from then on need to be born again if they are to inherit eternal life?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:14
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Jesus told the rich young ruler that he must sell his possessions and give to the poor if he wanted to enter the kingdom of heaven. Does this mean that everyone has to sell their possessions in order to enter heaven?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:25-27
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The rich young ruler called Jesus a “good teacher” and asked what “good thing” he needed to do to inherit eternal life. But Jesus said that no one is good but God alone. What was Jesus saying to the rich young ruler about himself?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:16-17
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Jesus plainly told the rich young ruler that, if he wanted to inherit eternal life, he needed to keep the commandments. Was Jesus mistaken? Or did Jesus’ words only apply to one man, or perhaps just to people under the old covenant?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:16-17
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Unless we consider who Jesus was speaking to as He made His statements about divorce and remarriage, we are apt to misinterpret and misapply His words, making adulterers out of innocent people.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:9-10
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Jesus plainly told the rich young ruler that there were at least six major commandments that he had to obey if he was to inherit eternal life. The young ruler claimed to have kept them all since his childhood, and Jesus didn’t become angry at his pride. Rather He reacted quite the opposite.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:17-20
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When we find enough information in the wider context of the Bible to “let ourselves off the hook” regarding Jesus’ apparent universally-binding statements about divorce and remarriage, shouldn’t we make sure there isn’t even more information found in the wider context that might let others find the same grace?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 19:9
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