NT-GOSPEL.filter - mhcc 18-30:

mhcc@Luke:18 @ ****** Luke 18 ****** *** Outline of Luke 18 *** The parable of the importunate widow. (_1-8.) The Pharisee and the publican. (_9-14.) Children brought to Christ. (_15-17.) The ruler hindered by his riches. (_18-30.) Christ foreshows his death. (_31-34.) A blind man restored to sight. (_35-43.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Luke:18:18-30 @ Verse 18-30 - Many have a great deal in them very commendable, yet perish for lack of some one thing; so this ruler could not bear Christ's terms, which would part between him and his estate. Many who are loth to leave Christ, yet do leave him. After a long struggle between their convictions and their corruptions, their corruptions carry the day. They are very sorry that they cannot serve both; but if one must be quitted, it shall be their God, not their wordly gain. Their boasted obedience will be found mere outside show; the love of the world in some form or other lies at the root. Men are apt to speak too much of what they have left and lost, of what they have done and suffered for Christ, as Peter did. But we should rather be ashamed that there has been any regret or difficulty in doing it.

mhcc@John:13 @ ****** John 13 ****** *** Outline of John 13 *** Christ washes the disciples' feet. (_1-17.) The treachery of Judas foretold. (_18-30.) Christ commands the disciples to love one another. (_31-38.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@John:13:18-30 @ Verse 18-30 - Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death, without such trouble of spirit as he now discovered when he spake of Judas. The sins of Christians are the grief of Christ. We are not to confine our attention to Judas. The prophecy of his treachery may apply to all who partake of God's mercies, and meet them with ingratitude. See the infidel, who only looks at the Scriptures with a desire to do away their authority and destroy their influence; the hypocrite, who professes to believe the Scriptures, but will not govern himself by them; and the apostate, who turns aside from Christ for a thing of naught. Thus mankind, supported by God's providence, after eating bread with Him, lift up the heel against Him! Judas went out as one weary of Jesus and his apostles. Those whose deeds are evil, love darkness rather than light.