This Week's Focus Passage

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Psalm 150: Hallelujah. ‘Hallelujah, praise ye Jehovah!’

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 150: Hallelujah. 'Hallelujah, praise ye Jehovah!' Beginning with the 146thPsalm, and continuing through the final psalm, Psalm 150; these five psalms constitute what are known as the "Hallelujah Choruses" of the book of Psalms. Not one among these five psalms possesses a superscription. However, these specific Psalms each begin with "P...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: 2 Chronicles 24:20 ‘And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of

This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Chronicles 24:20 'And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada.' The "Oxford Universal Dictionary,' originally published in 1933, provides us with the following definition of 'pericope,' when it states that a pericope is: "A short passage, section, or paragraph in a writing; esp. (Eccl.)a portion of Scripture appointed for...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Luke 10:1 ‘and sent them two and two before his face into every city and

This Week's Focus Passage: Luke 10:1 'and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place.' The context out of which the above citation is to be found, is Luke 10:1-3, where we read;Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come. And he sai...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Luke 8:26-36 ‘And he gave them leave. And the demons came out of the man.

This Week's Focus Passage: Luke 8:26-36 'And he gave them leave. And the demons came out of the man.' We may read in our copies of God's Word, this passage found in Luke's gospel, and verses 8:26-36. This particular narrative is found in all three of those gospels which have been denominated, the Synoptic Gospels. ["the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Psalm 127:1 ‘Except Jehovah keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vai

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 127:1 'Except Jehovah keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.' "John Norman (Jack) MacLeod (1926-2002) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly 1983/84. His parents had emigrated from the Isle of Lewis to America in the early 1920s and John was born in Detroit, Michigan in 192...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Philippians 2:25-30 ‘But I counted in necessary to send to you Epaphrodit

This Week's Focus Passage: Philippians 2:25-30 'But I counted in necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother.' We, once again, consult "The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia," Grand Rapids, Mich. 1947, with a query: who was this man named Epaphroditus? "EPAPHRODITUS, (Epaphroditus,"lovely"): Mentioned only in Phil. 2:25; 4:18. The name corresponds to the...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Philippians 2:12 ‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Philippians 2:12 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.' This text is just one of the texts that Arminians and 'free-willers' are swift to raise up before others, as a proof of their position with regard to a synchronic means of salvation; that is, to say, that salvation is a 'joint venture' between both God and the sinner. Or,...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: 1 Kings 17:1 ‘And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilea

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Kings 17:1 'And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead.' In his "International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia," James Orr, M.A., D.D., General Editor, published by Eerdmans, 1947, in volume II, we may read an article on the prophet, Elijah, pp.930-933, about this enigmatic person and prophet. The author of this particular a...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Ephesians 1:4 ‘Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the wo

This Week's Focus Passage: Ephesians 1:4 'Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.' After the salutation of verses one and two, the apostle sets before the reader a litany of 'items,' if you will, 'items' that are so solemn, gracious, and remarkable, that it is extremely difficult to know what terms to make use of in describing them unto our mind...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Ephesians 1:4 ‘Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the wo

This Week's Focus Passage: Ephesians 1:4 'Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.' After the salutation of verses one and two, the apostle sets before the reader a litany of 'items,' if you will, 'items' that are so solemn, gracious, and remarkable, that it is extremely difficult to know what terms to make use of in describing them unto our mind...

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