Have You Oil in Your Lamps?
Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Matthew 25:1. (Read Matthew 25:13.) Though five of these virgins are represented as wise and five as foolish, all had lamps. They had all been convicted that they must prepare for the coming […]
A Teacher of Righteousness
If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:31, 32. Jesus says, “Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Jesus was the greatest teacher the world […]
The Laborers
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. Matthew 20:1, 2. (Read Matthew 20:1-16.) Christ taught by means of figures and symbols. […]
The Rich Man
The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself saying, “What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?” Luke 12:16, 17. This man had received everything from God. The sun had been permitted to shine upon his land; for it falls on the just and […]
Opposition May Benefit Us
But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience. Luke 8:15. But if the love of the world, if self-esteem or any defiling thoughts or actions, obtain the victory over us, then shall we lose […]
Good-ground Hearers
But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Matthew 13:8. What an encouragement it is that the sower is not always to meet with disappointment. The seed is sometimes received into honest hearts. The hearers comprehend the truth and do not resist the Holy Spirit or […]
