God's awesome and unlimited power is hard to comprehend. And yet, He is all-powerful. God is in this passage called, my Rock, my Fortress, my Deliverer, The God of my rick, in Him will I trust. All of us should be able to say what David says here.

The writer continues after teaching the better promises of the New Covenant, and now by showing the excellence of the New Covenant, by showing the weakness and insufficiency of the Old Covenant and its ordinance. And then there's this extraordinary truth, in the Old Covenant sacrifices, there was a remembrance of sins every year. And then there was this, under the old covenant there was a remembrance of your sins every year, but not under the New Covenant. God promised, your sins and your iniquities, will I remember no more.

In this passage, the Apostles were arguing among themselves about who among them would be the greatest. Jesus taught them that greatness in the Kingdom of heaven is not like the proud greatness in the world. Trying to be first in the world is not the greatness in Christ's Kingdom. There's always a desire to be number one, but Christ taught His disciples, the last would be first, and the first would be last.

James having taught us about an untamed tongue now teaches us about two wisdoms. One from above and the other from beneath. You will know what is the prominent wisdom of your life by how you behave and conduct yourself in this world.

This is a Messianic Psalm which speaks prophetically of how God's enemies raged against Jesus, the Anointed King.

Mary, a young and faithful virgin, who lived in Nazareth of Galilee was greatly honored to be chosen by God to carry the Christ into the world, and to be mother to the Son of God. One cannot overstate what she must have felt within her heart, we read her song of praise when she visited her cousin Elisabeth, who was herself partaking of a miraculous birth in John the Baptist. But again, it cannot be overstated that Mary would conceive and carry the Savior of the world into the world. The salvation of Israel that she had long waited for would come into the world through her own body. The Word was made flesh within her very flesh.

This took place as Jesus and Peter, James, and John, came down from the Mount of Transfiguration. After this great spiritual experience, they come back down into the gloom, sin, and unbelief in the world. The other disciples could not cast out the unclean spirit from the young man. The young man's father was crying out for help! And, the scribes and Pharisees were there causing trouble.

We know that the Gentiles are included in the New Covenant promises prophesied by Jeremiah in (C31:31-34). The easy answer is found in 1 Corinthians 11, where Paul taught this Gentile church about the Lord's Supper. Paul taught them about the New Testament which most assuredly was to them as children of God! But throughout the Old Testament scriptures, (all the way back to Abraham), there are promises that God would save a people from every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue. In fact, in Hosea 1:10-2:1, God spoke of those whom He previously called "not my people" that they would be His people, and He would be their God. Hosea spoke of Israel, (the 10) tribes, and Paul used this passage (this promise) to show the inclusion of the Gentiles into what we might call spiritual Israel. Romans 9:22-26

The Lord Jesus, who is the Faithful and True Witness, and the Beginning of the Creation of God, spoke to the church at Laodicea about their selfishness and love for the world. Jesus told them they should be refreshingly cold, like a cold drink of water or hot, like a hot cup of tea. No one wants to drink anything lukewarm.

Two questions were asked, one by the disciples, and one by Jesus. The disciples question was, Why say the scribes that Elijah must come first? Jesus question was, How is it written concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?