He Shall Save His People JOHN had announced the nearness of the kingdom (Matt. 3:2), and the spirit of God and His voice out of the heavens had identified Jesus as God’s Son, the Beloved in Whom He delights (3:16,17). The way seemed to be opened up for the manifestation of Jesus as Saviour and…

He Shall Save His People THE GOOD NEWS of the nearness of the kingdom was qualified by limitations and sober warnings through much of our Lord’s ministry to Israel. The message spoke of glory to come, but it was directed to the nation of Israel alone (Matt.10:5,6; 15:24), with the prediction that only a few…

He  Shall  Save  His  People WHEN nearly two thousand years ago, our Lord was generated in the form of humanity in the womb of Mary, a messenger appeared to Joseph and declared: “Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins” (Matt.1:20,21).…

He Shall Save His People THE DISCIPLES were told not to herald the kingdom to anyone except “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt.10:5). Now in Matthew 13, Jesus speaks to the crowds in parables, and in fact, “apart from a parable He spoke nothing to them” (13:34). He changes His emphasis from…

He Shall Save His People JESUS SHALL SAVE His people from their sins (Matt.1:21). But even after speaking to them of the perfection enjoyed in this salvation and its high standards of thinking and acting (Matt. 5-7) there seemed to be no interest in this great operation, at least as the Saviour’s achievement. A leper…

He Shall Save His People IN HIS sermon on the mount, Jesus spoke of the kingdom and the blessings for those who heard and heeded His words. But it is evident, not only in looking back at the failure of Israel but at our own experience of weakness and sin as well, that no one…

He Shall Save His People JESUS WAS COMMISSIONED to the house of Israel. He was commissioned to them, and He was not commissioned to anyone else. Jesus was commissioned to one people only, and they were a people who were lost (Matt.15:24). Furthermore, most shocking of all, this one, lost people to whom Jesus was…

He  Shall  Save  His  People WHEN OUR LORD came into this world He came to save. This was the meaning of the name given Him, Jesus, which according to its roots in the Hebrew language signifies: Yahweh-Saviour. Therefore, when Mary “was found pregnant by holy spirit” (Matt.1:18), the messenger of the Lord said to Joseph, “Now she shall be…

He Shall Save His People “UNDER no circumstances should you be finishing the cities of Israel till the Son of Mankind may be coming” (Matt.10:23b). “Verily I am saying to you that there are some of those standing here who under no circumstances should be tasting death till they should be perceiving the Son of…