Word
of God
But he replied and
said, "It is written, 'It is not by bread alone that a man
lives, except by every word that issues from the mouth of God
The Gospel According
to Matthew 4:4
The Gospel
According to Mark 6:7, 12
All commentary
and study notes are prefaced/edited by Dr. Riktor Von Zhades
7
And he called unto him the twelve, and
began to send them forth two and two, and gave them power over
unclean spirits,
12 And they went
out, and preached, that men should amend their lives.
Brethren:
Herein we see the
first of many evangelists (throughout history), that would follow in
the righteous footsteps of Christ. He, being the Christ, had the
authority, to give them the same, as He Himself possessed. That is to
preach the Gospel so that men would repent and return to God.
It is in the Book of Ezekiel that we read how He has set us as watchmen over man. That we
are to warn them of the coming Day of Judgment. That man should mend
their ways, and walk in the ways of righteousness. So it is today,
that we too, are likened to watchmen, crying out to a lost world that
His return is a guarantee and though we know not that exact time and
day, we do know that it is promised to occur. Therefore, brethren,
let us each speak upon the Gospel of Christ to all that may cross our
paths, and let them know of the love and mercy that our Creator has
given unto us. - Dr. RVZ
“‘And preached
that men should repent’; both of the evil practices which they were
guilty of, and of the bad principles they had imbibed, and change
both their sentiments and their conduct: this, they exhorted them to,
as John the Baptist, and Christ, had done before, who set out in
their ministry the same way; and these, as they did also, preached
the Gospel, and the things appertaining to the kingdom of God, and
Gospel dispensation, and called upon men to believe them. For faith
and repentance went together in Christ's ministry, ( Read Mark 1:15 )
, and so they did in the ministry of John, the Baptist, ( Read Acts
19:4 ) , and in the ministry of the apostles, ( Read Acts 20:21 ) .
When they preached that men should repent, it does not from hence
follow, that they have a power to repent of themselves: for such is
the condition of men by nature, that they neither see their need of
repentance, and their hearts are so hard and obdurate, that they
cannot work themselves up to it, or work it in them, and exercise it;
this requires the powerful and efficacious grace of God to produce
it, and it is a gift of his grace; and if he gives the means, and not
the grace of repentance itself, it will never appear: but the
apostles preaching that men should repent, shows that they were in
such a state as to need it; and how necessary it was for them to have
it, seeing without it they must all perish: and such a ministration
is proper, to awaken the minds of men to a sense of the need of it,
and to direct them to Christ the Saviour, who is exalted to give it,
as well as the remission of sins.” - John Gill - 17th
Century Theologian
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