john-15:13-14

Saints (40) (hagios = set apart ones, separated ones, sanctified ones, holy ones) is literally a holy one and depending on the context refers to whoever or whatever is set apart (sanctified) for a special purpose. Saints have been supernaturally set apart (sanctified by the Holy Spirit, 1Pe 1:2-note... Read More

Souls (5590) (psuche or psyche from psucho = to breathe, blow, English = psychology, "study of the soul") is the breath, then that which breathes, the individual, animated creature. However the discerning reader must understand that psuche is one of those Greek words that can have several meanings, ... Read More

Have become united with (4854) (sumphutos from sun/syn [word study] = together speaks of intimate union + phúo = grow up, spring up, of men, to beget = engender or generate, to produce, to bring forth, to put forth shoots) means growing up or spring up together. It was a word commonly used for the j... Read More

Word (4487) (rhema from verb rheo = to speak - to say, speak or utter definite words) refers to the spoken word, especially a word as uttered by a living voice. Laleo is another word translated speak but it refers only to uttering a sound whereas rheo refers to uttering a definite intelligible word.... Read More

Miller's Year Book—a Year's Daily Readings J. R. Miller, 1895 JANUARY to JUNE A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest ... Read More

There is a natural tendency to think of Jesus as different from other men in the human element of his personality. Our adoration of him as our divine Lord, makes it seem almost sacrilege to place his humanity in the ordinary rank with that of other men. It seems to us that life could not have meant ... Read More

(See also Matthew 4:18–22; Mark 1:16–20) DISCOVERY OF THE FACTS 1. Listening to Jesus, vv. 1–3 Does Luke follow the chronological order? (Compare Matt. 4:18, etc.; Mark 1:16.) Why not? Did Jesus have much of an audience? What was it that they were after? Are there multitudes today who are eager for ... Read More

DISCOVERY OF THE FACTS 1. The Preparation for the Passover, 7–13 Where did Luke get his account of the Lord’s supper? (1 Cor. 11:23–26.) From whom did Paul get it? (1 Cor. 11:23.) Upon what day did the scenes of this lesson occur? (Lev. 23:5, 6; Ex. 12:18.) Did Jesus eat the Passover with the discip... Read More

THE WAY OF DELIVERANCE ROMANS 6 LAYS THE FOUNDATION for the Christian's deliverance from sin. Such deliverance God provides for every believer; all may enter in. Moreover, let us be unmistakably clear that this liberation from the power of sin may be experienced the very hour a sinner accepts the Lo... Read More

We now come to a matter on which there has been some confusion of thought among the Lord's children. It concerns what follows this knowledge. Note again first of all the wording of Romans 6. 6: ---Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him ". The tense of the verb is most precious for it ... Read More