Matthew – Page 2 – Matty (Headwind)

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

Atheism’s Actuality

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
(Matthew 23:13) NKJV

Atheism’s actuality: in order to make the argument that God lies in the Bible, facultative authority has to be imputed to the Bible, and the accuser has become a hypocrite.

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

Soul Destroying

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
(Matthew 10:28) NKJV

“Soul destroying” is commonly used to mean “causing a person to feel very unhappy or depressed.” For example: the soul-destroying confinement of city life. This means that the soul is continuing in its unhappy state. It’s never taken to mean that the soul stops existing.

July 15, 2020November 21, 2020

Gnashing of Teeth

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(Matthew 8:12) KJV

We’re making the case that hell is at the center of the Earth, it’s temporary, and eventually it will be disposed of in the furthest reaches of space referred to in the Bible as outer darkness.

July 13, 2020July 13, 2022

Spirits in Prison – Part 2

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
(Matthew 27:52-53) KJV

The last piece of the puzzle which we have to solve is whether or not Jesus, having descended into the lower parts of the Earth, then took the Old Testament saints, who’d been waiting in sheol, to heaven.

July 6, 2020July 15, 2020

Left Their Own Abode

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
(Jude 1:6) NKJV

The passage above is one of a small handful in the Bible which address the consequence faced by the angels who joined Satan’s rebellion in heaven. It’s closely related to the featured passage today’s devotional.

June 28, 2020June 28, 2022

Where are We 2020?

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
(Psalms 91:5-7) NKJV

The big news for the first half of 2020 is COVID-19 and the impact that it’s having on all of our lives. We’re still spiraling down the rabbit hole of the pandemic and no one knows how deep it goes.

June 27, 2020June 28, 2020

Accept the Certainty of Deduction

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
(Matthew 13:52) KJV

We said when we began this process that we would to take a strictly deductive approach to learning what the Bible is trying to teach us. We made a point of saying that we have to be prepared to accept what we may deduce.

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020

A Tree is Known by its Fruit

To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.
(Matthew 12:33) Good News Translation

If a tree is known by its fruit then avoid trees with bad fruit. Stay away from people if you know they’re going to swear. Don’t engage with people if you know that they’re going to emit a stream of verbal effluence.

June 18, 2020June 19, 2020

A Pure Heart

Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
(Matthew 5:8) NKJV

God will be seen by those who have a pure heart. So how do we make our heart pure? By seeking God. It’s another example of how understanding the correct relationship between cause and effect is rather important.

June 18, 2020June 19, 2020

Out of the Heart

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
(Matthew 15:19) NKJV

Jesus was asked why he didn’t stop his disciples from eating before they had washed their hands. He was very direct in pointing out that we’re not defiled by what we put into our mouths, even if our hands are dirty. We’re defiled by what comes out of our mouths, and that starts in the corruption of our heart.