By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: Please explain Exodus 20:1, 34:7,- Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9, 10 in which is found the clause: “visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon their children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. . . . ” Do you understand it to mean that characteristics of my great great grandparents …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Love Your Enemies
By R.J. Evans In Matthew 5:44, Jesus commands, “Love your enemies. ” Viewing this command in its context, Jesus had reference to those who would be considered as “personal enemies,” because they are defined in the parallel command as those “which despitefully use you, and persecute you. ” Hence, the “enemies” here are those who literally …
Let Us Not Be Weary In Well Doing
By Mike Willis Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: …
“Footnotees”
By Steve Wolfgang Footnote Bill Humble, The Story of the Restoration (Austin, Texas: Firm Foundation, 1969), p. 74. The most serious issue that churches of Christ have faced in this century is church cooperation and “institutionalism” . . . . a substantial number of churches, have come to oppose such cooperative programs of evangelism as the …