If we have a difference with someone, there is only one way to settle it--and that is face to face. We've added a "Necessary cookies only" option to the cookie consent popup. i) Simon Peter knew that he was not the foundation. 19:15 and refers to witnesses of the subsequent confrontation . 18:8-9 "If your hand or your foot proves a stumbling-block to you, cut it off and throw it away from you. Everything depends on how he is taught and trained. But there is one clue which we do have. The picture is of a great royal court where only the most favoured courtiers and ministers and officials have direct access to the king. See 2 Chronicles 5:13; Acts 4:31. Then inside the house we have not only the Lord explaining the parable, the history from first to last of the tares and wheat, the mingling of evil with the good which grace had sown, but more than that, we have the kingdom viewed according to divine thoughts and purposes. Commentary on Matthew 18:15-20 - Working Preacher How do we know we are dealing with Mosaic law moral/criminal/civil offenses and not minor psychological hurts? I would like to hear what you have to say. Thank-you for putting into words what the Spirit has been whispering in my heart. "Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased." Jesus isn't like some today who say, "Well, the crowd's too small. Thank you. How He loves that simple faith and trust that is in the heart of a child. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Matthew Chapter 18 The implication is one of incredulity. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost ( Matthew 18:11 ). Matt 18:17-18 is, or should be used, when defending the Church. But if this be so, there is here absolute certainty that our Lord, on the very Sabbath in which He cast out the unclean spirit from the man in the synagogue of Capernaum, immediately after quitting the synagogue, entered the house of Peter, and that there and then He healed Peter's wife's mother of the fever. This was testing matters more closely. The sheep has no one but itself to blame for the danger it had got itself into. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW: >Discourse #4: The Sermon on the Life of the
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