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A New Testament instance is that of the Apostle Paul; I am the least of the Apostles, not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the church of God, I Cor. 15:9 and of a similar more general awareness he speaks in the passage of Romans 7:7, 13ff. In which passage every progressing step
It wasn’t that they were such a wonderful people even naturally. It wasn’t that they were such a numerous people naturally. They were the fewest. They were the littlest. And literally Scripture emphasizes that they were the “scrapings” – that which is left on the plate after you eat and which you th
It never (or rarely) happens that the one with the least is willing to stand on the broader and deeper ground of him who has the most. The lesser brethren have a nutshell theology and would have us crawl with them into such confines; whereas we have the whole tree, are by grace alone engrafted branc
111:7, 8) Our Lord manifested such a holy jealousy over His holy law that He not only warned that "whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 5:19) but also that "the Lord sitteth King forever" (Ps
All the nations of the earth are less than grasshoppers in His sight. We are not very much at all, really less than nothing. And we are so very little because, besides being only creatures, we are sinners. But this great difference means that the covenant is always a wonder of God’s grace, God’s unm
No desire for preeminence among them would he have, nor even a thought about his own comparative greatness. In fact, in the simplicity of childhood he would be quite ignorant of degrees of honor. “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child,” Jesus said, “the same is the greatest i
13:23), answered, “Narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt. 7:13). In contrast to the nations of the world, the Lord says, “Fear not, (very) little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Lk. 12:30, 32). It is true of God’s peopl
We have another interesting question to answer in this issue of the News: “Could you please explain Matthew 5:19: ‘Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, th
15:9), and ‘less than the least of all saints’” (Eph. 3:8). Paul gives us an autobiographical sketch of himself: he said, I am a Jewish man, a citizen of no mean city, being a Tarsian of Cilicia, a free-born Roman (Acts 22:26-28), brought up at the feet of Gamaliel in this city, Jerusalem, trained i
In Matthew 5:18, he goes on to say that until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or tittle would pass from the law until all had been fulfilled. And then Jesus capped His statement by saying that whosoever would break the least of the commandments and teach others to break them would be called