by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:39 (NKJV) “But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” This sounds and looks like passivity, and I hate passive people because they refuse to take responsibility for the...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:37 (NKJV) “But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” This is a profound and hard saying, but it cuts to the heart of personal integrity. We try so hard to prove that we are honest and...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 19, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:29 (NKJV) “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” It was said of old that adultery was when an...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 18, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:22 (NKJV) “But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 17, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Romans
Matthew 5:20 (NKJV) “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” External show of obedience and religiosity was the bane of the Scribes and Pharisees. They...
