ROBERT’S OPEN DECLARATION!”
My position in presenting these postings is done not as a pastor, minister, or teacher of God’s words. They are brought forward as messages to be discerned by those receiving them and choosing personally how to react. Scriptural foundation for their delivery Ezekiel 33:9

Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
It is with great love for all given to me by Yeshua that you are receiving them.

Luke 10:16
[16]He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.  And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.

PRELUDE:

It is my duty to bring forward this information. Please note that the Commentary offered are quotes by Matthew Henry (1662 – 1714).

The Observations offered are from Robert (1945 – current), offering his commentary as Yeshua’s Watchman (Ezekiel 33:9).

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Philippians 3:18 KJV
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

OBSERVATION!

The enemies of the cross of Christ, mind nothing but their sensual appetites. Sin is the sinner’s shame, especially when gloried in. The way of those who mind earthly thing’s, may seem pleasant, but death and hell are at the end of it. If we choose their way, we shall share their end.

COMMENTARY!

The apostle describes the spiritual or hidden life of a believer. The old man is crucified, Romans 6:6, but the new man is living; sin is mortified, and grace is quickened. He has the comforts and the triumphs of grace; yet that grace is not from himself, but from another.

Believers see themselves living in a state of dependence on Christ. Hence, it is that though he lives in the flesh, yet he does not live after the flesh.

Those who have true faith live by that faith; and faith fastens upon Christ’s giving himself for us. He loved me, and gave himself for me.

As if the apostle said, the Lord saw me fleeing from him more and more. Such wickedness, error, and ignorance were in my will and understanding, that it was not possible for me to be ransomed by any other means than by such a price.

Consider this price well. Here notice the false faith of many. And their profession is accordingly; they have the form of godliness without the power of it. They think they believe the articles of faith aright, but they are deceived.

For to believe in Christ crucified is not only to believe that he was crucified, but also to believe that I am crucified with him. And this is to know Christ crucified.

Hence, we learn what the nature of grace is. God’s grace cannot stand with man’s merit. Grace is no grace unless it is freely given every way. The more simply the believer relies on Christ, for everything, the more devotedly he walks before Him in all his ordinances and commandments. Christ lives and reigns in him, and he lives here on earth by faith in the Son of God, which works by love, causes obedience, and changes into his holy image. Thus, he neither abuses the grace of God nor makes it in vain.

CLOSING OBSERVATION!

Salvation from the first to the last must be either of grace or of debt. These things are so directly contrary to each other that they cannot be blended together.

God glorifies his grace by changing the hearts and tempers of the rebellious. How then should they wonder and praise him! The Jewish nation were as in a deep sleep, without knowledge of their danger, or concern about it; having no sense of their need of the Saviour, or of their being upon the borders of eternal ruin.

David, having by the Spirit foretold the sufferings of Christ from his own people, the Jews, foretells the dreadful judgments of God upon them for it, Psalms 69.

This teaches how to understand other prayers of David against his enemies; they are prophecies of the judgments of God, not expressions of his own anger.

Divine curses will work long; and we have our eyes darkened if we are bowed down in worldly-mindedness.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.