March 2025 - Expound the Word

The Jealousy of God

March 20, 2025Exodus

The Hebrew word for jealousy also encompasses the ideas of envy (Prov. 14:30) and zeal (Isa. 9:7). Envy is a vice because it wants what God has given to the neighbor and is sometimes willing to harm the neighbor to obtain it. Zeal can be either a virtue or a vice depending on its focus.…

Psalm 8: the Glory of the Lord Revealed in the Son of Man

March 13, 2025Psalms Commentary

This psalm is entirely given to prayer, and, though it is a psalm of David, it is not a personal or private prayer, but a prayer of God's people together: O LORD our Lord... It contains no petitions at all but is entirely devoted to praise. It is a psalm of praise to God for…

Hebrews 13:7-17: A Chiasm of Exhortations

March 10, 2025Hebrews

The book of Hebrews addresses Jewish believers who, under the pressure of persecution, were returning to their old faith. The argument of the book against such apostasy is that they will be abandoning the much better things accomplished by Christ and will be attaching themselves to things that have become obsolete and will vanish away…