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  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 25 The King Reveals the Future Part 2 By H A Ironside We have here a continuation of the same discourse as that reported in the previous chapter. There are three parables, each designed to present special aspects of truth in connection with the second coming of Christ. The parable…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 24 The King Reveals the Future Part 1 By H A Ironside Chapters 24-25 are very closely linked. They give us what Sir Robert Anderson has called “the second Sermon on the Mount.” All that we have here was uttered by our Lord on the Mount of Olives in answer…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 23 The King’s Indictments By H A Ironside While the Lord Jesus came not to condemn the world but to save all who would believe in Him, He expressed Himself in terms of great severity against those who, while professedly the guardians of Scripture, lived hypocritically and opposed the truth…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 22 The King and His Opponents By H A Ironside In this striking parable that our Lord spoke to the people of Jerusalem toward the end of His ministry, shortly before His going out to the Garden of Gethsemane and from there to the judgment hall and to the cross,…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 21 The King in Jerusalem By H A Ironside The so-called Triumphal Entry of our Lord into Jerusalem—at the beginning of the last week of His earthly ministry, which was to culminate in His death and burial and to be followed by a glorious resurrection—was in partial fulfillment of Psalm…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 20 Kingdom Standards By H A Ironside This chapter opens with a parable of the kingdom designed to show that service for the Lord is to be rewarded according to opportunities embraced, not simply for the amount of work accomplished. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 19 The New Law of the Kingdom By H A Ironside Having broken with Israel after the flesh for the time being, during which period the kingdom predicted by the prophets is in abeyance, Jesus proceeded to speak with authority concerning matters which would require definite information for the guidance…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 18 Ideal Subjects of the Kingdom and Discipline in the Church By H A Ironside Two things are brought into juxtaposition in this chapter: the kingdom in its spiritual aspect and the church yet to be brought into existence by the Lord after His death and resurrection, but seen here…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 17 The Glory of the Kingdom By H A Ironside It seems a great pity, as intimated in our closing remarks in the previous chapter, that its final verse was not made the opening one of this seventeenth chapter. In the corresponding accounts in both Mark and Luke, our Lord’s…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 15 The King Denounces Hypocrisy By H A Ironside We read next of the King’s rebuke of many who were opposed to His claims as Lord and the kingdom He announced. There was a remnant whose hearts were opened to the truth and who gladly received our Lord as the…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 14 The King’s Authority over All Nature By H A Ironside The first part of the present section is devoted to the pathetic account of the martyrdom of John the Baptist, but the balance of the chapter tells us of two miracles, both of which demonstrate the power of the…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 13 The Mysteries of the Kingdom By H A Ironside This chapter brings to us a new revelation in connection with the presentation of kingdom truth. We have seen in the preceding chapter how the leaders of the people of Israel crossed the deadline and refused the proffered kingdom by…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 12 The King’s Authority Denied By H A Ironside The events recorded in this chapter bring us to the close of the first great division of this gospel, in which the King and the kingdom were offered or presented to Israel. Here we find the leaders of the nation deliberately…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 11 The Grace of the King By H A Ironside As our Lord continued His gracious ministry, it became increasingly evident that by far the great majority of Israel, the leaders and the people generally, were in no mood to receive His message and to acknowledge Him as the Anointed…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 10 The King’s Couriers By H A Ironside In order to understand rightly the calling and mission of the Twelve prior to our Lord’s crucifixion, we need to bear in mind that the Lord Jesus Christ was presenting Himself to Israel as their promised King. God was dealing with them…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 9 The King Continues to Manifest His Power and Grace By H A Ironside We have the credentials of the King set forth throughout both this and the preceding chapter, as noticed already. His works of power attested His messianic claims. All His miracles were wrought, not for self-glorification, however,…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 8 The Works of the King By H A Ironside Having listened to the instruction of the King as He proclaimed the laws of His kingdom, we are now called upon to consider His works. We may think of these as His royal credentials, proving Him to be in very…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 7 The Principles of the Kingdom Part 3 By H A Ironside As we continue our study of the instruction given by Jesus Christ to His disciples on the Mount, let us remind ourselves again that we have to do here, not with the gospel for the unregenerate, but with…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 6 The Principles of the Kingdom Part 2 By H A Ironside Before proceeding to look somewhat carefully at this second great division of the Lord’s discourse on the mount, I would revert for a few moments to some questions referred to already in beginning our examination of chapter 5,…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 5 The Principles of the Kingdom Part 1 By H A Ironside In the so-called “Sermon on the Mount” our Lord was not preaching the gospel, but He was setting forth the principles of His kingdom, which should guide the lives of all who profess to be His disciples. In…