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  • 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…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 4 The Testing of the King By H A Ironside Before the Lord Jesus presented Himself to Israel as the promised King, He must needs pass through a period of testing, which He did for forty days. He met Satan, the strong man armed, and bound him before He began…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 3 The Forerunner and the Anointing of the King By H A Ironside Our Lord has told us that of those born of women none was greater than John the Baptist. His greatness consisted not simply in his personal character—though he stands out preeminently as a devoted man of God,…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 2 The Preservation of the King By H A Ironside Of Messiah it was prophesied that He should bring blessing to the nations as well as to Israel. Aged Simeon epitomized these promises when he declared of Jesus that He should be “a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Chapter 1 The Genealogy and Birth of the King By H A Ironside The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.” Matthew begins with the genealogy of our Lord from Abraham to Joseph. But this was not the blood-line. It was the royal…

  • An Ironside Expository Commentary, on Matthew

    Introduction By H A Ironside While we have no means of knowing just when this gospel was written, or even whether (as some suppose) it first appeared in Hebrew, or was originally written in Greek as it has come down to us, it is very evident that it is placed rightfully…

  • Lecture 16 Closing Salutations

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 4:7-18 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; with Onesimus,…

  • Lecture 15 Concluding Exhortations

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 4:2-6 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: that I may make it manifest,…

  • Lecture 14 The Earthly Relationships of the New Man

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 3:18-4:1 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children…

  • Lecture 13 Practical Holiness by Conformity to Christ in Relation to Others

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 3:12-17 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.…

  • Lecture 12 Practical Holiness by Conformity to Christ in Relation to Ourselves

    Colossians Part 2 By H A Ironside Colossians 3:5—11 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked some time,…

  • Lecture 11 Christ the Believer’s Life and Object

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 3:1-4 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with…

  • Lecture 10 Christ the Antidote to Carnal Asceticism

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:20-23 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines…

  • Lecture 9 Christ the Antidote to Oriental Mysticism

    Colossians By H A Ironside Colossians 2:18-19 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints…