Hard Sayings of Jesus – Series 1-10

This ten-part KJV essay series confronts statements of Jesus Christ that modern preaching frequently softens, avoids, or removes from their biblical setting. Through careful attention to context, audience, dispensation, doctrine, and practical application, the series examines Christ’s commands to hate father and mother by comparison, let the dead bury their dead, pluck out an offending eye, cut off an offending hand, sell all, take up the cross, consider the camel and the needle’s eye, eat His flesh and drink His blood, understand His answer to the Gentile woman, and face the coming judgment of those who reject His reign. These studies distinguish costly discipleship from the free gift of salvation, Israel’s kingdom program from the Church under grace, figurative language from literal mutilation, covenant priority from racial contempt, and present gospel mercy from future royal judgment. Readers will gain a clearer understanding of what these sayings meant when Christ spoke them, how they fit within the whole counsel of Scripture, and how they should be applied without weakening their force or turning them into a false gospel of human works.