romans-7:17-20

Chapter 3 - ‘Woe!’ – ‘Lo!’ – ‘Go!’ Reading: Isaiah 6:1-5; John 12:41; Isaiah 6:6-14. "These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him." John was referring to the Lord Jesus - Jehovah of Hosts! We have seen that what took place at the time of Isaiah's vision was related to the... Read More

Reading: John 5:1-18. We have pointed out that the key to these signs is to be found in the reaction which took place toward them, and that is true in this case. Let us look at a few of the features. First of all, we must note the Jewish setting of this sign. It was at the "feast of the Jews", and m... Read More

Reading: John 9. We have pointed out that with the sign of the feeding of the five thousand Jesus entered upon a new phase of His ministry, that is, upon the phase of conflict. There arose a great deal of conflict out of that work, and from that time He was in an atmosphere of controversy. When we c... Read More

"What is Man?" Psalm 8:4-6. - Hebrews 2:5-8. That nocturnal meditation and contemplation of the Psalmist, which led him to ask this question and to answer it by placing man at the centre of the universe, has bounded all the ages, gone back to the eternal counsels of the Godhead before the world was,... Read More

"Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. So th... Read More

Reading: Hebrews 11:24-27, 13, 16. God has one great desire - to have what may be termed a 'a people of His best'. Until He has such a people, He will never be wholly satisfied. There may be those who will accept His 'second-best' - for He surely often allows a second-best - but only a people set on... Read More

Lord, we know that we have just used the words which one of old, long time ago, used, but did not understand that it was the Lord speaking. He thought it was a man, though a man of God, until he was brought face to face with the fact, no, it is not man that speaks, it is God; and then directly with ... Read More

As we come to the sixth note in the octave, which is the advent of the Holy Spirit, we approach the matter, as before, with the question: Why the Holy Spirit? We know, of course, that the advent of the Holy Spirit inaugurated a new dispensation here on this earth. It is for us, therefore, as Christi... Read More

By the simple diagram herewith inserted, [Click here] we have attempted to set forth the inner history of man both from God's standpoint and his own. Firstly, we have man "in the day that God created" him (Gen 5:1). His threefold nature is defined. 1.) Spirit: with three faculties, Conscience, Commu... Read More

It is most important that we should be alive to the fact that the Christian life is governed by purpose. The thought of 'purpose', indeed that very word itself, is much in view in the New Testament. Most of us are familiar with one statement relating thereto: "To them that love God all things work t... Read More