colossians-2:15,-colossians-2:20-niv

Reading: Job 1:6-11; 2:9,10; 42:7,8,10 Job’s Spiritual History Job is introduced to us as a man in great fullness: fullness of possessions and of wealth, fullness of good works and of personal righteousness, and standing before God in acceptance. Then there begins a course in his experience, the mea... Read More

Reading: Zechariah 3:1-10; Revelation 12:1-12. "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death." (R.V.) One clause of that verse sums up everything else and is sufficient - "because of the blood of the... Read More

For some time past the Lord has been laying the message of this book upon my heart, and I believe the time has come for that message to be brought anew to His people. I believe that in this book there is that which can touch the need at this present time in a very real way; for, indeed, this is a ti... Read More

Chapter 3 - The Transcendent Thought of Sonship Having, in our consideration of the message of the "Letter to the Hebrews," identified the all-inclusive object as the fullness of Christ, we proceed to crystallize that object, or see that it is here crystallized, into the Divine meaning of sonship. T... Read More

It is not our intention to enter upon a general exposition of this Letter. Our present concern is with some of the questions which it raises in the light of history, and that history at, and from, the time when the Letter was written. Firstly, there was the situation at the end of the Apostle Paul's... Read More

Reading:Ephesians 1:15-23; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:13; 2:10,15. In a previous meditation it was Christ's centrality and supremacy in the light of the individual which occupied us; then it was His centrality and supremacy in the Church, which is His Body. We are now to consider that which is... Read More

We have said that these eight aspects, or ‘notes’, in the scale of redemption, succeed one another in a harmonious sequence, each one following the other and leading to the next. Our answer to the first question —Why the incarnation? was threefold: the redemption of man, the reconstitution of man, a... Read More

The God-ward Aspect of the Cross The Cross first of all has its God-ward aspect or direction; that is, the Cross secures God's rights in righteousness. There is no hope of any Divine purpose being realised, there is no hope for the Church to become an actuality according to God's mind until that has... Read More

Read: Exodus 12. This evening I am going to say just a little to you about the Lord's Table. This is perhaps the most universal of all the features of Christianity. Almost every section of Christianity in some way or another has the Lord's Table. In the different sections, of course, it goes by diff... Read More

"And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased." (Galatians 5:11). The verse from which this title is taken suggests that if only Paul had continued to preach circumcision he could have avoided persecution and been freed ... Read More