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THE DOCTRINE OF MAN’S IMPOTENCE Chapter 3 NATURE The doctrine we are now considering is a most solemn and forbidding one. Certainly it is one which could never have been invented by man, for it is far too humbling and distasteful. It is one which is most offensive to human pride, and at complete var... Read More

THE DOCTRINE OF MAN’S IMPOTENCE Chapter 8 ELUCIDATION Had we followed a strictly logical order, this branch of our subject would have immediately followed our discussion of the problem which is raised by this doctrine. But we considered it better to first build a broader foundation for our present r... Read More

Why Four Gospels? 3. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE The numerical position which Luke occupies in the Sacred Canon, supplies a sure key to its interpretation. It is the third book in the New Testament, and the forty-second in the Bible as a whole. Each of these numbers are profoundly significant and suggestive ... Read More

The second half of Matthew 7 forms the applicatory part of that most important discourse of our Lord’s, known as "the Sermon on the Mount." One leading design of the Sermon was to show the spiritual nature and wide extent of that obedience which characterizes the true subjects of Christ’s kingdom, a... Read More

11 "And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and the... Read More

RECEIVING SINNERS I. THE CROWDS AROUND JESUS. A. Publicans (Tax collectors). 1. Social outcasts of that day. 2. Notoriously dishonest. a. Rome would establish a certain levy for an area. b. They were responsible to give to Rome that amount, but anything over that, they could keep. c. They had the po... Read More

Summary of sermon by Erlo Stegen, 27 Oct 2013 Luke 15 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all toget... Read More

THE PRESENCE OF GOD, WHAT IT IS, AND THE MEANS BY WHICH IT MAY BE ENJOYED. 2 CHRONICLES 15:2 The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and If ye seek him, he will Be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. In the preceding chapter we find that Zarah, the Ethiopian, came with an a... Read More

There was a time in my life when I would become quite impatient with others when they couldn’t discern things that were obvious to me regarding people, circumstances, ministries or decisions to be made. I would think ugly words such as: How dumb can you be? Can’t you see this? What’s wrong with you?... Read More

In the four Gospels, Jesus talks about forsaking all, giving up everything, not laying up treasures on earth and being willing to walk away from even your own life. First Corinthians 13:3 says, “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not l... Read More