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Christ Explains the Law By Paris Reidhead* Please turn to Matthew chapter 5 and we will see the words of our Lord Jesus and what He proposed to do at Calvary. We have been studying the words of Christ, as a parentheses, in our study of the book of Hebrews. In the book of Hebrews, we read we are to g... Read More

"The heavens do rule" (Daniel 4:26b). In the first three chapters of Daniel we find the spirit of Antichrist taking the offensive against the Remnant. In chapter one the point of conflict is their refusal to defile themselves with the king's meat and drink. In chapter two there is the threat to murd... Read More

St Theodoros the Great Ascetic (? 9"' century) (J'olume 2, pp. 13-47) Introductory Note The two works that follow, A Century of Spiritual Texts and Theoretikon,^ are ascribed in the Greek Philokalia to St Theodoros the Great Ascetic, a monk of the monastery of St Sabas near Jerusalem, who subsequent... Read More

Open your Bible to Genesis 9:20-29: And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth ... Read More

The Moral Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ J G Bellett INTRODUCTION. It is the Moral Glory, or, as we speak, the character of the Lord Jesus, on which I meditate in these pages. All went up to God as a sacrifice of sweet savour. Every expression of Himself in every measure, however small, and in whate... Read More

Matthew 1:22-23. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Behold, a Virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel. I hear many say, While we are here, and enjoying the privilege of hearing,... Read More

Accept life -- God knows all about it. Turn your life over to Him. Let Him show you how to work it out. If you learn to interpret life, you can accept it. Regarding high, ecstatic points in life, we can't maintain the emotional stimuli of that high point. We couldn't live under it. We are not made t... Read More

The Bible Herald, 1879, pp. 11-18. Deliverance has been much confused with the pardon of sins. Two things are united as to the Christian position — the resurrection, and the position of the Lord in the glory where He is. He is a man beyond death, beyond judgment, beyond sin, and beyond the power of ... Read More

(Extracted from Simple Testimony Vol. 3, 1851, page 142.) This chapter occupies a place of great importance, being the first public call by which the saints are separated from the world. Genesis brings out the great principles of God's actings with those taught of the Spirit to know His mind: the Go... Read More

In Luke 15 the elder son stood on the ground of righteousness, and never got into the house at all. In human science I learn what names of things and definitions mean, and then go and learn the things themselves; but in divine things, you must learn the things to understand the words. God graciously... Read More