"Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and Thou art exalted as Head above all" (1 Chron. 29:11). The Sovereignty of God is an expression that once was gen... Read More
I. GOD'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE KING - LEADERS. (13. A. "He had built his house with unrighteousness." 1. Used his office for own personal gain. 2. Seeking their own greatness and strength - yet weakening those who they reigned over. (2. B. "Prosperity had deafened their ear to voice of God." 1. The ... Read More
Our opportunities are unlimited. Beyond the challenge to spread the Gospel into developing nations, something else is far more pressing: We are totally dependent on God. If we do not look to Him but rather to ourselves to meet our needs, only disaster can result. Something wonderful happens, on the ... Read More
Reading: Matthew 3:13-4:11 As you know, we are in these mornings occupied with the Holy Spirit's biography of Jesus Christ which He is writing in the spiritual history of believers. Last time we commenced a new chapter in this biography, the chapter which contains the baptism, the anointing and the ... Read More
Reading: Deuteronomy 8. "And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee..." "Brethren, I count not myself yet to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things that are before, I press on toward the goal, u... Read More
The living God giveth us richly all things to enjoy. Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his com-mandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ... then t... Read More
Here we come to things offered to idols. There are two distinct directions about that. They had to own the idol was nothing, and yet own it was something to the consciences of men. Looked at it in itself, as an idol, it was nothing; and the meat offered to it was what God created. But then the consc... Read More
We must remember that all these things which are written "happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come." This expression, "ends of the world," has its importance as also this, "once in the end of the world," etc. (Heb. 9:26). It i... Read More
There is a difference between Numbers and Joshua. Numbers is, in its principle, the testing of man down here in the wilderness; we are viewed typically as redeemed Christians, but still in the wilderness, and tested. Joshua is, in figure, divine energy getting rid of Satan; while at the same time ev... Read More
We now come to the Book of Deuteronomy, a book full of interest in its moral warnings as to testimony, but presenting fewer subjects for interpretation and exegesis than those, the summary of which we have hitherto sought to give. This book takes up Israel just on the borders of Canaan, and insists ... Read More
The Sovereignty of God) Chapter One - God's Sovereignty Defined
Jeremiah 22
Relying and Depending on God Alone
Our Heavenly Vocation
Remembering and Forgetting (Deuteronomy 8)
MARCH 9 - morning
1 Corinthians 8
Joshua 5
Readings on Joshua 1
Synopsis of the Books of the Bible - Deuteronomy