Galatians 6:15

PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Part 4: God’s Best in the Christian Life Chapter 13 ENJOYING GOD’S BEST Introduction Since God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, to speak of an enjoying of His best (rather than His second or third best) and missing His best, strikes some as meaningless if not erroneo... Read More

REGENERATION OR THE NEW BIRTH Chapter 1 ITS NECESSITY 1. The need for regeneration lies in our natural degeneration. In consequence of the fall of our first parents, all of us were born alienated from the Divine life and holiness, despoiled of all those perfections wherewith man’s nature was at firs... Read More

THE BEATITUDES THE FIFTH BEATITUDE "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy" Matthew 5:7 the first four Beatitudes, which have already been considered, a definite progression of spiritual awakening and transformation has been noted as one of the thrusts of our Lord’s teaching. First, t... Read More

The Doctrine of Sanctification 4. ITS NECESSITY (COMPLETED) In the first part of our treatment of the necessity of sanctification it was shown that, the making of a sinner holy is indispensable unto his salvation, yea, that sanctification is an integral part of salvation itself. One of the most seri... Read More

Text: 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more" We also don't know people according to the flesh anymore, saying this man is a German, or Zulu or Englishman. We also don't este... Read More

Friends,—All outward things, figures, types, shadows, and inventions, have been set up since Adam fell; which inventions Christ destroys, and the types, figures, and shadows of him he fulfils [Heb 9 - 10], and brings man up out of the fall, to the seed he was in before he fell; and so in the power o... Read More

A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 2—Chapter 6 OF THE DISCIPLINE OF A CHURCH OF CHRIST Though the light of nature, and the laws and rules of civil society, may be very assisting in the affair of church discipline; and may in many things serve to illustrate and confirm it; yet it does not stand upon h... Read More

2. Creational and Racial Union "If any man is in Christ, there is a new creation" (2 Cor. 5:17, R.V. margin). (Note the translation, a correction and an improvement upon the King James' Version.) "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we sh... Read More

“When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed… He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied” (Isaiah 53:10,11). “But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: neither, because they are Abr... Read More

THE DEACONS In our study of bishops, we learned that their function is the spiritual care and oversight of the house of God. We noted that bishops are also called elders, and that there are several bishops in one church, rather than one bishop over several churches. We come next to the study of deac... Read More