"The mystery of the gospel" (Eph. 6:19). "I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). "...in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will" (Eph. 1:11). We have remarke... Read More
While it is true that every spiritual blessing is a gift of grace and not something to be merited, it is equally true that no blessing is entered into without a real challenge, demanding a genuine and honest proof that we mean business with God. The history of Israel's entering into the inheritance ... Read More
It is a glorious thing, dear friends, isn’t it, to really apprehend that our Lord Jesus hasn’t any pre-occupations, where we are concerned. We are His only occupation. Where He is untrammeled by other considerations, and all personal interests have completely disappeared in the interest of getting H... Read More
"For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him" (Acts 13:27). In a way, that verse is the key to the whole of the book of the Acts, for this book is really an interpretation... Read More
Reading: Acts 10:1-11:18. The New Creation Man in Process of Formation Acts 10 follows on what we were considering in our last message. It concerns this particular dispensation or age of the Holy Spirit, and the specific object which the Holy Spirit has in view during this age. We can put it in one ... Read More
Through the blood of Jesus, I am sanctified, made holy, set apart to God. Let us look at the way holiness was to be attained under the old covenant. God said, “You shall be holy; for I am holy” (Leviticus 11:44). All of Leviticus 11 enumerates complicated regulations regarding what to eat, what to w... Read More
There is a great need in the body of Christ for consistent reading of the Holy Scriptures in their entirety, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. In this case we are encouraging a chronological reading of the Scriptures. Most of the confusion is created when certain teachers, groups, or... Read More
Unclean, Common, Unholy (2839)(koinos probably from sun/syn = with) is an adjective which means primarily common. More generally, and usually in a negative sense, koinos means defiled (corrupted in regard to its purity or perfection), unclean (because it is treated as common and thus considered mora... Read More
III. 1. In those days - that is, while Jesus dwelt there. In the wilderness of Judea - This was a wilderness properly so called, a wild, barren, desolate place as was that also where our Lord was tempted. But, generally speaking, a wilderness in the New Testament means only a common, or less cultiva... Read More
Leviticus 11:1-47 - And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, (Read More...) Acts 15:29 - That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. Colossians 2:1... Read More
The Mystery of the Gospel
Hindrances to Fullness of Life
Notes on the Book of Ruth - Part 3
The Contrast Between the Old Dispensation and the New
The Process of Reproduction
Not a Set of Rules
76 - Chronological Bible Reading of Scriptures
Unclean, Common, Unholy (2839)
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 3
Bible Verses On Abstaining From Meat