Numbers 31:23-24

Everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shalI be clean. The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. — He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of L... 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

A friend of mine, spending a few days in the neighborhood of our English lakes, came upon the most beautiful shrubs he had ever seen. Arrested by their extraordinary luxuriance, he inquired the cause and learned that it was due to a judicious system of transplanting, constantly pursued. Whatever may... Read More

They declared their pedigrees - Numbers 1:18 It was not enough to be a true-born Israelite, a man must be able to show his descent. The genealogical tables were kept with the greatest care; and there was a holy pride in being able to vindicate the claim of having the blood of the patriarchs in the v... Read More

Ministry (3009) (leitourgia from leitourgeo = to be a public servant, to perform religious or charitable function, to minister; English = liturgy - body of rites prescribed for public worship) generally used of a servant of a superior and suggests a function to be discharged or a necessary service t... Read More

Summary of Bible-studies given at a Conference in Bangalore India - December 26 to 28, 2000) Reading: Exodus chapters 25 to 31; and 35 to 40. The Old Testament tabernacle was to be a sanctuary where God could dwell in the midst of Israel (Exod.25:8). It was also a picture of Jesus Who came in the fl... Read More

Romans 3:20 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. 2 Samuel 1:1-27 - Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Zikla... Read More

There are few things in the Bible over which more intelligent readers have stumbled, and over which infidels have more frequently gloated and gloried, than God's command that certain people should be utterly exterminated, sparing neither sex nor age. Men, women and children were to be killed. Thus, ... Read More

A Peculiar People Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on June 24, 1860, by J. C. Philpot "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people , zealous for good works." Titus 2:14 There is a common, and, if true, a very serious objecti... Read More