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R.A. Torrey

The Deity of Jesus Christ

R.A. Torrey"While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he?..." Matthew 22:41,42 The question that our Lord Jesus puts here to the Pharisees is the most fundamental question concerning Christian thought and faith that can be put to anybody in any ... Read More
R.A. Torrey

The First Cleansing of the Temple John 2:13–25

R.A. TorreyDISCOVERY OF THE FACTS 1. The Temple Defiled by Man, But Cleansed by Jesus, vv. 13–17 Why did Jesus go so often up to Jerusalem at the time of the Passover? (Deut. 16:16; Luke 2:41; John 6:4; 11:55.) What did He find in the house of God? For what were the oxen and sheep, etc., needed? (Deut. 14:26.)... Read More
R.A. Torrey

The Judgment of the Nations Matt. 25:31–46

R.A. TorreyDISCOVERY OF THE FACTS 1. The Great Gathering and the Final Separation, vv. 31–33 Where were these words spoken? When? What contrast is there between Christ as He speaks here and the Christ as He appears in the prophecy which He spoke? Of what have we a picture in this lesson? Is the judgment repres... Read More
R.A. Torrey

The Parable of the Marriage Feast of the King’s Son Matthew 22:1–14

R.A. Torrey1. God’s Invitation Disregarded and Despised, vv. 1–7 Who is the speaker in this lesson? To whom was He speaking? What was their state of mind? (21:46.) In what form does He put His teaching? Why did He choose this method of teaching at this time? How is this parable like the one which immediately p... Read More
R.A. Torrey

The Sermon on the Mount—(Concluded 6) Matthew 7:13–29

R.A. TorreyDISCOVERY OF THE FACTS 1. The Way of Destruction and the Way of Life, vv. 13–14 How many “ways” does our Lord say that there are? Where does the one way lead? Where does the other way lead? If one is not in “the way which leadeth unto life” in what way is he? What is meant by “destruction”? (Rev. 17... Read More
Theodore Epp

Balanced-and Blessed!

Theodore EppPhilippians 2:12-14; Jeremiah 6:9-15 Every Christian needs to work out his salvation with a tender conscience and a watchfulness against temptations, trials or testings, shrinking from whatever might offend God or discredit His name. Each of us needs to seriously consider whether or not there is som... Read More
Theodore Epp

The Unchanging Flesh Nature

Theodore Epp2 Samuel 11:6-15 David's scheme was to bring Uriah home on a military furlough, hoping that he would be considered the father of Bathsheba's child. Uriah was much more righteous than David in this. He would not permit himself to relax until the war was over. David then resorted to extreme measures. ... Read More
Zac Poonen

(Beauty For Ashes) 1. The corruption of the self-life

Zac PoonenWe can never enjoy deliverance from our self-life before we see something of its total corruption. Let us look at the elder son (in the parable in Luke 15), for he illustrates, perhaps better than anyone else in the Bible, the utter rottenness of the self-life. The younger son in the parable is usua... Read More
Zac Poonen

(Exchanging our Self-life for Christ's life) 1. The corruption of the self-life

Zac PoonenWe can never enjoy deliverance from our self-life before we see something of its total corruption. Let us look at the elder son (in the parable in Luke 15), for he illustrates, perhaps better than anyone else in the Bible, the utter rottenness of the self-life. The younger son in the parable is usua... Read More
David Guzik

Genesis 13 - God Promises Abram the Land Again

A. Abram and Lot separate. 1. (1-4) Abram returns to the land promised to him. Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to ... Read More

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