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“HE WAS THE TRUE LIGHT.”
As our Lord was the Father’s Word or Messenger, he was also the Father’s Light, whose mission it was to reveal, to make known, the Father’s love, that thereby those who had eyes to see might be attracted, drawn, blessed. Alas, how many were blind! Eyes had they but they...
“HE IS EXCEPTED WHICH DID PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIM.”
2 Cor 15:27; Eph 4:5,6
We are not from this statement to get the inference that the Son was superior to the Father, that the Father had created nothing previously because of lack of ability to create, but that the Father was pleased thus to...
John 1:1-18
“In him was life; and that life was the light of men.”
Our lesson is an epitomized statement of the entire plan of God in most comprehensive form, reaching from long before the creation of the earth down into the future to the grand consummation of the divine plan at the close of...
WHAT MOSES SHOWED AT THE BUSH.
Continuing to level his argument against the Sadducees – continuing to prove the general resurrection of mankind, and not merely the resurrection of the Church – our Lord adds, "Now that the dead are [to be] raised even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth...
DID THE RANSOM SECURE FULL RESURRECTION?
We ask then, what did our Lord mean by limiting his answer to "they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection"?
Will not the whole world be accounted worthy to obtain full resurrection?
Did not our Lord's death purchase...
Amongst the Jews were three particular parties.
The largest and in every way most important of these were known as Pharisees, who believed in a future life, to be attained by a resurrection at some future time, for which they waited.
Second to these in importance, yet very much smaller, were...
Interesting Questions
If lasting life is the portion of all when awakened, are they justified?
If not justified, are they still under condemnation?
If neither justified nor condemned, what is their condition?
The condition of the world on trial during the Millennial age will be neither one...
“The following will prove interesting reading to many of our brethren, and especially amongst our Jewish friends. It is a report of remarks made by an old Hebrew at a “mission” meeting. We note that God has so overturned natural Israel that even if they had possession of the holy places where...
As stated in our previous study, nothing in the Scriptures positively assures us that Elisha was a type; but if his experiences from the time Elijah was taken away were typical, it would appear to us that they were in some sense double – that he represented two classes.
(1) He would seem in the...
2 KINGS 2:12-24
Golden Text: – “Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.” – 2 Kings 2:9
That Elisha was the son of a wealthy Israelite is evidenced by the fact that his father’s farming was done on a large scale. At the time that Elijah, under divine direction, first approached him and...
ELISHA, IF A TYPE, A DOUBLE ONE.
We might here remark that although we are treating Elisha as a part of the type as well as Elijah, yet there is nothing in the Scriptures that positively intimates that this is the case – it is a mere inference. In Elijah’s case, as we have already pointed out...
HARVEST SIFTINGS TYPIFIED.
There has been considerable speculation respecting this account of the three times and places at which Elijah invited Elisha to part company with him: that Elijah was too modest to desire many witnesses of the final manifestation of God’s favor toward him, or that he...
2 Kings 2:1-11
Golden Text: – “He was not, for God took him.” – Gen 5:24 (R3416)
The words, “When the Lord would take up Elijah,” suggest that Elijah had a specially protected life – that it was not subject to the power of his enemies – that he was wholly under divine control. And this is true...
CHRIST OUR REDEMPTION, OR DELIVERANCE.
Many confound the words redemption and redeem, found in the New Testament, whereas they refer to different features of the work of Christ. The word redeem in its every use in the New Testament signifies to acquire by the payment of a price, while the word...
CHRIST OUR SANCTIFICATION, continued
But the exaltation of our Lord, who already was the chief of all creation, was even less remarkable than another feature of the divine plan, foreordained before the foundation of the world (1 Pet 1:2; Eph 1:4); namely, that he would make to some of his human...
CHRIST OUR SANCTIFICATION.
The term “Sanctification,” used in this text, means, set apart, consecrated, devoted to, or marked out for a holy use or purpose.
Christ by God is made unto us sanctification. That is to say, God through Christ sets apart or marks out for a special share in his great...
CHRIST OUR JUSTIFICATION.
That Christ is made unto us righteousness or justification implies, –
(1) That we are unjust, or unrighteous in the sight of God, and unworthy of his favor.
(2) That, in view of our unworthiness, God had in some manner arranged that Christ’s righteousness should...
CHRIST, THE INSTRUCTOR, JUSTIFIER, SANCTIFIER AND DELIVERER OF HIS PEOPLE.
“Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, [justification], and sanctification, and redemption [deliverance].”
–1 Cor 1:30 –
CHRIST OUR WISDOM.
Since God’s dealings with his creatures recognize their...
"IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT."
The essence of this lesson is summed up in the 40th verse, "Be ye also ready; for in an hour ye think not the Son of man cometh."
No one will be aware of the hour of the Son of man's coming; it is not a matter that is left in such a form as to be speculated...