Blog entries by Harvest 1874
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“WHY BAPTIZEST THOU, THEN?”
It is the worldly idea and the nominal Church idea that all associated with religious teaching should make some great boast or claim respecting themselves – that they are wonderful prophets, or reverend, or doctors of divinity, or something else above the ordinary...
John 1:18-34
Golden Text: – “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
John The Baptist had the great honor and distinction of being the first of God’s witnesses amongst men respecting God’s only begotten Son. John was a grand character, from whatever standpoint we view...
THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS
While the special hope of the Gospel age is so surpassingly glorious, and the way to it, is correspondingly difficult --narrow, hedged in by hardships and dangers at every step--so that few find it, and even fewer still run so as to obtain the great prize at its end, the...
"THE NARROW WAY TO LIFE" continued
In the beginning of the Millennial age, those who now walk the narrow way will have gained the great prize for which they ran, immortality; and being thus clothed with the divine nature and power, they will be prepared for the great work of restoring and...
"THE NARROW WAY TO LIFE" continued
From 1 Tim. 6:14-16 we learn that the immortal or divine nature was originally the possession of divinity only. We read: "He [Jesus] in his time [the Millennial age] will show who is the blessed and only potentate--the King of kings and Lord of lords, who only...
"THE NARROW WAY TO LIFE"
Our Master tells us that it is because of the narrowness (the difficulty) of the narrow way that the many prefer to remain on the broad (way or) road to destruction. "Strait [difficult] is the gate and narrow is the way that leads unto life, and few there are that find...
We published this post before some time back (actually it was one of our first post on this forum, what we believe to be a foundation doctrine or teaching), but felt it should be presented again as sometimes a particular subject appears necessary for review at times to strengthen our faith. We...
It is not, however, for us or anyone to answer the query which our Lord refused to answer, viz., “Are there few that be saved?” (Luke 13:23) The most we are privileged to do is to point out that “a ransom for ALL” has been given by our Lord and the promise that in “due time” ALL shall come to a...
Mankind’s Hope for Everlasting Life
The boldest and ablest scientists and evolutionists have attempted to show that man’s life was not a gift from the Creator. Theoretically they have brought man and all the lower animals up, by evolution process, from a microscopic germ; yea, from protoplasm...
Two Greek words are translated immortality:
(1) Athanasia, which Strong defines as “deathlessness.” This word is found in the following scriptures only:
“This mortal must put on immortality [athanasia – deathlessness]” – referring to the first resurrection shared in only by the Church. 1 Cor...
“Hopes of a future everlasting life are held out vaguely in the Old Testament; but immortality is not so much as mentioned.
Indeed, the inspired Apostle declares of our Lord Jesus, that he “abolished death [broke its hold on man] and brought life AND immortality to light through the gospel.” (2...
Confusion is unavoidable unless the true definitions of mortal and immortal be clearly recognized as follows:
Immortal – the state or condition in which death is impossible – a death-proof condition.
Mortal – a state or condition in which death is possible – a condition of liability to death...
A Distinction and a Difference
The following is VERY IMPORTANT to grasp and to understand. The failure to rightly understand this has led to all matter of false and misleading theories and ideas commonly held by the professing church.
But now, having examined the hope of immortality from the...
The philosophy of a future life and everlasting life.
“Beginning at the foundation of this New Testament assurance of Life Everlasting, we find to our astonishment that it first of all admonishes us that in and of ourselves we have nothing which would give us any hope of everlasting life – that...
“If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” Job 14:14
“Our Savior Jesus Christ…hath abolished death and brought life [everlasting] AND immortality to light through the Gospel.” 2 Tim 1:10
There is a longing hope within men that death...
WE BEHELD HIS DIGNITY.
The apostles and all believers who had intercourse with our Lord in the days of his flesh experienced, “beheld, his glory.” They beheld the grandeur, the nobility, the perfection of the “man Christ Jesus” – a perfection and glory seen in no other because all others were...
“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...