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“Declare you among the nations, and publish; set up a standard; say, Babylon is taken.”—Jer. 50:2. While our message for today is “meat in due season” to the Household of Faith, and in every way important to be understood, it is, nevertheless, a subject difficult to treat without giving...

CONSECRATION MUST BE TO GOD ONLY This same figure of baptism in water is for you and me, and it becomes an outward confession that whatever is written in the Book concerning us we will be glad to do. We rejoice to do the will of God, and desire that His will may be done in us, even as it was...

BUT FEW FIND THE NARROW WAY God did not choose angels for this wonderful High Calling; but all who have received this Call and the begetting of the Spirit, that they may become joint-heirs with Christ, must every one receive chastening, disciplining, testing, because of the great and honorable...

The following discourse was given by the Pastor, from the text, “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps!” (1 Pet. 2:21.) “The Call of the present Gospel Age has been unique. In this Age there is a different kind of justification from that which the...

NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP. Continuing his argument, that Nicodemus must receive by faith whatever he would know about heavenly things and that he would be entirely dependent upon Jesus’ word, our Lord remarked that no man ever ascended up to heaven, and that himself, the Son of man, who alone had...

AN ILLUSTRATION OF A SPIRIT-BORN BEING. Our Lord admonishes Nicodemus that he must not be too much surprised at the great mistake he and others had made in regard to the terms and conditions which would qualify them for a place in the Kingdom; they should marvel not, but realize the necessity...

John 3:1-16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The visit of Nicodemus, a Jewish ruler, to our Lord was evidently early in our Lord’s ministry. We know little of the man, except that on...

“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...