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It is only in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ that we have truth fully brought out. I may learn truth through the Holy Spirit, and He is the only power of my knowing the truth, and is therefore called “truth” in 1 John 5, 6. When you speak of the truth, you do not mean merely either the...

The terms “judge,” or “judgment,” are used in different ways in the Scriptures. Their meanings and usage are mainly governed by the context in which they are found. When they mean to condemn, to sentence, or to punish, man is usually to leave the prerogative with God. Vengeance is mine, I will...

The teachings of the Kingdom (coming Millennium Kingdom - Revelation 20:6; 2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 5:10; Luke 22:29-30 – judging Israel only; Revelation 22:5—NC) have not been applied to any man. Since they anticipate the binding of Satan (Rev 20:2—NC), a purified earth (Romans 8:22—NC), the...

“In that day you shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give it to you. Hitherto you have asked Me nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full” (Jn 16:23, 24). [Note: “In that day you shall ask Me...

Hi Davy! I appreciate your replies, though we vary in understanding certain issues. It's my belief the Lord Jesus and the saints will rule from the old earth during the millennial kingdom (Ephesians 2:6; Revelation 5:10), then rule with Christ in the New Heaven after that. I say New Heaven...

The crux concerning these two groups of God is that Israel will ever be the earthly witness, as was His purpose; and the Christians His Heavenly witness as priests and kings ruling with the Lord Jesus over Israel and the New Earth from the New Heaven.

There is abundant Scripture to indicate that the present divine purpose must be the out calling of the Church from both Gentiles and Jews. Seven figures are employed in the New Testament to set forth the relation which exists between Christ and the church. All seven are needed to the end that...

I believe God knew man would learn only through good and evil. Concerning sin, I believe it was part of man's nature so we could learn from it. Before they committed the first sin it was evident in them why they sinned. Eve "saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the...

For the believer, God uses everything; good, bad, easy, difficult—for our good. This means He never allows anything to work against us but for us (Ro 8:28). How can evil be used to benefit any saint? Evil manifests God’s holiness! It wasn’t until Adam and Eve partook of the Tree that “the eyes...

There are two factors in the Old Testament picture of redemption (Ex 12:7, 8): there is the blood on the lentil—that is security, I admit; but what is the eating the roast lamb with the bitter herbs? You say, I believe in the Blood. I say, I do not question it a bit, but do you have the sense in...

God implants faith in those He knows are going to desire to believe in the Lord Jesus. He does not implant faith in those He already knows will never desire to believe in the Lord Jesus. I realize there are passages that seem to refute the concept of losing one’s salvation, but they are actually...

Article re-edited from ten years ago: One of the many encouraging Scriptural doctrines much needed today is that God makes Christians “worthy” of His enumerable blessings—esp. that of salvation (Mat 10:37, 38; 1Co 11:27, 29; Rev 3:4). Let us not confuse the humility of preaching of past...

The Lord Jesus is not now on earth. He has ascended into heaven. What a very peculiar position then is mine hear! Sensible of the worthlessness of the first man, and of the absence of the Second. My own life—that of the first man, I have; the One I love—the Man who has glorified God upon the...

It is essential that we understand how the ministries of the Lord Jesus and His disciples are correlated. The Lord Jesus’ ministry was primary to the Jews. He said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (to display the Father’s special care and love for His first-chosen...

The only people that ever had a covenant with God was Israel. They are presently without a covenant (Heb 10:9), but will inherit a “New Covenant” in the Millennium (Jer 31:31-33; Eze 36:25-27); and they permanently become “the people of God.” Christians were never in a covenant with God, but are...

Many gravitate to the Decalogue because of thinking it will make them right with God! But only the Jew keeping the Law, can “live” (Mat 19:17), for to him only was the Decalogue made. Jesus came to establish the Law by “fulfilling” it (Mat 5:17); and after fulfilling it, God “took it away” (Heb...

That which, above all else, marks the difference between the Church and Israel, and indeed we may say between the Church and the entire population of the millennial earth, is that the Church is blessed in the Lord Jesus Christ and is with Him: Israel and the millennial nations will be blessed by...

The most significant understanding concerning “being made free from sin” (Rom 6:18, 22) is the fact that those reborn are ever free from the guilt of sin. Forgiveness is not a single occurrence but an unchanging and permanent status! Being free from sin can only mean freedom from the guilt of...

In Galatians Paul makes it clear that the churches of Galatia were in imminent danger of adding Judaism to Christianity in such a way as to destroy the nature of Christianity itself. Nor was theirs the only age in which liability to do so has existed, and has had to be watched against. The law...

The true children of God are, according to Scripture, eternally safe because: 1. They are born not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed (1Pe 1:23). 2. His sheep shall never perish (Jn 10:28). 3. Their lives are hid with Christ in God (Col 2:3). 4. They are chosen in Him before the...