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For the word of the cross 5/11/2010
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of
God... For since in the wisdom of God the world through its
wisdom did not come to know God, God was well pleased through
the foolishness of the message preached to save those who
believe. For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search
for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, ...
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Examining Calvin's Prayer (Part 1) 5/11/2010
Examining Calvin's Rules of Prayer (Part 1) For John Calvin, prayer was like a priceless treasure that
God has offered to His people. Calvin's first rule of prayer was to enter into it with
a full awareness of the One to whom we are speaking. The key
to prayer is a spirit of reverence and adoration: "Let
the first rule of right prayer be, to have our heart and mind
framed as becomes those who are ...
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CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE 5/11/2010
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that
ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship
is with the Father, and with his Jesus Christ.
1 JOHN 1:3
HERE IN THIS VERSE the Apostle makes the first explicit
statement in the letter of what is one of his main objects
in writing to these people. The fundamental reason, ...
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Holy Spirit 5/10/2010
Holy Spirit
In one generation, spanning the lifetimes of Christ's
12 apostles, the entire world was touched. The light of
the gospel dawned upon countless hearts. There was no empire
untouched. From China to Africa, from Britain to India,
across the trade routes to the furthest outpost like a forest
fire marching across a sin droughtened woods, the dry and
barren lives of the world ...
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song of Solomon 7: 11, 12 5/9/2010
Song of Solomon 7:11, 12 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field . . . let us
see if the vine flourish. The church was about to engage in earnest labour, and desired
her Lord's company in it. She does not say, "I
will go, " but "let us go." It is blessed
working when Jesus is at our side! It is the business of God's
people to be trimmers of God's vines. Like our first
parents, we are put ...
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Job 22:21 5/9/2010
Job 22:21 Acquaint now thyself with Him. If we would rightly "acquaint ourselves with God,
and be at peace, " we must know Him as He has revealed
Himself, not only in the unity of His essence and subsistence,
but also in the plurality of His persons. God said, "Let
us make man in our own image"-let not man be content
until he knows something of the "us" from whom
his being was derived. Endeavour ...
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Death and Immortality 5/9/2010
Death and Immortality
In the last five lectures we have been considering the doctrine
and sacraments of the Church. Now we must move on to consider
another great area of scriptural teaching, and that is
the doctrine of the last things, or, to use the technical
term, eschatology. The word ‘eschatology’ is from the
same root as the word ‘escalator’: you work up to the last
things, ...
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Mark 15:39 5/8/2010
When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him,
saw the way He breathed His last, he said, "Truly this
man was the of God!" (Mark 15:39) God was glorified in Jesus' death! That centurion had never experienced a crucifixion like
this one. Jesus did not cry for mercy or try to escape; rather,
He prayed for the people who put Him on the cross, "Father,
forgive them". He spoke to the ...
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Revival comes 5/8/2010
Revival comes with the new king of Judah (II Kin. 18:5-7)!
Hezekiah's life and death is all here. Discover the
reason for the Lord's favor in his life (18:5-6). You
will want to avoid his foolish error (19:3). The prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah who was sick unto
death. . . . and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine
house in order; for thou shalt die. . . . Then he (King Hezekiah) ...
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Matthew 12:15 5/8/2010
Matthew 12:15 Great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself
under the eye of Jesus! Yet we read not that He was disgusted,
but patiently waited on every case. What a singular variety
of evils must have met at His feet! What sickening ulcers
and putrefying sores! Yet He was ready for every new shape
of the monster evil, and was ...
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John 5:8 5/8/2010
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. Like many others, the impotent man had been waiting for
a wonder to be wrought, and a sign to be given. Wearily did
he watch the I pool, but no angel came, or came not for him;
yet, thinking it to be his only chance, he waited still,
and knew not that there was One near him whose word could
heal him in a moment. Many are in the same ...
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God always keeps His word 5/8/2010
God Always Keeps His Word
One thing you can be sure of—God keeps His Word. You can count on Him, trust Him, and believe His Word. Today
we are assured that God will keep His Word about the future.
How do we know that for certain? Because He has kept His Word
so perfectly and exactly in the past! What God's Word says will happen in the future will
come as clearly as it has in the past. We ...
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1 John 5:13 5/8/2010
1 John 5:13 She that was healed wist not who it was. Years are short to the happy and healthy; but thirty-eight
years of disease must have dragged a very weary length along
the life of the poor impotent man. When Jesus, therefore,
healed him by a word, while he lay at the pool of Bethesda,
he was delightfully sensible of a change. Even so the sinner
who has for weeks and months been paralyzed ...
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Proverbs 16:20 5/7/2010
Proverbs 16:20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso
trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. Wisdom is man's true strength; and, under its guidance,
he best accomplishes the ends of his being. Wisely handling
the matter of life gives to man the richest enjoyment, and
presents the noblest occupation for his powers; hence
by it he finds good in the fullest sense. Without wisdom, ...
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Job 14:14 5/7/2010
Job 14:14 All the days of my appointed time will I wait. A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing
makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so
pleasant as exposure to alarms. The bitter quassia cups
of earth will give a relish to the new wine which sparkles
in the golden bowls of glory. Our battered armour and scarred
countenances will render more illustrious our ...
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1 Corinthians 2:1-5 5/7/2010
And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority
of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony
of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except
Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness
and in fear and in much trembling, and my message and my preaching
were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power, so ...
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Jeremiah 5/7/2010
His Great Faithfulness in Our Great Suffering
As we turn towards Lamentations 3, we turn to the greatest
reminder in all of God's Word that when there are great
sufferings, during them we can find the assurance of God's
greater faithfulness. Lamentations is a book that is about what it sounds like
it's about—the lamentations of a person in deep suffering.
Do you remember all of the ...
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Justification by Faith 5/7/2010
Justification by Faith
This is the fiftieth lecture that I have been privileged
to give you on this great and glorious and, to me at any rate,
enthralling theme, and I am very happy to think that on this
occasion we come to a consideration of the great and vital
doctrine of justification by faith only, the biblical
doctrine of justification. There is no better test that
we who are ...
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Receiving Joy and Strength 5/5/2010
Receiving Joy and Strength There is still another vital aspect to the "why"
of Jesus' departure. He said, "If I do not go away,
the Helper (Paraclete) will not come to you; but if I depart,
I will send Him to you." Jesus' departure was
tied to Pentecost. There is no Pentecost without ascension.
As the invested King of kings, Jesus had the authority together
with the Father to send His Holy Spirit ...
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Psalm 46:1 5/5/2010
Psalm 46:1 A very present help. Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but
to be appropriated. Even our Lord Jesus is given to us for
our present use. Believer, thou dost not make use of Christ
as thou oughtest to do. When thou art in trouble, why dost
thou not tell Him all thy grief? Has He not a sympathizing
heart, and can He not comfort and relieve thee? No, thou
art going ...
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John 16:33 5/5/2010
John 16:33 In the world ye shall have tribulation. Art thou asking the reason of this, believer? Look upward
to thy heavenly Father, and behold Him pure and holy. Dost
thou know that thou art one day to be like Him? Wilt thou easily
be conformed to His image? Wilt thou not require much refining
in the furnace of affliction to purify thee? Will it be an
easy thing to get rid of thy corruptions, ...
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Global Pestilences 5/5/2010
Global Pestilences: Sign # 7
Jesus sat on the olive tree covered slopes of the Mt. of Olives,
and gave His disciples a private briefing of the End of Days
for Planet earth. In the shortest and yet most complete
summary He describes life from His 1st Advent through to
His 2nd. That sermon called by theologians the "Olivet
Discourse" is again our focus, as we open to Matthew
24 . Jesus ...
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Consider it all joy 5/4/2010
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various
trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces
endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result,
so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
(James 1:2-4) What is the outcome in my life? God's voice doesn't always come to us the way we
want it; sometimes He teaches us our greatest lessons through
the most ...
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Bridegroom 5/4/2010
God is not content to be known merely as Creator, Lord, or
even Father. Incredibly he reveals himself also as Bridegroom
or Husband. The Hebrew Scriptures contain numerous allusions
to Yahweh as Israel's divine Husband, and the New Testament
presents Christ as the church's Bridegroom. He is
the Holy One who did not cling to his divinity but left his
Father's house to dwell among us, calling us to ...
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Assurance 5/4/2010
Assurance
The subject at which we have now arrived is not only dealt
with very frequently in the Scripture but, from our practical
standpoint, is again of very great importance. I refer
to the relationship between faith and assurance, or, as
it is sometimes known, the assurance of faith. This is not
only a practical question, it is one that has often perplexed
people and is often the ...
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John 17:15 5/3/2010
John 17:15 I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world.
It is a sweet and blessed event which will occur to all believers
in God's own time-the going home to be with Jesus. In
a few more years the Lord's soldiers, who are now fighting
"the good fight of faith" will have done with
conflict, and have entered into the joy of their Lord. But
although Christ prays that His people may ...
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Global Apostasy: Shipwrecked 5/3/2010
Global Apostasy: Shipwrecked The God of the Universe has revealed Himself by way of a Book
that He wrote. That Book called the Bible; and it contains propositional
truth from the One who calls Himself the Author of Truth.
This God explains that as the countdown to the end of days
approaches, so does the level of religious deception.
False teachers, proclaiming a false gospel, with false
prophets, ...
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The Apostolic Declaration 5/3/2010
THE APOSTOLIC DECLARATION
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon,
and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (for the
life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness,
and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father,
and was manifested unto us that which we have seen and
heard ...
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I am the rose of Sharon 5/2/2010
Song of Solomon 2:1 I am the rose of Sharon. Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus
Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold
degree. Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest,
but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of
the soul than the rose can in the gardens of earth. He takes
the first place as the fairest among ten thousand. He is ...
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Global Apostasy 5/2/2010
Global Apostasy: Ancient Truth vs. Ancient Heresies
Just as God is Love, and is Holy, and is Righteous, so also
God is TRUTH. Truth is defined by our dictionaries as:
Truth: "conformity to fact or actuality; proven
to be or accepted as true; reality; actuality; often truth
is defined as that which is considered to be the supreme
reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value ...
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