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The Holy Spirit is the creator of revival. Approximately two thousand years ago, a small band of believers gathered in prayer on the day of Pentecost and learned this truth. They discovered that giving preeminence to the Spirit was essential to the growth and life of their newfound faith. Three thou... Read More

February 1 "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." Romans 8:17 This is the especial blessedness of being a child of God– that death, which puts a final extinguisher on all the hopes and happiness of all the unregenerate, gives him the fulfillment of all his hopes an... Read More

Figures & Metaphors of Scripture By J. C. Philpot It is, at first sight, perhaps, somewhat remarkable how little use God has made of argument, that is, direct logical argument, in the Scriptures of truth. To say that he never employs positive, direct argument, would be incorrect, as Paul, in his epi... Read More

Meditations on First Peter Chapter One by J. C. Philpot, 1869 Part V. There is a day of which all the inspired prophets of the Old Testament, from Enoch to Malachi, and all the inspired evangelists and apostles of the New, from Matthew to John, have alike testified as the greatest of all days. Thus ... Read More

I. The Holy Spirit Dwells Within I want to speak to you this month on the Holy Spirit. Today it will be "The Holy Spirit Dwells Within." It is sad there has been so much foolishness taught about the Holy Spirit. Instead of thinking about that sweet Person the Spirit as a beloved Person, equal with t... Read More

One of the most remarkable statements of the Bible is the term “in Christ.” Never has so much been said, inferred and contained in so brief a statement as this. While many emphasise the “imitation” of Christ the Bible emphasises the reality of being in, or dwelling in, or abiding in, Christ out of w... Read More

Amongst religious groups and even in the church in recent centuries there has been much confusion concerning the very nature of God. Some groups like the Mormons founded by Joseph Smith (1805-1844) have denied the eternal existence and divinity of God and teach that Christ was the brother of Satan. ... Read More

Christianity was birthed in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit309 and will only continue as we have this empowering from above. When we look at Church history the only truly significant stories of men that influenced and built the kingdom of God were men who were filled with the Holy Spirit. This anoint... Read More

Though God is always working in different ways and with different means, it is still only by the Spirit of God that the Church will grow. Over the past 50 years particularly originating in Western countries there have been such excesses and abuses of what is considered Spirit-filled Christianity tha... Read More

The Lord’s Supper is clearly a New Testament practice that the early disciples kept, as its significance is tied into the end of the age. The Scripture says that as we remember the Lord we are proclaiming His death until He comes back.555 This death is important because by the death of Christ, He to... Read More