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Calvinism and John Six: An Exegetical Response, Part One

Calvinism and John Six: An Exegetical Response, Part One Steve Witzki Calvinist's believe that one of their strongest arguments for unconditional election, irresistible grace, and unconditional security is found in the Gospel of John chapter six. In reading Calvinist interpretations on this passage ... Read More
Gleanings From the Word

The Feasts of Isreal: Their Prophetic Significance

Why Study the Feasts? Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. (Mat 5:17 KJV) For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Rom 15:4 K... Read More
H.J. Vine

That Which is Spiritual

H.J. VineThe true condition of every believer in Christ in the present dispensation is designated by the Spirit in Scripture as “spiritual.” The house of God, too, of which he forms part, is also called spiritual. The food which he assimilates and the drink which he appropriates are likewise termed spiritual... Read More
H.J. Vine

The Bread of the Mighty

H.J. Vine“He rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them the corn of heaven: man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provision to the full” (Psalm 78:24-25, N.Tr.). As the Israelites journeyed through the wilderness to the land of God’s purpose, they were fed with the corn of heaven, with the... Read More
H.J. Vine

The Prophet Jeremiah

H.J. Vine“The Exaltation of the Lord” “Whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning” (Rom. 15:4). The rich treasures of the Book of Jeremiah are just as much ours as are those of the other Scriptures of Truth. For our instruction God our Father has preserved this precious book of mora... Read More
H.J. Vine

Words of Spirit and Life

H.J. Vine“It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63, N.Tr.). Multitudes followed our Lord Jesus Christ, not because of Himself, the blessed Son of the living God, but because they had seen the miracle of the multipli... Read More
J.B. Stoney

Death Works In Us

GENESIS 22:1-14 IT has been remarked before that the life of Abraham is properly divided into three parts. The first is the land; the second, the heir; and here we come to the last, which is the greatest; and, though consecutive historically, they are nearly parallel typically. It is not simply the ... Read More
John Christian Wenger

THE CHURCH AND THE SACRAMENTS

The doctrine of the church stood at the center of Anabaptist thought. The Brethren regarded the church as the final goal of all of God's redemptive acts in history. No other institution will ever displace the church. It is nothing less than the glorious Kingdom of the Messiah prophesied in the Old T... Read More
Michael Wigglesworth

A Short Discourse on Eternity

[ 1 ] What Mortal man can with his Span mete out Eternity? Or fathom it by depth of Wit, or strength of Memory? The lofty Sky is not so high, Hells depth to this is small: The World so wide is but a stride, compared therewithall. Isa. 57:15 Mark. 3:29 Matt. 25:46 [ 2 ] It is a main great Ocean, with... Read More
Octavius Winslow

Consider Jesus– in Bereavement

"Jesus wept." –John 6:35 With what baptism of suffering was not Jesus baptized? What cup of sorrow did not He drink? Well may He ask, "Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" "Yes, Lord," every believing saint may reply, "... Read More

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