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"Speak Lord, for your servant listens…" 1 Samuel 3:9 Leaders of Israel From 2000 to 1500 B.C. Israel was led by Patriarchs. From 1500 to 1000 B.C. they were led by Prophets. From 1000 to 500 B.C. they were led by Princes (or Kings). In the 500 years leading up to the time of Christ, they were led by... Read More

"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 55:6-7 Loving Their Chains We recently participa... Read More

FOR simplicity's sake we can divide the Holy Spirit's work as the Advocate of the Lord Jesus into two. First of all, He comes to reprove or convict us of sin and bring us to repentance. Jesus said, 'When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin ... because they believe not on me' (John 16. 8-9).... Read More

Division Third.—The Inward Principle of Prayer. ‘In the Spirit.’ We are come to the third division in the apostle’s directory for prayer—the principle or spring from whence they are to flow—the Spirit, ‘praying...in the Spirit.’ In proceeding to the consideration of this topic, the first point is th... Read More

Division Second.—Sincerity strengthens the Christian’s Spirit. ‘Girt about with truth.’ Having despatched the first reason, why sincerity is compared to the soldier’s girdle or belt, and dis­coursed of this grace under that notion, we proceed to the second ground or reason of the metaphor, taken fro... Read More

1 John 2:6 - He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gav... Read More

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Daniel 9:3 - And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Romans 2:29 - But he [is] a ... Read More

James 5:16 - Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 Timo... Read More

Throughout its history the church has been plagued with two heretical teachings regarding sanctification. One error confounds justification with sanctification and thus makes salvation dependent upon faith in Christ and good works. This is the heresy of legalism. This teaching in various forms is fo... Read More

The infinite wisdom and actual divinity of the Holy Bible is wonderfully demonstrated in this fact. No other book on earth is both instructive, interesting, and never exhausted; both by ignorant and learned, by youth and mature minds. To such as love God and the truth; and especially to such as have... Read More