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Heal (2390)(iaomai) means to cure, to heal, to restore. Iaomai is used literally of deliverance from physical diseases and afflictions and so to make whole, restore to bodily health or heal. To cause someone to achieve health after having been sick. In the passive it means to be healed or cured. Fig... Read More

Life (2222) (zoe) in Scripture is used (1) to refer to physical life (Ro 8:38-note, 1Co 3:22, Php 1:20-note, Jas 4:14, etc) but more often to (2) to supernatural life in contrast to a life subject to eternal death (Jn 3:36, see all 43 uses of "eternal life" below). This quality of life speaks of ful... Read More

DISCOVERY OF THE FACTS 1. Worshipping and Doubting, vv. 16, 17 Where is the scene of this lesson laid? Why had the disciples gone into Galilee? (v. 16; compare v. 7; Mark 16:7.) What mountain in Galilee was this? Had He appeared to them immediately upon their going into Galilee? (John 21:1–24.)What ... Read More

Meditation: The God Who Speaks To Me The Importance of Scripture 1. Read Deuteronomy 32:47. Where were the Israelites? What were they getting ready to do? 2. How does Moses refer to the Word of God in Deuteronomy 32:47? What does the term “life” mean here? Is it similar to Jesus’ comments in Matthew... Read More

The title of this chapter may startle some readers. "Failures," they will say. "We thought there were no failures in this life of faith!" I would answer that there should not be failures and need not be failures, but there sometimes are failures, and we must deal with facts and not with theories. Te... Read More

I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong, and of a good courage. JOSHUA 1:5,6 And all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. EXODUS 24:3 OUR Lord teaches us not to shrink from the consequences which we may see to be involved in any c... Read More

A Christian on the Mount A Treatise Concerning Meditation By Thomas Watson "His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:2 Having led you through the Chamber of Delight in my previous discourse, I will now bring you into the Withdrawing Room of Meditatio... Read More

We have already mentioned that each preacher must be gifted, called and equipped by the Lord for "the work of the ministry." All Christians are "saints by calling," but not all are "preachers by calling." (I Cor. 1:2). Let us therefore consider some things regarding this Divine "call" to preach the ... Read More

"My thoughts are not as your thoughts, nor my ways as your ways," is a grand truth, and how heartily can faith add its "Amen" to the declaration; for how far better are His thoughts than ours! It is good to be in His hand; and surely every way of the Lord as to each of us is the best possible, being... Read More

"Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together" Deut. 22: 11. The path of the church of God is a narrow path, such a one that the mere moral sense will continually mistake it. But this should be welcome to us, because it tells us that the Lord looks that His saints ... Read More