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We should expect a very special purpose in the recording in the Gospel of John of the great miracle of the feeding of the five thousand with five barley loaves and two small fishes. We have seen that in John the miracles of Christ are carefully selected because of their teaching nature, and that the... Read More

THE SPIRITUAL EXPOSITION OF JOHN'S GOSPEL (PART ONE) JOHN - YOUR BROTHER KNOWING THE AUTHOR AND HIS MESSAGE By Charles D. Alexander “I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of G... Read More

Let no-one suppose that the decrees of God are the cause of man’s condemnation and final doom. As well charge God with man’s sin as charge Him with being the cause of man’s condemnation. “As I live, saith the Lord-God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the, wicked turn from his... Read More

To know God and to know Christ is a matter of revelation, and this revealing act of the Holy Spirit is given only where there is repentance: “Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes” (Matt. 11:25). The divine Being is known absolutely only to One who is... Read More

Their attacks on the Deity of Jesus. Why did Jesus pray to the Father? (John 17). Because as a man He needed to pray to the Father. Because He was both God and man (Col. 2:9; John 8:58 with Ex. 3:14). The two natures of Christ are why we have two types of scripture concerning Jesus: those that seem ... Read More

The concepts in the New Testament were not derived out of thin air. Amos 3:7 says, "Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets." What is mentioned in the New Testament is revealed in the Old Testament either clearly or in types and figures. Gen... Read More

Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. — Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last: I am he. ... Read More

Dost thou believe on the Son of God? Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. — The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto... Read More

The everlasting Father. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. I and my Father are one, the Father is in me, and I in him. — Had ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. — Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so l... Read More

Q.1 Who is the only self-existent Being? ANSWER. God is the only self-existent Being. Ex. 3. 14; Psa. 90. 2; Isa. 45. 5, 22; Jn. 8.58. Q.2 Ought everyone to believe that there is a God? ANSWER. Everyone ought to believe that there is a God, and it is their great sin and folly who do not. Psa. 9.17; ... Read More