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Paris Reidhead

If You Agree

Paris ReidheadIf You Agree Paris Reidhead (Transcript of Tape) Will you turn please to Matthew 18:19-20. This morning I am approaching the Scripture from a textual relationship rather than an expository position as last week. “Verily I say unto you... That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing ... Read More
Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Memoirs: 4. His Mission to Palestine and the Jews 93

Robert Murray M'CheyneCHAPTER 4 His Mission to Palestine and the Jews Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8 Though engaged night and day with his flock in St. Peter's, Mr. McCheyne ever cherished a missionary spirit. "This place hardens me for a foreign land," was his remark on one occasion. This spirit he sought to kindle yet ... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Glory Only in the Newness of Resurrection Life

T. Austin-SparksReading: John 11 We turn again to this eleventh chapter of the Gospel by John, and I would remind you that this chapter represents the culmination of the life, teaching and works of the Lord Jesus during the days of His flesh. This is quite evident, for you notice that in verse 47 it says: "The chie... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

God Hath Spoken - Part 3

T. Austin-SparksChapter 3 - The Transcendent Thought of Sonship Having, in our consideration of the message of the "Letter to the Hebrews," identified the all-inclusive object as the fullness of Christ, we proceed to crystallize that object, or see that it is here crystallized, into the Divine meaning of sonship. T... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Horizoned by Resurrection

T. Austin-SparksRomans 1:4 (1 Corinthians 15:1,12-22,45; 2 Corinthians 5:14-18). "Declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead." The word 'declared' or 'designated' there is the verb horizo, i.e., "horizoned the Son by resurrection". In resurrection Christ is declared or made the horiz... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Let the House be Builded - Part 1

T. Austin-SparksChapter 1 - The Eternal Conception and Decision Reading: Ezra 6. Christianity has many aspects and Christian people are occupied with those various aspects; such as evangelism, teaching, building up of believers, or contending for the faith. There are movements entirely devoted to the study of proph... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Church as a Functioning Body

T. Austin-SparksReading: John 4:20-24; Matt. 4:8-10; 2 Thess. 2:4; Rev. 13:4,8,15; 19:20; 20:4,5; Eph. 3:21. We shall be considering certain features of the church as a functioning Body, and the first of these, and the all-inclusive one, is worship. When we come to contemplate the matter of worship, we find that we... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Eternal Conception and Decision

T. Austin-SparksReading: Ezra 6. Christianity has many aspects and Christian people are occupied with those various aspects; such as evangelism, teaching, building up of believers, or contending for the faith. There are movements entirely devoted to the study of prophetical matters related to the coming again of Ch... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Governing Law of Divine Love

T. Austin-SparksReading: John 1:4; 2:3; 3:3; 4:13-14; 5:5-9; 6:33-35; 9:1-7; 11:1-6, 17,21,23,25-26. A ZERO POINT ALL these passages which we have read are really a sequence. They are the outflow of the first. "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." And you will notice that they all represent a zero p... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Necessity for New Birth

T. Austin-SparksREAD: John 2:1-11; 3:1-21; 4:1-26; 1:4 As we continue our consideration of "Great truths and their Laws, as in John's Gospel," and come into chapter four, we pass from Nicodemus to the woman of Sychar, from Judea to Samaria, with a spiritual link between. It is interesting to notice what a little pl... Read More

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