john-1:4

Though some say that the New Testament was written 100-300 years after Christ died, the truth is that it was written before the close of the first century by those who either knew Christ personally, had encountered him, or were under the direction of those who were His disciples. In the article When... Read More

Thy word hath quickened me. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. — I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he... Read More

The entrance of thy words giveth light. This ... is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory o... Read More

In a previous issue of PLUMBLINE, I described the efforts of C. Peter Wagner to create a New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) which he predicts will be even greater in scope and significance than the Protestant Reformation of the 1500's. The centerpiece of the movement is the purported restoration, by Go... Read More

London Baptist Confession of 1644 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE. This confession was drawn up by the Particular Baptists to distinguish them from the, more numerous, General (Arminian) Baptists. There are two, or more, editions of this confessi... Read More

Who being the brightness of His Glory and the express Image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins. 1. Everywhere indeed a reverential mind is requisite, but especially when we say or hear anything of God: Since neither can tongue spe... Read More

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. 1. Moses in the beginning of the history and writings of the Old Testament speaks to us of the objects of sense, and enumerates them to us at length. For, In the beginning, he says, God made the heaven and the earth, a... Read More

This chapter is a continuation of the same subject. All Israel were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was Christ. But with many o... Read More

The apostle now speaks of resurrection. His keeping it till the last, in this way, is remarkable. We have a great truth brought out in the chapter, in the total identification of Christ with men - saints, but man as man, because he says, if men do not rise, Christ is not risen. I have not the least ... Read More

I apprehend that the Gospel of Mark, which brings under our view the service of Christ, and particularly His prophetic service, and, hence, records simply the accomplishment of that service, as the events arose, is that of the three first Gospels, which gives generally the chronological order of eve... Read More