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‘Hold fast till I Come’, Rev. 2. 25

In His letters to the seven churches the Lord commended what met with His approval, where such was found to exist. In some of them there was little to commend, and in one of them not ...

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Till He Come

1981 Volume 32 Issue 3

Exposition

‘If I will that He Tarry till I Come’, John 21. 22

At the Lord’s resurrection appearance to the seven disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, three times He asked Peter, “Lovest thou me?”, and went on to predict the manner of Peter� ...

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Till He Come

1980 Volume 31 Issue 5

Exposition

‘Judge nothing … until the Lord come’, 1 Cor. 4. 5

The church at Corinth probably caus-ed Paul more anxiety than any other church within his knowledge. In con-trast to “false apostles” who were doing such damage by preaching “a ...

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Till He Come

1980 Volume 31 Issue 6

Exposition

‘Occupy till I come’, Luke 19.13

The Lord told two similar parables, viz. that of the talents, recorded in Matthew 25. 14-30, and that of the pounds, recorded in Luke 19. 11-27. Both illustrate the ...

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Till He Come

1981 Volume 32 Issue 2

Exposition

“Ye Proclaim the Lord’s Death Till He Come”, 1 Cor. 11. 26 R.V.

The synoptic Gospels record the Lord’s institution of “the Lord’s supper”, which followed the celebration of the passover feast with His disciples, of which His death was t ...

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Till He Come

1981 Volume 32 Issue 1

Exposition

A Body (Published 1983)

In the previous paper, the church was considered under the metaphor of a building. A building is not an organic structure, although it involves organisation. It is compose ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1983 Volume 34 Issue 6

Exposition

A Bride

The two metaphors used of the church which were considered in earlier papers, namely, a building and a body, are peculiarly the subject of New Testament revelatio ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1984 Volume 35 Issue 1

Exposition

A Building

In Ephesians 3. 10 Paul described the church as exhibiting to principalities and powers in heavenly places “the manifold wisdom of God”. The Greek word polupoikilos me ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1983 Volume 34 Issue 5

Exposition

A Chosen People

Deuteronomy is a book of choices. In most of these, God is seen to choose. He chooses sovereignly, but never capriciously. Mostly, men are the subjects o ...

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God’s Choice

1978 Volume 29 Issue 1

Exposition

A Chosen Place

The song of Moses and Israel, follow-ing their deliverance from Pharaoh’s power, chiefly celebrated the great victory wrought by God on their behalf. It was also in part prophetic, ...

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God’s Choice

1978 Volume 29 Issue 2

Exposition

A Chosen Portion

The Israelites did not themselves choose to be God’s people, nor did they choose the place which was the centre of their religious life and worship. Neither did they choose the t ...

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God’s Choice

1978 Volume 29 Issue 5

Study

A Chosen Priesthood

In the first two articles of this series it was shown that God chose the Jewish people that they might be a peculiar treasure unto Him above all people, and that He also cho ...

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God’s Choice

1978 Volume 29 Issue 3

Exposition

A Chosen Prince

In God’s purpose, the elect nation of Israel was meant to be a theocracy, that is, a state governed by Him as its sole King, not as a titular Head, but as sovereign Ruler. God’s ...

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God’s Choice

1978 Volume 29 Issue 4

Exposition

A City

The first city mentioned in the Scriptures was that built by Cain, and named after his son Enoch, Gen. 4. 17. His great, great, great grandson Lamech was a man as undisciplined and ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1984 Volume 35 Issue 2

Exposition

A Flock

The metaphor of God’s people as a flock is common to both Old and New Testaments. Israel in the wilderness is likened to a flock, with God as their shepherd; He “made ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1984 Volume 35 Issue 4

Exposition

A Good Minister

“If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ”, 1 Tim. 4. 6. New Testament-wise, ...

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Christians Known as “Good”

1975 Volume 26 Issue 4

Exposition

A Good Soldier

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ”, 2 Tim. 2.3. Paul was quick to draw his analogies from the contemporar ...

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Christians Known as “Good”

1975 Volume 26 Issue 5

Exposition

A Good Steward

“As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God”, 1 Pet. 4.10.

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Christians Known as “Good”

1975 Volume 26 Issue 6

Exposition

A Hospice

"Hospice” is defined as “a house for strangers…a home of refuge”, and “Hospitable” as “kind to strangers … welcoming and generous towards guests”. These description ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1986 Volume 37 Issue 3

Exposition

A Luminary

The Lord Jesus spoke of Himself as “the light of the world”; following Him, a man would “not walk in darkness, but … have the light of life”, John 8. 12. In giving sight to ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1985 Volume 36 Issue 6

Exposition

A New Rule of Service

“But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered”, Rom. 6. 17 R.V. In this v ...

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Thanks Be To God

1982 Volume 33 Issue 4

Exposition

A Pillar

Not without significance, the first mention of “pillar'’ in the Bible relates to Lot’s wife; she “looked back … and … became a pillar of salt”, Gen. 19. 26, because she ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1986 Volume 37 Issue 2

Exposition

A Preservative

In the sermon on the mount, the Lord Jesus said of His disciples, “Ye are the salt of the earth”, Matt. 5.13. It is not God’s purpose to remove them from this earthly scene, bu ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1986 Volume 37 Issue 1

Exposition

A Priesthood

Like the metaphor of the Church as a bride, that of the church as a priesthood has its roots deep in the Old Testament. Subject to Israel’s obedience to the cov ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1984 Volume 35 Issue 3

Exposition

A Treasure

In God’s purpose, the nation of Israel was meant to be His possession, separated from the nations and enclosed by His laws which were unique only to them, “the law of commandments cont ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1985 Volume 36 Issue 5

Exposition

Amalek

Amalek is one of the sinister characters of Scripture, Holy Writ has nothing to say in praise of the nation who was the first opponent of Israel delivered from Egypt and whose hand ...

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1949 Volume 2 Issue 7

Exposition

Be Filled with the Spirit

The present dispensation of the Gospel is the era of the Holy Spirit, the “another Comforter’ of whom the Lord spoke shortly before His death. The effectiveness of the preaching ...

A. E. Long

1979 Volume 30 Issue 2

Exposition

Be Ye Holy For I Am Holy

All quotations are from the Revised Version We have seen that the holiness of God places obligations on the individual Christian, since he is expec ...

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A Holy God – A Holy People

1966 Volume 17 Issue 6

Study

Be Ye Holy For I Am Holy

“Be ye holy; for I am holy”PART 2 A corollary of the truth of the holiness of God is that of the holiness of God’s people. Because God is holy, His people must ...

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A Holy God – A Holy People

1966 Volume 17 Issue 5

Study

Be Ye Holy For I Am Holy

“Be ye holy; for I am holy”PART 1 The Bible observes a proper balance between doctrine and practice; it is neither all doctrine nor all practice. There is a mingli ...

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A Holy God – A Holy People

1966 Volume 17 Issue 4

Study

Children of God

THE NEW TESTAMENT distinguishes between the expressions ‘children of God’ and ‘sons of God’. Unfortunately, in the Authorized Version this distinction has been confused, because the transla ...

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Of God

1960 Volume 11 Issue 5

Devotional

Christ the Image of God

As to His essential Deity, Scripture everywhere teaches that mortal man cannot see God. So John wrote, “No man hath seen God at any time”, John 1.18. Even of the Jews of His day, ...

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1973 Volume 24 Issue 1

Exposition

Christ’s Transfiguration

All three synoptic Gospels record the transfiguration scene, although none of the three authors was present. Matthew, the only apostle among them, was not one of the three apostles w ...

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1988 Volume 39 Issue 3

Study

Christian Transfiguration

Matthew and mark both record that Jesus was ‘transfigured’ in the presence of Peter, James and John. ‘Transfigured’ comes from the Greek metamorphoo, from which meta ...

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1988 Volume 39 Issue 4

Exposition

Divided Allegiance

THE SIN FROM WHICH can be said to stem all other sins into which Christians may fall, is that of spiritual tepidness. Christ’s indictment of the Ephesian church was that it had left its “ first ...

A. E. Long

1957 Volume 8 Issue 8

Devotional

Elements of Worship – Luke 7. 36-50

(Quotations are from Revised Version)ETYMOLOGICALLY, the word worship derives from the Anglo-Saxon weorthscipe, or ‘worthship’. The Bible everywhere teaches that God is the alone true obj ...

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1958 Volume 9 Issue 4

Devotional

Facets of Love

JOHN HAS JUSTLY BEEN DESCRIBED as the apostle of love. Five times in his Gospel he shelters behind that delightful anonymity ‘that disciple whom Jesus loved’. John first learned that lesson whe ...

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1959 Volume 10 Issue 3

Exposition

God’s Husbandry

In the Scriptures God is depicted as a husbandman, that is, a cultivator or tiller of the soil. He spares no effort in tilling the “soil of humanity” in preparation for the good ...

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Metaphors of the Church

1985 Volume 36 Issue 4

Exposition

His Fulness and Our Fulness

The full Deity of Christ is clearly and explicitly taught in the New Testament. To Paul, this was an absolute truth, admitting neither diminution nor compromise. It was necessary t ...

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Christ the Fulness of God

1970 Volume 21 Issue 3

Study

His Unspeakable Gift

“Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift”, 2 Cor 9. 15. Doubtless Paul’s words refer to the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God’s greatest gift to mankind - “His Gift of gi ...

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Thanks Be To God

1982 Volume 33 Issue 3

Exposition

Isaiah’s Four Looks

Isaiah tells us that his great vision of ‘the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up’, took place in the year of king Uzziah’s death. The peculiar relevance of the visi ...

A. E. Long

1961 Volume 12 Issue 6

Exposition

My People (Paper 1)

The Israelites were God’s chosen people, “the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth”, Deut. 7. ...

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My People

1986 Volume 37 Issue 5

Exposition

Solomon – His early promise

1. HISEARLYPROMISESolomon’s last years were darkened by spiritual decline but his early years were bright with spiritual promise. He began well, for he ‘loved the Lord, walking in the sta ...

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Solomon

1963 Volume 14 Issue 1

Exposition

Solomon – His Late Decline

2. HISLATEDECLINEIn a previous article, concerning the beginning of Solomon’s reign, it was seen that his early years were bright with spiritual promise. He ‘loved the Lord, walking in th ...

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Solomon

1963 Volume 14 Issue 2

Exposition

Sons of God

IN A PREVIOUS ARTICLE, various aspects of the subject ‘Children of God’ were discussed. In this, it was seen that the underlying idea in that expression is relationship. ‘Sons of God’ is a ...

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Of God

1960 Volume 11 Issue 6

Exposition

Thanks Be To God – Christ’s Triumphal Progress

“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place”, 2 Cor 2. 14. Paul’s experience d ...

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Thanks Be To God

1982 Volume 33 Issue 2

Exposition

Thanks Be To God – Victory Over Death

UNTHANKFULNESS to God marked the pagan world of Paul’s day, and he predicted that it would be as characteristic of “the last days” of the Christian era as of the first centur ...

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Thanks Be To God

1982 Volume 33 Issue 1

Exposition

The Anointing

The key verses covering this series of studies concerning aspects of the Holy Spirit’s work are 2 Corinthians 1. 21, 22: “Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath ...

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Aspects of the Holy Spirit’s Work

1968 Volume 19 Issue 4

Exposition

The Apron of Humility

“Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another”, 1 Pet. 5. 5 R.V. In a significant context, the Lord tol ...

A. E. Long

1976 Volume 27 Issue 5

Practical

The Christian in the Image of Christ

Despite the teaching of evolution, the Bible teaches that all species of animate life are separate and distinct. Paul writes, “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one fle ...

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1973 Volume 24 Issue 2

Exposition

The Church the Fulness of Christ

The pleroma (the fulness which is Christ’s as being fully God), together with truths associated with it, provided a theme in which Paul gloried. Some words in common use today, suc ...

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Christ the Fulness of God

1970 Volume 21 Issue 4

Exposition

The Earnest

We now consider the last aspect of the three-fold work of the Holy Spirit as given in 2 Corinthians 1. 21,22, namely that of the Earnest. We read that it is God who has “given the ...

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Aspects of the Holy Spirit’s Work

1968 Volume 19 Issue 6

Exposition

The Overall of Love

“Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness”, Col. 3. 14 R.V. Of this verse Conybeare says, “A ...

A. E. Long

1976 Volume 27 Issue 6

Practical

The River of God

Features of Eden’s earthly paradise reappear in the holy-city, new Jerusalem, come down out of heaven from God. The source of fertility in Eden’s garden, the nourishment of eve ...

A. E. Long

1949 Volume 2 Issue 4

Study

The Seal

We are considering the work of the Holy Spirit as the Anointing, the Seal and the Earnest, all of which are covered by 2 Corinthians I. 21, 22: “Now he which stablisheth us with yo ...

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Aspects of the Holy Spirit’s Work

1968 Volume 19 Issue 5

Exposition

Your God

It follows that the Lord is the God of those whom He calls “my people”. “My people” and “your God” are complementary truths, the two sides of the same coin. When He purpo ...

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My People

1986 Volume 37 Issue 6

Exposition

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