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A. E. Long
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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 nothing at all to the…
A. E. Long
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’s death, “when thou shall…
A. E. Long
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 “another Jesus” and a diff…
A. E. Long
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 responsibility of servants during t…
A. E. Long
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 the great antitype, John 19. …
A. E. Long
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 composed of stones, bricks and morta…
A. E. Long
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 revelation. That of the church as a bride has i…
A. E. Long
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 means “very manifold”. The church i…
A. E. Long
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 of His choice, whether corporately as a nation, …
A. E. Long
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, in that it envisage…
A. E. Long
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 tribe of Levi to be a p…
A. E. Long
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 chose the place, namely, the t…
A. E. Long
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 laws and com-mandments…
A. E. Long
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 violent as Cain him…
A. E. Long
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 his own people to go forth like s…
A. E. Long
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, the word “minister’ has acquired an unintended meaning, that …
A. E. Long
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 contemporary Greek and Roman world. The Greeks had a passion for physical…
A. E. Long
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. A steward is defined as “one who manages another’s affairs”…
A. E. Long
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 descriptions fittingly describe what members of…
A. E. Long
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 a man “born blind”, He gave…
A. E. Long
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 verse, Paul underlines on…
A. E. Long
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 disobeyed God’s clear instructi…
A. E. Long
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, but to leave them in it as…
A. E. Long
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 covenant that God made with them, it was Hi…
A. E. Long
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 contained in ordinan…
A. E. Long
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 was often raised ag…
A. E. Long
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 of the Gospel depends …
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 expected to be like God in holiness. Its connotations are …
A. E. Long
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 be holy. God cannot be associated with a…
A. E. Long
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 mingling of the two; objective truth has it…
A. E. Long
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 translators have s…
A. E. Long
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, who supposed that the…
A. E. Long
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 who accompanied Chr…
A. E. Long
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 metamorphosis is derived and which occu…
A. E. Long
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 love.”…
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 object of worshi…
A. E. Long
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 when recli…
A. E. Long
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 seed of His Word, in e…
A. E. Long
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 that he should have t…
A. E. Long
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 gifts, all other gifts in one”, …
A. E. Long
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 vision is to be understood i…
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. 6. Subject to their obe…
A. E. Long
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 statutes of Davi…
A. E. Long
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 the statutes of…
A. E. Long
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 different e…
A. E. Long
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 did not always look like a …
A. E. Long
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 century, Rom. 121; 2 Tim. 3. 1. …
A. E. Long
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 anointed us, is God; …
A. E. Long
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 told His disciples, “the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to mi…
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 flesh of men, and anoth…
A. E. Long
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, such as plenary, pletho…
A. E. Long
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 earnest of the Spiri…
A. E. Long
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, “Above all in the sense of over all” —“over all the rest put on the robe of love, …
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 every tree “pleasant to the…
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 you in Christ, and hat…
A. E. Long
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 purposed to bring the Israelites ou…
A. E. Long
My People
1986 Volume 37 Issue 6
Exposition
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