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Dr. John Boyd
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Assurance
The present assurance that he is truly a child of God is of paramount importance to the believer. To make a mistake about such a matter is too awful to contemplate. Eternity would be too late for a ma…
Dr. John Boyd
1963 Volume 14 Issue 1
Exposition
Calvary
Even at Calvary the Lord’s Passion continued. Pilate wrote a title to be placed on the cross. “Jesus of Naz-areth the King of the Jews”, and in spite of the opposition of the chief priests demanding a…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1981 Volume 32 Issue 3
Exposition
Deductions Concerning the Judgement Seat
(1) There will be Judgment for All Believers. ” God shall bring every work into judgment … whether good or evil “ (Eccl. 12. 14). The works of believers are not excluded. They too must stand before th…
Dr. John Boyd
The Judgement Seat of Christ
1956 Volume 7 Issue 7
Exposition
Four View-Points of the Judgement-Seat
It seems fitting to follow Dr. Boyd’s comforting message on the High-Priestly work of Christ (Nov./Dec. issue) with his challenging treatment of the solemn subject of the Judgment-Seat of Christ. We f…
Dr. John Boyd
The Judgement Seat of Christ
1956 Volume 7 Issue 6
Study
Galatians – Introduction and Chapter 1
WRITER.Paul, 1. 1. TIME OF WRITING.Between 2 Cor. and Romans, possibly A.D. 57. PLAGE OF WRITING.Greece, possibly Corinth. Acts 20. l-.'i. THEME. A defence of the doctrine of justification by faith al…
Dr. John Boyd
Notes on Galatians
1956 Volume 8 Issue 2
Exposition
Galatians Chapter 3
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE (Verses 1-14) Verse 1. Paul, reckoning that their defection was due to lack of thought, asks who had misled them by plausible arguments. The suffering of Jesus Christ, cru…
Dr. John Boyd
Notes on Galatians
1957 Volume 8 Issue 4
Exposition
Galatians Chapter 4
THE BELIEVER‘S ADOPTION AS A SON (Verses 4-11)Verse 1. Paul develops the thought of “ heirs according to promise." 3. 29. As long as the heir is a. minor, one needing a pedagogue, 3. 24, he is like a …
Dr. John Boyd
Notes on Galatians
1957 Volume 8 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Galatians Chapter 5
THE RESULTS OF LEGALISM (Verses 1-12)Verse 1. Christ has set us free from bondage to serve God in freedom. We do not well to go backwards, therefore, and be held in by any kind of yoke. The yoke is he…
Dr. John Boyd
Notes on Galatians
1957 Volume 8 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
Galatians Chapter 6
BURDEN BEARING (Verses 1-5)Verse 1. Paul considers the case of one who might have done some of the things he has been condemning, and shows how he should be dealt with. If the slip has overcome him be…
Dr. John Boyd
Notes on Galatians
1957 Volume 8 Issue 7
Exposition
Gethsemane
After prayer, John 17, and the singing of a hymn, possibly two Hallel Psalms 113 and 114, the Lord and His eleven faithful disciples crossed the brook Cedron, and ascended the mount of Olives to the g…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1980 Volume 31 Issue 4
Exposition
Introduction
Only once in the Scriptures do we find the English word “passion”, Acts 1. 3. It is the translation of the Greek word pathein, to suffer. There it refers to the consummation of the Lord’s suffering at…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1980 Volume 31 Issue 1
Exposition
Prayer in Gethsemane
The Lord’s cup of bitterness was full, so full that He must needs leave even the three chosen disciples, Matt.26.39. Telling them to watch, He went a little further into the garden alone. From the dif…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1980 Volume 31 Issue 5
Exposition
Private Prayer
In the Gospels the Lord Jesus Christ gave us two lessons on prayer, (i) Matthew 6. 5-13, (ii) Luke 11.1-13. In both of these portions He sets before us a model prayer, each given by com-mentators the …
Dr. John Boyd
1979 Volume 30 Issue 2
Exposition
Public Prayer
In the previous consideration of the two model prayers that the Lord taught His disciples, we noted that the first model dealt mainly with the believer’s private, personal prayer. The second model, Lu…
Dr. John Boyd
1979 Volume 30 Issue 3
Exposition
The Arrest
As Jesus spoke, a multitude approach-ed to apprehend Him, Matt. 26. 47. It consisted of priests, elders, temple officers, soldiers, servants, and pos-sibly many who came merely out of curiosity. Nor d…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1980 Volume 31 Issue 6
Exposition
The Betrayal Foretold
After the Passover, Jesus began to speak of His betrayal. You are not all clean, He said, but still He did not indicate who was unclean, John 13.10. John, looking back as he wrote, realized that the L…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1980 Volume 31 Issue 3
Exposition
The Book of Ruth
CHAPTER 2 RUTH‘S GLEANING IN THE FIELD by Dr. John Boyd, Holywood, N.I. Verse 1. We are here first introduced to Boaz (quickness). He was a kinsman of Elimelech, and apparently a successful man of…
Dr. John Boyd
The Book of Ruth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 4
Exposition
The Book of Ruth
The Position of Ruth in the Canon of Scripture. The order of the Books in the Hebrew Bible is (a) The Torah, or the Law, (b) The Nebi'im, or the Prophets, and (c) The Kethubiniy or the Writings. The L…
Dr. John Boyd
The Book of Ruth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 3
Exposition
The Book of Ruth: Ruth’s Approach to Boaz
Verse 1. When Naomi was told by Ruth that Boaz was her benefactor in the harvest field, she revealed to her daughter-in-law his kinship to Elimelech, and that he was one with the right to redeem them …
Dr. John Boyd
The Book of Ruth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 5
Exposition
The Book of Ruth: Ruth’s Marriage to Boaz
Verse 1. Boaz in a business-like way commenced at once to put into effect his promise to Ruth. He went to the gate of Bethlehem, the place where all public affairs were discussed,, and all judicial de…
Dr. John Boyd
The Book of Ruth
1974 Volume 25 Issue 6
Exposition
The Burnt Offering
2. THE BURNT OFFERING Burnt offerings were presented to God long before the Levitical economy, by Noah, Gen. 8. 20, by Abraham, Gen. 22. 2, and by Job, Job 1. 5. They were offered also by the heathen …
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1965 Volume 16 Issue 4
Exposition
The Civil Trials
There followed The Civil Trials – also in three parts. (1) Before Pilate. The Sanhedrin brought Jesus to Pilate, and accused Him of saying that “he himself is Christ a King”, Luke 23. 2, in opposi-tio…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1981 Volume 32 Issue 2
Exposition
The Drink Offering
7. THE DRINK OFFERING Many of the major offerings of the Levitical economy were accompanied by two of a subsidiary nature, namely, the meat and drink offerings; the latter we shall now consider. The t…
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1966 Volume 17 Issue 3
Study
The Final Passover
Opposition seems to have greatly increased after the Lord went up to Jerusalem to His final Passover as described in Matthew 21. At the start, He had a triumphal reception by the multitudes as He ente…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1980 Volume 31 Issue 2
Exposition
The Leading of the Spirit
THIS IS A PHRASE which many associate only with the Holy Spirit guiding believers as to what part they may take at the Lord’s Supper, in a prayer meeting, or at an ‘open conference’, as though these w…
Dr. John Boyd
1959 Volume 10 Issue 3
Exposition
The Levitical Offerings – General Remarks
1. GENERAL REMARKS When God delivered the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt, He made choice of them above all the peoples of the earth, Amos 3. 2, and brought them unto Himself, Exod. 19. 4…
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1965 Volume 16 Issue 3
Exposition
The Meat Offering
3. THE MEAT OFFERING The second offering prescribed for the Israelite in the ceremonial law in Leviticus is the meat offering. The Hebrew term minchah is usually translated in the Authorised Version a…
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1965 Volume 16 Issue 5
Study
The Peace Offering
4. THE PEACE OFFERING In Leviticus chapter three God set before Israel His requirements with regard to the peace offering. This is the translation of the Hebrew word shelem, coming from a root meaning…
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1965 Volume 16 Issue 6
Study
The Priesthood of the Lord Jesus
IN the New Testament, explicit teaching concerning the Priesthood and the Priestly work of the Lord Jesus Christ is confined to the Epistle to the Hebrews, and to an example of His functioning as such…
Dr. John Boyd
1955 Volume 7 Issue 5
Exposition
The Religious Trials
The chief captains and officers, realizing that Jesus was offering no resistance to them, seized and bound Him, and led Him to the house of Annas, the high priest, John 18. 13. Thus they sought to hum…
Dr. John Boyd
The Lord’s Passion
1981 Volume 32 Issue 1
Exposition
The Sin Offering
5. The Sin Offering The details of the sin offering are found in Leviticus 4.1 to 5. 13, with further instructions for the priest in chapter 6 verses 24-30. The Hebrew word translated sin offering is …
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1966 Volume 17 Issue 1
Study
The Trespass Offering
6. THE TRESPASS OFFERING In the levitical economy the sin and trespass offerings were closely associated. Both were for sin, the former emphasising the sinner’s need for cleansing and reconciliation t…
Dr. John Boyd
The Levitical Offerings
1966 Volume 17 Issue 2
Study
The Word
John, in the prologue to his Gospel, i. 1-18, introduces us to the central Figure of his evangel by the name of “the Word”. Why he does so we cannot easily prove, but we note that in current Jewish an…
Dr. John Boyd
1974 Volume 25 Issue 1
Exposition
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