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1 Thessalonians – Some Suggestions for Study

SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY Read the Epistle through once each day for a month. Reading aloud is most profitable. You can read through this Epistle in less than twenty minu ...

J. B. Hewitt

1965 Volume 16 Issue 3

Study

2 Peter 1: Christian Development

The Christian life is one of inward peace, vv. 1-3; upward progress, vv. 4-7; governing purpose, vv. 8-12; gracious privilege, vv. 16-18; guiding prophesy, w. 19-21; and glorious p ...

J. B. Hewitt

Truth for the Times: 2 Peter and Jude

1976 Volume 27 Issue 2

Exposition

2 Peter 2: Corrupting Doctrine

In chapter 1, we find the construction of character through the truth, but in chapter 2, we have corrupt doctrine intent upon the destruction of the unwary. Peter gives a vehement ...

J. B. Hewitt

Truth for the Times

1976 Volume 27 Issue 3

Exposition

Abraham – Friend of God

It is interesting to study Abraham’s life of faith, a man tested by God, in Genesis, in the following way: His Public History, chapters 12 to 14-Faith Travell ...

J. B. Hewitt

1988 Volume 39 Issue 6

Exposition

Amos

4. AMOS Amos belonged to Tekoa, a small town about six miles south of Bethlehem and about twelve miles south-east of Jerusalem. Very few particulars are given about him an ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1966 Volume 17 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

Christ in the Prison Epistles – Introduction

The object of all Bible study has in view the exaltation of our Lord, the enriching of our lives, and the em-powering of our labour. We must translate into factors of power every liv ...

J. B. Hewitt

Christ in the Prison Epistles

1979 Volume 30 Issue 2

Exposition

Colossians – Christ our Head

As we pass into the Colossian letter we have a totally different aspect of the Lord Jesus in relation to our Christ-ian life. The burden and prayer of the apostle is that the saints ...

J. B. Hewitt

Christ in the Prison Epistles

1979 Volume 30 Issue 5

Exposition

Controlled by Divine Truth, 2 Peter 3

Peter gives a timely word for today. The knowledge of Christ should mould our habits and prepare us for His soon return. The doctrine of false teachers in relation to our Lord’s re ...

J. B. Hewitt

Truth for the Times

1976 Volume 27 Issue 4

Exposition

Deuteronomy

The title Deuteronomy is derived from the Greek words; “Deuteros”, meaning “second”, and “Nomos”, meaning “law”, thus making the book to be “the s ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1971 Volume 22 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

Ephesians – Christ our Leader and our Lord

There is, perhaps, no writing in the book of God so majestic and so won-derful as the Epistle to the Ephesians. Here we reach the very pinnacle of spiritual knowledge, the summit of ...

J. B. Hewitt

Christ in the Prison Epistles

1979 Volume 30 Issue 3

Exposition

Exodus

The title “Exodus" means a “way out" or “departure”, and was given because it records the way in which Jehovah brought Israel out of the bondage of Egypt. The theme of the ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1971 Volume 22 Issue 2

Young Believer’s Section

Exodus: Its Message for Today

Exodus is of great value as a picture book of many New Testament truths. We shall notice some lessons from the section which we may entitle Israel in Eg ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1971 Volume 22 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Genesis – Part 1

This book has known more criticism, and suffered more opposition and abuse, than any other book of the Bible. Satan uses all his forces to discredit and to destroy this book. The rea ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1970 Volume 21 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Genesis – Part 2

In the first ten chapters of Genesis including the original creation, there may be millions of years embraced, but in the next forty chapters only a few centuries are dealt ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1970 Volume 21 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

Glimpses of Christ

The whole purpose of revealed truth is to tell out the manifold glory of the character and work of one majestic Person, Jesus Christ our Lord. God has chosen Him as the centre of all ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1972 Volume 23 Issue 1

Young Believer’s Section

Glimpses of Christ

Hosea, the Slighted Lover, 2. 18-19; n. 1-4. Christ shall be the one Head, 1. 11, the Restorer of the nation, 2. 14-19, the coining King, 3. 4-5, to whom regal honours will then be g ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1968 Volume 19 Issue 4

Young Believer’s Section

Habakkuk

Nothing is known of Habakkuk apart from this book. From the fact that he makes no mention of Assyria, and speaks of the Chaldean power as growing with almost incredible rapidity, i ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1967 Volume 18 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Haggai

11. HAGGAI Haggai is the first in order of the Minor Prophets after the captivity. The deportation of the people into captivity was in three stages that extended over a nu ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1968 Volume 19 Issue 1

Young Believer’s Section

Help from Haggai – Introduction

Haggai and Zachariah were the post-exilic “prophets of work” commissioned by God to encourage His returned exiles to complete the restoration of the temple. The task had lapsed f ...

J. B. Hewitt

Help from Haggai

1985 Volume 36 Issue 4

Exposition

Help from Haggai, Verses 1. 1-11

Chapter One. Indolence, Instruction, Inspiration. Haggai is not known out-side Ezra and this book. He was a prophet working in conjunction with Zechariah. His name m ...

J. B. Hewitt

1985 Volume 36 Issue 5

Exposition

Help from Haggai, Verses 1. 12-15; 2. 1-9

A MESSAGE OF RE-EN COURAGEMENT, 1. 12-15. Here is the response of the remnant to the challenging message of the prophet. Their Ways Considered, v. 12. “Then ...

J. B. Hewitt

Help from Haggai

1985 Volume 36 Issue 6

Exposition

Help from Haggai, Verses 2. 10-23

A MESSAGE OF RECOVERY AND DETERMINATION, 2. 10-19. This fourth message has to do with cleansing and blessing. It is a corrective message on responsibility; right conduct is important ...

J. B. Hewitt

Help from Haggai

1986 Volume 37 Issue 1

Exposition

Hosea

2. HOSEA Title. This is taken from the name of the writer, which means “salvation” or “deliverance”. He is described as the son of Beeri and was a prophet ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1966 Volume 17 Issue 4

Young Believer’s Section

Joel

3. JOEL We have no information respecting Joel except such as is derived from the book which he has left us. He was specially a prophet to Judah and the man is lost in the ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1966 Volume 17 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Jonah

Jonah was a real person, an historical character who prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II; read 2 Kings 14. 23-27. His name means “dove” and his father’s name Amittai m ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1967 Volume 18 Issue 2

Young Believer’s Section

Leviticus

This is the central book of the Pentateuch, the book of sanctification, divinely enjoined and typically expressed. Its keywords are “atonement" (over forty times), and “holy" (ov ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1971 Volume 22 Issue 4

Young Believer’s Section

Living by Faith, Habakkuk

Nothing is known or ti iis prophet apart from this book. He prophesies in Judah during the reign of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim shortly before the invasion by Nebuchadnezzar, 1. 5-6; ...

J. B. Hewitt

1989 Volume 40 Issue 2

Exposition

Malachi

13. MALACHI The prophet Malachi is introduced in the first verse of the book which bears his name. Nothing is known of Malachi beyond what we may gather from this book and ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1968 Volume 19 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Meditation-a Lost Art

We are living in extremely busy days, and everybody and everything seem to be going at a very fast pace. We seem to be too busy, running here and there, with very little time to sit ...

J. B. Hewitt

1987 Volume 38 Issue 1

Exposition

Micah

The opening verse gives to Micah a period of activity under three Jewish kings, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. No direct information is given in the book to suggest which king was on t ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1967 Volume 18 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Nahum

Nothing is known of the prophet Nahum except that he belonged to Elkosh, the location of which cannot be established with certainty. Some say that it “was not far from Capernaum� ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1967 Volume 18 Issue 4

Young Believer’s Section

Numbers

Here we have the story of Israel’s journeyings, wanderings and murmurings, from Sinai to the borders of Canaan. Numbers resumes the narrative where Exodus leaves off. For some of t ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1971 Volume 22 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Obadiah

Obadiah was a name common among the Jews and several occurrences are found in the Old Testament, but there is nothing to indicate that any of them wrote this book. The name means � ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1967 Volume 18 Issue 1

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 1

2. ALL PEERLESS IN HIS DEITY CHAPTER 1 We may notice in the opening chapter of this Epistle The Superiority of His Revelation, ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1969 Volume 20 Issue 1

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 10

ALL PREVAILING IN HIS MINISTRY CHAPTER 10 This chapter gives much of the biography of ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1969 Volume 20 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 11

Chapter 11 – All Inspiring On The Highway Of Faith Faith sustained patriarchs, prophets and martyrs in all previous ages, and their example is worthy of emulation. < ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1970 Volume 21 Issue 1

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 12

1. Christian Discipline, vv. 1-11. Education. The Essentials for Success in the ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1970 Volume 21 Issue 2

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 13

All Present Throughout Eternity – Chapter 13 Love in Personal Life, vv. 1-6. Be Generous. ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1970 Volume 21 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 2-3

All Perfect In His Humanity – Chapter 2 In chapter 1 we have the personal glory of the Son of God, typified by the ark overlaid with pure gold, and in chapter 2 we have ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1969 Volume 20 Issue 2

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 4-5

All Pitying in His Sympathy CHAPTER 4 In this chapter we find Christ as the Sanctuary Rest; He ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1969 Volume 20 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 6-7

ALL PENETRATING IN HIS ABILITY CHAPTER 6 This chapter may be studied in detail as follows: 1. ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1969 Volume 20 Issue 4

Exposition

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 8-9

ALL PROSPEROUS IN HIS MINISTRY CHAPTER 8 by J. B. Hewitt, Chesterfield

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1969 Volume 20 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in Hebrews, Introduction

The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the greatest and most important in the New Testament. Its opening chapter is one of the most fascinating and satisfying that one could read; its ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in Hebrews

1968 Volume 19 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets – Introduction

1. INTRODUCTION In His Word God has made ample provision for all our needs. Its lofty thought and noble images, its heavenly doctrines and personal applications, are meant ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1966 Volume 17 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch – Introduction

Fittingly, and from most ancient times, the first five books of the Bible have been grouped together and have been known by the term “Pentateuch”, a word meaning “five books” ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1970 Volume 21 Issue 4

Young Believer’s Section

Outline Studies in the Penteteuch

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT;LEVITICUS The key word of Leviticus 16 is atonement which is mentioned fourteen times, whilst the key verses of t ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1972 Volume 23 Issue 2

Young Believer’s Section

Philemon – Christ our Example

One of the first impressions we obtain on reading this Epistle is that of the recurring references to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is directly mentioned eleven times in these twenty-fiv ...

J. B. Hewitt

Christ in the Prison Epistles

1979 Volume 30 Issue 6

Exposition

Philippians – Christ our Life

The Philippian letter breathes the atmosphere of heaven, and as we view our Lord Jesus under different titles (telling us of His grace in birth, His greatness even in death, the glor ...

J. B. Hewitt

Christ in the Prison Epistles

1979 Volume 30 Issue 4

Exposition

Suggested Analysis of Genesis

Primeval History, chs. 1-11. From the Creation to the Condemnation, 1. 1 to 3. 24. God’s Will declared, first period, (a) The Creat ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Pentateuch

1971 Volume 22 Issue 1

Young Believer’s Section

The Antidote to Apostasy, Jude 1-3; 17-23

In these verses we have seven safeguards and seven exhortations to help us. There is a threefold call in Jude 17-23; adhere to apostolic teaching, vv. 17-19; advance in the separated ...

J. B. Hewitt

Truth for the Times

1977 Volume 28 Issue 2

Exposition

The Authority of Scripture in This Modern Age

"But understand this, that in the last days there will set in perilous times of great stress and trouble, hard to deal with, and hard to bear”, 2 Tim. 3. 1, Amplified N.T.

J. B. Hewitt

1974 Volume 25 Issue 2

Exposition

The Cross in Galatians

In the religious world the “cross” is taken as a symbol of Christianity. It is an expression that gathers up and contains the great fact and the significance of the death of our ...

J. B. Hewitt

1987 Volume 38 Issue 2

Exposition

The Eight Men of James Chapter One

This is a book on Christian psychology and the need for spiritual maturity. James is more concerned about emphasizing duty than about expounding doctrine. His illustrations are arres ...

J. B. Hewitt

1986 Volume 37 Issue 4

Exposition

The Industrious Servant of Jehovah

Portrayed by Mark Key words: Ch. 10. 45; 12. 6. INTRODUCTION 1. 1-13 HIS COMINGPersonality v. 1; Promised vv. 2, 3; Prepa ...

J. B. Hewitt

1987 Volume 38 Issue 6

Exposition

The Lion-Hearted Amount the Lions – Daniel 6

In this chapter we can see ‘pictures of the Lord Jesus’.1) The Man of purpose set over the realm, v. 3, cp. Eph. 1. 22; Phil. 2. 10.2) The Man of spotless character a ...

J. B. Hewitt

1994 Volume 45 Issue 2

Study

The Peril of Apostasy, Jude 4-19

Jude realized that the need was not so much to expound the faith as to rally Christians in defence of the faith. There had secretly slipped into the churches ungodly men who were imm ...

J. B. Hewitt

Truth for the Times

1977 Volume 28 Issue 1

Exposition

The Son of Consolation

Joses, meaning “ fruitful," was such a lovable character that he was surnamed Barnabas by his fellow-apostles. He was not only a man who was generous in disposition, but a man of l ...

J. B. Hewitt

1952 Volume 4 Issue 6

Devotional

Truth for the Times – Introduction

We live in days when the contents of the Christian faith are widely questioned, and new and speculative theologies are being propagated. With this a new morality is advocated by men ...

J. B. Hewitt

Truth for the Times

1976 Volume 27 Issue 1

Exposition

Why I Believe the Bible

The Holy Scriptures are themselves the permanent and authoritative “form” of God-given revelation. This revelation has been recorded in the original writings by inspiration, both ...

J. B. Hewitt

1968 Volume 19 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Zechariah

12. ZECHARIAH This book surpasses all the Minor Prophets in its Messianic emphasis and in its unfolding of events connected with both the first and second advents of our L ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1968 Volume 19 Issue 2

Young Believer’s Section

Zephaniah

From the opening verse of the prophecy we learn something about Zephaniah, the writer. His genealogy is traced back for four generations to Hezekiah, R.V. This would suggest that h ...

J. B. Hewitt

Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets

1967 Volume 18 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

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