“search the scriptures” John 5:39

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John E. Todd
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“My Peace”
In a world fraught with trouble and distress, in a society plagued by anxiety and mental illness, the promise of our Lord still comes to the believer: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you…
John E. Todd
1976 Volume 27 Issue 3
Devotional
A Lesson from the Past
Can we really learn anything from the past? The present is the child of the past. Situations and events of the present cannot be really understood without some knowledge of the situations and events o…
John E. Todd
2006 Volume 61 Issue 3
Exposition
Divine Healing
There are three methods by which God heals human sicknesses: by natural means; by medical means; and by miraculous intervention. Healing by natural means When God created man, He incorporated into ou…
John E. Todd
2005 Volume 60 Issue 4
Exposition
Evangelism
The suggestions made in this article are concerned with evangelism not soul-winning. Both are equally important subjects, but must be distinguished in our thinking. Evangelism is telling people the go…
John E. Todd
1973 Volume 24 Issue 6
Exposition
False Interpretation
The True Scriptures can become false to a reader if that reader falsely interprets the scriptures. This is a danger we must all beware of. While opinions may differ regarding prophecies concerning the…
John E. Todd
False Scriptures
1993 Volume 44 Issue 5
Contemporary Issues
Science And Health
‘Many false prophets are gone out into the world’ 1 John 4. 1. The book ‘Science and Health’ was written by Mrs. Mary Eddy in 1875 and revised by her in 1891. This book is given by the Christian Scien…
John E. Todd
False Scriptures
1992 Volume 43 Issue 4
Contemporary Issues
The Assurance of Salvation
AssuranceThose who deny that believers are now justified by the blood of Christ as a gift, are those who deny the grace of God. They also deny the assurance of salvation, for if one’s own works, in an…
John E. Todd
The Assurance of Salvation
1995 Volume 50 Issue 4
Study
The Book of Mormon
‘Beware of false prophets’, Matt. 7. 15. The book of Mormon is a book, written in the English language that claims to be a translation of an original written between B.C. 600 and A.D. 421. First, we a…
John E. Todd
False Scriptures
1992 Volume 43 Issue 1
Contemporary Issues
The Christ of Prophecy (1/1)
The birth of the Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem was not an unheralded event. The whole of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, spoke of the Coming One. He was to be the Anointed One, that is th…
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Exposition
The Christ of Prophecy (1/2)
Continuing with Old Testament prophetical testimony we see: Prophecies of His life At the climax of His ministry, the Lord publicly made His claim to be the Messiah before the Passover crowds in Jerus…
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
2009 Volume 64 Issue 1
Exposition
The Christian Priesthood
To be born into a tribe of Levi and the family of Aaron was a high honour in Israel. The healthy male thus honoured was eligible for the priestly office, Lev. 21. 16-24. For the Christian, irrespectiv…
John E. Todd
1989 Volume 40 Issue 5
Exposition
The Deity of Christ
Once when challenged by an infidel to show a scripture which clearly stated that Christ was God, the writer was unable to do so. How would you have fared in similar circumstances? But a good case is n…
John E. Todd
A Meditation on the Triune God
1980 Volume 31 Issue 2
Exposition
The Disobedient Prophets
Do we still love fairy tales? Is it not true, generally speaking, that on the one hand the popular, often-used passages of the Old Testament have happy endings, such as Naaman the leper? Yet on the ot…
John E. Todd
1977 Volume 28 Issue 4
Exposition
The Earthly Ministry of Christ
Incarnation translates the glory of the invisible God into human terms One of the main purposes of the incarnation was to translate the glory of the invisible God into human terms that could be readil…
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Exposition
The Future of Christ
He is coming to rule over the nations When the Son of God came into this world at His first advent He suffered the humiliation of rejection, ‘He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and th…
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
2009 Volume 64 Issue 4
Exposition
The Greatness of God
The 139th Psalm is just like an unbroken view along a luscious valley. As we follow the psalmist’s lead, we are shown the wonderful attributes of God. When we think he has taken us all the way and can…
John E. Todd
A Meditation on the Triune God
1980 Volume 31 Issue 1
Exposition
The Heavenly Ministry of Christ
For a period of forty days after His resurrection the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to His disciples ‘to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them …
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
2009 Volume 64 Issue 3
Exposition
The Judgment Seat of Christ
After the games in ancient Greece, the successful athletes would file past the president of the games seated upon his raised dais {bema), each to receive a crown of leaves from his hand as the emblem …
John E. Todd
1978 Volume 29 Issue 2
Exposition
The Koran
‘Many false prophets shall arise’ Matt. 24. 11. Undoubtedly the Koran is an accurate record of the teaching of Mohammed. Although he did not write it himself, nevertheless Mohammed’s teaching was give…
John E. Todd
False Scriptures
1992 Volume 43 Issue 2
Contemporary Issues
The Message of the book of Daniel
The book of Daniel is the answer to a question. A question which agitated the world in Daniel’s day, and now, some 2,600 years later, still deeply concerns the nations of the world. The question is, ‘…
John E. Todd
2005 Volume 60 Issue 1
Exposition
The New World Translation
‘Prove all things’ 1 Thess. 5. 21. The New World Translation of the New Testament was published in 1950 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York. This society is the command centre of th…
John E. Todd
False Scriptures
1992 Volume 43 Issue 5
Study
The Power of the Holy Spirit
How often Christians complain about the weakness and sinfulness of their own fallen human nature. No matter how hard they try to live the Christian life, with all the energy the flesh can muster, the …
John E. Todd
A Meditation on the Triune God
1980 Volume 31 Issue 3
Exposition
The True Scriptures
‘Thy word is truth’, John 17. 17. What divine credentials does the book known as the Holy Bible have, to make it stand out among all the false scriptures as the true word of God? To prove its authenti…
John E. Todd
False Scriptures
1993 Volume 44 Issue 1
Contemporary Issues
What Results have been Experienced
Living a New LifeAs with all other things, the reality of a person’s experience of salvation is proved by its results. Does it work? ‘Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone’, Jas. 2…
John E. Todd
The Assurance of Salvation
1996 Volume 51 Issue 3
Study
What the Believer has Received
'for the gifts and the call of god are irrevocable’, Rom. 1 1 . 29, R.S.V. This means that God’s decisions are unalterable. In the context of this remarkable statement we are told that, despite the we…
John E. Todd
The Assurance of Salvation
1996 Volume 51 Issue 2
Study
What the Lord has Done
In whatever measure people may look to themselves for their hope of salvation they are filled with doubts and fears. But the great purpose of scripture is to direct our attention to the Person of the …
John E. Todd
The Assurance of Salvation
1996 Volume 51 Issue 1
Study
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