Second Coming
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New Jerusalem: When Heaven Descends and Evil Ends
At the conclusion of the Millennium, the New Jerusalem, and inhabited by the righteous of all ages, descends to the earth. The wicked of all ages are resurrected. Satan picks up where he left off before the second coming of Christ. He deceives the wicked with the promise that under his leadership, they can take…
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Song of Moses: A Hymn of Deliverance and God’s Faithfulness
Lessons from the ancient Israelites can be learned. Had Israel continued in faith and gone on singing and had not once stopped to murmur, they would have speedily reached Zion, the city whose Builder and Maker is God. When the redeemed of the Lord do at last stand on Mount Zion, having the harps of…
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Word of God: Finding Life, Power, and Truth in Scripture
The Jews found it difficult to believe the words of Christ, that He would give them Himself to eat. They said, “How can this man give us flesh to eat?” Jesus repeated the statement still more emphatically and then said: “It is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak unto…
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Mercy and Justice: How God Balances Grace with Righteousness
Through Jesus, God’s mercy was manifested to men; but mercy does not set aside justice. The law reveals the attributes of God’s character, and not a jot or a tittle of it could be changed to meet in his fallen condition. God did not change His law, but He sacrificed Himself, in Christ, for man’s redemption. “God…
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Moses Strikes the Rock: A Lesson on Faith and Living Water
If we believe the Word, we may know that we drink as directly from Christ as did the Israelites in the wilderness. He made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water. In Him all things consist. The water which we drink, coming forth from the ground, is as truly from Him…
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Sinai and Calvary: The Riven Rock of Law and Grace
When God spoke the law from Sinai, that living stream of water, which gushed forth from the smitten rock in Horeb, was still flowing. If it had ceased to flow, the Israelites would have been in as bad condition as before, for it was their only water supply, their only hope of life. It was from…
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Spiritual Growth: Building on the Foundation of God’s Government
The ten commandments on the two tables of stone were in the ark, under the mercy seat, showing that the law of God is the basis of His throne and government. “The Lord reigns; Let the earth rejoice let the multitude of isles be glad thereat. Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment…
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What Does In Christ Mean? Living in Union with Jesus
The key phrase that runs throughout Paul’s epistles some 64 times is the recurring phrase, the central theme of Paul’s theology, which is the expression “in Christ” or “in Christ Jesus”. This phrase is sometimes expressed by other synonymous phrases such as in Him, by Him, through Him, in the Beloved, together with Him, etc. If these…
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Promises of God: Seven Things He Will Do for His Children
An everlasting covenant was made with Abraham and his descendants. It was a covenant of faith. The covenant of God with Abraham assured to him and his seed the righteousness of the law by faith. Not by works but by faith. The covenant was so ample in its scope that it embraced all nations, even…
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God’s Compassion: Embracing the Covenant of Peace
God designed that the children of Israel, and we also, should learn that the law is infinitely above the reach of all human effort, and to make it plain that, since the keeping of the commandments is essential to the salvation which He has promised, He himself will fulfill the law in us. “Hear, O…
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The Temple Veil: Its Meaning and the Shadow It Revealed
“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4: 3,4 Let us reflect back to the experience of Moses and the…
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Carnal Christians: The Divide Between Spirit and Flesh
The New Testament divides Christians into two camps: spiritual and carnal. Paul wrote to the Christians at Corinth; “I, brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as to babes in Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:1. Notice that Paul doesn’t refer to these carnal Christians as the unconverted, but as babes in Christ. Babies as you…
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The Work of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives: Guiding and Transforming
Pray that the mighty energies of the Holy Spirit, with all their quickening, recuperative, and transforming power, may fall like an electric shock on the palsy-stricken soul, causing every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring the whole man from his dead, earthly, sensual state to spiritual soundness. You will thus become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped…
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Surrender to God Bible Verse: Finding Hope in Life’s Struggles
What is God’s solution to our problems? How can we grow to be happy and strong Christians? “Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.” John 15: 4 This two-part divine solution…
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Sons of God: Sharing in the Life and Nature of the Father
Not those whose hearts are touched by the Spirit, not those who now and then yield to its power, but they that are led by the Spirit, they that build wisely, sharing the life of God, are the sons of God. Build wisely on the sure foundation of God’s Word. Do you desire to become a…
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Price of Redemption: God’s Sacrifice and the Cost of Grace
God suffered with His Son. In the agony of Gethsemane, the death of Calvary, the heart of Infinite Love paid the price of our redemption…. Nothing less than the Infinite Sacrifice made by Christ in behalf of fallen man could express the Father’s love to lost humanity…. It is from the Father’s heart that the streams of divine…
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God’s Love: Our Father Cares and Gives the Greatest Gift
Jesus pointed His hearers to the Ruler of the universe, under the new name, “Our Father.” He would have them understand how tenderly the heart of God yearned over them. He teaches that God cares for every lost soul; that “like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him.” Psalm 103:13.…
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Questions About the Second Coming: 3 Vital Truths to Consider
For the longest time the thought was that the three most important questions in life that require answering were: Where have you come from, what is your ancestry and heritage? Why are you here and what is your life’s purpose? Where are you going after you die? Is there life after death? Having ruminated on…
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Faith Over Fear: Finding Courage in God’s Promises
It is a familiar sentence, but with growing significance, that “we have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.”–“Life Sketches,” p. 196. Travelers we all are, bound for the Promised Land. Clear have been the evidences of divine guidance thus far.…
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Power of the Cross – A Simple Story of Redemption and Hope
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” This prayer is appropriate for every soul, and at any time and in every place may be offered to God in the name and through the merit of Christ. The thought that God can take a poor, sinful, sorrowful human…
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Practical Preaching – Delivering Sermons That Transform Lives
Inspired by love for Christ and for the souls for whom He has died they feel an intense earnestness to act their part with fidelity and preach quiet sermons of practical godliness. Selfishness is the strongest and most general of human impulses, the struggle of the soul between sympathy and covetousness is an unequal contest;…
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Book of Malachi – Message for God’s People Today
“Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase; so, shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” Proverbs 3: 9, 10 “There is that scatters and yet increases and there is that withholds more than his meat, but it tends…
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Coworkers with God – Our Role in His Mission and Purpose
“Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” Proverbs 3:9, 10. “There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.…
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What Is the Church? Its Identity, Purpose, and Role Today
If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything. God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart. It is a great thing to be a child of God, and a joint-heir with Jesus Christ. The Bible…