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J. Vernon McGee

The Authorship of Hebrews or Did Paul Write Hebrews?

J. Vernon McGeeThe Epistle to the Hebrews presents many moot problems. Some of them are in conjunction with the question of authorship, which we shall consider under the following divisions: 1. Internal evidence on authorship (is Hebrews an epistle or treatise?) 2. Date and destination 3. Arguments available on au... Read More
J.C. Philpot

The Good Work Begun and Finished

J.C. PhilpotPreached at Providence Chapel, Oakham, on Lord's Day Morning, Oct. 2, 1864 "For your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Phil. 1:5, 6 It is now more than... Read More
J.C. Philpot

The Dropping Down of the Heavens, and the Opening of the Earth

J.C. PhilpotPreached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 21, 1844 "Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it." Isaia... Read More
J.G. Bellet

New Creation

There is a deeper purpose and nobler work in God than creation. Creation occupied His hand, and displayed His power and Godhead, and was then, in some sense, left at man's disposal, so that its condition was to be determined by the allegiance or rebellion of man. But there was another work ordered i... Read More
John Johnson

An Understanding of the Phrase "He Descended into Hell" in the Apostles' Creed

Apostles' Creed I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell. The third day He ar... Read More
John MacArthur

A Call for Discernment - Sermon 2

John MacArthurAs we come now to the joy of examining the truth of God's Word, I ask you to open your Bible to Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, the first letter, chapter 5 and look with me at verses 21 and 22. We began two weeks ago to consider the truth of 1 Thessalonians 5:21 and 22. We'll continue this morni... Read More
John MacArthur

A Call for Discernment - Sermon 3

John MacArthurIt is our great privilege this morning to return in the study of God's Word to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. We are fast coming to the end of this great epistle. We find ourselves in verses 21 and 22 in a special three-part series entitled "A Call to Discernment." Let me read the text of 1 Thessalonian... Read More
John MacArthur

Baptism: A Matter of Obedience

John MacArthurI was flying across the country this week--a long flight--all the way to the east coast and the Lord always makes things serendipitous, always has a surprise or two; I was sitting next to a man who eventually took out a Bible and started reading it and as he was reading it, I said to him, "That's a ... Read More
John MacArthur

Irreconcilable Differences: Catholics and Evangelicals.

John MacArthurThe following was transcribed from a television broadcast of a "roundtable discussion," titled "Irreconcilable Differences: Catholics, Evangelicals, and the New Quest for Unity" that took place in Ft Lauderdale, Florida between Dr. James Kennedy, Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. R. C. Sproul, and John Ankerb... Read More
John MacArthur

Fundamental Christian Attitudes: Sermon 5 - Unity

John MacArthurLet's open our Bibles tonight as we continue our study of the anatomy of the church to Ephesians chapter 4. We have been talking about the anatomy of the church, its skeleton, those things that give it its shape and its form, its rigidity, those non-negotiables, those foundational realities. We have... Read More

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