hebrews-11:37-39,-hebrews-12:1-2

The First Testimony that was Recorded of a Believer Repenting By Paris Reidhead* Will you turn, please, to Job, Chapter 42. Job, 42nd Chapter, and I would like to read most of the chapter. I think that you will find that it is an exciting portion. Incidentally, Job is the oldest book in the Bible. D... Read More

Reading: Exodus 32:31,32; 11-14; Numbers 14:11-20. "Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind would not be toward this people" (Jer. 15:1). God Seeking To Make A Man Utterly One With Himself "Though Moses.... stood before Me." We have to get right into the hear... Read More

While much emphasis is laid upon the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, it is not generally realized that His ascension is no less important as a truth basic to our life in Him and for His universal purpose. In the fuller unveilings of spiritual life in Christ which came progressively through... Read More

"These are the names of the mighty men whom David had... Adino... Eleazar... Shammah" (II Sam. 23:8-12). "(Abishai) was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three" (II Sam. 23:19). We are not so much concerned at the moment with the details of the exploits of these three men as... Read More

Chapter 2 - The Purpose Of God Keeping in mind the passages that we have been considering (Isaiah 6, 2 Chronicles 26, and John 12:37-41), let us try to summarise what we have been saying so far. GOD REQUIRES A PEOPLE OF PURPOSE We have noted, firstly, that, in relation to His full purpose, God is ev... Read More

Judges 4-5 It is a fairly far cry from Joshua to the Judges, and there is a terrible lapse from those days of triumph and conquest, as there was at the close of the apostolic days. The book of Judges is perhaps the most tragic book in the Bible. We are going to look at two of the breaks in the darkn... Read More

Chapter 6 - "Some Better Thing" In our last chapter we came to the matter of "completeness" as the governing object of the faith of all those mentioned in Hebrews 11. "Apart from us they should not be made perfect (complete)." Now we take that up in relation to the clause which precedes it. "God hav... Read More

Rev. 21:9-11. In this passage we see the Apostle was carried away in the Spirit into a mountain great and high, and shown the New Jerusalem "coming down out of heaven...." Rev. 3:12. "I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down o... Read More

In our quest for instruction in leadership which the Scriptures contain, there is a wealth of teaching given in our second great Old Testament instance, namely Joshua. Oshea — Joshua — Jehoshua — Jesus means “The Lord — the Saviour”. Joshua, like the One whom he typifies, is the link joining the gre... Read More

"And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside ... Read More