“Many Christians while seeking to hold fast to the Scripture and to be guided by their expression have unconsciously fallen into serious error through not discerning the dispensational changes that came about when the favor to the Jewish nation ended at the death of Christ, and when a new dispensation, a new age under new conditions, was then ushered in. The baptism of John, the baptism to which our dear friends so frequently refer, was never meant for the Christian…
“Despite what is commonly believed and taught by orthodoxy, immersion or baptism (Greek–dipping) in water, as practiced by John the Baptist and afterward by our Lord and his disciples, had a different significance at first among the disciples from what it came to have after the Spirit dispensation was fully opened and its teachings received. John came and his disciples, preaching repentance of sins, and used immersion as a token or sign of the putting away of sin by the…
One Ransom for All “It was necessary [in accordance with God’s will] that man [should] learn obedience—not only to obey, but the importance of obedience. Man must obey not just because he is told to, but also because he wants to. This makes him free—the desire to comply rather than the constraints to comply. God as Creator knew that the available means of learning were instruction, observation, and experience. Man could not learn first by observation, because there was no…
(Matt. 25:14-30) HOW SHALL WE PAY OUR VOWS? This is an important question with all the truly consecrated, and one surely of paramount importance. Let us consider, then, that when we consecrated ourselves fully to the Lord, we thereby signified that we would hold nothing back for self. That consecration included all our possessions, our time, our physical energies and our mental attainments. And it implied the sacrifice of all our former earthly ambitions hopes and aims, so that we…
The following extracts with regards to Matt 13:24-30; 36-43 were taken from various Bible Student materials VERSE 24 “Another parable put Him forth unto them (This parable stands related to the one before, “The Parable of the Sower” The first prepares the way for the other. The first deals with the individual; the second with the church collectively.) Saying, The kingdom of heaven (Practically every parable which our Lord uttered was given to teach something respecting the character of the…
“The system of belief, Our Most Holy Faith, which we call “The Truth,” is made up of little things, of small fragments of information scattered throughout the Bible. The wonderful Divine Plan of the Ages is not found in the Bible as a consecutively connected narrative. If it were, it would be understood by everyone instead of being a profound mystery to all but the church.” This fact is well described in Isaiah: “For precept must be upon precept, precept…
Having laid the first three stones in our faith structure we don’t want to stop there, it is important that we finish our foundation, that our foundation be fixed, immovable before we move on to building upon that foundation. “The Apostle says the next step is “the laying on of hands.” Why, what’s that? The “laying on of hands,” you remember, was something they had in the early Church. The Apostles in the early Church laid their hands upon the…
Before reading this post it is prudent that one first read,”The Milk of the Word”, parts 1 and 2, as these two posts set the stage for what we will cover here in this post and the one that follows. The First Six Foundation Stones In Heb 6:1 the Apostle mentions six foundation stones comprising the foundation of our faith, these he likewise considers as the “Milk of the word” the first principle doctrines of Christ, and they are as…
“Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city (of Christendom) She speaks her words: “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.” (Prov 1:20-22) “How long, you naïve ones will you prefer to remain in ignorance, ignorance of what? Why the truth, the whole truth not simply the basic truths, the…
As New-Born Babes Desire Sincere Milk (1 Pet 2:2) “It is the explicit teaching of the Scriptures that the strengthening of the inner man is not something which is accomplished instantly, but rather gradually through the years as the heart responds obediently to the Divine Word of instruction and to the providence of the Lord. Not only so, but it is represented as a process in which there must be a working together with God in the building up of…