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Temple of God ’
Feb 4th, 2010 |
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Category: Special Features (click on Article name)
KING DAVID prospered under the Lord’s blessing, and he established Israel’s kingdom upon a good footing, which assured peace and respect from the surrounding nations. Living now in a palace in Jerusalem, with the tabernacle of divine service near by, the king bethought him of the incongruity of his living in a grander house than that of his God, and of the fact that the heathen built temples for their idols. The Prophet Nathan was a friend and close counselor of the king, and to him David made known his thought of building a temple. Possibly he had the suspicion that such an innovation might not be proper and that he would do well to have counsel on the subject. Doubtless the lesson of Uzzah made him more careful respecting everything purposed or done in connection with the tabernacle and its services. To the prophet the suggestion seemed a good one, reverential, proper. He endorsed it, saying, “God is with thee,” therefore doubtless he will prosper you in this good thought in respect to this generous impulse of your heart.
Tags: abitation of God through the spirit, body of Christ, church of the living God, enemies thy footstool, God's promises, higher criticism, inheritance of the saints, King David, living stones, Mediator between God and men, messiah, Millennial Kingdom, mount Sinai, obedience better than sacrifice, one man's meat is another man's poison, Our Body of humiliation, precept upon precept, prophet nathan, raised a spiritual body, revealed them unto babes, root and offspring of David, second coming of our Lord, seed of Abraham, Solomon, Son of David, Sown in weakness, Temple of God, temple of the living God, Traditions of Men, uzzah, wise and prudent Posted in Special Features (click on Article name) |
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Jan 31st, 2010 |
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Category: 1 & 2 Corinthians, Verse by Verse --Studies led by Br. Frank Shallieu (Click on Book name)
One can associate with an organization to do witness work and then for 40 years preach baby milk to others and be so absorbed in the work that he himself is not fed. The nature of the witnessing is proper because babies should not be fed meat, but the problem is that the individual does not develop. And so the Corinthians were faithful in all utterance to others, giving all the knowledge they had, but they themselves did not progress mentally with the meat so that they could grow up from babyhood to adulthood. That was the principle here in verses 1-3. Otherwise, Paul’s earlier commendation would be a contradiction.
Paul identified the Corinthians, for the greater part, as babes. They would be babes in character development and in discerning only the basics “until Christ be formed” in them (Gal. 4:19). The goal of a follower of Christ is to copy the Master as much as possible in the imperfect life on this side of the veil. Paul wanted to speak to the Corinthian brethren on more advanced spiritual things, but he could not do so because of their condition as babes. Nevertheless, he would try to bring some benefit out of the confusion that existed in the church at Corinth.
Tags: Apollos, babes in Christ, carnal, God’s husbandry, or Cephas, revealed by fire, Temple of God, wise masterbuilder Posted in 1 & 2 Corinthians, Verse by Verse --Studies led by Br. Frank Shallieu (Click on Book name) |
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Aug 3rd, 2009 |
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Category: Special Features (click on Article name)
Some one has well said:—”The Christian in the world is like a ship in the ocean. The ship is safe in the ocean so long as the ocean is not in the ship.” One of the great difficulties with Christianity today is that it has admitted the strangers, the “people of the land,” and recognized them as Christians. It does injury, not only to the Christians, by lowering their standards (for the average will be considered the standard), but it also injures the “strangers,” by causing many of them to believe themselves thoroughly safe, and needing no conversion, because they are outwardly respectable, and perhaps frequently attendants at public worship. It lowers the standard of doctrine also, because the minister who realizes that at least three-fourths of his congregation would be repelled by the presentation of strong meat of truth, withholds the same, and permits those who need the strong meat, and could appreciate and use it to advantage, to grow weak, to starve. Furthermore, the worldly spirit and the fuller treasury have attracted “strangers” into the professed ministry of the Gospel, many of whom know not the Lord, neither His Word, and who consequently are thoroughly unprepared to feed the true sheep, were they ever so well disposed.
Tags: afflictions left behind, Babylon, begging for money, Christendom, Christians, church collections, Cyrus the Great, dome of the rock, Ezra, free will offerings, gentiles, Isaac a type of Christ, Jerusalem, king of Kings, liberalists, mosque of Omar, Mount Moriah, Palestine, Protestantism, ram in the thicket, royal piesthood, Sacrifices, Samaria, sin-offering, Solomon's Temple, temple mount, Temple of God, threshing floor of Araunah, wheat and tares, wolves in sheeps clothing, Zerubbabel's Temple Posted in Special Features (click on Article name) |
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Jun 16th, 2009 |
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Category: Revelation, Special Features (click on Article name)
This description, picturing a great spiritual truth, is in full accord with the picture in Revelation. It represents beautifully, forcefully, the blessings of refreshment and restitution which will issue forth from the New Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Messiah, when it shall be established amongst men. Gradually the mighty influences of the reign of Messiah will extend blessings to all mankind, even to the submerged class, steeped in ignorance and superstition and degradation, fitly represented by the Dead Sea.
Tags: Dead Sea, Divine Message, Ezekiel, Lamb's wife, messiah, New Jerusalem, Restitution, Revelation, Spirit and Bride, Temple of God, Trees of life, waters of life Posted in Revelation, Special Features (click on Article name) |
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