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Christ’s Appearing for His Church, Part III
September 29, 2020
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Parallels Regarding First and Second Comings of Our Lord Jesus Christ As one compares the two comings of Christ, one past and the other yet future, he finds parallels.  First, both comings include several events spread out over periods of years.  The first coming of Jesus Christ included (1) the…
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Christ’s Appearing for His Church, Part II
September 15, 2020
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Promises Regarding the Appearing of Jesus Christ for His Church Without doubt, the Old Testament prophets predicted the general truth of both the first and the second comings of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Because both comings were at that time yet future, the prophets delivered the messages without wholly understanding…
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Christ’s Appearing for His Church, Part I
September 8, 2020
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“…Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). Positions Regarding the Appearing of Jesus Christ for his Church Our generation…
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The Burning Bush Believer
May 19, 2020
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“And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush” (Exodus 3:2). The business of on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment testifying / witnessing / soulwinning is never to be forsaken.  God has commanded each of us to turn aside and seek the…
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Strong Faith – Weak Faith
March 25, 2020
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“And being not weak in faith…he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith” (Romans 4:19, 20 excerpted). Abraham, known as the “father of faith,” experienced interludes and intervals of weak faith during his one-hundred-seventy-five-year sojourn on this earth.  However, as he progressed in…
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Continual Coming
December 27, 2019
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“...that men ought always to pray, and not to faint..lest by her continual coming...” Luke 18:1, 5 First Thessalonians ends with a short series of short sentences, one of which is “Pray without ceasing.” What that does not mean is just as obvious as what that does mean. The Holy…
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Consider Jesus Christ
September 17, 2019
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“...consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus” “Now consider how great this man was...” “For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself...” Hebrews 3:1; 7:4; 12:3 The cited word consider means “to observe fully, to contemplate, to draw analogy or conclusion, to participate…
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The Leaven of Society
June 28, 2019
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“...bring forth him that...cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones." (Lev. 24:23) If one conducted a poll and asked what one blight upon culture has contributed most to the downfall of society, answers would vary. One would claim the worst problem to be abortion on demand while…
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I Have Seen Thy Tears
January 17, 2019
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“...I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears...” (II Kings 20:5) Brief study of II Kings 20 will demonstrate that this chapter falls during the reign of Sargon, the Assyrian who was king after Shalmaneser and before Sennacherib. Among the evidences of this order of events is that,…
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Four Hundred Fifty To One
November 10, 2018
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“…I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men” (I Kings 18:22) Odds and chances are concepts common to our current culture of gambling. Polling data and probability statistics are equally common to our present politics. Words such as likelihood…
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