WHEN GOD GIVES UP ON PEOPLE

God’s giving people up was not capricious, but founded upon the righteous premise that such conduct deserved the adverse judgment it received.

THE TRUE TEMPLE OF GOD – 1 Peter 2

The great prophecies of Isaiah which formed the background of the apostle’s thought here, and which he would immediately quote, foretold, the formation of the Christian church, for the spiritual worship of God, under the image of a temple, which God would build on Messiah as a foundation-stone thereof.

HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE? – John 3

The natural man finds it very difficult to receive spiritual things, due to his inherent preoccupation with the mechanics of them, the “how” of everything. Nicodemus’ question is therefore one of remarkable interest to all. How persistently man probes every mystery!

HEAVENLY VS EARTHY TREASURES – Matthew 6

The pursuit of earthly treasures is a disease that feeds and increases upon itself.

THE INDWELLING SPIRIT – Romans 8

The Holy Spirit is the blessed Spirit, a member of the GODHEAD, who takes up residence in Christian hearts in consequence of their being sons of God (Galatians 4:6), and in fulfillment of the apostolic promise of such an indwelling to all believers who will repent and be baptized for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38f), and is thus identifiable as the “Holy Spirit of promise” (Ephesians 1:13).

GOD SUMMONS THE NATIONS AND THEIR IDOLS TO COURT – Isaiah 41

Here the call for silence opens the imaginary proceedings of a court, where God will face the heathen world with a test question.

THE SIX FUNDAMENTALS of CHRISTIAN RELIGION – Hebrews 6

Fundamental truth of the most basic nature is openly denied or presumptuously ignored by an age that seems to feel that it has outgrown such elementary things as these; and, therefore, we may be thankful indeed for the inspired outline of things which actually constitute fundamental Christian doctrine.