Romans 3
v1. Having said that then, you may ask me, “Well, do we have any advantage at all in being Jews? Are we to cancel out all the privileges that the Old Testament says that we have?”
v2. No, I believe you do have advantages. But those advantages are a great responsibility because th…
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Romans 2
v1-2. But what of the Jew, who stands in judgment as he looks on the rest of the world? One who thinks he is, by race, above the Gentiles, whose attitude may be expressed thus: “Yes, this is true of the Gentile world, but I am thankful that I am not like other men”. He has forgotten…
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Romans 1
v1. Paul, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle…that I may be a manifestation of Christ to demonstrate the good news that God has entered into the affairs of humankind. He promised to do this out of necessity because man could not extricate himself from the sin in which…
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Do you know there are seven new songs in the Old Testament Scriptures? I want to briefly take you over six of those songs. What, then, are we going to sing in the age to come? We are going to sing a new song—new, because for the first time we are going to experience these things. And our hearts wi…
Then there was another word used for the word “praises”. This word means ‘to address in a loud voice’. It means to shout praise and it is interesting to see how this word is used, for example, in the 145th Psalm and verse 4. And you can see, can’t you, when we read this, the applicability …
You know, when I was asked to do this address, I thought to myself, how am I going to speak upon the subject of praise? It’s such a vast subject!
So what I did, was, I got out my Concordance, and I said, ‘Praise’, this is my theme; all right, let’s speak about praise. I looked up my Conco…
The substance of an address delivered by Bro John Martin on 1 October 1966, to the young people gathered at the Victor Harbor Study Weekend to discuss the psalms.
Brother Chairman, brothers and sisters, and my dear young people.
If someone were to ask you what was the highest form of voluntary wor…
Paul’s epistle to the Romans is all about the righteousness of faith as opposed to gaining salvation through meritorious works of law. Paul marvelled at the anomaly that Jews, who strove so determinably to keep the law, had not attained to the righteousness of faith, whereas the seemingly …
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“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps” Matthew 25:6,7
As a community we have endeavoured to stay awake to the signs of the times in relation to the coming of our Lord from heaven, fo…
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“Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth” Psalm 80:1
The theme of the shepherd in the care of his sheep looms large in the Divine record, fea-turing as it does many examples of faithful shepherds of Divine a…
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