Our hearing and obedience of the Word of God is always put to the test. For King Saul this was no different. No sooner had he been made king when along came some tough situations calling for clear decision making. How would he react? In whom would he trust? Who would he go to for advice if he was in…
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We often hear the expression, “seeing is believing” but as we’ll see from a consideration of John 9, the opposite is also true, “believing is seeing!”
We read, “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth” (v1). That blind man couldn’t have seen Jesus. He wou…
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What would you do if you had $20,000,000? Would you go on a spending spree and buy all the things that you’d thought you’d never be able to afford? Or would you perhaps splash out a bit to celebrate, but then save the rest or invest it in some form or other? If you found yourself in possession o…
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Galatians is one of the Apostle Paul’s earliest writings. Even in those early days of the ecclesial world there was a need for him to combat some seriously wrong thinking. He admonishes them with some rather stern words, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the t…
The gospel records all take us to an upper room in Jerusalem on the night before Christ died, and to a meal and an evening that he shared with his disciples.
Week by week and day by day
As an ecclesia, week by week we re-enact parts of that meal and evening when we gather together to remember …
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“I gave my back to the smiters”
When we partake of bread and wine each week we are asked to remember the Lord’s sacrifice – as his words direct us in Luke 22:19. The Apostle Paul adds the words, “let a man examine himself” as we partake of the emblems (1 Cor 11:28). This involves, among…
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Knowing the Hour
The signs of the times are telling us plainly that the return of the Lord is close at hand and our traditional understanding of the prophetic word has been correct. In the interval between now and his coming we are a afforded time to prepare for that inevitable day an…
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Hosea was sent at a turbulent period in Israel’s history. He began to prophesy approximately 180 years after Jeroboam the son of Nebat took the throne of Israel.
An apostate nation
The false worship he ordained was founded upon a watering down of God’s law, in order to make worship less �…
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There is a noticeable sense of urgency about the New Testament. Most of the NT was written with the storm clouds of AD 70 looming up. The Jewish state was about to go, the Mosaic order was being wrapped up.
The epistles foreshadowed Nero’s insane rule that would traumatise the ecclesi…
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Our theme is, “By one man” which, with our reading from Romans 5, would imply that we shall consider some aspects of our great need for the saving work of our Lord. We shall consider the legacy left by the first man Adam, and the wonder of the saving work of the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Chris…
