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Uplook Fridays: The Triumph of the Cross
Here is a matter which is often overlooked at the Lord’s Supper. It is the Lord’s total destruction of the power of the enemy ({{Colossians 2:15}}). Satan’s power through the sin of his rebellion lay in the setting up of a kingdom here on earth to forestall the kingdom which God intended to establish through [...]
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Uplook Fridays:Fellowship at the Feast
It is the blessed habit of the saints to especially remember our Lord at His own instituted remembrance feast. This ought to be our hearty resolve each Lord’s Day. Nothing should be allowed to disturb these moments of quiet and sacred remembrance. Then let us put aside all worldly care, and all daily business, and [...]
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Uplook Fridays:The Placarding of Christ
Bishop Lightfoot has a good word in place of the phrase "evidently set forth."({{Gal 3:1}}) It is the word placarded. The Lord and His atoning work on the cross had been placarded before these Galatians. The message of His Person and work had been clearly demonstrated before them. But now they were falling back to [...]
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Uplook Fridays:Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther
The Medo-Persian Empire rose out of the ashes of the Babylonian Empire in 536 BC, at which time Cyrus (chart #3) offered the Jews their liberty ({{Ezra 1:2-4}}). This was directly the result of Daniel’s prayer (#2) for the restoration of Judah when he discovered, in what we call {{Jeremiah 29:10}} (#1), that the captivity [...]
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Uplook Fridays (on Sunday!):Between Resurrection & Ascension