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brethren study

Bible Study Heritage

David Dunlap

For over 150 years those known as “Plymouth Brethren” were renown for their command of the Scriptures. This movement exerted great influence over their generation, and their impact continues to be felt in the church. They were held in high esteem by leaders of many denominations. A. T. Pierson, a Baptist minister and author, wrote concerning the spiritual stature of the brethren, “and in those days there were giants in the land.” He was referring to men such as John Nelson Darby, C. H. Macintosh, William Kelly and others. The spiritual power of the early brethren was unmistakable. The movement bore the marks of a mighty work of God. Powerful Bible teaching by deeply spiritual men, earnest prayer, and evangelistic zeal characterized this movement. God’s hand of blessing was evident. One writer reported that by the year 1878, 50 years after the first assembly was established, there were 1,388 gatherings of believers in 29 different lands. (1)

Many have speculated as to the reasons behind this remarkable spiritual growth.

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church

Knowing Gods Will in the Work

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Now, some time ago I posted an article on knowing God’s will. In all honesty I side-stepped the heart of the question by focusing on the foundational issue about actually obeying God in what He has already explicitly said. In that article I merely touched on the idea that God would entrust more of His will to those who are already faithful with what He has entrusted them with thus far.

Marvelous. God will entrust us with more of His will if we are faithful. That’s simply wonderful. The thing is that there are times when Christians are going about trying to do the will of God (or what they think it to be) and things happen which prevent the completion of the task.

The question that inevitably comes up in a faithful believer’s mind who is genuinely trying to do God’s will is this ?who is doing the blocking??

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eschatology

Timetables of Prophecy

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This 1st chronicle of the prophecy series will take a structural and doctrinal look at God?s program for the world. Understanding the ?big picture? and how prophecy is framed preserves us from fanciful interpretations.

To understand God?s prophetic plan it is important to realize that God views humanity in three distinct arenas. 1Cor. 10:32 says: ?Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.?

1. Jews – God?s Old Testament nation from the racial line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), chosen for special service on earth.

2. Gentiles – all non Jews. They comprise all the other nations of the world. They are pagan in their practice and look to gods rather than God.

3. The Church – the body of believers in God?s chosen Savior, Jesus Christ, called ?sons of God.? Both Jew and Gentile are equally indwelt by God the Holy Spirit, thus forming a new race.

God reveals a structural time program for each of the three types of humanity: Israel; the Gentile nations; and the church. We will now consider each timetable.

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christ worship

The Riches in Chirst -08 Eternal God Became Flesh

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was fully God. (John 1:1 NET)

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life?and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us). (1 John 1:1-2 NET)

He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death?even death on a cross. (Phil 2:8 NET)

In the beginning, before time, as a primary and first cause, was the Word and there was God. Not a separate other entity as if there were multiple Gods, but one God but a different personality.

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romans sin study

The Book of Romans Part7 (2:16-3:1) The Jews Treachery

We left off
seeing the thought flow of this first major theme, namely that the
grossest-sinner-and-unbeliever is in the same exact boat as the
moral-and-upright-unbeliever. This category of moralist includes, of
course, the Jew (as aforementioned). The Jew stood on the side of God
judging the sins of the people around him, clamoring at the evil found
therein.

This Jew found comfort, Paul would point out, on the fact of the Law
and the special relationship the Jew had with God (v17). The moralistic
Jew would boast in this relationship and in the knowledge of God’s will
regarding morality because the Jew received instruction from the very
Law itself.

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