acquiescence, agreement, ascendancy, avowal
I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Isaiah chapter fifty. This chapter finds Isaiah (the Holy Spirit): (1) delineating the Sin which has caused his people’s Misery (iniquities and transgressions, and in no small way rejection of God’s offer to help them, by way of His servants, pull free of their Misery),
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I. Introduction Long before John the Apostle was given a vision of the Terrible End in the first-century AD, Isaiah the Prophet was shown the same in detail some eight centuries earlier[1]. That vision of Isaiah is the subject of this chapter. And what Isaiah saw and relates to us here is exceeding grim,
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Ecclesiastes chapter three. Who wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes, and when? The verses Ecc 1:1 and Ecc1:12-13 bode very strongly for Solomon as the author, but Ecc 2:9 (the tension lies with the plural “all who preceded me in Jerusalem”), and the language of
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Colossians chapter one. We will follow this format: Verse of Scripture utilizing the YLT text followed by an NASB mouse-over of that verse. Key words in the YLT text will be footnoted with a link to a word study based on the Greek text,
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on First John chapter one. We will follow this format: Verse of Scripture utilizing the YLT text followed by an NASB mouseover of that verse. Key words in the YLT text will be footnoted with a link to a word study based on the Greek
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I. Introduction What is Truth [1]? asks the title to this study. Pontius Pilate, the Roman Prefect of the province of Judea (AD 26-36), once asked our Lord that question (Jhn 18:38). Pilate certainly asked the right One that most profound question. By the divine Will we have early fragmentary evidence of the question per
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Introduction When Father God is glorified…all is well, is as well as it could ever be; when He is glorified, all is perfectly well. “…That the Father may be glorified in the Son…” says Jesus (John 14:13). In other words, the acts of Jesus resonate with the Father’s will and this He did expressly to
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I. Introduction Peace [1] is the fruit of Jehovah God’s mercy, and mercy is the fruit of His grace, and grace is the fruit of His favor. Peace, therefore, intimately depends on God’s favor. Peace-> (stems from His) Mercy->(stems from His) Grace-> (stems from His) Favor. Peace is entirely of God because it is entirely
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I. Introduction What is the difference between Christian, biblical sovereignty, and mundane, secular sovereignty? There is more than a world of difference, because there is no such thing as secular sovereignty, except in a truncated way. Secular sovereignty, if there is such a thing, is but a pretension of biblical sovereignty, it masquerades as such.
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I. Introduction This study is interested in: (1) The physical attributes of the tabernacle’s golden lampstand (the menorah) and, (2) its theological significance. We shall discuss its physical features and its location in the tabernacle first, and then by God’s grace try to understand its theological significance both in Moses’ day and
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