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Introduction to
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GOLDEN NUGGETS
FROM THE
GREEK NEW TESTAMENT
by Kenneth Wuest

Preface

  1. No translation is able to bring out that is in the . There are delicate shades of , vivid word , and language , that no standard version can handle.
  2. Most men have been saved and have grown in grace through faith in the Word in its form. The Holy Spirit and the translated Word, and has done so from the beginning.
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The Peculiar People of God

  1. The word “” is translated from a Greek word which is made up of two words, one which means “,” as a circle, and the other which means “to .”
  2. No temptation can reach Christians except it through the permissive of God first. As believers walk in the center of God’s will, He will not permit the Devil to confront us with a temptation too great for us, but will us with the necessary and strength to overcome it. over sin is a guaranteed fact when we are in the center of God’s will.
  3. God in His wisdom the test, and the temptation. God in His sends the test, and permits the temptation. God in His meets the test, and overcomes the temptation. In His He plans and limits. The of Christian suffering is that it is a means whereby sin is put out of our lives and likeness to Jesus produced.
  4. The grace of God is sufficient to every difficulty, any sorrow, any temptation.
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The Christian and Trench Warfare

  1. The Christian is to every thought, word, and deed by the leading of the Spirit through the Word, and every thought, every word, and every deed, in an attitude of entire upon the Holy Spirit’s empowering energy.
  2. The Spirit and the flesh reciprocate the each has for the other. The word “,” speaks of a permanent attitude of opposition toward each other on the part of both the flesh and the Spirit.
  3. This contest between the Spirit and the flesh is on the in the heart of every child of God. It continues until the of the believer.
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The “Falling Away” of Hebrews VI

  1. The words “falling away” are from a Greek word which literally means “to beside a person or thing, to away, to from the right path, to turn aside.”
  2. These words “falling away,” can only refer to the one spoken of in the Book of . It could only be committed in the century and by a , or a proselyte to Judaism, and for the reason that conditions since A.D. 70 have been such as to make impossible the committing of that sin.
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Does He Feel at Home?

  1. The word “dwell” in Ephesians 3:17 is from a Greek word made up of two words, one meaning “to in a home,” and the other, literally meaning “.”
  2. No man calls Jesus Lord except by the .
  3. The secret of the Lordship of Jesus, is a that the Holy Spirit make Him Lord of our lives, and a in the Spirit to accomplish that for us.
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Dislocated Saints

  1. Sin in a Christian’s life that is and , causes the fellowship between the saint and God to be broken.
  2. The saint with in his life is not in correct relationship to his Head and to the rest of the Body. A saint out of fellowship with his Lord is to both the and the, and will obey neither.
  3. A saint with sin in his life is a to the Church and its Head. A Christian with sin in his life is a of heart to his fellow saints and his Lord. A child of God with in his life is a Christian.
  4. The longer a child of God remains in sin, the more miserable he becomes, and the it is to him to fellowship again. But thank God, he be restored.
  5. A Christian worker must do restoration work of a saint in a , meek, way, remembering that he himself is subject to temptation and possible sin in his life.
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Transfigured Saints

  1. The word “transfigured” is from a Greek word made up of two words:
    A. one word referring to the expression one gives to his true
    B. one signifying a of .
  2. Satan, his false apostles and ministers assume an outward which does not correspond to their natures. He that outward which was expressive of his inmost nature, and assumed another, which did not correspond to it. Satan as an angel of light, whereas he is all the while an angel of darkness.
  3. Christians must change their outward expression from that of a expression of their inmost natures, to an expression not true of their new regenerated inmost being, that assumed expression patterned after the world.
  4. Paul exhorts the saints not to assume as an outward expression the , habits, expressions, and of this evil age, thus hiding that expression of themselves which should come from what they are intrinsically as children of God.
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Everlasting Watchfulness

  1. The thought in the original Greek text is that Satan departed from our Lord until a more opportune, propitious, or favorable time, when our Lord would be more to .
  2. Satan leaves the saint alone. If he ceases his activities, it is only that he might stand from him and for a time when the saint is more to temptation.
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The Needle’s Eye

  1. It is impossible for anyone whose for keeps him from trusting Jesus Christ as Saviour, to be saved.
  2. The word “” in the Greek means literally “beside.” Take your stand beside on the question of riches and it is to be saved. But take your stand beside on the matter, and the formerly impossible becomes .
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Our Lord’s Prayer for Resurrection

  1. The preposition “” in the Greek is the key to the understanding of Hebrews 5:7. There are two prepositions which mean “from,” one, “from the of,” the other, “out from .”
  2. Our Lord prayed to be from the if there was such a possibility and it was within the will of God. Not that He was to suffer for lost sinners, but His holy soul shrank very properly and naturally from the terrible ordeal of being sin and of having His Father away His .
  3. Jesus prayed to be saved not from the edge of death, but of . Here He expected to die, and He prayed to be saved from the of death. That meant that He prayed to be from the .
  4. Our Lord’s earthly life was saturated with . As the Man Christ Jesus, He His way through His ministry even to the very end.
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God's University for Angels

  1. The word “” is from a Greek preposition which speaks of intermediate agency. It is through the agency of the Church, that the holy are the manifold of God.
  2. The angels never had a conception of the , the , the , the self- of God until they saw it in the Church.
  3. The Church provides a course for angels. Beings than angels in the scale of creation, raised in Christ to beings than angels, into the family of God.
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The Fullness of the Spirit

  1. It is that we be with the , first, because God commands it, second, because the fullness of the spirit is the divine enablement in the life of a Christian which results in a Christ-like life. to be filled with the Spirit is sin and results in to live a life honoring to God.
  2. The Christian living a normal life of moment by moment to God, experiences a moment by moment of the . No Christian can do with and at the same time live a victorious life.
  3. It is the of Christian to be always filled with the Holy Spirit.
  4. The filling with the Spirit is not a of man but of . A simple for that fullness and a in the Lord Jesus for that fullness will result in that fullness.
  5. The constant desire of the fallen nature is to . The Holy Spirit is the divine against in the life of a Christian. to and upon the Holy Spirit results in the Spirit putting down the evil nature in defeat and producing in the believer a life pleasing to God.
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The Saint's Individual Responsibility

  1. Punctuation in neither the present Greek nor the English texts is . The earliest of the New Testament which we possess have punctuation.
  2. The word “” is from a Greek word which means “a shepherd.”
  3. The pastor’s work is to the Word to the saints, and to them in the art of winning souls and of teaching and preaching the Word. Each church should be a miniature Bible Institute, a station from which saints go out to the . The pastor thus himself.
  4. Each Christian is to in some form of Christian as the Lord leads. It may be a ministry of , or of tract distribution, or of work or of the Word, or of song. Thus saint has his own in the service of our Lord.
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The Greek Word for Faith

  1. Paul exhorts the Philippian jailer to:
    A. the Lord Jesus of as to His character and motives
    B. his in His to do just what He says He will do
    C. the of his into the hands of the Lord Jesus
    D. the of his soul to the care of the Lord
  2. Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ means a definite of one’s self out of one’s own keeping and one’s self into the keeping of the Lord Jesus.
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About Tents

  1. Paul’s human body was the in which he was living. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived in . A tent speaks of a pilgrim . They were looking for a place of .
  2. Out from the ivory palaces, the King of Glory came to live in a among a people who lived in .
  3. The King condescends to live in a all through with His Bride. If His Bride lives in a , He will.
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A Contradiction Cleared Up by the Greek

  1. We believe in an inspired text. We claim verbal inspiration for the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. We do not claim verbal inspiration for any . Therefore, the text is the final court of appeal.
  2. In the Greek of Acts 9:7, the word “voice” is in the case, and in 22:9, it is in the case.
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The Husband of One Wife

  1. The nouns in I Timothy 3:2 are without the definite article, indicating that is stressed. The teaching is that a bishop can only marry .
  2. Since was in the early Church, also, how far such a prohibition is binding today, now that the Christian life has entered into another and totally different phase, is an open question.
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Contact

  1. The preposition in the Greek is used in Mark 6:48 with a certain case which means that the idea of contact is in mind.
  2. The Church saints, associated with our Lord in reigning over this earth, will have with this in the Millennium. That means that millions of glorified saints will be visible object of what God’s can do for a poor lost sinner. God will us in His last great to the lost of the human race.
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Why Worry?

  1. The force of the word in the Greek is that of the of an already going on. Thus the translation is, “Stop perpetually about even one thing.” The same Greek word is found in Matthew 6:25 and is translated, “Take no .”
  2. Believers commit sin when we . We do not trust God when we . We do not receive answers to prayer when we , because we are not trusting.
  3. Christians are to all our worry upon Him. The word “” is not the ordinary word in Greek which means “to throw,” but one which signifies a definite of the in committing to Him our worries, giving them up to Him.
  4. Your welfare is concern. He in bringing you in salvation into His family, has undertaken the of for your welfare.
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Bondslaves

  1. There are two words in Greek referring to a person in . One speaks of a slave in . The other refers to a person into . The latter is the one used in .
  2. Christians are bound to our Lord Jesus by the of an life. Believers are in relationship to Jesus Christ, a relationship which only could break. But praise God, because He , we , and since He never , we will never . We are His bondslaves .
  3. Christians are born by our second birth into slavery to Jesus Christ, into a glorious , blessed, in which we are His loving forever.
  4. Before being saved, believers’ wills were swallowed up in the of . Now our wills as we yield to the Holy Spirit’s fullness, are swallowed up in the of , our blessed .
  5. Paul’s favorite designation of himself is that of a of Jesus Christ. His comes next. He counts all things but for the excellency of the of his Lord.
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Intense Christianity

  1. The intensity of Paul’s Christianity is seen in the words “earnest .”
  2. With such of Paul desired that Christ be magnified in his body, whether in a life of continued service for the Lord Jesus, or by a martyr’s death.
  3. Paul’s intense desire is that the Lord Jesus indwelling His heart may be allowed of in Paul so that being greatly or set free, that is, not hindered in His manifestation of Himself through the Holy Spirit by anything which Paul might do, He might get and to Himself whose right it is to be glorified, and that, either in Paul’s life or by his death.
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The Natural and the Spiritual Body

  1. The word “” is from the word which the Greeks used to designate the soul of man. The word “” is from a word which speaks of the spirit of man.
  2. A human being is composed of three parts:
    A. with his body he has consciousness
    B. with his he has -consciousness
    C. with his he has -consciousness
  3. If man’s human is by the Holy Spirit as part of the saving work of God, he is to God and participate in the service of the Lord Jesus. But this constitutes a part of his life than that occupied by the activities of the soul. But it is the factor. The type of life determines the of the soul life.
  4. The resurrection body will be a body. It will be a body in which the life of man will predominate. The individual will be occupied for the most part with the of God, His , His , His , while to a far less degree will one be occupied with the soul life.
  5. The resurrection body will have no , and since the life of the body today is in the , it follows that a new life principle must animate that body. Our bodies will be like our Lord’s.
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The Word of God

  1. The word Logos (Λογος) comes from the verb which means literally “to pick out or ,” thus “to words in order to one’s thoughts,” thus “to .” It speaks of a word uttered by the human voice which embodies a or .
  2. Our Lord is the Logos (Λογος) of God in the sense that He is the total of God, Deity through the Son of God, not in parts of speech as in a sentence composed of words, but in the life of a divine Person.
  3. He is not merely concept of God among others, for the heathen have many concepts of God. He is concept of God, the only one, the one.
  4. John speaks of the between the Word, Jesus Christ, and the Father, a that existed all eternity and will exist all eternity, and which was never except at that dark mysterious moment at Calvary.
  5. John teaches that our Lord is essentially . He possesses the same as God the Father, is one with Him in and . Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter, the teacher, is God.
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Luke, the Great Historian

  1. The Greeks were by nature and training, a race of thinkers who pursued their studies in a manner. Their sense of what really constituted scientific and method in the of history was well developed.
  2. Luke wrote the Gospel for Theophilus to use as a whereby to the of the many uninspired accounts of our Lord’s life which were written in the first century.
  3. Thus we have no doubt but that Luke made a personal of all the he had recorded. He every witness, every locality.
  4. Luke was not alone upon his personal investigations for the accuracy of his record. He says that he closely all things from .
  5. Luke claims to have closely the facts he had received, and to have done so through the of the Holy Spirit, which fact the absolute of the record.
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The Indestructibility of the Church

  1. Jesus declares that His is the upon which He will build His Church. The second word “rock” is from a different form of the word than that which is translated by the name “.” It refers to a large massive rock like . Thus Peter is the rock of the Church. The of Jesus Christ is the .
  2. Because the foundation of the Church is the deity of Jesus Christ, the church is .
  3. The word “” is used in Christian terminology to designate the place of departed human beings, it being divided into a place for the unrighteous dead, and one for the righteous. The former is still and the place where the go, but the latter is , for the dead which occupied that place before the resurrection of our Lord are now in heaven, and believers since that great event go at once to be with their Lord.
  4. The world of the system includes the place called Hades, and also the kingdom of Satan and his demons in the air. Hades is as a possible enemy of the Church. The logical enemy therefore in view here is and his .
  5. The of the Unseen will not the Church, that is, the councils of Satan and his demons, for it is founded upon a Rock, even our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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Entree

  1. Our Lord in the bosom of the Father. He occupies the place to the Father’s affections.
  2. The of Jesus in the eyes of God the Father has been imputed to believers, as His standing has been imputed. God therefore looks upon believers with all the with which He looks upon His own well-beloved .
  3. For time and eternity Christians are the of the Father’s supreme , the of His boundless , the favored ones of His matchless grace.
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Concerning Fellowship with Jesus

  1. The word “” in 1 John 1:7 is from a Greek word which refers to conduct. Christians’ conduct consists of our , words, and . The normal experience of a Christian should be a constantly according to the Word of God.
  2. The Christian who loves what loves and hates what hates has with Him. The person who loves what Jesus hates, namely, sin, does have with Him.
  3. The word “” speaks in the Greek of action in progress. The blood of Jesus keeps continually us from of ignorance.
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“Agapao Love”

  1. The quality of agapao love is determined by the of the one who loves, and that of the object loved.
  2. God’s love for a sinful and lost race springs from His in response to the value He places upon each human soul. sinner is exceedingly precious in His sight.
  3. The love in John 3:16 is a love whose essence is that of self- for the of the one , this love based upon an evaluation of the preciousness of the one loved.
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“Phileo” Love

  1. “Phileo” is a love called out of one in to a of pleasure or delight which one experiences from an apprehension of qualities in another that furnish such pleasure or delight.
  2. “” is a love springing from a sense of the preciousness of the object loved, while “” arises from a sense of pleasure found in the object loved. When used in a good meaning, both are legitimate, but “” is the word.
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The Monkey Wrench in the Machinery

  1. In Romans 7:15 Paul describes his experience as a saved person, but one of the way of living the life. The things he to do, namely, good things, he does not do. Things he does not want to do, namely, things, he does do.
  2. The monkey wrench in the Christian life is - . All the of the Holy Spirit are there to put down sin and produce a Christ-like life, but they are not because the believer is upon self.
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Citizens of Heaven

  1. Paul taught the Philippian saints that they were a heavenly with a heavenly , a heavenly , a heavenly , to live heavenly in a foreign land, telling others of a heavenly Father who offered them salvation through faith in His Son.
  2. What was true of the Philippian saints then is of the . Believers are a heavenly people with the and of living a heavenly life on earth.
  3. The physical body has been by the curse of sin. It will be from that curse at the coming of the Lord for His Bride.
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Apostolic Memory

  1. The apostles understood the things they saw, and thus could be witnesses and hand down to us a account of His life.
  2. The apostle John when writing his account of our Lord’s life had clearly in mind the things he saw our Lord do and heard Him say approximately years before.
  3. John had the promise of our Lord in John 14:26 that the Holy Spirit would bring all the things Jesus said, to the of the .
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Working Out Your Own Salvation

  1. Philippians 2:12–13 does mean that a Christian should work out an salvation. There is such idea in the Greek.
  2. When Paul was with the Philippians, his teaching them, his example them, his encouragement them on in their growth in grace. Now in his they were thrown upon their own initiative.
  3. The salvation spoken of in Philippians 2:12 is defined in verse thirteen, namely, the definite of to God’s good pleasure and the doing of it. That is the saint’s responsibility from the standpoint. But the saint is not left without resources with which to do both, for God the Holy Spirit him produces in him both the and the to do His will.
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About Saints

  1. Paul finds it necessary to define the word “” every time he uses it as a term of address in his epistles. In Romans, it is “saints of God,” in First and Second Corinthians, “saints in Christ Jesus,” and in Colossians, “saints, even brethren in Christ.”
  2. Positional sanctification is the act of God the Holy Spirit believing sinners in Christ Jesus. This is an act resulting in a .
  3. Progressive sanctification is the of the producing in the lives of believers, a set apart life consistent with their new position. This is a process, resulting finally in to the of Christ in glorification.
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Regarding Peter’s Denial of His Lord

  1. The word translated “curse” in Mark 14:71 and Galatians 1:9 means “to declare anathema or cursed, to one’s self to the severest divine .” Thus Peter was calling down upon himself the severest penalties if his words were not true.
  2. The word translated “swear” is from the same word in Hebrews 6:13 which means “to take an .” Peter attempted to convince his accusers of the truthfulness of his words by taking an upon that statement.
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The Personality of the Life

  1. That life which is given to the believing sinner is not a mere abstraction, not some spiritual energy or dynamic, but a , the Lord Jesus.
  2. Fellowship demands . Therefore, that eternal life which is ours is a , Jesus Christ. Christianity is a , Jesus Christ living in and through a believer.
  3. The part of the Christian in the plan of salvation, is to allow Christ to freely in him, so that He can Himself through that saint.
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Our Lord is Proclamation in Tartarus

  1. Our Lord, very God, in His incarnation added to Himself a human , soul, and . It was in this human spirit as quickened by the Holy Spirit, that the Man Christ Jesus to the spirits in , between His on the Cross and His from the tomb.
  2. A spirit is a intelligence. But God is created. The absence of the definite article in Greek emphasizes or .
  3. The Greek word which means to the is not used in I Peter 3:19, but a word which means merely to something. It was used of heralds who made an official of some kind. The word translated “” here does not convey within itself the content or nature of the message.
  4. There is no provision in the atonement for the of , for our Lord as the great High Priest did not reach a helping to angels, but to the seed of Abraham (Heb. 2:16), for He assumed , not angelic nature for His substitutionary work on the Cross.
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The Lord’s Day

  1. The phrase, “the Lord’s Day,” has a different order, and is found only in Revelation 1:10.
  2. The expression in the Revelation has a in first century documents. This form of the word “Lord” was in common use for the sense “,” as finance” and “ treasury.”
  3. The designation, “The Lord’s Day,” is the name for the day which is commonly called , or, by some, the .
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The Mote, the Beam, and the Hypocrite

  1. A Christian’s obligation is to put out of our lives those glaring that us from properly appraising the character of another, before we seek to deal with the tiny faults of someone else.
  2. The person with a log in his own eye who attempts to deal with the tiny fault of another is a . The Greek word here was used in ancient times to refer to one who under a .
  3. Our Lord says, “Stop constantly , in order that ye be not .
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Superabundant Grace

  1. The word “” is one of the most precious words in Scripture.
  2. God’s grace is that , wonderful, , act on His part when He out of the spontaneous infinite love of His heart steps down from His judgment throne in heaven to take upon Himself the of our and the penalty which is justly ours, doing this not for His friends but for His .
  3. There is enough grace in God’s heart of love to:
    A. and saved sinner that ever has or ever will live
    B. give saint constant over
    C. meet and cope with all the , heartaches, difficulties, , testings, and of human existence
  4. God’s salvation is proof, proof, , -. It is equal to every emergency, for it from the of an infinite God freely bestowed and righteously given through the sacrifice of our Lord on the Cross. Salvation is all of . Trust God’s . It is super abounding .
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Jesus of Nazareth, Who Is He?

  1. The word “only begotten” does not only mean that our Lord was the only Son of God, but that He as the is alone of His kind, , begotten of God through eternal generation. He is the image of God in the sense that He is a derived of God the Father, - eternally with Him, possessing the same essence, Himself.
  2. The word declares the absolute - of the Son. He existed any created thing was brought into existence. Therefore He is not created, and being , He is .
  3. Our Lord was the of the created universe in that He was its . Thus the Greek word translated “” implies here “priority to all creation.”
  4. Jesus of Nazareth, the Galilean , the , the of publicans and sinners, is the image of God, a derived copy by eternal generation of God the Father, the of the universe and its Lord.
  5. God in His love to those who would come to Him in faith to appropriate salvation. So He in the Person of His Son, Jesus of Nazareth, stepped down from His throne to take upon Himself at Calvary your and mine, your and mine.
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The Exegesis of God

  1. Our Lord never to be God’s only begotten Son. He was His Son. He possesses the same essence as God the Father, and therefore He can in His fully God.
  2. Exegesis is the method of Bible study in which we fully every of the text. Jesus Christ has in His incarnation, fully in finite terms so far as finite minds can grasp, the of the Person of God the Father.
  3. Jesus Christ is the of God.
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Two Obsolete Words

  1. The saints who are alive when our Lord comes, will not precede the saints who died previous to the Rapture, in receiving their glorified bodies, for the in Christ shall take the , being glorified .
  2. The Holy Spirit will evil until He “become out of the midst,” that is, go out of the midst of humanity. And when goes back to heaven, the will go with Him, for He has taken up His permanent abode in them.
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Praying Without Ceasing

  1. There are two words for “” in Greek, one which refers to an unceremonious , the other to a polite . The latter is used in 7:7-8.
  2. The Scriptures teach that if we do not receive answers to prayers at once, we should in until we do, or until God shows us that the petition is not according to His will.
  3. In the case of some prayers, it takes God to answer the petition.
  4. While Christians keep on praying, God on in our behalf.
  5. Believers have no right to of God that He answer our prayer, but we may keep on reverently with the hand of faith.
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The Road to Heaven

  1. Our Lord is the literal which a sinner must take if he is to reach , and Jesus thus becomes the by which he is .
  2. The road is a freshly slain road. This freshly slain road which is and , an effective to God, namely Jesus Christ who is that road by virtue of His outpoured blood on Calvary’s Cross.
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The Other Comforter

  1. The word “comforter” is from a Greek word which means literally “to call .”
  2. A Christian is not under the law but under . Therefore, the word in John 14:16-17 merely means “one called in to help another.”
  3. The Holy Spirit is a Helper of the kind as Jesus. The Holy Spirit is a divine Person just like our Lord and has the same and .
  4. Our great Helper, the One Jesus called to the aid of the believer when He left this earth, has taken up His permanent in our to stand by, ready to render instant help at any time. He comes to the help of the saint when that saint expresses a for that help and Him to render that help.
  5. The Holy Spirit is constantly working in and for the believer who is with the . Only in that way can He give us . The Holy Spirit is God’s provision for a life to Him.
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A Parable

  1. A parable is an thrown alongside of a truth in order to explain it.
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Defending the Faith

  1. We are to set Him apart in our hearts as the alone of . We set ourselves apart to His and . Thus we acquire a like His. This results in a holy separated Christ- Spirit- life. This is the best of the saints against becoming entangled in false teaching.
  2. Christians are exhorted to present a defense for the Bible.
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Two Kinds of Power

  1. A sinner who Jesus Christ as Saviour, is given the legal to become a child of God. He becomes a child of God through .
  2. In regeneration, God is extending mercy to a sinner who has His laws. of laws incurs a penalty. demands that the penalty be paid.
  3. Jesus Christ the of the broken law in the sinner’s stead. Justice is . If the sinner desires mercy from God, he must the of the by Jesus Christ before he can be a recipient of that mercy.
  4. The is God’s spiritual which breaks the granite-like heart of the sinner into rock dust, pulverizing it so that it becomes rich soil in which the seed of the Word finds root and grows. The gospel is the most thing in all the world. When it is unloosed in the Spirit-empowering preaching of the Word, are .
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Since or When Ye Believed?

  1. The of the Holy Spirit occurs at the instant as the act of in the Lord Jesus as Saviour.
  2. The coming of the Spirit to indwell a believer is always in this age in to that person’s in the Lord Jesus as Saviour.
  3. The teaching that the Holy Spirit does not indwell a believer until he comes to a certain state of holiness, is most . It that Christian of the of the Holy Spirit in his life.
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The Spirit's Ministry in Prayer

  1. The Holy Spirit lends a hand together with us as we are . It is not that He helps us our weaknesses, but He our weaknesses.
  2. To be specific in our praying involves a of God’s in particular instances, and of that we are naturally ignorant. It is right here that the comes to our aid.
  3. God brings His plans to fruition through the of the . In order for believers to pray according to the will of God, we must be so to the control of the that He can bring into our prayer ministry, the things which God is planning to accomplish. In order to pray aright, we must be with the .
  4. If Christians expect to have an , powerful, prayer life, we must live Spirit controlled lives.
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God’s Emancipation Proclamation

  1. The Greek word for “lust” refers simply to a , and has a preposition prefixed which intensifies the meaning, thus, a . The context rules as to whether it is an or a desire.
  2. Our members, namely, our , hands, , mind, are which either Satan or God may use.
  3. Christians are to put ourselves and our members at the of once and for all. We are bought with a , and we are not our own.
  4. In Romans 6:14 believers have the promise, that having put ourselves at God’s service, sin shall no longer have lordship over us. This is God’s proclamation.
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Divine Wood Cutters

  1. Paul says that the limitation and handicaps he was facing are God’s wood cutters making a road for the of the .
  2. The things that hedge believers in, the things that us, the that we go through and the that assail us draw us closer to the Lord so that the testimony of our lives will count more for God, and thus we become more efficient in proclaiming the gospel.
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The Devil and His Demons

  1. The angel who as regent of God fell from his high position through sin and today is god of this world.
  2. There is one and many . We must be careful to between them.
  3. Where the word is found in the , as “devils,” always translate by the word “,” for the word “daimonion (δαιμονιον)” is in the Greek.
  4. Where you have the word “devil” in a passage that speaks of a person with a devil, always translate by the word “.”
  5. Where the king of the demons is in view, that awful personality known as Satan, translate by the word “.”
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Fellowship with Jesus

  1. Peter refuses to allow the Lord to his , but upon being told that if he does not permit the Lord to do that for him, he will have fellowship with Jesus, he asks that the Lord wash his hands and his head.
  2. Every believer has been completely from his sins in the precious blood of Jesus and for at Calvary. This is his before God, guiltless, sinless, righteous. That position is , as changeless as our unchanging Lord.
  3. When sin enters, our walk is and needs to be cleansed. Known sin in the life that is held to and cherished, our with Him. The only way to regain that blessed privilege of fellowship is to our (I John 1:9), and God will us and to us that communion with our Lord which we enjoyed before.
  4. If believers speak the same thing about our sin to God that He does to us, that is . That includes for sin because it is evil, of the sin, and the away of the same with the determination never to do that thing again.
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About Trances

  1. John literally “became in the .” That is, he entered into a new kind of experience relative to the control over him.
  2. The experience which John and Peter went through was that of being so absolutely controlled by the Holy Spirit, that their physical senses of , hearing, , were not registered so far as any recognized impressions were concerned. It was as if they were temporarily of their .
  3. The to the saints with the last book in the Bible. that God has for us is in the books from Genesis to the Revelation. further revelations are being made. The Holy Spirit now sacred page of for our understanding.
  4. Satan in these last days is these Holy Spirit given with disastrous results to those who lend themselves unwittingly to his control.
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Unfeigned Love

  1. And for the highest kind of blessing, is necessary, for “we must bleed if we would bless.” This is the love God, not love God, but the love which God and which He through the operation of the Holy Spirit as the believer depends upon His ministry.
  2. Do not try to this by seeming to love a Christian brother and yet not be willing to put that love into action.
  3. The Spirit-filled saint does not have to play the in the matter of love, for love right out of his eyes. It is on his , in his .
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Base Things

  1. In I Corinthians 1:26 Paul tells us that God does not call many unto salvation. The word “” here does not refer to nobility of character, but to nobility of birth.
  2. The idea therefore is that the great of those who are saved come from that section of the human race called “the people.” And yet, the great heart of God pulsates with infinite for the also.
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The Names, Christ and Jesus

  1. Transliteration means the act of bringing a word from one language into another in its , whereas by translation we refer to the of the word being taken over into the second language.
  2. Paul was announcing Jesus of Nazareth as . The Jews had tried to stone our Lord for claiming to be the unique of .
  3. Our Lord was the Son of God in a way from that of any other person. A believer is a son of God like other believers. But our Lord’s sonship was . The Jews at once recognized it as a claim to joint in the divine of the Father. Thus, Jesus of Nazareth is the of .
  4. The name “Jesus” speaks of our Lord as the , the One who shed His precious blood on Calvary’s Cross for lost sinners, while the name “Christ” speaks of Him in a context of Israel, as Messiah. Where the two names appear together they refer to Him as the of , the Saviour. The name “,” refers to Him in His relation to the Church, its Head.
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A Castaway

  1. Salvation is a gift with no strings tied to it. It was made possible by the infinite that was at the Cross. are earned by service.
  2. Paul was careful lest that should not meet the requirements of His Lord and that therefore he be disapproved, not as a Christian, for salvation is not in view here, but as an , for his was the thing that was being in God’s balances.
  3. Paul his Lord with an intense lest he be disqualified, forbidden to exercise his ministry.
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The Grace of Giving

  1. Those who are instructed in the Word, have the of making the teacher’s needs his own. That is, in the case of a God-called servant of the Lord who devotes his full time to the Lord’s work, those who regularly are of his ministry are to make it their business to see that he is taken of , so that he might be able to give of his best to the Lord’s work.
  2. Paul thanks God for their joint in the of the from the first day when Lydia, the purple dye seller, opened her home as a meeting place where Paul could preach the Word until that present moment.
  3. The grace of is one of the necessary of Christian character. God cannot afford to lavish his gifts upon the Christian, for he would only squander them upon his own desires.
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The Intense Life

  1. Today the word “study” refers to the mental effort put forth in an attempt to to one’s store of and one’s ability to that in an effective way. When we use the word “,” we think of school, the class room, the teacher, and books.
  2. The Christian life is a matter of reckoning ourselves dead to sin and to , of presenting our members as instruments of to God. It is a life of upon God, of God the Holy Spirit to produce in and through us a Christlike life.
  3. The living of a Christian life is an matter. One must with of will to live the highest type of Christian life. The Christian must do his best to a life to his Lord.
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A Perfect Salvation

  1. The priests in the tabernacle always when ministering in the sacrifices. But our great High Priest is . His work is . He need arise and offer another sacrifice.
  2. A Christian was given a perfect salvation in past time he , and as a result of that past completed work of Jesus Christ on the Cross and his past acceptance of the same, he at is a person.
  3. The of an individual, past or present, do not enter into his acceptance or retention of salvation. Salvation is the alone work of . The is the recipient.
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