Although many believers attend Bible studies for purposes of doctrinal instruction, encouragement, fellowship, and sharing Christian experiences, the manner in which these benefits of worshiping together are applied in one’s daily conduct and activities determines the fruitage, as well as Christlike character. “Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you” (Philippians 4:9).
THE subject of this lesson is one worthy of the most careful and prayerful consideration of every child of God, and especially of all those who are in any way tempted to ambition and rivalry or vain glory in the Lord's service. While the humility of the Lord's apostles is very marked in their subsequent career, in the beginning of their course they were all to some extent influenced by old ideas which it was the object of Christ's teaching gradually to eradicate.
The more enlightened we become in regard to God's plan of the ages, the more fully we can understand the wonderful love of God manifested in the gift of Jesus Christ. God does nothing without a reason, and only as we understand the reason can we rightly value what He does. So we come nearer to the true estimate of the blood of Christ as we understand why he shed His blood and the nature of the results to be obtained.
R3987 A LESSON ON DIVINE PROVIDENCE EXODUS 2:1-15 Golden Text:—”And Moses was learned in all the wisdomof the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and indeeds.”—Acts 7:22 . OF the greatness of Moses the renowned Gladstone said:— “We have in the history of Moses a great and powerful genius, an organizing, constructing mind. Moses belongs to the
R3149 THE APOSTLE PETER’S EXHORTATION. “Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the endfor the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of JesusChrist; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to theformer lusts in your ignorance; but as he who hath called youis holy,
JOHN 18:1-27 Golden Text:—”Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men.”—Matt. 17:22 . TODAY’S lesson constitutes one of the saddest chapters in history. It reveals to us the depths of human ingratitude, selfishness, weakness, and fear to a remarkable degree. Nevertheless, it is a most helpful lesson to those who
I SAMUEL 17:38-49 Golden Text:—”In the Lord put I my trust.”—Psalm 11:1 . NOT long after David’s anointing he became the hero of a most remarkable battle. The Philistines, residing on the seashore of Palestine, were the enemies of the Israelites from earliest times, and, as we have already seen, they held mastery over them at the
Mark 5:1 MKJV And they came over to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. They came to the eastern shore, but not even there was the Lord destined to find peace or rest. Into the country of the Gerasenes. Matthew in the parallel account says Gadarenes. The explanation is easy. Gerasa,
Mar 7:1 MKJV And the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. Having come from Jerusalem: This was another “official delegation” of religious leaders from Jerusalem, coming to evaluate the ministry of Jesus. We saw a previous delegation in Mar_3:22, and they pronounced a harsh, condemning judgment against Jesus. This
Mark Chapter 6 Mar 6:1 KJV And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. Our Lord now left the neighbourhood of Capernaum, and came into his own country, the district of Nazareth, where he had been, not born indeed, but brought up, and where his kinsfolk after the
The more enlightened we become in regard to God’s plan of the ages, the more fully we can understand the wonderful love of God manifested in the gift of Jesus Christ. God does nothing without a reason, and only as we understand the reason can we rightly value what He does. So we come nearer to
The Apostle goes on to say, Ye are God’s workmanship; “it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” We could not do this work ourselves. The power that is working in us is of God.
1Th 3:1 KJV Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; 1Th 3:2 KJV And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 1Th 3:1 Weymouth So when
