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The Melchizedek Priesthood
An edited transcript
"I want to begin to look at the expression of the priesthood in the future. There is clearly an Ezekiel temple. In Ezekiel 40 and from there on, it talks about the configuration of such a temple, its lineaments and its proportions. It is given in such remarkable detail that it is hard to imagine it being just an allegory. Surely it must be something actual and that will exist in the redeemed Israel. Some believers have a difficulty with that because it talks about the restoration of sacrifices performed by priests.

"Just as the history of sacrifice prepared Israel for the Lamb that would come without spot or blemish, and whose blood would be shed as a once-and-for-all, it is quite possible that a sacrificial ministry would be resumed in the millennial Israel, not to replace that sacrifice of the Lamb, but to be a memorial and reminder, to bring us back to a deepened appreciation of what has been given. It cannot be a substitute, and will detract nothing from the efficacy of the Lamb’s sacrifice, but rather enhance it."
Art Katz

1.Grace as a Ground of Confidence and Assurance
2.Grace in Conduct
3.Grace in Character
4.The Source of All Grace

"It is when faith is tried, when circumstances are difficult—they speak evil against you falsely, and other things are present which create a set of difficult circumstances—when you are suffering for conscience' sake, and when you are assaulted by the enemy who goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (v. 8); then remember that the God of all grace called you, and so there is grace for everything, for all situations and all demands. It seems as though 1:2 is the spring, then there is the stream breaking out in its varied applications and meanings and values, and then it seems as though all converge into the sea—the God of all grace; the spring, the distribution over the whole land to meet every situation, and then the coming back and flowing into the great ocean—the God of all grace for all situations."
T.A-S.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - The Bond-Servant
Chapter 2 - The Servant Spirit and the Servant Mind
The Servant Spirit and the Servant Mind
Chapter 3 - The Wise Master-Builder
Chapter 4 - The Gospel of the Wise Master-Builder
The Nature of the Gospel of the Wise Master-Builder
An Adequate Setting and Motive
An Adequate Dynamic
Chapter 5 - The Servant in Whom God Delights
The Cause of Failure is Idolatry; What is Idolatry?
Worldliness is Idolatry?
The Servant in whom the Lord Delights.
Blinded and Deafened by Devotion.
A Whole Burnt Offering.
Chapter 6 - The Service of the Lord
Hindrances in Service
“But Satan Hindered” (?)
Satan Buffeted
Satan Traduced
Rewards of Service
Reproach for Christ was His Present Riches
The Vital “How” and “What”

These revisions do not change the text of the infallible Scripture; rather, they reverse myths and falsehoods from non-canonical works like the books of Jasher and Jubilees. Likewise, Woodward reiterates the corruptions from second-century rabbis who altered Messianic passages and the chronologies of Genesis 5 and 11, addressing problems posed when secular and sacred histories are compared.Woodward reprises the evidence for the accuracy and authenticity of the Septuagint's timeline in Part 2. But Part 2 goes well beyond Part 1, walking the reader through the ancient accounts in Genesis 1-11, explaining how these familiar stories should be understood. What is the underlying problem? The LXX adds back 1,500 years taken out of the chronology of the MT used in our Protestant Bibles. Some Examples: Adam and Eve were created in 5500 B.C. (and not 4000 B.C.), the Flood of Noah happened 1,000 years earlier than the Protestant Bible says (circa 3360 B.C. instead of 2348 B.C.), the Tower of Babel 900 years earlier (circa 3100 B.C. instead of 2200 B.C.) and why Nimrod's father, not Nimrod, led the rebellion at Babel. Fixing these issues in the MT rightly aligns the Bible with secular archeology from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and resolves some of the most difficult challenges surfaced by secular science.

“In Part 2 of Rebooting the Bible, to his credit, Doug doesn’t shy away from the weird parts of the Torah either—Nimrod, Noah, and the “sons of God” from Genesis 6:1-4, progenitors of the monstrous, giant Nephilim—are all considered and addressed with scholarly analysis. And for an encore, he tackles how to reconcile alternate history, made familiar in best-selling books, YouTube, and the History Channel, with Genesis Chapter 1.” -- From the Foreword by Derek P. Gilbert, Host, SkyWatchTV and a View from the Bunker.

1. The Time and the Instrument
2. “Such a Time as This”
3. The Nature of God’s Instrument to Meet the Situation
4. “Thou and This”
5. The Grace of God in the Instrument
6. The Life of God in the Instrument

It is impressive to realise what a large place the Lord gives to the ear, and how much Scripture is occupied with hearing; and, as we put the various Scriptures together, we come to find that the matter of hearing, or of the ear, goes right to the root of the spiritual life. It was by capturing the ear of Eve that all sin was introduced into the human race. She consented to listen, she lent her ear when the adversary, Satan, said, "Hath God said...?". That was the beginning of all spiritual evil among men, and since then Satan has ever sought to propagate his kingdom by getting the ear, by securing a consent to listen. It was in exactly the same way that he went to the Lord Jesus in the days of His fast in the wilderness, saying, "If thou be the Son of God..." There is something in that very much akin to "Hath God said...?", because it was only a short time previously that God had said, "This is my beloved Son". But the last Adam refused to listen; He closed His ear. He would not consent to entertain the suggestion or the insinuation, and, by His persistent refusal to give ear to the adversary, redemption was accomplished. All the mischief of the first failure in that very respect was overcome.

When we come to the book of the Revelation, we find that it is to the ear that the appeal is made. It is the time of consummations. The first chapters have to do with things that must be listened to as from the Lord; the last chapters see the result of that work of the Spirit-life in fulness; the same principles as in Genesis. It is the question of life in fulness, lost by lending an ear to Satan, gained by listening to what the Spirit saith.

T. Austin-Sparks

This book originally appeared as a series of messages in A Witness and A Testimony Magazine in 1928 and 1929 (Vols. 5-8 through 6-1), but was subsequently published as a book. This version is from Emmanuel Church. The scientific references are obviously outdated, but the spiritual value is not diminished.

The Theme is "The Holy Spirit and the Cross, the Church, and the Coming Again of the Lord." As to the first part, the Holy Spirit and the Cross, we can see that the one great and inclusive question in view was, and is, the securing of God's rights in the universe for Him. God, as the Supreme and Sole Object of all worship or worth-ship; the breaking in before this world was created of another will and thought, to divide that worship, to rob God of it, a disputing of God's sole right in the universe; an uprising to ascend into the heavens above the clouds to be equal with the Most High on the part of one, Lucifer; bringing about his downfall and the casting out of heaven of a company of "angels which kept not, their first estate," and who are now, we are told, "reserved in everlasting chains," in chains unto everlasting perdition and darkness: the reappearing of that one upon this earth, and assailing the citadel of God in the soul of man, and therefore dividing the rights of God, the worship of God, and securing recognition, acknowledgment, obedience, thus worship. Then right down through the ages, the two Gods, the true God and the god of this world - the false god; the two worships; the worship of God and the worship of this other, in many forms, by many systems, in divers manners, but always the one thing behind to take away from God, to divide the rights with God. It does not matter how it is done, it will be done always in the way which is most calculated to succeed.

1. Calvary was victory
2. Imprisonment Meant Liberty
3. The Sentence of Death
4. Spiritual Service
5. In the Train of His Triumph

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me’” (John 14:6).

“Saul… went to the high priest, and asked letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, whether men or
women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem” (Acts 9:1-2).

“Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, ‘These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation’” (Acts 16:17).

“But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples” (Acts 19:9).

“About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way” (Acts 19:23).

“And I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons” (Acts 22:4).

“But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers” (Acts 24:14).

“But Felix, having a more exact knowledge about the Way, put them off” (Acts 24:22).

The Lord Jesus said of Himself that He was the Way. Almost immediately after He had gone back to heaven and the events of the day of Pentecost had inaugurated the new era, Christianity became known as "The Way". Christ, Who always had to speak in a kind of parabolic way without giving explanations because the Holy Spirit had not yet come as the Interpreter, meant that He was the Pathway. Just simply, undefined, unexplained, He was the Pathway. Christianity took that up, but by the Holy Spirit embodied all that Christ meant by that, but did not explain. Christianity became the fulness of the meaning of Christ as the Way. These two aspects, then, Christ’s own simple statement as to Himself, and Christianity becoming the full expression of what He meant, just resolves itself into several quite simple, but quite important things: firstly, what the Way is; secondly, what Christ meant as to Himself, and thirdly, what Christianity was at the beginning, and was always intended to be. Those things will be the ground of our consideration and enlargement at this time.
T.A-S.

"The book of Job occupies a very peculiar place in the volume of God. It possesses character entirely its own, and teaches lessons which are not to be learnt in any other section of inspiration. It is not by any means our purpose to enter upon a line of argument to prove the genuineness, or establish the fact of the Divine inspiration, of this precious book. We take these things for granted; being fully persuaded of them as established facts, we leave the proofs to abler hands. We receive the book of Job as part of the Holy Scriptures given of God for the profit and blessing of His people. We need no proofs of this for ourselves, nor do we attempt to offer any to our reader." C.H.M.

"In all this Hezekiah teaches us a most salutary lesson. In the experience and actings of Christians, everything depends upon the place which God occupies in the heart; in other words, there is a strong moral link between our estimate of God, and our conduct; if our thoughts of God are low, low will be our standard of Christian walk; if high, on the contrary, the result will be accordingly."

The fact is that the Lord must have us always going on. We are pilgrims and strangers, which means that we shall never come to finality here on this earth. If we are disappointed with what we thought would be the perfect thing, just remember that the Lord is calling us on to go on to something better.

Genesis 3:15. "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; He shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (I need not remind you that that was addressed to the serpent.)

Revelation 17:14. .”..and they also shall overcome that are with him..."

"That which I believe the Lord has laid on my heart very definitely and strongly for this season of our gathering together is what is represented by those passages, and many others, namely: The Battle for the Throne."
T. Austin-Sparks

That is the genius of David, of what is Davidic, and why he is beloved of the Father. The depth of this Psalm, the cry of it, that such a man – the sweet singer of Israel who faced Goliath single-handedly with a sling and stones, the one who brought the Ark of God to Jerusalem with sacrifice, worship and dancing – should fall shamefully into adultery and murder. He was the greatest of Israel’s kings, and the one whose name the Father is not ashamed to ascribe even to Jesus as the ‘greater David’. It is staggering to contemplate that this man should fall into the most horrible conjunction of sins, the one hand-in-hand with the other – this giant, this holy man, this lover of God, who stood for the honor of God, who would not allow that the armies of God be defamed and mocked by a pagan, a Philistine.

"If it is true that all the distress, disruption, discord, and misery through the ages is to be attributed to this divided worship, then the new creation, the new and joyous order prophesied in the Scriptures, will come about, or will be realized, on the sole basis of God being 'all in all.' This has its rise in every individual in whom divided allegiance is ended. It takes its larger and corporate form in the Church 'which he purchased [for this purpose] with his own blood.' This, again, is the motive and dynamic of every Holy Spirit-initiated and energized movement of the Evangel and it gives meaning to all His urges to holy living, loving fellowship, patient enduring, and spiritual warfare.

Reading: 2 Cor. 4:1-7

The first verse contains the little clause upon which everything in this letter hangs, "Therefore, seeing we have this ministry" - "This ministry." — We recognize that this letter is being written to the believers at Corinth, and one of the features of this letter, and the letters of Paul in general, is the way in which he unites those to whom he writes with himself, and himself with them, and makes it one matter. He is not saying, "Therefore, seeing I have this ministry." He is saying, we have this ministry, and if we just look back and on we will see how he brings them into oneness with himself. It is one of his great principles. It is basic to what the apostle is seeking to do, because these Corinthians had challenged him very seriously and raised many questions about him, some disputing his apostleship, and he has met with a good deal of suspicion and doubt and opposition. He is a man in the presence of people in the church who do not like him, and who do not want him, and who would rule him out and would prefer others to him, and he has to meet a difficulty like that. The difficulty that many ministers have had to meet. How are you going to meet people in the church who really do not like you, and do not want you, and are saying all kinds of things about you that are unworthy? An expression of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit is that He unites Himself to them and involves them in his own position and involves himself in theirs and deals with it as a common thing. Paul comes right down to them and speaks to them as though they were all facing common difficulties.

And so he says, "We have this ministry." Why I mention this is that we shall all recognize that we have this ministry. This does not belong to a certain set called "ministers" or "missionaries" in any official sense. It is the ministry of every child of God. It has its intensified forms in those who are separated unto the gospel in a special way, but we all have it. We are not thinking of "ministry" as some detached and hedged-around thing belonging to a certain class of people, but it is the whole house of God and the whole body of Christ. It is the ministry of every member, and every one of us in the ministry, and therefore these words apply to you in a very definite way. We have this ministry.

The alterations sought to obscure the Messianic prophecies – concealing the case they set forth that Jesus of Nazareth is the Jewish Messiah. In addition, this provocative book presents extensive evidence that this conspiracy cut out 1,600 years from biblical chronology, thereby compressing crucial events in Genesis (e.g., the Flood and the Tower of Babel) into a much-reduced timeframe harming the Bible’s witness regarding the ancient history of the world. Its in-depth research identifies surprising yet substantiated dates for the birth of Abraham, the duration of the Egyptian enslavement, the timing of the Exodus, the Conquest of Canaan, the obscure period of the Judges, and the completion of Solomon’s Temple. In so doing, Rebooting the Bible, identifies a much earlier timeline for these foundational events revealing the correct dates the untainted Bible reveals. The book explains how the Greek Old Testament was created in Alexandria, Egypt from 280 BC to 130 BC, and why it consistently provides a more authentic rendering of the original Hebrew Bible (the “autographs”) than the Hebrew Bible of today. Because the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) as well as the Protestant Bibles (e.g., the King James Bible, the New International Version, New American Standard Version, etc.) are based on the Masoretic Text behind the Hebrew Bible, the power of the original prophecies as presented in the Old Testament have been compromised. Rebooting the Bible makes the case for why the Protestant and Catholic Church must include readings from the Septuagint to rediscover the original wording of the Bible. Finally, Rebooting the Bible supports the position that Egyptology and Mesopotamian Archeology can be better reconciled with the biblical text of the Septuagint, overcoming typical objections to its truth, strengthening the case for the Christian faith, and establishing the inspiration of the Bible.

1. The Overcomer in a Time of Death
2. The Battle with Worldliness
3. The Antagonism of the World to the Anointed One
4. The Significance of the Anointing
5. The Overcomer - One who has Proved God
6. The Overcomer’s Weapons
7. The Path of the Overcomer - The Path of Suffering

In the first of the above passages of Scripture we are told that there is already secured unto us a tremendous inheritance. "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?" In giving us His Son, He gives us all things; they are ours. The Apostle says, "All things are yours"; they are yours, they belong to you. And yet we find him in this state, caught up in this sense of tremendous prospect and possibility, of the greatness of what is yet for the Lord's people beyond all his own vast apprehension and attainment; giving him this sense, that, though he had come into such wealth and such fulness, it was nothing compared with what he knew was his in Christ, and which was yet to become his in experience. So we have already secured unto us a great inheritance.
T. Austin-Sparks

The Zeal of the Lord, or The Way to Heavenly Fulness. Heavenly fulness in a very real and special way is set before us in the life of Elisha. This fact will impress us every time we read that life, or anything in connection with it. From beginning to end, wherever Elisha is seen to come into a situation, the result is fulness, living fulness, fulness of life. That fulness is heavenly fulness because it came out from heaven, had its rise in heaven. It was when Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, and his mantle fell upon Elisha, that Elisha’s real life and ministry commenced. So that it was a heavenly fulness, and it is of this that his life speaks to us.

Elisha, then, was the outcome and fulness of Elijah. Elijah laid the foundation and provided the ground for Elisha’s ministry, and in spiritual things Elijah indicates, therefore, the way, the basis, the foundation of heavenly fulness. Elisha required Elijah. In a very real sense he sprang out of Elijah. But Elijah also needed Elisha. He needed that which would be the increased expression of his own life. Here you have part and counterpart. Here you have the ground or foundation, and the superstructure. Here you have the seed, and fruit, and fullgrown tree. You need to know the nature of the seed, to know exactly what it is you are planting or sowing, and it is likewise important to recognize what Elijah stands for, in order that you may get the Elisha result. It is very nice to take up what is presented to us of heavenly fulness in Elisha, and be drawn out to that, and to say: Well, we desire with all our hearts to have the heavenly fulness, the resurrection life, the power of His resurrection as brought out by Elisha; but it is quite impossible for us to enter to that, to know anything about the heavenly fulness, unless we stand upon the Elijah ground which provides for it.
T. A-S.

Legality and Levity
"Feeling, as we trust we do, in some little measure our responsibility to the souls of our readers, as well as to the truth of God, we desire to offer a brief but pointed word of warning against two opposite evils which we can plainly see working among Christians at the present moment. These are legality on the one hand, and levity on the other."

The Throne and the Altar
Isaiah 6: 1-8
"In this sublime passage of Scripture we notice two prominent objects, namely, the throne and the altar; and, moreover, we perceive the action of these two objects upon the soul of the prophet. The entire scene is full of interest and instruction. May we gaze upon it aright!"

C H M

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Morning Star
Chapter 2: The Interval Between the Morning Star and the Sun of Righteousness
Chapter 3: The Sun of Righteousness

"IN this paper we desire to consider, in some little detail, the scriptural instruction upon the Morning Star and the Sun of righteousness. All, we are quite sure, will admit that, inasmuch as the writers of scripture were led by the Holy Ghost to give to our Lord His several titles, not one of them can be without significance. It is therefore of the first importance that we should seek to understand them, and thus to acquire a deeper knowledge of the Lord Himself in the apprehension of the mind of the Spirit. For what is needed to establish our souls is a larger acquaintance with the thoughts of God concerning His beloved Son, and thereby to be brought into fellowship with His own heart. It is only thus indeed that we can occupy our true place in this world as His representatives while awaiting His return." E. Dennett (1831 - 1914)

Many Evangelicals hold that the Apocalypse lies just ahead. Could radical Islam be the catalyst to trigger last days’ events?

The aim of this collection of excerpts is firstly to highlight the goal of a Christian life. Unfortunately much of the Christian testimony today is centered upon religious ethics that tilt the balance towards what the Apostle Paul calls carnality. Little attention is paid to God’s ‘purpose’ for His people. Thus, many miss the trees for the forest! We live in a day when most believers don’t really have a purpose, nor do they know God’s purpose for saving them and setting them apart. God has a single purpose, not many purposes, and all roads lead to this one single purpose. Everything God plans, and everything He does leads to the fulfillment of this single, over-riding purpose. The Scriptures say, He worketh all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph.1:11b). We are not here to fulfill our own purpose; we are here to fulfill His purpose.

It is time to wake up! And if that means a rude awakening, so be it. It's time for us to get off the fence and decide if we are going to take the Word of God seriously. The warnings to the church of this generation are clearly proclaimed in this series of two messages. Expect to not only have your toes stepped on, but expect some deep and potentially painful spiritual surgery as the Word, the "sharp two-edged sword", cuts away at the soulish cancer that is leading the church into apostasy and the coming judgment and purging. 

"I was having an interesting conversation with my brother Mark before we came tonight. It’s something that traveling evangelists don’t confess to each other, but its explains why their sleep is so frequently disrupted. All the more as their message is earnest and touches heaven.

"They (evangelists) are roasted in the night hours. Sexual provocation, the enemy playing on any slight wisp of vulnerability, this stubborn thing that will not let go, this thing that polite Christianity will not discuss, this thing that we cover up and look the other way and will not bring to the light, for which reason we suffer terrible harassment, was the subject of our conversation."

God has summed up and centered all things in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. This means that Christianity is not a number of things as in themselves, such as beliefs, doctrines, dogmas, practices, forms, rites, orders, or virtues. It is not salvation, regeneration, sanctification, power, life, joy, peace, etc, as things; it is just Himself…

“How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!” (Jer. 50:23) The “Hammer of the Whole Earth,” the “Hindermost of Nations,” the “Mighty Babylon” will be destroyed in the end times (Jeremiah 50:12-13, 23, 27). Is that the future that awaits America? Have the decisions made by our government and financial leaders established a devastating destiny for America? Has the deteriorating morality of the nation sealed our fate? Will we decay from within or be destroyed from without? There are many modern-day prophetic voices such as Jonathan Cahn, the late Dumitru Duduman, and the late David Wilkinson, that proclaim our fate is sealed... America lies at the edge of oblivion. Soon we will be a desert and a wasteland. In this book, S. Douglas Woodward, a leading authority on the intersection of Bible prophecy and geopolitics, confirms the validity of the predictions. He speaks to why America is at the precipice, now ready to collapse, and will soon fulfill many Old Testament prophecies concerning the Daughter of Babylon. “For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her” (Jer. 50:9)

LOVE — THE GOVERNING FEATURE OF THE OVERCOMER
A. THE LOVE OF GOD
1. Love for the Lord
2. Self-Effacement by our Love for the Lord

Acts is pre-eminently a book of principles; and it is just here we so often go wrong in looking for the repetition of the form by which those principles were expressed; forms of expression change, but the principles abide. Though the Lord may do a fresh thing, He will not necessarily use the same form, but He will do it on the same principles; these principles are eternal, changeless; they abide forever.

We are so often wanting a repetition of Pentecost in the form it took then, of manifestations and demonstrations on the outside. The Lord will do a new thing; and things basic to His activity then will be basic to His activity always. Principles, and not forms, are the things for which we are to look.
The basis of everything at Pentecost centered in and related to one thing, the enthronement of the Lord Jesus in heaven in the full virtue of His universal triumph. So far His universal triumph has not reached its full end: "Sit thou on my right hand UNTIL..." (Ps. 110:1). He sits there in virtue of His universal triumph; and that triumph in this age is working out to its full issue; "until..."

We are going, as the Lord enables us, to meditate afresh on the Body of Christ. We know, when we want to have the larger unfoldings of this "Mystery" where to turn; we instinctively turn to the Ephesian letter. In this letter we note, first of all, the simple preliminary fact that the Church is designated "The Body of Christ," it is "the Church which is His Body." That distinguishes the Church in this letter from other designations which we find elsewhere. There is the Temple, there is the House of God, and other such-like designations, but in this letter it is particularly The Body of Christ that is basic to all that the letter unfolds, and what is contained in the letter is in line with the conception of a body. Now the word which seems to predominate through this letter in connection with that designation is the word translated "Together." It is impressive to note how frequently that word occurs. Here we are said to have been "quickened together" in Him. That does not only mean that our togetherness individually was with the Lord Jesus in His rising, but it means that we corporately were quickened, we were together quickened in Him, not only with Him but in Him corporately quickened.
T. A-S

The phrase "The inner man" is not infrequently used in the Word of God, and, as we shall see, is but one expression used in connection with a theme of extensive range. But here at once let it be seen as that which first of all discriminates between the "inner" and the "outward" man. This discrimination in the scriptures, however, is not that made by the psychologists or philosophers as such, whether they be ancient or modern, pagan or "Christian." These recognise but mind and matter: for them the "inner man" is the soul, and the "outward man" the body. Not so in the Word of God. There the "inner man" is the spirit, and the "outward man" the soul and the body, either or both. These two terms or designations are respectively synonymous with "natural man" and "spiritual man," and these two are put asunder by the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God (Hebrews 4:12). It is just as dangerous to yoke together what God puts asunder as it is to put asunder "what God hath joined together," and in this particular matter more chaos, paralysis, and defeat are due to the confusing of these two than ever we shall be able to measure in this life.

T. Austin-Sparks

This lack (of spiritual perception and discernment) is itself an indication of many things, but primarily of failure to mature or develop in spirit. In other words it implies spiritual infancy. There are very many of the Lord's children, truly born again, who, while they have become mature men and women, rich in experience so far as Christian work and works are concerned; and more or less mellowed by years, made steady by disillusionments and the vanishing of fancies, dreams, idealisms, romances, before the chilly winds of frigid facts; whose sympathies are enlarged because of an expanded knowledge of human weakness and suffering, and who, in many other ways have become good and kindly and full of that knowledge which restrains from extremes and checks preponderances, are, nevertheless, still very immature in those spiritual faculties which discriminate in things that differ.
T. A-S.

The Substance of a Lecture on Luke 12

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Cor. 4: 18

"The principles of truth laid down in Luke 12 are of the most solemn and searching character. Their practical bearing is such as to render them, in a day like the present, of the very last importance. Worldly-mindedness and carnality cannot live in the light of the truth here set forth. They are withered up by the roots. If one were asked to give a brief and comprehensive title to this most precious section of inspiration, it might be entitled “Time in the light of Eternity." The Lord evidently designed to set His disciples in the light of that world where everything is the direct opposite of that which obtains here — to bring their hearts under the holy influence of unseen things, and their lives under the power and authority of heavenly principles. Such being the faithful purpose of the Divine Teacher, He lays the solid foundation for His superstructure of doctrine with these searching words, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy." There must be no undercurrent in the soul. The deep springs of thought must be laid bare. We must allow the pure beams of heaven's light to penetrate the most profound depths of our moral being. We must not have any discrepancy between the hidden judgment of the soul and the style of our phraseology: between the bent of the life, and the profession of the lips. In a word, we specially need the grace of “an honest and a good heart," in order to profit by this wondrous compendium of practical truth." C.H.M.

While gifted minds in various periods have profoundly studied the subject, and have written upon it immortal treatises, yet even the best of these at some points are ever in need of restatement. The controversies which have raged concerning the subject have generally left some clouds of obscurity peculiar to all controversy. Language from its inherent weakness as implying too much or too little is so capable of being misunderstood, that any statement made in a given generation requires a somewhat altered phrasing for the generation following. Then the very conceptions of Scripture being often paradoxical or symbolic, carry in them meanings which lie below the surface. The most vital implications of Scripture never clearly appear except to an insight born of deep, spiritual experience; and this element is ever a variable one. To real insight the mysteries of the Divine Word increasingly become open secrets.

In what I have written I have not followed the beaten paths to construct a theory of redemption, but have sought rather by an induction from Scripture teachings to get back to the enduring realities which underlie any theory of permanent value. In the first five chapters I have sought to find the meaning of the Cross of Christ. This necessitated a clearing up of that confusion of thought so widely prevalent, as between the mere human tragedy and crime of the crucifixion, and the Divine Cross of the reconciliation; and the setting forth of the voluntariness of the death of Christ considered as a redeeming achievement, or a graciously judicial transaction, wherein that death becomes the basis of both the forgiveness and the cure of sin. In the latter five chapters I have endeavoured to state the message of the cross as concerns the following matters: individual salvation, the nature and habit of the new life, the redemption of the body, the dynamic of missionary endeavour, and the supreme adaptation of the cross to meet the soul-hunger of all men.
H.C.M.

Four breakout Christian apologists, no strangers to “fringe” topics, take a radical look at Cosmology based on new discoveries in physics and unconventional insights into the Bible. "From the unbridled quest to exploit quantum science to engaging supernatural entities ... a mind-blowing exposé of the Cosmos." Paul McGuire, The Paul McGuire Report

This book is a brief guide on how to manage worry, stress, and anxiety this fallen world hands us. It is a fact that no one is exempted from experiencing these burdens. All of us has experienced them at one point in our lives. We are not called to bear these things. The Lord offers a remedy, a miracle cure, far better than what human technology can offer. Learn and discover it in this book. This guide will discuss briefly but in a straightforward manner the reasons and effects worry has on us and how to beat it God’s way. You will soon realize that no amount of medicine and worldly security can give peace and contentment in your life; for only God can fill an empty heart. Experience God’s peace in your life like never before. Discover God’s faithfulness as He fulfills every Word and Promises He gave you and receive real happiness and peace you deserve that only God can give. Worry ends where faith in God begins!

This is not your run-of-the-mill rock-you-to-sleep bible lesson - but a terrific revelation and explanation of what is coming and how to prepare for it. The "Day of Visitation" is like a two-edged sword: for some, a great and long awaited blessing and vindication; for others, a potentially fatal and tragic judgment resulting in eternal loss of the inheritance and blessing God intended all of us to receive.

Gabrielle Paris Grant has it all in-regards to material things. The things she wants most is a Godly husband and her baby. Her and her husband Ronnie Grant is at war with each other and they are missing out on everything that is good. Gabrielle has never been in love with another man until she meets Diego Davis a handsome white man. She promised to never date a man outside of her culture. What is a woman to do when there’s temptation all over! Will she stay married or will she give into temptation? Will God save her and Ronnie’s marriage?

"That word 'ordained' is a very interesting word. It is the Greek word from which we get our English word 'horizon.' It means, basically, to set bounds or limits, to mark out a defined or determined realm. In this passage, the Man is the realm, the marked out limit, the defined sphere in which God will judge the world. It is suggestive that the phrase in the original Greek is, literally, 'IN the man.' (Compare 1 Cor. 6:2: 'if the world shall be judged IN you.') Everything is to be brought for its judgment into the realm of what this Man is. Everything and everyone will be judged according to the significance of the Man whom He has ordained."
T. Austin-Sparks

The history of the Red Planet features enchanted fiction, diabolical deception, frustrated hopes, cutting-edge science, and dark occult beliefs. Over the past half-century, this story intensified as the exploration of our planetary neighbor expanded with satellite photo-flybys and robotic science labs creeping across the Martian surface. Despite discovering Mars’ unsuitability for life of most every kind, myths continue to flourish about intelligent life once present there, channeled encounters with aliens, rapid space travel back and forth to Mars, and a massive military base some ancient alien theorists believe exists below its surface.

LOVE — THE GOVERNING FEATURE OF
THE OVERCOMER
B. LOVE OF THE BRETHREN
1. What Spirituality is Not
2. What Spirituality Is
3. The Love of Christ Shown Through Paul
4. “Love Buildeth”
5. Love — the Fruit of the Cross

1. No Knowledge Of God Outside Of Christ
2. All Need Comprehended In Christ
3. Christ: Agent, Pattern, And Goal Of Creation
4. Christ: First And Last In Redemption
5. "The Author..."
6. "...and Perfecter"
7. Christ Makes Sense Of Life
8. God Speaks To Us, And Through Us, By Life

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - The Lamb
1. The Significance of the Title
2. The Blood of the Lamb — the Essential Life-energy of Incorruptibility
3. The Book of Revelation in the Light of the Lamb
(a) The Judgment of this World
(b) The Justified
(c) The Overcomer
(d) The Beast
(e) The Marriage of the Lamb
(f) The Throne of the Lamb
(g) The Temple and Light of the City
(h) The River of Water of Life and the Lamb's Book of Life
4. The Security of the Eternal Purpose is a Lamb
Chapter 2 - God's Paschal Lamb
1. The Life of the Lord Jesus in its Connection with the Passover
2. Behold the Lamb of God!
3. The Issue of Life
4. The Blood and the Flesh of the Lamb
5. The Goal to which God is Working

Part I
1. An Abiding Antagonism and Clash between God and this World
2. An Abiding Expression of that Antagonism between that which is Spiritually Related to God and this World
3. A New Constitutional Affinity with this World is Seen to be in Man's Nature
4. A Spiritual System of Intelligence
5. Spiritual Death is the Law which Governs that Relationship
6. To Sever that Bond, to Destroy that Affinity, to Introduce a Counter Law of Gravitation, is the Essence of the Work of Christ
7. This Severance, this Introduction of the New Spiritual Law of Heavenly Gravitation, is always Marked by the most Intense Conflict at Every Stage and Point
8. The Method is that of Going into Death in Order to Destroy Death, and being in the World in Order to Overcome the World
Part II
The Effect of Christ's Presence
1. To register in an absolute and pre-eminent way that antagonism between God and this world
2. To rescue an instrument from this world
3. To destroy that law of death
4. To set up in His instrument
5. To gather out from the world spiritually a people for His coming Kingdom
6. The whole course of spiritual experience is progressive detachment from the world and attachment to Christ
7. The death, resurrection and ascension of Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit are the basic factors in this work of Christ
8. The Church is called to be the collective embodiment of all that truth

Table of Contents:
Pre-Millennial Doctrine or Waiting for the Son?
Papers on the Lord's Coming
Introductory
1. The Fact Itself
2. The Double Bearing of the Fact
3. “The Coming” and “The Day”
4. The Two Resurrections
5. The Judgment
6. The Jewish Remnant
7. Christendom
8. The Ten Virgins
9. The Talents
10. Concluding Remarks

"In a day like the present, when knowledge on every question is so widely diffused, it is most needful to press upon the conscience of the Christian reader the vast distinction between merely holding the doctrine of the Lord's second coming and actually waiting for His appearing (1 Thess. 1:10). Many, alas! hold and, it may be, eloquently preach, the doctrine of a second advent who really do not know the Person whose advent they profess to believe and preach. This evil must be faithfully pointed out and dealt with. The present is an age of knowledge — of religious knowledge; but oh! knowledge is not life, knowledge is not power — knowledge will not deliver from sin or Satan, from the world, from death, from hell. Knowledge, I mean, short of the knowledge of God in Christ. One may know a great deal of Scripture, a great deal of prophecy, a great deal of doctrine, and, all the while, be dead in trespasses and sins."
C.H.M.

In the recent book, The Heart of the Gospel, by Dr. James M. Campbell, the author has this reference to the so-called “Moral Influence View” of the atonement, as set forth by the late Prof. Geo. B. Stevens, D.D., of Yale Theological Seminary: “The main thing lacking in the view is that it does not show how the work of Christ is so related to sin as to be made effective to salvation, nor does it tap the deep fountain of motive from which the moral influence of the Saviour’s influence springs. It predicates an effect without an adequate cause.” And yet this “Moral Influence View” of the atonement is supposed by many to reduce to a minimum the difficulties in the rationale of the atonement—a conception with which the present writer finds himself unable to agree.

The question of the method of salvation deserves a better answer than is commonly given to it; and certainly an answer that does not destroy the atonement. Indeed, such an answer must be given, if the evangelical faith is to stand, if our rational hold on the grounds of salvation is to be maintained, and if we are to strengthen the faith of others. It cannot be that that Cross which is declared to be “the wisdom of God,” will not commend itself as wise in the method of its working, as well as effective in power, to a spiritually taught insight. The way of salvation must be supremely rational. Customary as it is for many to say that they have “no theory” of the atonement, yet all men who think about it at all do have some theory, whether they intelligibly define it or not. This habit of speaking of having “no theory” on the subject, while holding to the saving value in the fact of Christ’s death, is the fashion of the hour. Sometimes it would appear to be an unoffending way of bowing out of court elements embraced in a Bible view of the subject which some hesitate to acknowledge, and yet which they do not quite have the frankness to disclaim. Doubtless some are in suspense what to believe.

In the following pages I shall attempt an answer to the question, “How does the death of Christ save us?” The difficulty in the case is to show the ethical energy resident in Christ’s death as it takes effect upon us: to show how the work accomplished in the death of Christ is so related to sin—to our sin—as to become effective to our salvation: so as to engender motive and impart dynamic to ultimate holiness of life.

H.C.M.

S. Douglas Woodward tackles the turbulent and tense relationship between Russia and the US as the backdrop to Ezekiel’s famed prophecy—the “Battle of Gog and Magog.” The author argues the specter of nuclear war looms as prelude to the prophesied war when Gog gathers his great army to attack Israel. Woodward builds upon scores of timely articles composed by respected journalists and research papers written by geopolitical experts who study the Middle East, compiling their findings and documenting why a great war may explode in the days just ahead as a result of Islamic terror, Russian militarism, and failed U.S. policies toward Iran, Iraq, Israel, and most recently the fight against ISIS in Syria. Woodward challenges popular prophetic teachings arguing the next war in the Middle East is not the “Psalm 83 War,” why Russia and not Turkey will be Ezekiel’s Gog, why advances in Russian weaponry threaten the security of the United States, and how U.S. policy is at fault for today’s instability in Syria and Iraq.

Five random short poems about God

This topic is both difficult and complex in every way. It is difficult because it is unfamiliar to us and complex because it is strenuously opposed by the same powers of darkness.

It is extraordinary how naïve, ignorant and indifferent the church is toward the powers of darkness, despite the fact that this theme is absolutely foundational to the whole calling of the church! It is a perspective that pertains to the whole of reality and of what God is about. The church has characteristically majored in the minors and has ignored this major theme. All of our activity, therefore, is condemned to a certain kind of futility and fruitlessness. We dissipate our energy away and walk on a horizontal level and in an earthly way. Paul reminds us that we wrestle not against flesh and blood:
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12).

This struggle or wrestling is something that is to be entered into by the corporate activity of believers together in Christ. It is ‘our struggle.’ Who are these principalities and powers and the world forces of this darkness in the heavenly places? There is a whole realm of mystery here. The heavenlies that are referred to are not the ones that describe God’s dwelling place. There is a certain order of beings in the very atmosphere who brood over the earth, namely, the rulers or powers of the air. They are the rulers of this present world darkness. They preside in a kind of layer over the earth, and yet influence the conduct of men and the things that take place in the earth.

Art Katz

Lakita was told that she wasn’t good enough to write and to speak in front of others. She went from a Sales Associate to C.E.O. of her own company. If you believe that you aren’t good enough, then this book is for you. If you think that you have to stay where you are, then this book may not be for you. If you have given up on the miracles of God, this book is for you. If you have a mental or physical disability, this book is for you. Enjoy this personal story by Lakita T. Sharpe and be tuned in to her insights.

It is a grand thing and a source of tremendous strength to come to the same position as that of Christ as Man, where we know that boundless heavenly resources are available. I think we only come there progressively, and not all at once. We only come there by the way of discipline - discipline which takes the form of bringing us to an utter dependence but which is yet not an emptying and a breaking down as an end in itself, but one which is accompanied by that grace of God - that graciousness of God - which, when we are empty, makes His fullness to abound.

There is a positive as well as a negative side. God is no believer in negatives as being the ultimate goal; but when He breaks and when He empties, He does something on the positive side which ever causes us to marvel, and we have to say every time: Well, that was the Lord, not ourselves. We come progressively by that way of discipline to know that there are heavenly resources which far outstrip all human possibilities, and these resources are operative.

S. Douglas Woodward argues that knowing ABOUT our Bibles is almost as crucial as knowing what’s in it. A Biography of the Christian Bible is a tour-de-force, 300-page history supplying what’s best described as a “biography” of the Bible —and how to defend its authenticity and accuracy against skeptics the 21st century. It might be the most important book on the Evangelical view of the Christian Bible in a decade. Topics include: How the Bible was composed and copied; How it was transmitted through the centuries, stage-by-stage; How the Old Testament was altered by rabbis in the 2nd century A.D.; The ancient cities and historical figures that shaped the Bible’s structure; What role the Greek Septuagint plays in restoring the Old Testament text; Why today’s Bible can have imperfections and still provide God’s Word; What Bible version provides the most accurate record of its autographs; Old Testament chronology and how it differs from conventional thinking; The books “banned from the Bible” and the argument for the Apocrypha; How we know the Bible is true based on history and fulfilled prophecy; The challenges of “higher criticism” and how to defend against it; The irrefutable evidence that proves the Septuagint was the Apostle’s Bible.

THE GOSPEL OF RECONCILIATION
1. Man’s Glory
2. Man’s Doom
3. Man’s Inability to be His Own Savior
4. Reconciliation to God through Christ

1. The Cross In Its Place
2. The Cross Is The Defense Against The World

Our main difficulty in contemplating the City of God will be to get the literal and material out of mind, we are dealing pre-eminently with what is spiritual.
The City of God is not merely a place to which we are going, but is the Church of God of which we are part.
We are going to Heaven, a place; we are not going to spaceless clouds for all eternity; but in considering the City of God, the Heavenly City, the New Jerusalem, we are considering the Church, the Body of Christ; and are only dealing with the nature and characteristics of that City as related to the ultimate things. We are not now touching questions related to times and dispensations. The last thing in the Word of God is a City and everything heads up to that. He is related to the City and the City to Him.
T. A-S

Table of Contents
Chapter 3 - The Passover in Relation to Divine Purpose
1. The Passover the Beginning of Spiritual History
2. Redemption is Unto God
3. Spiritual History in the Making
Chapter 4 - The Feast of Unleavened Bread
1. An End and a Beginning
2. The Feast of Remembrance
3. Life through Death
4. The Lamb Newly Slain

Brief Messages at Sundry Times

Table of Contents
The People that do Exploits
The Three-fold Law of the Cross
1. Life through Death
2. Liberty through Surrender
3. Enlargement through Loss
Set “For a Sign”
The World Vision
Prayer:
....The only compulsion we would know is, Woe is me if I preach not the gospel. Lay upon us all the passion of the Kingdom... We would stand in Thy presence to minister life to others, to stand against the devil's work, to hold the curse of God over these works of his, to command hands off the children of God. We would stand for the Body of Christ that she be all out of this prison, all chains fallen off. And we would claim perfect protection....

Originally published by Witness and Testimony Publishers in 1927

"It has been well remarked by someone that "God, in His dealings with us, always keeps us up to the original terms." This is true; but some may not exactly understand it. It may, perhaps, savour of the legal element. To speak of God as keeping us up to certain terms may seem to militate against that free grace in which we stand, and which has reigned through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Many, we are aware, have a kind of horror of everything bordering, in the most remote way, upon the legal system; and we may say we sympathize with such."
C H M

MOST AMERICANS ARE UNAWARE THAT LIFE AS THEY KNOW IT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE—FOREVER. Europe and the U.S. have imposed economic sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion of Russian military forces into eastern Ukraine and Crimea. The Ukraine is immersed in a civil war between pro– and anti-Russian factions. Heading into its second year, the U.S. and Russia are entangled in a dangerous war of words escalating to include deployment of further American military forces in Eastern Europe. What’s more concerning: Russia has dedicated 2,000 tactical “nukes” to this arena and announced the deployment of 40 new strategic ballistic missiles capable of striking America’s homeland. Russia sees itself under attack from the U.S. on all fronts—and running out of time. Will this apprehension trigger nuclear war in Europe? Will it cause Russia to launch nuclear missiles targeting the United States? Could this happen within just a few short years? Or sooner?

I recall years ago my pastor making this challenge to us: 'If you'll commit yourself to reading the entire Notes on the Pentateuch by C.H. MacIntosh, along with  his Miscellaneous Writings, you will become a spiritual man!' I know there is more to becoming a spiritual man, but I took this as a serious challenge to my laziness and lack of a systematic study of God's word. Each morning I took my Notes on the Pentateuch to McDonald's for a breakfast of a sausage biscuit and cup of coffee. I have to admit, there were some times I was reading, but little was actually registering. I often would catch myself realizing I'd just read a whole paragraph and had no idea what I had just read. So, I'd read it again. It took a while, but I read both books cover to cover. I'm not saying I'm a spiritual man, but I am testifying I have an amazing foundation of spiritual understanding and revelation, not only of the first five books of the Bible, but of the entire Bible.

If someone had asked me in my adolescence in Brooklyn, New York, as a troubled and perplexed kid trying to make sense out of a bewildering universe, "What is your true vocation? What is it to which you think you are called?" I knew, even in my atheistic ignorance, that the real answer, if I had the courage to speak it, was, "Priest." Now I can understand better what my heart already knew about the centrality of priesthood. It is something that needs to be intuited and apprehended.

I am so happy and pleased that you have decided to pick up my book. You couldn’t have made a better decision.

We are so happy about getting married but not understanding that with marriage comes sacrifice and a lot of hard work. Think about it. Two people are coming together to make a marriage work. Two bodies; two minds; two souls. If you want a successful marriage then you have to do some individual work on your part. So, sit back and relax and I’m going to share with you my knowledge and wisdom that I’ve learned about being in a 19-year relationship. Make sure you find a place where it’s quiet so that you can relax and take this advice in. I love you. Much love and success in your new marriage - or renewed marriage if you’re just brushing up on your knowledge.

Love, Lakita T. Sharpe

What is a Christian?
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
What a Christian is Not
(1) To become a Christian is not to become 'religious', or to adopt a new 'religion'.
(2) To become a Christian is not to join an institution called 'The Church'.
(3) To become a Christian is not to become a part of a new movement.
What a Christian Is
(1) "Who art thou?" "I am Jesus."
(2) "What wilt thou have me to do, Lord?"
(3) "Christ in you".
Chapter 2
1. Something Absolutely Personal
2. Christianity - Not a Religion, but a Person

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Living "Before the Lord" and "Unto the Lord"
"Before the Lord"
"Unto the Lord"
Chapter 2 - Heart-Revelation of "the Mystery"
Two Mysteries
The Twofold Mystery of Christ
The Mystery Known Only by Revelation
The Church Heavenly and Corporate
Chapter 3 - Subjection to Christ as Head
Christ's Absolute Headship
Our Position in that Headship
Our Progress in the Position
The Practical Application of Christ's Headship
Chapter 4 - Living "In the Heavenlies"
The Limiting Effect of Things 'On the Earth'
Only Spiritual Value Counts with God
Knowledge of Christ in Heaven the Measure of Spiritual Value
Earthly Features Must Not Govern
Only Spiritual Values to Concern Us

Just how important is belief in the return of Jesus Christ to the Christian faith? Does Bible Prophecy have any relevance to the way Christians live their lives in the twenty-first century? What did Jesus mean by the coming of the Kingdom of God? Are there authentic heavenly signs of the apocalypse that can tell us when the end of the age is?

S. Douglas Woodward, best-selling author of seven books on eschatology, theology, and the religious history of America brings his acute analytical skill and decades of biblical study to the hot topic of the ‘blood moon’ prophecies. His effort brings a mature, seasoned perspective to this subject and as such, delivers an enduring classic on eschatology destined to be a cherished inspirational resource and vital prophetic reference for many years to come.

There is no phrase or formula which occurs with greater frequency in the New Testament than this, “in Christ.” It sometimes varies in translations when “by” and “through” and “with” are used, and sometimes in the original text it changes in form, e.g. “in Christ Jesus,” “in him,” etc., but in all the two hundred times of its occurrence the principle is the same. In the whole range of Christian dogma there is nothing more expensive, and yet nothing less understood and appreciated.

1. The Order of Things
2. A Priestly People
3. Grace and Glory
4. The Altar of Incense
5. The Value of Prayer
6. The Lamps — the Testimony
7. The Horns — Power and Strength
8. The Blood of the Sin Offering
9. Warfare in the Heavenlies

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:13).

"'The God of hope fill you... that ye may abound in hope!' As you know, the apostle has worked his way up to this point through a long and detailed argument. He has covered the whole course of things from Adam's first sin, tracing all its consequences and its outworkings, through all the generations up to Christ; then placing at the end of all that, the Cross of the Lord Jesus; and then, from that point, opening up an entirely new prospect and future. The Cross is the terminal point up to which everything led, and from which everything takes a new rise. Following all that history, explanation and teaching, the apostle comes at length to this all-embracing title: 'The God of Hope'."
T. Austin-Sparks

Table of Contents
Chapter 5 - The Blood of an Eternal Covenant
1. The Significance of the Numbers in the Passover Account
(a) Seven — The Seventh Day, the Seventh Month
2. The Thought of a Covenant Embodied in the Root-meaning of the Word
3. The Full Thought Underlying "Seven"
4. Man's Blessing and Acceptance Founded in God's Satisfaction in Christ
(b) Ten — The Tenth Day
(c) Fourteen — The Fourteenth Day
5. The Gift of God in the Eternal Covenant
Chapter 6 - The Cross
1. The Cross Basic to Everything
2. The Two Sides of the Cross
(a) The Objective Aspect
(b) The Subjective Aspect
3. The Cross the Zero Mark of the Old Creation
4. The Test of the Cross
5. The Need for a Positive Attitude to our High Calling

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - That Which is Born of the Spirit
Chapter 2 - The Heavens do Rule
Symbols of Spiritual Ascendancy
1. Mountains
2. Heavens
3. Angels
Chapter 3 - A Ministry from the Heavens
The Meaning of "Heavens"
Chapter 4 - Universality of the Heavens
The Universality of the New Birth
The Universality of Christ's Baptism
Maturity by Spiritual Apprehension a Secret of Power
Chapter 5 - Sovereignty
Chapter 6 - Spirituality
God's Focal-Point of Interest
What Spirituality Is
The Nature and Power of Spiritual Knowledge

"IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE that we accurately distinguish between sin in the flesh, and sin on the conscience. If we confound these two, our souls must necessarily be unhinged, and our worship marred. An attentive consideration of I John 1:8-10 will throw much light upon this subject, the understanding of which is so essential."
C H M

The topic of eschatology, or the study of last things, is as confusing as it is enthralling. Books devoted to the study of Bible prophecy often don't take into consideration that there are multiple points of view and the right one is far from obvious. In S. Douglas Woodward's first book, Are We Living in the Last Days? What Christians Believe about the Apocalypse, he identifies the primary points of debate between Christians in the 21st century. He covers the three predominant views of Protestants on each topic and encourages the reader to "think for themselves" to decide what they believe about prophecy. Over the past five years, Woodward has earned a reputation for tackling tough issues with a thoroughness to detail and pertinent documentation to convince the dubious.

I recall years ago my pastor making this challenge to us: 'If you'll commit yourself to reading the entire Notes on the Pentateuch by C.H. MacIntosh, along with  his Miscellaneous Writings, you will become a spiritual man!' I know there is more to becoming a spiritual man, but I took this as a serious challenge to my laziness and lack of a systematic study of God's word. Each morning I took my Notes on the Pentateuch and Miscellaneous Writings to McDonald's for a breakfast of a sausage biscuit and cup of coffee. I have to admit, there were some times I was reading, but little was actually registering. I often would catch myself realizing I'd just read a whole paragraph and had no idea what I had just read. So, I'd read it again. It took a while, but I read both books cover to cover. I'm not saying I'm a spiritual man, but I am testifying I have an amazing foundation of spiritual understanding and revelation, not only of the first five books of the Bible, but of the entire Bible.

"I have therefore entitled this message, Preachers of Righteousness. The thing that makes any preacher righteous is that he is not speaking his own word. The word is not his own; it is God’s, and that alone is what makes the word righteous, that the speaker refuses to speak out of his own capability and savvy. It is a phenomenon that has been so little addressed by the church. There is hardly any understanding of the dynamic of the divine things between God and man involved in true proclamation."

"Although the Bible contains so much about the warfare of God’s people, and although we as His people may have had much teaching on the subject, it would probably be true to say that we have largely failed to apply the instruction we have received—to situations, to circumstances, to happenings; and that this accounts for many of our troubles, individually and collectively. While there is much for which the enemy is not to be blamed as the first cause, but which is due rather to our own foolishness or un-guardedness — our own faults — yet there is still very much more that is attributable to his interest, to his interference, to his action. Our need today is not so much to be informed as to the reality of spiritual conflict — we know that to be a fact! — as to be more alive to the extra factor lying behind situations, the situations with which we are trying, with so little success, to cope. We try to cope with things, as though they were everything, and so often we miss their real underlying significance.
"What we need, therefore, is understanding and wisdom —for wisdom means the ability to apply knowledge —wisdom as to this whole spiritual campaign, our warfare and its principles. But let me say at once: we are not embarking upon a study of Satan, or demons, or demonology! It is a very favorite trap of the enemy to get people occupied and obsessed with himself, and, by the help of God, we are not going to fall into that. Our object is to study spiritual warfare itself, as viewed mainly from the Lord’s side." T. A-S.

In approaching this matter of the candlestick of pure gold, we do so from a more distant point. We stand back, withdrawn. I think that we are all conscious of a growing sense of need among the Lord's people for a new spiritual position. It may not be universal or general, but it is something which we are meeting a good deal in these days, and, when you come to think about it, it is a thing which marks the Word of God throughout - that is, a challenge to reach a new place. You find it in the Word, you find it in subsequent history. Even when the Lord's people are in the right way or in the right direction, this need is constantly brought before them - the urge not to stay there, not to rest there, but to move on. That is very true in a general way as to the spiritual history of the Lord's people and all the ways of the Lord with His people - constantly challenging, constantly creating a sense of need to reach some position which has not been reached, or, it may be in some cases, to recover a position from which they have receded.

But among ourselves (and when I say ourselves, I mean those of us who have been related here in this ministry, in what we have often called this testimony) this sense is growing - a sense of the need of coming to a new spiritual place. One and another has expressed that to me during these past months particularly - 'I must get to a new place with the Lord, I must somehow get to a new position.' It is expressed in different ways, but what lies behind it is this sense that we are being exercised, wrought upon, and that prevailing conditions are forcing us to this. We must somehow get to a new spiritual place. I think that many of you will find a response to that in your own hearts.

T. Austin-Sparks

Abounding in Love
First published in "A Witness and A Testimony" magazine, Jul-Aug 1948
"I Have Loved Thee"
From "The Work of the Ministry" - Volume 2
First published in "A Witness and A Testimony" magazine, May-Jun 1954

1 John 4:19 “We love because he first loved us.” (NIV) (Editor)

In the light of the Lord's coming, it is very important to be well instructed and to have all the light that the Lord can give us, but never let us think for one moment that light and truth and teaching are inevitably the building factors, for there are many people with a vast amount of truth and love who are not very large spiritually; they are very small, shrunken and closed up. It is love that builds. Moreover, it makes differences in those who exercise it, it brings them into rest.

As Christians, only a few grasp our inheritance to partake of the Divine Nature. But as persecution and hardship increase, understanding our destiny becomes indispensable. "The Revealing" teaches how we must spiritually "prep" ourselves for Christ's return. It offers an inspiring study on the amazing provision God has bestowed on His children. "The Revealing" will impact your spiritual life as few books have before.

Before we come to what may be more technical we must recognize the spiritual foundation of prayer, and that has to do with the ingredients and the sacredness of the incense which was to be burnt upon the golden altar referred to in Exodus 30, verse 34 onwards.

1. The Lord's Reaction to a Reactionary Movement
2. The Inclusive Charge "Neither hot nor cold"
3. The Challenge "I counsel thee to buy..." "Be zealous... repent..."
4. The Final Issue

Now, beloved, as you are aware, we are being led these days to consider the Cross and the Overcoming Life and one wants right at the very beginning to tell you something in order to settle you, and this is — not any one of you will ever be an overcomer. You may take that as the key to the Conference, in the sense in which for many years many of us have thought of being overcomers. Of course I know that wants a lot of explaining, but I simply say that because it is necessary to settle it once and for all that we, in ourselves, will never be overcomers, and that opens the way for the whole of this theme and its reality of meaning to come from the Lord to us. There is only one Overcomer in the universe, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and if there are ever any other overcomers, they will not be others at all, they will simply be the extension of His overcoming — the expansion of His victory. It will be by reason of that vital corporate oneness with Him which is not two lives, two distinct experiences, but which is one and the same experience shared. That is the nature of overcoming. It will simply be the impartation on His part of His own triumph, the sharing of His own victory, so that it does not become several victories, or a thousand victories, but it becomes one victory in One Body, not in a host of bodies; and in order to apprehend that truth, and the meaning and nature of that, you have to go a long way back. Not to Calvary, but much, much farther back than Calvary; you have to get right back before the world was, and there discover the secret of God's heart. The thing which was wrapped up in His own mind as His secret purpose toward which He would work through the ages, and in the fullness of times disclose, so that it no longer would be a hidden mystery, but still a mystery, though a disclosed mystery.

T. Austin-Sparks

Table of Contents
Chapter 7 - The Subjective Work of the Cross
1. The Negative and Positive Aspects
(a) The Negative Aspect
(b) The Positive Aspect
2. The Cross and the Spirit
3. The Nature of the New Creation — The Joining of the Holy Spirit with the New-born Spirit of Man
4. The Holy Spirit Brings New Faculties
Chapter 8 - The Cross in the Epistles
1. Three Observations with Regard to the Later Apostolic Times
(i) A Startling Feature
(ii) The Note of Warning
(iii) The Cross as the Remedy and Ground of Appeal
2. Romans — The Cross and the Christian's Position
3. 1 Corinthians — The Cross and the Christian's Walk
4. 2 Corinthians — The Cross and Ministry
5. Galatians — The Cross and Spiritual Fullness
6. Ephesians — The Cross and the Eternal Purpose
7. Philippians — The Cross and the Fellowship of Saints

The Man Created
The Man Ruined
The New Man Pre-figured
The New Man Provided
The New Man Tested
The New Man Proved
The New Man Perfected
The Man Installed
The New Man Related, and Corporately Expressed
The Seamless Robe and The Sovereignty Of God

“They part My garments among them, and upon My vesture do they cast lots.” Psalm 22:18 (A.R.V.).

“The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore one to another, “Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be:” that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, ‘They parted My garments among them, And upon My vesture did they cast lots.’ ” John 19:23–24.

Considering the Gospel of John, T. Austin-Sparks writes:
"Throwing a look back over this record, one thing may be taken up profitably for notice and re-emphasis. With all the beauty and wonder of what is gathered into this account, it is not possible to avoid the realization that from beginning to end the writer was up against something. Both in what he himself said about Jesus, and in all the scenes, incidents, and utterances recorded of Jesus, there is a strenuous element, which varies from controversy, reserve, antagonism, and question, to lack of capacity to appreciate, understand, or believe.

This (either positive or negative) difficulty covers the religious leaders, the people in view generally, and particularly disciples and friends. There is something to be overcome, to be broken down, or to be changed. Jesus is a mystery; that is what it amounts to. He is other, different - an enigma. He cannot be interpreted in any of the standard terms of either human nature or religion, as generally known and accepted. He is a stranger, an outsider, and the easiest thing is to be against and not with Him. Indeed, it is difficult not to be offended with Him, even in the case of the closest friends. All this in spite of the great amount said as to His love.

What, then, does it all amount to? Is there something in this which is as much the message of the book as anything particularly recorded in it? I think there is, and it is this. There are two realms which, while at times and in certain cases seeming to be nearer than at others, never do actually meet or overlap. They are two separate realms, and not two shades or degrees of one. The one never does or can fully understand, appreciate, or comprehend the other, and religion - traditional religion - gives no great advantage, if any, in this matter.
It is just the wide and unbridgeable difference between the spiritual on the one hand, and the natural - even though devoutly religious - on the other. The gap remains and that is the reason for so much of the difficulty, the trouble, the perplexity! It explains the aloneness and loneliness of Jesus. Paul drank deeply of this cup. The way of the Spirit and spirituality is a lonely way, a misunderstood way, and often an antagonized way. Adjust everything to the reason of man and the traditions of men, and this element of hard going will be eliminated. Walk by the Spirit, and you are with a minority."

Table of Contents:
Part 1
The Work of Christ as the Only Resting Place for the Conscience.
PART 2
Entire Deliverance from the Present Power of Sin.
PART 3
The Present Work of Christ for Us.
PART 4
Christ as an Object for the Heart.
PART 5
The Word of Christ as the All-Sufficient Guide for our Path.

"When once the soul has been brought to feel the reality of its condition before God, the depth of its ruin, guilt, and misery, its utter and hopeless bankruptcy, there can be no rest until the Holy Spirit reveals a full and an all-sufficient Christ to the heart. The only possible answer to our total ruin is God's perfect remedy.

"This is a very simple, but a most important truth; and we may say, with all possible assurance, the more deeply and thoroughly the reader learns it for himself the better. The true secret of peace is to get to the very end of a guilty, ruined, helpless, worthless self, and there find an all-sufficient Christ as God's provision for our very deepest need. This truly is rest — a rest which can never be disturbed. There may be sorrow, pressure, conflict, exercise of soul, heaviness through manifold temptations, ups and downs, all sorts of trials and difficulties; but we feel persuaded that when a soul is really brought by God's Spirit to see the end of self, and to rest in a full Christ, it finds a peace which can never be interrupted." C.H.M.