Who was the Apostle referring to when in 1 Cor 3:13-15 he states: “Each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it (the one true foundation) endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet…
Continued from our previous post. It is apparent that some fell to produce the fruits necessary in order to make their calling and election sure because they fell to abide in the Lord, rather they allow the cares of this world, jobs, family, friends, ambitions and etc. to draw them away, and so in essence they cut themselves off from the vine, from membership in the Body of Christ, the “Royal Priesthood”. But what happens to such, what does it…
In the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (Matt 25) our Lord mentions that both the wise AND the foolish were considered “virgins” what does this imply, what makes them all virgins? They are virgins in that they have been sanctified by God, made holy and acceptable to Him through the imputation of the merit of Christ’s righteousness which followed their consecration, thus covered with the robe of Christ’s righteousness they are pure ones (pure in heart) in harmony…
Who specifically was the Apostle referring to here (beside himself), when speaking of being a “castaway” (1 Cor 9:27)? I believe the answer to the first part of this question is found in the Apostles opening address to this Epistle. “To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours”….
Thus far we believe we have established, 1) that the typical Levites represented a class of individuals separate and distinct from the rest of the world, separated (i.e., sanctified, set apart) by God, and 2) that unlike the rest of mankind they are to receive no inheritance in the land, (that is they shall not participate in the restoration and/or restitution processes), but rather theirs is to be a heavenly inheritance, and 3) that this particular class is composed of…
In Exodus Chapter 12 we read of the institution of the Passover. “The term Passover signifies to pass by or spare from an affliction. When the last plague was visited upon Egypt, the houses of the Israelite’s were all marked with the blood of a slain lamb, that the destroying angel might not cut off the first born of Israel with the first born of Egypt. “Consecrate to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of…
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees (Doctors of the Law then, now days referred to as Doctors of Divinity), you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven (the spiritual or heavenly phase of the kingdom) in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.” Matt 23:13 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge (the truth on the way entry into the heavenly…
Once again returning to our previous questions in regards to Armageddon. Although we are certain that many shall perish during the final climatic struggle between the old order and the new thankfully the Scriptures assure us that none of these shall see Second Death that is until first, they will have “tasted of the good word of God (the truth in its purity), and of the power of the age to come (the power of the resurrection, of divine aid…
“What the Apostle calls the just and the unjust, our Lord in our text calls the good and the evil. That neither the Lord nor the Apostle meant to intimate that any of mankind are good, perfect in the absolute sense, is most evident from the trend of the Scriptures, which assure us in various forms that the whole race is fallen, that “there is none righteous, no not one.” The good then of our Lord’s statement, the just of…