Roy A. Huebner I. Numbers, Days, and the Testimony “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified” (vs. 8) From this, we understand that the setting is Jerusalem, i.e., the place “where our Lord was crucified.” Spiritually,…
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Third Epistle of John
C. H. Brown, 1963 I. Introduction Reading, and introductory comments. There are some rather dark things in this little epistle. Some gross failure on the part of Diotrephes, and yet the Apostle John, the dear aged servant of the Lord, uses the lovely word, “beloved.” It is a wonderful thing to belong to the beloved…
Light and Darkness: God’s Sovereignty and our Responsibility
J. Brereton I. Genesis 2:8-9 and 3:1-9 Tree of life = type of Christ; a source of life = it was in the midst of the garden. He is also light. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). God’s standard = Christ Tree of the Knowledge of Good…
The Ground of Gathering, Part 3
1.) John 4:20-24 – Review and Introduction In review of the OT history, we saw how that Jerusalem was a place characterized by these distinctions: This testimony was maintained despite failure and weakness. In the NT, we see a feeble company that still recognized faithfully Jerusalem as God’s center (Mary, Simeon, Anna, Zacharias, Elizabeth, etc)….