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Biblical text: 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 Today we begin what I think is one of the greatest passages in the New Testament. It is found in Second Corinthians, beginning in Chapter 2. Here is the clearest explanation in all the Word of God of the secret of the Apostle Paul’s phenomenal ministry. It runs from Chapter…

Now learn to walk in the Spirit. WALKING involves movement, action and purposeful direction. All doctrinal teaching in the Word of God is intensely practical, and like normal walking, at all times you have at least one foot firmly on the ground – you don’t float! Many and varied are the weird concepts and crazy…

YES, there are difficulties to be faced and dangers to be on your guard against, but when once you have pressed through, THE DELIGHTS ARE TREMENDOUS! Living in the Spirit has been likened to energizing a huge heavy flywheel. Initially it hardly seems to move, but as you persist the momentum increases, generating power and…

Let us contemplate the cross in its practical relation to our actual Christian life… 5. Fellowship with His Cross Much of our life contains suffering and trial and the shadow of the cross is also here. Looking upon our trials as unmeaning accidents, the blow of fate, the luck of evil fortune, or the cruel…

“This do in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19). This inscription placed by the hands of the Master over the Feast of Love might well be made the watchword of our whole Christian life. The Lord’s Supper is a sort of microcosm, or miniature, of the believer’s life, and over every moment, every word and every…

‘So will I also be for You.’ (Hosea 3:3) [in this context, the prophet Hosea’s acceptance and forgiveness of his unfaithful wife is a providential picture of God’s redemptive love for His wayward people.] The typical promise, ‘You shalt abide for Me many days,’ is indeed a marvel of love. For it is given to…

Where most people think that the goal of discipleship is to get people to become something that they are not, the Scriptures call believers to become more and more what they already are in Christ. When Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Matt. 28:19), He’s assuming that only disciples can disciple…

As I have worked with the Church over the past four decades, it is apparent that the ministry of the Spirit is on the wane. The vast majority of those to whom we have ministered could have, and should have, been ministered to in their churches. As the cultural and economic wars heat up, it…

“Raised with Him.” (Colossians 2: 12) . . …In the experience of the believer, it is exactly in proportion to the experimental [experiential] apprehension, and co-working of the Spirit of God in applying the ‘negative’ side of ‘death with Christ’, that he/she gets the actual, experimental, and ‘positive’ impartation of the power of the resurrection.…

The Future Judgments of God are much misunderstood. This is something most people don’t understand, still less think about. And, if they do think about it, they are likely to think of hell–of fire and brimstone, of medieval torture and demons and many other horrible things. We will all stand before the Judgment Seat of…