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Ezekiel (Program #19) – The Altar
God’s eternal purpose is to have a building and the center of that building is the altar. This is a picture of the cross of Christ – apart from which we cannot have the church.
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Hebrews (Program #56) – The Experiences of Christ for the Church Life
The book of Hebrews marvelously presents the heavenly Christ again and again. But, interwoven in the presentation is God’s purpose, the Church. Stay with us with for today’s life study of the Bible as we see the wonderful Christ together with the glorious Church in the book of Hebrews.
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Ezekiel (Program #13) – God’s Judgment Upon the Nations
There are seven nations mentioned from Ezekiel chapters 25 through 32. Even in the midst of God’s judgment from Ezekiel in the Old Testament on the nations, you will find that there is an application to us today in the church.
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Ezekiel (Program #12) – God’s Judgment Upon His People
In the book of Ezekiel, we come today to God’s judgment upon His people which is a picture of His judgment upon the church today. Yet the result of God’s judgment upon the church is to gain a group of people who return to Christ and gain Christ.
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Jeremiah (Program #24) – Separation of the Church, God’s New Testament Elect from the World in All its Aspects
The Bible, especially the Old Testament is often studies merely in the way of history, looking at names, dates and places. And though there are some values in this manner of study, for us as believers the greater need is to see the Bible open up as a book of life. For this, it is seeing the spiritual significance of events that yields the greatest benefit. And It is in this light that our study of Jeremiah has brought us to consider the final chapters where God’s wrath even His vengeance is poured out on one nation on earth that has been the most offensive to Him and rendered the most damage upon His chose people. God’s judgment upon Babylon and its significance for God’s people today is our topic.
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Jeremiah (Program #20) – Jehovah’s Promise concerning the Restoration of Israel
The history revealed in the Bible is a history of the covenants that God made with man. In reality, only two of these covenants have great significance. The first of which from Exodus 25 was the covenant of law that God made through Moses when He gave Israel the ten commandments. The second covenant called the new covenant was also the last covenant. And though it was not enacted until the Lord Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross for our redemption. It was clearly foretold by the prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter 31, listen to the word of this marvelous new covenant as spoken by the Old Testament prophet.
“Indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by their hand to bring them out from the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was their Husband, declares Jehovah. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Jehovah: I will put My law within them and write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. And they will no longer teach, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for all of them will know Me, from the little one among them even to the great one among them, declares Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.“
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Hebrews (Program #23) – The Remaining Sabbath Rest (6)
Today we look again at the Sabbath rest and how it is related to God’s dealing with His people and His judgment upon them that they could enter into that rest. Hebrew is a book of warnings. Warnings to believers. We know that in our salvation we are spared God’s judgment on our sins. But what does it mean that “judgment begins at the House of God?” We will look at how God will judge His children in the coming age.
We are going to begin today’s life study of Hebrews by looking at a verse in 1 Peter 4:17 “judgment begins at the House of God”. Surely this refers to us, the church. Yet Christians don’t typically think of judgment having any implication for us once we are saved. What is the context that God will judge His believers?
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Hebrews (Program #12) – The Many Sons, the Many Brothers, the Church
Only one verse in the New Testament book of Hebrews mentions the church. Hebrews 2:12 reveals the church in a marvelous way. We will see the Son of God attending and even participating in this first gathering of the church in today’s life study of the Bible.
We are going to see three basic factors of God’s economy developed today. The significance of these three items in the context of Hebrews; number one, the church, number two, the many sons and number three, the many brothers.
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Philemon (Program # 2) – A Brother Recommended for the Acceptance of the New Man
A picture is worth a thousand words. Today we have a wonderful picture from the book of Philemon illustrating the believers equal status in the New Man.
The apostle Paul gave the teaching of this in Colossians 3:11 where he said, in the New Man “… cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.” But in the real life story of Philemon with his slave Onesimus we see this illustrated in a beautiful way.
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Isaiah (Program #38) – The Servant of Jehovah as Typified by Cyrus, Israel and Isaiah
On one hand, Christ and the church of God are uniquely New Testament. The term and historical placement of Christ and His church fall beyond the scope of the Old Testament Scriptures. Yet as surely as God is in Christ, Christ and the church are clearly seen in passage after passage of the Old Testament as well. If not directly then how do we see Him and how do we know the church? We have delighted in bringing you the Christ found in the writings of Isaiah. We look forward to bringing you to another revelation from Isaiah today and that of His church, His House on this life study of the Bible.
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