*' Heaven and earth shall pass aivay, hut my words
shall not pass away." — Matt. 24 : 35.
A WORD seems a light and fragile thing
put in comparison with this mighty and
glorious fabric of heaven and earth.
' ' Heaven and earth, ' ' Jesus says, ' ' shall pass
away, ' ' yet nothing in itself might seem more
unlikely. The first impression which the great
objects of nature make upon us is that of
strength, solidity, enduringness. The earth
we tread on, the hills girding us, the rocks
frowning down upon us, the stars in their
nightly watch above us, all give the idea of
objects which are the opposite of transient —
which may be depended on to outlast all
human generations.
Jesus christ, the same yesterday, today and foreverGLENN PEASE
*' Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and to-day, and
forever."— Heb13: 8.
Among such passages our text may well be
assigned a high place. It has long enjoyed
great popularity. It has all the charm of epi-
gram. It possesses the sustained strength of
spiritual significance. It trips lightly upon
the lips of the superficial and imaginative, and
dwells fruitfully in the mind of the scholar.
It is full of satisfaction to the tenderly pious,
and rich in suggestion to the devoutly specu-
lative. It speaks primarily only of the per-
manence of character of Jesus Christ, but the
context forces upon us at once a broader out-
look. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews
had in mind a much greater theme than the
unity, perfection and permanence of the char-
acter of the man Christ Jesus. His purpose
was nothing less than to prove to the Hebrews
in Judea and to the farthest limits of their
world-wide dispersion that Jesus Christ was
the Messiah; and being the Messiah, was the
hope of Israel and the Savior of mankind.
The imperative claims of christ upon his followersGLENN PEASE
Let us lay to heart the truth. The half-
hearted are not fit for the kingdom of God.
Are they fit for any kingdom worth the hav-
ing? No man can make a scholar who is not
prepared to scorn delights and live laborious
days. No young man will be successful in
business if his chief thought all day is of the
hour when he may escape from the office to
his football or golf. Ay, no man can be a
king in the sphere of athletics unless he is
prepared to pay the price of self-control and
severe training.
This is a study of Jesus making Saul His chosen one. Jesus chose Saul to become Paul the Apostle to carry the Gospel into all the Gentile nations. He chose the worst to be His best.
" Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God."— Co\, 3: 3.
NO one can suppose a saying like this to
be addrest indiscriminately to the
world at large. The class of persons
whom it indicates, the audience who will
grasp and appreciate its meaning, is limited
in kind. It is not that the text is obscure. It
is not that it belongs to an age so far away
from ours. It is not that it raises needless
barriers. Only it takes for granted that we
have passed through a great experience, and
that this experience has brought us into a new
world. In short, it touches as very few verses
even of the Bible do the vital source and cen-
ter of the Christian life. It tells the open
secret of discipleship, and lays its finger on
the pulse of personal religion.
This is a study of Jesus being intellectual. He had a brilliant mind in teaching and debate, and we are to seek to know the mind of Christ in order to live in the wisdom of our Lord and Savior.
Imago christi the example of jesus christ.GLENN PEASE
’ IMITATION OF CHRIST 13
II. CHRIST IN TIIE HOME 35
III. CHRIST IN THE STATE ....... 55
IV. CHRIST IN THE CHURCH 7 1
V. CHRIST AS A FRIEND 91
VI, CHRISTEN SOCIETY IO9
Jesus christ, the same yesterday, today and foreverGLENN PEASE
*' Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and to-day, and
forever."— Heb13: 8.
Among such passages our text may well be
assigned a high place. It has long enjoyed
great popularity. It has all the charm of epi-
gram. It possesses the sustained strength of
spiritual significance. It trips lightly upon
the lips of the superficial and imaginative, and
dwells fruitfully in the mind of the scholar.
It is full of satisfaction to the tenderly pious,
and rich in suggestion to the devoutly specu-
lative. It speaks primarily only of the per-
manence of character of Jesus Christ, but the
context forces upon us at once a broader out-
look. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews
had in mind a much greater theme than the
unity, perfection and permanence of the char-
acter of the man Christ Jesus. His purpose
was nothing less than to prove to the Hebrews
in Judea and to the farthest limits of their
world-wide dispersion that Jesus Christ was
the Messiah; and being the Messiah, was the
hope of Israel and the Savior of mankind.
The imperative claims of christ upon his followersGLENN PEASE
Let us lay to heart the truth. The half-
hearted are not fit for the kingdom of God.
Are they fit for any kingdom worth the hav-
ing? No man can make a scholar who is not
prepared to scorn delights and live laborious
days. No young man will be successful in
business if his chief thought all day is of the
hour when he may escape from the office to
his football or golf. Ay, no man can be a
king in the sphere of athletics unless he is
prepared to pay the price of self-control and
severe training.
This is a study of Jesus making Saul His chosen one. Jesus chose Saul to become Paul the Apostle to carry the Gospel into all the Gentile nations. He chose the worst to be His best.
" Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God."— Co\, 3: 3.
NO one can suppose a saying like this to
be addrest indiscriminately to the
world at large. The class of persons
whom it indicates, the audience who will
grasp and appreciate its meaning, is limited
in kind. It is not that the text is obscure. It
is not that it belongs to an age so far away
from ours. It is not that it raises needless
barriers. Only it takes for granted that we
have passed through a great experience, and
that this experience has brought us into a new
world. In short, it touches as very few verses
even of the Bible do the vital source and cen-
ter of the Christian life. It tells the open
secret of discipleship, and lays its finger on
the pulse of personal religion.
This is a study of Jesus being intellectual. He had a brilliant mind in teaching and debate, and we are to seek to know the mind of Christ in order to live in the wisdom of our Lord and Savior.
Imago christi the example of jesus christ.GLENN PEASE
’ IMITATION OF CHRIST 13
II. CHRIST IN TIIE HOME 35
III. CHRIST IN THE STATE ....... 55
IV. CHRIST IN THE CHURCH 7 1
V. CHRIST AS A FRIEND 91
VI, CHRISTEN SOCIETY IO9
*' Other sheep I have which are not of this fold:
them also I must hring, and they shall hear my voice ;
and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.* * —
John 10 : 16.
** A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love
one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also
love one another. By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." —
John 13 : 34-35.
THE second of these passages tells us the
necessary result of the fulfilment of the
prediction and promise made in the
first. When all the sheep have been gathered
in and they have become one flock under one
Shepherd, then the component members of
the flock will find that their relation to the
Shepherd involves a similar relation to one an-
other. Love, especially on the Shepherd's
part, is the bond which connects each one of
them with the Shepherd — a love so strong,
that He is ready to die for them : love, there-
fore, is the bond which must unite each mem-
ber of the flock with his fellows, and in this
each ought to aim at imitating the love of the
Shepherd.
This is a continuing study of Jesus demanding self denial. This is a vital part of being a Christian and there is a great deal of study and preaching on this subject. We cannot begin to cover all that is written but this is enough to get the point.
This is a study of Jesus being right on time. He was late to see Lazarus before He died, but He was right on time to raise him from the dead. He was right on time in many situations.
I. The Christ Crowned, the Fact ... 9
II. The Crown Book 39
III. A Sight of the Crowned Christ . . , . 63
IV. A Message from the Crowned Christ . 97
V. An Advance Step in the Royal Pro-
gramme 127
VI. A Clearing-up Storm in the Realm . . 151
VII. The Crowned Christ Reigning . . . 215
This is a study of Jesus illustrating humility. He saw the guests picking the places of honor and He told them the parable of seeking a more humble place and being promoted to a higher place by the host. Humility will pay off in the end, but pride will lead to a fall.
"If ye then, "being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children; how much more shall your heav-
enly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask.
him?''—Lx\ke 11 : 13.
Christ's words rest on the assumption
that we carry in ourselves — in what is
best in ourselves — a revelation of what,
in the measure of His infinity, God is, and
must be. He teaches that in the make of our
own souls may be read — in characters dim and
imperfect no doubt, but still written there by
the finger of God Himself — a hint of what
God is. We are sure that He must at least
For myself, I see no
way to doubt that, as the supreme person of
history, Christ is the most significant of all
facts known to us, and therefore the best
basis for direct and decisive inference to the
nature of the world-ground — to a God of
character like His own.
A verses by verse commentary on Genesis chapter 5 dealing with the line of Adam to Noah.This is the chapter with all of the ages of the early people including Methuselah who lived 969 years.
This is a study of how our sins were all laid on Jesus and this made it possible for us to be saved even though we are sinners. Jesus became our Salvation by taking our sins away.
the most vast work transmitted to humanity through Jakob Lorber; it presents a history narrated by Jesus Christ Himself, describing Lord’s and His closed ones’ lives in the last three years of His life on earth, containing a great number of wonders, dialogues and teachings that greatly develop and enrich the records from the Gospels of Matthew and John; it also contains detailed revelations explaining essential passages from the Old and the New Testament and predictions concerning events occurring during the last 2000 years, culminating with facts that characterize the technological civilization of the XX-th Century and disclosures of a scientific nature which were validated long time after Jakob Lorber wrote about them. In the Great Gospel of John, one can practically find the essential answers to all the fundamental questions of life – these are to be found in the clear, but also extraordinary deep descriptions of the divine and human nature, of the creation and the material and spiritual evolution.
This is a study of Jesus as the main matter. Much is written but what is written about Jesus that brings you to believe and have life in His name is the main matter.
This is a study of Jesus as the new and living way to the throne of mercy and grace to receive all that He purchased for us on the cross, He opened the door and made a way to God's best.
THIS IS A STUDY OF JESUS BEING THE MAIN MATTER. MANY SIGNS ARE NOT RECORDED BUT THE ONES THAT ARE MAKE JESUS THE MAIN POINT OF THE GOSPEL. HE IS ALWAYS THE MAIN POINT OF ALL REVELATION.
Our opportunity, I be-
lieve, is almost unparalleled in the history^ of
our faith, to carry the gospel of the blessed
God to a weary and hungry world; and
in doing this we shall be as one heart and one
mind, as were the disciples when the spirit
fell on their wondering hearts, kindling
tongues of flame and setting loose torrents of
renewing power.
CONTENTS
I. ADAM
II. EVE
III. CAIN
IV. ABEL
V. ENOCH
VI. JUBAL
VII. NOAH
VIII. HAM
IX. NIMROD .
X. TERAH
XI. ABRAHAM
XII. LOT
XIII. SARAH
XIV. ISAAC
XV. ESAU
XVI. REBEKAH .
XVII. JACOB
XVIII. JOSEPH . . , 194
*' Other sheep I have which are not of this fold:
them also I must hring, and they shall hear my voice ;
and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.* * —
John 10 : 16.
** A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love
one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also
love one another. By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." —
John 13 : 34-35.
THE second of these passages tells us the
necessary result of the fulfilment of the
prediction and promise made in the
first. When all the sheep have been gathered
in and they have become one flock under one
Shepherd, then the component members of
the flock will find that their relation to the
Shepherd involves a similar relation to one an-
other. Love, especially on the Shepherd's
part, is the bond which connects each one of
them with the Shepherd — a love so strong,
that He is ready to die for them : love, there-
fore, is the bond which must unite each mem-
ber of the flock with his fellows, and in this
each ought to aim at imitating the love of the
Shepherd.
This is a continuing study of Jesus demanding self denial. This is a vital part of being a Christian and there is a great deal of study and preaching on this subject. We cannot begin to cover all that is written but this is enough to get the point.
This is a study of Jesus being right on time. He was late to see Lazarus before He died, but He was right on time to raise him from the dead. He was right on time in many situations.
I. The Christ Crowned, the Fact ... 9
II. The Crown Book 39
III. A Sight of the Crowned Christ . . , . 63
IV. A Message from the Crowned Christ . 97
V. An Advance Step in the Royal Pro-
gramme 127
VI. A Clearing-up Storm in the Realm . . 151
VII. The Crowned Christ Reigning . . . 215
This is a study of Jesus illustrating humility. He saw the guests picking the places of honor and He told them the parable of seeking a more humble place and being promoted to a higher place by the host. Humility will pay off in the end, but pride will lead to a fall.
"If ye then, "being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children; how much more shall your heav-
enly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask.
him?''—Lx\ke 11 : 13.
Christ's words rest on the assumption
that we carry in ourselves — in what is
best in ourselves — a revelation of what,
in the measure of His infinity, God is, and
must be. He teaches that in the make of our
own souls may be read — in characters dim and
imperfect no doubt, but still written there by
the finger of God Himself — a hint of what
God is. We are sure that He must at least
For myself, I see no
way to doubt that, as the supreme person of
history, Christ is the most significant of all
facts known to us, and therefore the best
basis for direct and decisive inference to the
nature of the world-ground — to a God of
character like His own.
A verses by verse commentary on Genesis chapter 5 dealing with the line of Adam to Noah.This is the chapter with all of the ages of the early people including Methuselah who lived 969 years.
This is a study of how our sins were all laid on Jesus and this made it possible for us to be saved even though we are sinners. Jesus became our Salvation by taking our sins away.
the most vast work transmitted to humanity through Jakob Lorber; it presents a history narrated by Jesus Christ Himself, describing Lord’s and His closed ones’ lives in the last three years of His life on earth, containing a great number of wonders, dialogues and teachings that greatly develop and enrich the records from the Gospels of Matthew and John; it also contains detailed revelations explaining essential passages from the Old and the New Testament and predictions concerning events occurring during the last 2000 years, culminating with facts that characterize the technological civilization of the XX-th Century and disclosures of a scientific nature which were validated long time after Jakob Lorber wrote about them. In the Great Gospel of John, one can practically find the essential answers to all the fundamental questions of life – these are to be found in the clear, but also extraordinary deep descriptions of the divine and human nature, of the creation and the material and spiritual evolution.
This is a study of Jesus as the main matter. Much is written but what is written about Jesus that brings you to believe and have life in His name is the main matter.
This is a study of Jesus as the new and living way to the throne of mercy and grace to receive all that He purchased for us on the cross, He opened the door and made a way to God's best.
THIS IS A STUDY OF JESUS BEING THE MAIN MATTER. MANY SIGNS ARE NOT RECORDED BUT THE ONES THAT ARE MAKE JESUS THE MAIN POINT OF THE GOSPEL. HE IS ALWAYS THE MAIN POINT OF ALL REVELATION.
Our opportunity, I be-
lieve, is almost unparalleled in the history^ of
our faith, to carry the gospel of the blessed
God to a weary and hungry world; and
in doing this we shall be as one heart and one
mind, as were the disciples when the spirit
fell on their wondering hearts, kindling
tongues of flame and setting loose torrents of
renewing power.
CONTENTS
I. ADAM
II. EVE
III. CAIN
IV. ABEL
V. ENOCH
VI. JUBAL
VII. NOAH
VIII. HAM
IX. NIMROD .
X. TERAH
XI. ABRAHAM
XII. LOT
XIII. SARAH
XIV. ISAAC
XV. ESAU
XVI. REBEKAH .
XVII. JACOB
XVIII. JOSEPH . . , 194
It is not enough to know what Jesus said.
We want to know Jesus Himself, Jesus as He
is revealed in deed and life as well as in
word and teaching. Here we have the truth
He brings to us in its fulness and vitality
and power — "as truth is in Jesus."
Biblical View of Time by Joshua Hawkins.
In order to understand the story of Scripture and read the world from the Bible’s perspective, we must “play the game” on the Bible’s field and follow the Bible’s rules. The Bible’s field could also be called its worldview, or more specifically, its cosmology. This section is an overview.
ONLY one desire has found expression in the prepa-
ration of this book, — to present the Christ of the
Gospels as One who satisfies the reason as well as the
heart of Believers.
The power and glory of Christ as the revelation of GodGLENN PEASE
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." —
John 14 : 9.
All the ages have
more clearly endeavored to define the mean-
ing of these words; and, notwithstanding the
criticism of philosophy and the opposition of
secular and worldly thought, the relationship
of Jesus Christ to the Father in a unity of
nature altogether unique and transcendent
has been and is growingly the mightiest moral
and spiritual power ever manifested in the
history of mankind.
This is a study of the nature of Jesus in that He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He never changes and we can count on that and trust Him to always be who He is.
Jesus was explaining the parable of the sowerGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus explaining the parable of the sower. It is all about the seed and the soil and the fruitfulness of the combination. The Word is the seed and we need it in our lives to bear fruit for God.
This is a study of Jesus as the sower. The parable of the sower is all about Him. The seed sown is sown by Him for it is the Word of Life, and He spreads it everywhere.
This joyful strain of Christian hope is
based upon two all-important truths concern-
ing the human soul. In the first place, it as-
sumes that man is very high in the scale of
being ; and, in the second place, that he is en-
trusted with the great responsibility of deter-
mining his own character, and of securing the
blessings of existence by rightly adjusting
himself to the conditions of life in which an
all- wise Creator has placed him.
"The Negro a beast, but created with articulate speech,
and hands, that he may be of service to his master—the White man"........ United States Congressional Record.
"Questioning one with another what the rising from
the dead should mean." — Mark 9 : 10.
WHAT the rising from the dead shall
mean to us depends on what manner
of men we are. No fact is the same
fact for all people. The richness and power
of the fact depend on the richness and power
of the life into which the fact comes. What
does the rising of the sun mean as it comes
up out of the ocean in the morning? To the
brown crag on the shore the rising of the
sun means nothing at all. To the flower that
clings to the top of the crag the sunrise means
a thrill in the sap, an unfolding of the leaf,
a deepening of the color on the petal.
IT is to be presumed that a person will ex-
press himself. Expression characterizes
personality. If God is a person, the uni-
verse may be called an expression of God.
The universe is, therefore, an intimation of
certain truths about God. If a work suggests
the character of the worker, it is not too much
to call the universe a revelation of God. If
space is not a revelation of Him — and it may
be — everything in space is. * * The heavens de-
clare the glory of God and the firmament
showeth his handiwork." The natural sug-
gests the supernatural. Nature suggests God.
Jesus was urging us to pray and never give upGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus urging us to pray and never give up. He uses a widow who kept coming to a judge for help and she was so persistent he had to give her the justice she sought. God will do the same for us if we never give up but keep on praying.
This is a study of Jesus being questioned about fasting. His disciples were not doing it like John's disciples and the Pharisees. Jesus gives His answer that gets Him into the time of celebration with new wineskins that do away with the old ones. Jesus says we do not fast at a party and a celebration.
This is a study of Jesus being scoffed at by the Pharisees. Jesus told a parable about loving money more than God, and it hit them hard. They in anger just turned up their noses and made fun of His foolish teaching.
Jesus was clear you cannot serve two mastersGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being clear on the issue, you cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God and money at the same time because you will love one and hate the other. You have to make a choice and a commitment.
Jesus was saying what the kingdom is likeGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus saying what the kingdom is like. He does so by telling the Parable of the growing seed. It just grows by itself by nature and man just harvests it when ripe. There is mystery here.
Jesus was telling a story of good fish and badGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus telling a story of good fish and bad fish. He illustrates the final separation of true believers from false believers by the way fishermen separate good and bad fish.
Jesus was comparing the kingdom of god to yeastGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus comparing the kingdom of God to yeast. A little can go a long way, and the yeast fills the whole of the large dough, and so the kingdom of God will fill all nations of the earth.
This is a study of Jesus telling a shocking parable. It has some terrible words at the end, but it is all about being faithful with what our Lord has given us. We need to make whatever has been given us to count for our Lord.
Jesus was telling the parable of the talentsGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus telling the parable of the talents, There are a variety of talents given and whatever the talent we get we are to do our best for the Master, for He requires fruit or judgment.
This is a study of Jesus warning against covetousness. Greed actually will lead to spiritual poverty, so Jesus says do not live to get, but develop a spirit of giving instead,
Jesus was explaining the parable of the weedsGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus explaining the parable of the weeds. The disciples did not understand the parable and so Jesus gave them a clear commentary to help them grasp what it was saying.
This is a study of Jesus being radical. He was radical in His claims, and in His teaching, and in the language He used, and in His actions. He was clearly radical.
This is a study of Jesus laughing in time and in eternity. He promised we would laugh with Him in heaven, and most agree that Jesus often laughed with His followers in His earthly ministry. Jesus was a laugher by nature being He was God, and God did laugh, and being man, who by nature does laugh. Look at the masses of little babies that laugh on the internet. It is natural to being human.
This is a study of Jesus as our protector. He will strengthen and protect from the evil one. We need His protection for we are not always aware of the snares of the evil one.
This is a study of Jesus not being a self pleaser. He looked to helping and pleasing others and was an example for all believers to look to others need and not focus on self.
This is a study of Jesus being the clothing we are to wear. To be clothed in Jesus is to be like Jesus in the way we look and how our life is to appear before the world.
This is a study of Jesus being our liberator. By His death He set us free from the law of sin and death. We are under no condemnation when we trust Him as our Savior and Liberator.
This is a study of Jesus being our new marriage partner. We died to the law who was our first partner and then were free to take a new partner and that was Jesus who set us free from the law. He becomes our second marriage.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
HANUMAN STORIES: TIMELESS TEACHINGS FOR TODAY’S WORLDLearnyoga
Hanuman Stories: Timeless Teachings for Today’s World" delves into the inspiring tales of Hanuman, highlighting lessons of devotion, strength, and selfless service that resonate in modern life. These stories illustrate how Hanuman's unwavering faith and courage can guide us through challenges and foster resilience. Through these timeless narratives, readers can find profound wisdom to apply in their daily lives.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
1. THE ABIDING WORD
JAMES ORR
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Professor of apologetics and theology at
Theological College of United Free
church, Glasgow, since 1901 ; born in Glas-
gow, Api-il 11, 1844; educated at Glas-
gow University, Theological Hall of
United Presbyterian church; minister of
East Bank United Presbyterian Church,
Hawick, 1874-91; professor of Church
history at Theological College, Glasgow,
of the United Presbyterian Church, 1891-
1901; author of " The Christian View of
God and the World," " The Supernatural
in Christianity," "The Ritschlian The-
1
2. ology and the Evangelical Faith," " Neg-
lected Factors in the Study of the Early
Progress of Christianity," " Early Church
History and Literature," " Elliot Lectures
on the Progress of Dogma,'* " Essays on
Ritschlianism," " The Image of God in
Man and Its Defacement," " The Problem
of the Old Testament," " The Bible Under
Trial," "The Virgin Birth of Christ,"
one of the editors of the " Pulpit Com-
mentary," etc.
THE ABIDING WORD
James Orr, D.D.
*' Heaven and earth shall pass aivay, hut my words
shall not pass away." — Matt. 24 : 35.
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A WORD seems a light and fragile thing
put in comparison with this mighty and
glorious fabric of heaven and earth.
' ' Heaven and earth, ' ' Jesus says, ' ' shall pass
away, ' ' yet nothing in itself might seem more
unlikely. The first impression which the great
objects of nature make upon us is that of
strength, solidity, enduringness. The earth
we tread on, the hills girding us, the rocks
fro^vning down upon us, the stars in their
nightly watch above us, all give the idea of
objects which are the opposite of transient —
which may be depended on to outlast all
human generations.
And this at first sight seems the verdict of
history. " One generation cometh and an-
other goeth; but the earth abideth forever/'
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4. The constellations which the Chaldean astron-
omer dim ages past noted in his book; the
planets to which he gave their names; the
Pleiades and Orion spoken of by Job; all
meet the gaze of the student of the skies just
as they used to do. The traveler, as he visits
the spots famous in ancient history, marks the
mounds where lie buried the ruins of once
great cities, and views the wasteness and deso-
lation around, has the same reflection forced
on him — the shortness of human life, the
transiency of human affairs, and, as con-
trasted with this the enduringness of nature.
Over against this lasting reality of heaven
and earth how frail, how perishable a thing
seems a word ! Of the numberless myriads of
words spoken every day, how few have the
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5. faintest chance of living in memory even for
an hour. Words, speaking generally, are the
lightest, most trivial, most evanescent, least
substantial of all entities. Words written are
hardly more enduring than words spoken.
Look at the mass of old books which cumber
the shelves of any of our libraries, and ask
the question. Who ever reads them ? Our own
day has its thick crop of authors and of
books, but how many of them will be re-
membered or heard of twenty or fifty or one
hundred years hence ?
Yet Jesus says in this passage of the text
that heaven and earth shall pass away, but
His words shall not pass away. He deliber-
ately puts His words in contrast with this
mighty material fabric of the physical uni-
verse, and declares that while it is not eternal,
His words are ; that His words shall last while
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6. it perishes ; that they are more enduring than
it. It was a calm, great utterance, and the
wonder of it is only increased when we think
of what Jesus was as He appeared to His con-
temporaries. In any ordinary man in Christ 's
worldly position such words would have been
the height of madness ; and so probably they
would have been regarded by the Herods and
Pilates and Caiaphases of his time. Yet his-
tory has verified this saying of Christ; His
words have taken deeper and deeper hold
upon the minds of men as the centuries have
advanced; and thereby we have been taught
to see the difference between Christ 's outward
seeming and His real greatness.
We are to try now to see for ourselves that
what Christ says in this wonderful saying of
His is true. And we may begin by remind-
ing ourselves of the falsity of the conception
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7. into which we so easily glide in thinking the
material world to be more enduring than the
spiritual. Christ's saying teaches us to recast
our first impressions. That is a thing we are
constantly under the necessity of doing. We
are constantly being deceived by the outward
appearances and shows of things, and have to
learn the art — a great part of the wisdom of
life just consists in learning the art — of get-
ting behind appearances, and judging reality
by other than material standards. When we
do this we learn that mind is greater than
matter, truth more enduring than the material
order, thoughts and the words that embody
them more permanent than even heaven and
earth.
*' Heaven and earth," Jesus says, ** shall
pass away." Now this, notwithstanding the
apparent enduringness, is, as we know to-day,
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8. a simple and literal scientific fact. Stable as
this great material universe seems to be, it is
really in constant process of change. Only
slowly and by prolonged and gradual steps
has the universe been built up to what it is
now. It had its beginning and it will have its
end. Science makes perfectly clear to us that
the existing conditions of things is not a per-
manent one ; that the world, to use an illustra-
tion of its own, is in the position of a clock
running down, and that it is as impossible for
the present sj^stem of things to go on forever,
without renewed supply of energy, as it would
be for a clock to go on forever without re-
newed winding up. And there is nearly as
little hesitation in science as there is in Scrip-
ture in saying in general terms what the end
shall be. The end, in the view of men of
science, may be postponed to an indefinitely
distant period, but they no less than the be-
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9. liever in revelation most surely look forward
and hasten imto the coming of a day — he may
not call it a day of the Lord — when the heav-
ens being on fire shall be dissolved and the ele-
ments shall melt with fervent heat, and the
earth also and the works that are therein shall
be burned up. No truth is therefore more
certain than this, testified long ago by the
prophet Isaiah — ** Lift up your eyes to the
heavens and look upon the earth beneath ; for
the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment, and
they that dwell therein shall die in like man-
ner " — tho the prophet is able gloriously
to add — and it is but the Old Testament antic-
ipation of this New Testament saying — ' ' But
my salvation shall be forever and my right-
eousness shall not be abolished. ' '
Look now at words. It may be true that
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10. many words are mere breath and nothing else ;
true also that most books often are destined to
a very brief term of existence. But this is not
true of all words. There are words which the
world reckons among its choicest treasures
and which it will not willingly let die — words
of wisdom so imperishable, of truth so rare,
of thought so deep, of counsel so wise, that
they can never pass away. The Bible is a book
of very old words, and what freshness and vi-
tality still belong to them. But even outside
the Bible there are words in other literature,
words great and wise and noble and beautiful,
to which this same quality of permanence in
their degree belongs. They are the words inta
which the race has distilled its choicest wis-
dom, and they are bound to live. And let us
not undervalue the might of words. The
thoughts they embody may be invisible; you
may not be able to see or weigh or measure
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11. them, but the force which resides in them is,
for all that, incalculable. Words have power
to kill and make alive. The ideas embodied in
words are the forces which make and unmake
societies. Masses of men are moved by the
ideas which gain possession of their minds and
these ideas are implanted in them and propa-
gated through winged words. Mere physical
force avails little in the end against the
growth of ideas. It is ideas which govern the
world. We come to see then, that it is not
the material but the immaterial in which re-
sides the greatest vitality and permanence.
Heaven and earth shall pass away but it may
very well be that there are some words which
shall not pass away.
This quality of permanence we speak of be-
longs preeminently to the words of Christ.
Jesus says it does and we are to try to see that
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12. what He says is true.
To show this, glance for a moment at what
kind of words they are which do endure and
what kind of words they are which do not en-
dure. There are three kinds of words regard-
ing which we may say with all confidence that
they cannot endure. The first is false words.
Falsehoods, indeed, have often a surprising vi-
tality. They live long, are hard to kill, and in
the interval do an infinite amount of mischief.
Nay, so greedily do the minds of men some-
times receive error, so easily are they led away
by sophistry and by appeals to their passions
and prejudices, that we might be tempted to
think that it is error, not truth, which rules
the world, and that the still, small voice of
truth is scarcely heard in the noise and con-
fusion of unwisdom and falsehood. But only
a little thought is necessary to dispel this illu-
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13. sion. We cannot doubt that under the govern-
ment of a God of truth the ultimate fate of
everything false in this world is to be found
out, exposed, condemned. An error, a super-
stition, may have a reign of centuries, but by
and by, as thought widens and discovery ad-
vances, it is sure to be exploded. Every year
sees the interment of some old-world fallacy,
and if it also sees the springing up of some
new fallacy of its own, future generations in
like manner will see that buried.
A second class of words which cannot en-
dure is trivial words. How few of the words
spoken everj^ day have even the remotest right
to continued existence. They relate to the
mere trifles or accidents of life : what so and
so thought; how he felt; what he did; our
passing impression about this and about that ;
the news of the day ; where we were ; what we
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14. saw; whom we met — so a stream of irrespon-
sible talk flows on. Words of this kind are
not meant to live — you can compare them to
nothing more appropriately than to those
swarms of gnats which circle round your
heads in the sunlight on a warm summer even-
ing, to which nature allots but a brief hour or
day of existence.
The third class of words which cannot en-
dure are those which relate to subjects of but
temporary importance. They need not be
trivial words; the subjects to which they re-
late may be of the very highest interest and
importance for the immediate present, but
their interest is not a permanent one. There
comes a day when they are things of the past
and live only in history. Of what interest to
us, e. g., except for historical purposes, are
the questions of life and law and government
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15. affecting the Middle Ages ? We have our own
questions of political and social reform which
are to us of great moment, but even these will
become things of the past and will cease to in-
terest our successors. Prophecies will fail,
for they shall be fulfilled ; tongues shall cease,
for they shall no longer be spoken ; knowledge
shall pass away, for that to which our knowl-
edge and ordered sciences relate shall have
vanished from existence !
From these considerations we can gradually
infer by contrast the character of the words
which must and shall endure. They must be
true words ; they must be weighty words ; and
they must be words which refer to subjects
of perpetual and eternal interest. Now what
we say is that this is preeminently the char-
acter of the words of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is upon the fact that His words are true,
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16. that they are weighty, and that they relate to
subjects of infinite and everlasting moment,
that He bases His assertion that heaven and
earth shall pass away, but His words shall not
pass away. Can we refuse the claim ?
Christ's words are true. He came forth
from the bosom of the Father to proclaim the
truth to a world which had in large measure
lost the knowledge of the true God and of the
way of life. He can say of His words what no
other could say, '' I am the truth." Ap-
proach Christ even from the human side and
this quality in Him is apparent. The light of
true knowledge of the Father shone in His
soul and as it shone in no other. He had the
clearest insight into the facts and laws of the
spiritual world. Every chord of His nature
vibrated in harmony with holiness and re-
sponded in delicate sympathy to impulses
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17. from above. "What says even a skeptic of
Christ (Greg) : *' In reading His words we
feel that we are holding converse with the
wisest, purest, noblest being that ever clothed
thought in the poor language of humanity ; in
studying His life we are following in the foot-
steps of the highest ideal yet presented to us
on earth." Christ spake as never man spake ;
and in this way, by his words, as well as by
all else about Him, He vindicated His claim to
be not son of man alone, but Son of God ]Iost
High.
If Christ's words are true do they not also
possess the other qualities of permanence?
They are certainly weighty words. No light,
trivial, shallow utterances are they. They em-
body deep enduring principles ; set forth more
than master truths ; move in a region as high
above the ordinary teachings of man as
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18. heaven is high above earth. When a man
asked Jesus to bid his brother divide his in-
heritance with him, He said, ' ' Man, who made
me a judge and divider over you? " It was
not Christ's mission to occupy Himself with
these petty controversies. It is this which
give His words weight. Each age, as it comes
round, finds them fruitful in applications to
itself. Christ commits Himself to no side in
party politics; to no one denomination or
party in the Church; to no one form of
Church government or action ; to no one mode
of social organization; to no one solution of
the questions of capital and labor, of rulers
and subjects, of rich and poor. And the rea-
son is that the solution of these questions
proper to one age and stage of society, would
not be the solution proper to another age and
stage of society, and Christ is not the Teacher
of one age only, else His words would, like
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19. those of other teachers, have long since become
obsolete, but the Teacher of all times and of
all ages. Hence He contents Himself with
enunciating great truths, unfolding great
principles which underlie and are to guide us
in all our studies of these subjects and ought
to regulate us in our thought and legislation
upon them.
I was much struck in reading the
* ' Thoughts on Religion ' ' by the late Mr. Ro-
manes, that eminent scientific man who, dur-
ing the greater part of his life, was under an
absolute eclipse of his faith, who lost his faith
even in God and wrote against belief in God,
but who the last year or two of his life came
back to the full Christian confession, and he
tells us in these " Thoughts on Religion ''
that one thing that most profoundly influ-
enced him was the discovery that Christ's
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20. words did not become obsolete as the words of
other great teachers did ; that while the w^ords
of Plato and others had passed away so far as
actual living influence was concerned, the
words of Jesus endured, and it was just this
truth, that His words did not and do not pass
away, that produced so remarkable an effect
upon his mind.
But even this is not the most essential part
of Christ 's teaching. It is not the kingdom of
earth but the kingdom of God concerning
which He specially came to enlighten men,
and it is to this higher and eternal region that
most of His teachings belong. Here most of
all we see the truth of the statement ' ' Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but my words shall
not pass away. ' '
What are the special themes to which
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21. Christ's w^ords relate? He speaks to man
above all of God His Father, and truth about
God — if only it be truth — can in the nature of
the case never pass away. Truth about other
things may pass away; but truth about eter-
nal God, His being, character, love, grace —
this can never pass so long as God Himself
endures.
Christ speaks to us again about man, but
about man under what aspect and in what
relations ? Not from the point of view of man
in any of his natural characteristics, as rank,
age, sex, race, culture ; but solely of man as a
spiritual and immortal being, in his capacity
of enduring existence, in his relation to God
and eternity. Christ speaks of that which is
universal in man, therefore His teaching en-
dures and applies to all grades of civilization
and all stages of culture. In Christ Jesus
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22. there is neither Greek, or Jew, or Barbarian,
or Scythian, or bond, or free, or male or fe-
male, or any of those things; but Christ re-
gards man as a spiritual and immortal being ;
in his enduring aspect ; in his relations to God
and to eternity. Christ looked at man always
and altogether in that one light, set man be-
fore Him in that light as He went through the
world, taught about man in that light, legis-
lated for man in that light, never looked at
man in any other light than that... It might
be the poorest beggar on the street; it might
be the greatest sinner in the city; Christ al-
ways looked on that man or that woman in
the light of their relation to God and to eter-
nity, and therefore Christ's teaching about
man endures. It cannot become obsolete;
it goes down deeper than all these distinc-
tions that divide us. Oceans divide nations,
interest divides nations, but Christ's teach.-
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23. ing about man, about the soul, goes deeper
than all these things. His teachings are
fitted for every race — experience proves that
— for every age, for every civilization. The
little child begins to lisp *' Our Father '' and
takes in these teachings of Jesus, and the sage
in the heights of his loftiest speculations feels
that he can never get beyond them, and so
Christ's words about man endure.
Christ speaks again of spiritual truth and
duty, of the righteousness of the kingdom of
God, and this is truth which in its nature is
eternal. There is no inherent necessity, so
far as we can see, for the laws of the material
universe, of the heaven and the earth, being
precisely what they are. The planets, had the
Creator willed it, might have revolved in other
orbits, might have moved in different direc-
tions, the properties,, laws and relations of
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24. substances might have been different from
what they are. The fabric of the world is thus
contingent on the Creator's decree, and so is
alterable and can be thought of as passing
away. But it is not so with spiritual and
moral truth. That is eternal as the nature of
God Himself. No decree of heaven could ever
make that which is essentially right wrong or
that which is essentially wrong right; could
ever make falsehood, deceit or treachery into
virtues, or make love, affection, fidelity into
vices. But it is in this region of eternal truth
that throughout His gospel Christ speciall}^
legislates.
Finally, Christ speaks to man of salvation,
and one of His favorite names for salvation is
eternal life. It needs no proof that words of
truth about eternal life are words that must
and shall endure; that after all sums up the
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25. whole nature of Christ 's mission to the world.
He came to seek and to save the lost. He
came that He might redeem and save us and
bring us back to God, and what is Christ's
ova great name, or one of His great names
for this salvation He came to bring? Is it
not just this eternal life: " I give imto my
sheep eternal life," he says. He came that
we might have life, that we might have it
more abundantly. In the very nature of the
case truth about eternal life is truth that
cannot pass away. Truth about earthly,
temporal things may pass away; truth about
eternal life cannot pass away. All that
Christ came into this world to do had for its
end the bestowing upon us of that life which
is everlasting. His coming, His living. His
dying. His rising again, the gift of His Spirit,
everything else, all has this for its end, that
we poor, perishing sinners may be lifted up
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corruptible, blessed life of God Himself, which
is just the other name for eternal life; and
truth about this eternal life, as I say, is truth
that can never pass away.
Thus we have turned these words of Jesus
round and round. The more closely we look
at them the more clearly we see that from
their very nature they cannot pass away.
They remain to us the touchstone of eternal
truth, in all spiritual things, the rock foun-
dation on which alone if men build they shall
stand secure in that dread day, which shall
try every man 's work of what sort it is. May
God grant that at long and last, when our per-
sons and characters and life work are brought
unto judgment, they may be found enduring
because resting on this rock of the eternal
words of Christ !
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