“search the scriptures” John 5:39

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J. B. Hewitt
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1 Thessalonians – Some Suggestions for Study
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY Read the Epistle through once each day for a month. Reading aloud is most profitable. You can read through this Epistle in less than twenty minutes. Find seven reasons why …
J. B. Hewitt
1965 Volume 16 Issue 3
Study
2 Peter 1: Christian Development
The Christian life is one of inward peace, vv. 1-3; upward progress, vv. 4-7; governing purpose, vv. 8-12; gracious privilege, vv. 16-18; guiding prophesy, w. 19-21; and glorious prospect — the coming…
J. B. Hewitt
Truth for the Times: 2 Peter and Jude
1976 Volume 27 Issue 2
Exposition
2 Peter 2: Corrupting Doctrine
In chapter 1, we find the construction of character through the truth, but in chapter 2, we have corrupt doctrine intent upon the destruction of the unwary. Peter gives a vehement description of false…
J. B. Hewitt
Truth for the Times
1976 Volume 27 Issue 3
Exposition
Abraham – Friend of God
It is interesting to study Abraham’s life of faith, a man tested by God, in Genesis, in the following way: His Public History, chapters 12 to 14-Faith Travelling and Trusting. His Personal History, ch…
J. B. Hewitt
1988 Volume 39 Issue 6
Exposition
Amos
4. AMOS Amos belonged to Tekoa, a small town about six miles south of Bethlehem and about twelve miles south-east of Jerusalem. Very few particulars are given about him and these are all found in his …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1966 Volume 17 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
Christ in the Prison Epistles – Introduction
The object of all Bible study has in view the exaltation of our Lord, the enriching of our lives, and the em-powering of our labour. We must translate into factors of power every living promise made t…
J. B. Hewitt
Christ in the Prison Epistles
1979 Volume 30 Issue 2
Exposition
Colossians – Christ our Head
As we pass into the Colossian letter we have a totally different aspect of the Lord Jesus in relation to our Christ-ian life. The burden and prayer of the apostle is that the saints may come to an exp…
J. B. Hewitt
Christ in the Prison Epistles
1979 Volume 30 Issue 5
Exposition
Controlled by Divine Truth, 2 Peter 3
Peter gives a timely word for today. The knowledge of Christ should mould our habits and prepare us for His soon return. The doctrine of false teachers in relation to our Lord’s return was dangerous a…
J. B. Hewitt
Truth for the Times
1976 Volume 27 Issue 4
Exposition
Deuteronomy
The title Deuteronomy is derived from the Greek words; “Deuteros”, meaning “second”, and “Nomos”, meaning “law”, thus making the book to be “the second law”. This could be misleading as the first law …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1971 Volume 22 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
Ephesians – Christ our Leader and our Lord
There is, perhaps, no writing in the book of God so majestic and so won-derful as the Epistle to the Ephesians. Here we reach the very pinnacle of spiritual knowledge, the summit of revealed truth, th…
J. B. Hewitt
Christ in the Prison Epistles
1979 Volume 30 Issue 3
Exposition
Exodus
The title “Exodus" means a “way out" or “departure”, and was given because it records the way in which Jehovah brought Israel out of the bondage of Egypt. The theme of the book is redemption; the them…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1971 Volume 22 Issue 2
Young Believer’s Section
Exodus: Its Message for Today
Exodus is of great value as a picture book of many New Testament truths. We shall notice some lessons from the section which we may entitle Israel in Egypt, chs. 1 to 12. Enslaved and Emanci-pated. Th…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1971 Volume 22 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Genesis – Part 1
This book has known more criticism, and suffered more opposition and abuse, than any other book of the Bible. Satan uses all his forces to discredit and to destroy this book. The reason is that it rec…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1970 Volume 21 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Genesis – Part 2
In the first ten chapters of Genesis including the original creation, there may be millions of years embraced, but in the next forty chapters only a few centuries are dealt with. Here the emphasis is …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1970 Volume 21 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
Glimpses of Christ
Hosea, the Slighted Lover, 2. 18-19; n. 1-4. Christ shall be the one Head, 1. 11, the Restorer of the nation, 2. 14-19, the coining King, 3. 4-5, to whom regal honours will then be given, disowned tho…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1968 Volume 19 Issue 4
Young Believer’s Section
Glimpses of Christ
The whole purpose of revealed truth is to tell out the manifold glory of the character and work of one majestic Person, Jesus Christ our Lord. God has chosen Him as the centre of all His purposes, Eph…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1972 Volume 23 Issue 1
Young Believer’s Section
Habakkuk
Nothing is known of Habakkuk apart from this book. From the fact that he makes no mention of Assyria, and speaks of the Chaldean power as growing with almost incredible rapidity, it is concluded that …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1967 Volume 18 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Haggai
11. HAGGAI Haggai is the first in order of the Minor Prophets after the captivity. The deportation of the people into captivity was in three stages that extended over a number of years. The restoratio…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1968 Volume 19 Issue 1
Young Believer’s Section
Help from Haggai – Introduction
Haggai and Zachariah were the post-exilic “prophets of work” commissioned by God to encourage His returned exiles to complete the restoration of the temple. The task had lapsed for almost sixteen year…
J. B. Hewitt
Help from Haggai
1985 Volume 36 Issue 4
Exposition
Help from Haggai, Verses 1. 1-11
Chapter One. Indolence, Instruction, Inspiration. Haggai is not known out-side Ezra and this book. He was a prophet working in conjunction with Zechariah. His name means, “My feast” or “Festive”, and …
J. B. Hewitt
1985 Volume 36 Issue 5
Exposition
Help from Haggai, Verses 1. 12-15; 2. 1-9
A MESSAGE OF RE-EN COURAGEMENT, 1. 12-15. Here is the response of the remnant to the challenging message of the prophet. Their Ways Considered, v. 12. “Then”; the response of the leaders was encouragi…
J. B. Hewitt
Help from Haggai
1985 Volume 36 Issue 6
Exposition
Help from Haggai, Verses 2. 10-23
A MESSAGE OF RECOVERY AND DETERMINATION, 2. 10-19. This fourth message has to do with cleansing and blessing. It is a corrective message on responsibility; right conduct is important to God. This seve…
J. B. Hewitt
Help from Haggai
1986 Volume 37 Issue 1
Exposition
Hosea
2. HOSEA Title. This is taken from the name of the writer, which means “salvation” or “deliverance”. He is described as the son of Beeri and was a prophet of the Northern Kingdom. He could be describe…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1966 Volume 17 Issue 4
Young Believer’s Section
Joel
3. JOEL We have no information respecting Joel except such as is derived from the book which he has left us. He was specially a prophet to Judah and the man is lost in the ministry and message he deli…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1966 Volume 17 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Jonah
Jonah was a real person, an historical character who prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II; read 2 Kings 14. 23-27. His name means “dove” and his father’s name Amittai means “the truth of the Lor…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1967 Volume 18 Issue 2
Young Believer’s Section
Leviticus
This is the central book of the Pentateuch, the book of sanctification, divinely enjoined and typically expressed. Its keywords are “atonement" (over forty times), and “holy" (over eighty times), and …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1971 Volume 22 Issue 4
Young Believer’s Section
Living by Faith, Habakkuk
Nothing is known or ti iis prophet apart from this book. He prophesies in Judah during the reign of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim shortly before the invasion by Nebuchadnezzar, 1. 5-6; 1. 3; and 3. 2-16. In …
J. B. Hewitt
1989 Volume 40 Issue 2
Exposition
Malachi
13. MALACHI The prophet Malachi is introduced in the first verse of the book which bears his name. Nothing is known of Malachi beyond what we may gather from this book and some think that his name, me…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1968 Volume 19 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Meditation-a Lost Art
We are living in extremely busy days, and everybody and everything seem to be going at a very fast pace. We seem to be too busy, running here and there, with very little time to sit down and think on …
J. B. Hewitt
1987 Volume 38 Issue 1
Exposition
Micah
The opening verse gives to Micah a period of activity under three Jewish kings, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. No direct information is given in the book to suggest which king was on the throne when the p…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1967 Volume 18 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Nahum
Nothing is known of the prophet Nahum except that he belonged to Elkosh, the location of which cannot be established with certainty. Some say that it “was not far from Capernaum”, which means “village…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1967 Volume 18 Issue 4
Young Believer’s Section
Numbers
Here we have the story of Israel’s journeyings, wanderings and murmurings, from Sinai to the borders of Canaan. Numbers resumes the narrative where Exodus leaves off. For some of the Lord’s people tod…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1971 Volume 22 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Obadiah
Obadiah was a name common among the Jews and several occurrences are found in the Old Testament, but there is nothing to indicate that any of them wrote this book. The name means “worshipper” or “serv…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1967 Volume 18 Issue 1
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 1
2. ALL PEERLESS IN HIS DEITY CHAPTER 1 We may notice in the opening chapter of this Epistle The Superiority of His Revelation, vv. 1-2. The Sufficiency of His Work, v. 3. The Sovereignty of His Power…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1969 Volume 20 Issue 1
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 10
ALL PREVAILING IN HIS MINISTRY CHAPTER 10 This chapter gives much of the biography of the Lord’s life: incarnation, 5; conversation, 7; dedication, 10; ministra-tion, 12; His work in sanctification, 1…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1969 Volume 20 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 11
Chapter 11 – All Inspiring On The Highway Of Faith Faith sustained patriarchs, prophets and martyrs in all previous ages, and their example is worthy of emulation. 1. The Value of Faith, vv. 1-7. Its …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1970 Volume 21 Issue 1
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 12
1. Christian Discipline, vv. 1-11. Education. The Essentials for Success in the Race, 1-3. Inspiration from others. Witnesses to the faith of past days, not spectators. Preparation. “Lay aside every…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1970 Volume 21 Issue 2
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 13
All Present Throughout Eternity – Chapter 13 Love in Personal Life, vv. 1-6. Be Generous. Sweetness of Christian fellowship, 1; John 13. 34, 35. Sympathy of Christian love, 2. Hospitable to stranger…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1970 Volume 21 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 2-3
All Perfect In His Humanity – Chapter 2 In chapter 1 we have the personal glory of the Son of God, typified by the ark overlaid with pure gold, and in chapter 2 we have the acquired glory of the Son o…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1969 Volume 20 Issue 2
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 4-5
All Pitying in His Sympathy CHAPTER 4 In this chapter we find Christ as the Sanctuary Rest; He is the true Rest-Giver, Matt. n. 28-30. We own that Christ is Greater than Joshua in His victory, v. 8; J…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1969 Volume 20 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 6-7
ALL PENETRATING IN HIS ABILITY CHAPTER 6 This chapter may be studied in detail as follows: 1. Exhortation regarding Progress., w.1-3."Be wise. Advance". i. Leave the Foundation Truths,- leave spiritu…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1969 Volume 20 Issue 4
Exposition
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Chapter 8-9
ALL PROSPEROUS IN HIS MINISTRY CHAPTER 8 by J. B. Hewitt, Chesterfield 1. The Better Sanctuary, w. 1-6. More Excellent Ministry. The Superior Priest, v. 1. Possessed - “we have”; Provided by God – ava…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1969 Volume 20 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in Hebrews, Introduction
The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the greatest and most important in the New Testament. Its opening chapter is one of the most fascinating and satisfying that one could read; its dignified presenta…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in Hebrews
1968 Volume 19 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets – Introduction
1. INTRODUCTION In His Word God has made ample provision for all our needs. Its lofty thought and noble images, its heavenly doctrines and personal applications, are meant to expand the intellect and …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1966 Volume 17 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch – Introduction
Fittingly, and from most ancient times, the first five books of the Bible have been grouped together and have been known by the term “Pentateuch”, a word meaning “five books”. The Jewish rabbis called…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1970 Volume 21 Issue 4
Young Believer’s Section
Outline Studies in the Penteteuch
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT;LEVITICUS The key word of Leviticus 16 is atonement which is mentioned fourteen times, whilst the key verses of the chapter are 30 and 33. In the New Testament, especially in Hebr…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1972 Volume 23 Issue 2
Young Believer’s Section
Philemon – Christ our Example
One of the first impressions we obtain on reading this Epistle is that of the recurring references to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is directly mentioned eleven times in these twenty-five verses. Surely t…
J. B. Hewitt
Christ in the Prison Epistles
1979 Volume 30 Issue 6
Exposition
Philippians – Christ our Life
The Philippian letter breathes the atmosphere of heaven, and as we view our Lord Jesus under different titles (telling us of His grace in birth, His greatness even in death, the glory that is now His,…
J. B. Hewitt
Christ in the Prison Epistles
1979 Volume 30 Issue 4
Exposition
Suggested Analysis of Genesis
Primeval History, chs. 1-11. From the Creation to the Condemnation, 1. 1 to 3. 24. God’s Will declared, first period, (a) The Creation of the cosmos, 1. 1 to 2. 3. The Creation of the universe, 1. 1, …
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Pentateuch
1971 Volume 22 Issue 1
Young Believer’s Section
The Antidote to Apostasy, Jude 1-3; 17-23
In these verses we have seven safeguards and seven exhortations to help us. There is a threefold call in Jude 17-23; adhere to apostolic teaching, vv. 17-19; advance in the separated life, vv. 20, 21 …
J. B. Hewitt
Truth for the Times
1977 Volume 28 Issue 2
Exposition
The Authority of Scripture in This Modern Age
"But understand this, that in the last days there will set in perilous times of great stress and trouble, hard to deal with, and hard to bear”, 2 Tim. 3. 1, Amplified N.T. The Apostasy: its Peril, v. …
J. B. Hewitt
1974 Volume 25 Issue 2
Exposition
The Cross in Galatians
In the religious world the “cross” is taken as a symbol of Christianity. It is an expression that gathers up and contains the great fact and the significance of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ at C…
J. B. Hewitt
1987 Volume 38 Issue 2
Exposition
The Eight Men of James Chapter One
This is a book on Christian psychology and the need for spiritual maturity. James is more concerned about emphasizing duty than about expounding doctrine. His illustrations are arresting; his phrases …
J. B. Hewitt
1986 Volume 37 Issue 4
Exposition
The Industrious Servant of Jehovah
Portrayed by Mark Key words: Ch. 10. 45; 12. 6. INTRODUCTION 1. 1-13 HIS COMINGPersonality v. 1; Promised vv. 2, 3; Prepared for vv. 4, 5.Accepted v. 9; Approved vv. 10, 11; Attacked w. 12, 13. 1. HIS…
J. B. Hewitt
1987 Volume 38 Issue 6
Exposition
The Lion-Hearted Amount the Lions – Daniel 6
In this chapter we can see ‘pictures of the Lord Jesus’.1) The Man of purpose set over the realm, v. 3, cp. Eph. 1. 22; Phil. 2. 10.2) The Man of spotless character and conduct, v. 4, cp. Luke. 23. 4;…
J. B. Hewitt
1994 Volume 45 Issue 2
Study
The Peril of Apostasy, Jude 4-19
Jude realized that the need was not so much to expound the faith as to rally Christians in defence of the faith. There had secretly slipped into the churches ungodly men who were immoral in life and h…
J. B. Hewitt
Truth for the Times
1977 Volume 28 Issue 1
Exposition
The Son of Consolation
Joses, meaning “ fruitful," was such a lovable character that he was surnamed Barnabas by his fellow-apostles. He was not only a man who was generous in disposition, but a man of large physical propor…
J. B. Hewitt
1952 Volume 4 Issue 6
Devotional
Truth for the Times – Introduction
We live in days when the contents of the Christian faith are widely questioned, and new and speculative theologies are being propagated. With this a new morality is advocated by men who are underminin…
J. B. Hewitt
Truth for the Times
1976 Volume 27 Issue 1
Exposition
Why I Believe the Bible
The Holy Scriptures are themselves the permanent and authoritative “form” of God-given revelation. This revelation has been recorded in the original writings by inspiration, both the writers and the w…
J. B. Hewitt
1968 Volume 19 Issue 5
Young Believer’s Section
Zechariah
12. ZECHARIAH This book surpasses all the Minor Prophets in its Messianic emphasis and in its unfolding of events connected with both the first and second advents of our Lord. Isaiah and Zechariah are…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1968 Volume 19 Issue 2
Young Believer’s Section
Zephaniah
From the opening verse of the prophecy we learn something about Zephaniah, the writer. His genealogy is traced back for four generations to Hezekiah, R.V. This would suggest that he was the great-gran…
J. B. Hewitt
Outline Studies in the Minor Prophets
1967 Volume 18 Issue 6
Young Believer’s Section
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