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Tom Wilson (3)
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Atonement
Chapter 16 of Leviticus is the main source of information in scripture about the Day of Atonement; chapter 17, which deals with the sanctity of blood, is indirectly related to it. Atonement is not a N…
Tom Wilson (3)
Leviticus for Today
1993 Volume 44 Issue 5
Exposition
Christ’s Obedience and Ours
Obedience has to be learned. Disobedience is part of human nature, inherited from Adam. Paul taught that ‘as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners’, Rom. 5. 19. He contrasted this with the …
Tom Wilson (3)
1996 Volume 51 Issue 1
Devotional
Cleanliness
Chapters 11-15 deal with the sensitive area of cleanliness. In our culture we do not easily discuss some of the areas that come into view here. The Hebrews looked at them in a more uninhibited way. Fo…
Tom Wilson (3)
Leviticus for Today
1993 Volume 44 Issue 4
Study
Faith of the Kingdom
THE MAIN THRUST IN CHAPTER 5 was morality; in chapter 6 it is faith. There are four aspects: faith and works, 6. 1-4; faith and prayer, 6. 5-15; faith and fasting, 6.16-18; and faith and possessions, …
Tom Wilson (3)
The Sermon on the Mount
1990 Volume 41 Issue 4
Exposition
His Submissiveness and Ours
Our lord, in submitting to the Father’s will, also yielded to the injustices and violence inflicted upon Him by hostile men. We must also learn submission if we would be like Him. This is an important…
Tom Wilson (3)
1988 Volume 39 Issue 4
Exposition
Introduction and Offerings
As a book Leviticus is misunderstood, even maligned. There are those, perhaps many, who have started reading the Bible through, only to flounder at Leviticus. They have been unable to come to grips wi…
Tom Wilson (3)
Leviticus for Today
1993 Volume 44 Issue 2
Exposition
Looking to the Future
The last five chapters of Leviticus were written with the future specially in mind, a future of God’s covenant blessing in the promised land. Complete fulfilment is still future. Scattered and in unbe…
Tom Wilson (3)
Leviticus for Today
1994 Volume 45 Issue 2
Exposition
Matthew 7: Contrasts of the Kingdom
THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT is one of contrasts. By thesethe standards of the King and His kingdom are emphasized and contrastedwith the shortcomings of the Pharisees and scribes. His…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Sermon on the Mount
1990 Volume 41 Issue 5
Exposition
Morality
C.H. Mackintosh wrote of Leviticus 18-20; ‘This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for on the part of those whom He had…
Tom Wilson (3)
Leviticus for Today
1994 Volume 45 Issue 1
Exposition
Paul’s Epistle to Titus
The Epistle to Titus has much to teach us about both writer and recipient. It is also relevant to our situations today. Although mainly practical and pastoral, each chapter of the letter contains a no…
Tom Wilson (3)
Paul’s Epistle to Titus
1987 Volume 38 Issue 6
Exposition
Paul’s Epistle to Titus
Second Teaching Synopsis: The Grace of God, 2.11-14. In these verses we have what has been described as ‘a masterly epitome of Christian doctrine’. Paul, great exponent of the grace of God, now gives …
Tom Wilson (3)
Paul’s Epistle to Titus
1988 Volume 39 Issue 2
Exposition
Paul’s Epistle to Titus
False Teachers, 1. 10-16 The need for a teaching gift among the elders in Crete was clear. There were different factions in error among the believers, the worst being a Judaic group teaching circumcis…
Tom Wilson (3)
Paul’s Epistle to Titus
1988 Volume 39 Issue 1
Exposition
Principles of the Kingdom
How to interpret the sermon on the mount has given rise to much disagreement among bible teachers. Some regard it as a summary of Matthew’s gospel, others as basically moralistic dissertation. Those o…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Sermon on the Mount
1990 Volume 41 Issue 1
Exposition
Sanctification, a Cardinal Truth
In its simplest terms being sanctified means being set apart for God. It also includes the thought of holiness. The Westminster Catechism describes it as ‘the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are …
Tom Wilson (3)
1993 Volume 44 Issue 1
Study
Separation and Separatism
Before he was martyred Lucian of Antyxth was asked where he came from. He replied, ‘I am a Christian’. He was then asked what his business was and who his family were, to which he again answered, ‘I a…
Tom Wilson (3)
1989 Volume 40 Issue 5
Exposition
Stirring up the Gift of God
Paul’s letters to Timothy were written to encourage him to be spiritually exercised. The younger man was being confronted by people who were teaching false ideas. To counteract this influence, he was …
Tom Wilson (3)
1987 Volume 38 Issue 1
Exposition
The Epistle to the Colossians
Paul had never visited Colosse and wanted to tell the believers something of himself and his calling so that they might better understand his motivation. His was a ministry of involvement. He wasn’t j…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Epistle to the Colossians
1997 Volume 52 Issue 2
Exposition
The Heavenly Bridegroom
There is an increasing tendency, even among evangelicals, to view The Song of Solomon as simply a love story concerning Solomon and a Shulammite maiden. However, in the past many respected bible teach…
Tom Wilson (3)
1995 Volume 50 Issue 4
Devotional
The Incarnate Son
Isaiah 7. 14 is one of the most beloved and disputed Messianic verses in the Old Testament. It is beloved because in clear, unequivocal terms it sets before us the promise of the incarnate Christ’s vi…
Tom Wilson (3)
Old Testament Pictures of Christ
1995 Volume 50 Issue 2
Study
The Kingdom Parables – Part 1
Matthew 13 is the second of our Lord’s three major discourses in the first Gospel, cf. ch. 5-7; 24-25. It consists mainly of a series of seven parables which relate to the time between His two advents…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Kingdom Parables
1991 Volume 42 Issue 4
Exposition
The Kingdom Parables – Part 2
Chapter Twelve of Matthew marked the turning point in the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. As King He had demonstrated His authority by performing many miracles, vv. 9-22. Instead of acknow…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Kingdom Parables – Part 4
1991 Volume 42 Issue 5
Exposition
The Kingdom Parables – Part 3
The first two parables in Matthew 13 are (in some respects) similar to each other. They both refer to the sowing of seed. They are both interpreted by the Lord, unlike the other parables which follow.…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Kingdom Parables – Part 4
1992 Volume 43 Issue 1
Exposition
The Kingdom Parables – Part 4
The remaining five parables in Matthew 13 are concise, but with the first two already looked at they give a comprehensive picture of the age extending from our Lord’s first to His second advent. The p…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Kingdom Parables – Part 4
1992 Volume 43 Issue 2
Exposition
The Lord of Glory
The Second Psalm is one of eleven ‘royal’ psalms, that is, those which have a primary reference to the kings of Israel (see also 18, 20, 21, 45, 72, 89, 101, 110, 132 and 144). It is also however a Me…
Tom Wilson (3)
1995 Volume 50 Issue 2
Devotional
The Morality of the Kingdom
THE LORD JESUS CHRlST began the Sermon on the Mount by outlining the moral principles of His kingdom to the disciples. It is likely that this was a larger group than the twelve; no doubt others who ha…
Tom Wilson (3)
The Sermon on the Mount
1990 Volume 41 Issue 3
Exposition
The Servant Songs of Isaiah
Those, mainly liberal, scholars who claim that two or more authors wrote the prophecy of Isaiah contradict New Testament evidence. The argument that chapters 40-66 were the work of another prophet nam…
Tom Wilson (3)
1996 Volume 51 Issue 4
Exposition
The Wisdom of God
It used to be a byword about the harmony of the Testaments, ‘The Old is by the New revealed; the New is in the Old concealed’. Sadly, some modern Bible teachers are tending to isolate the two Testamen…
Tom Wilson (3)
Old Testament Pictures of Christ
1995 Volume 50 Issue 1
Study
Truth in Troubled Times
It is ironic that when Pilate asked, ‘What is truth?’ he was addressing the One who had earlier said to Thomas, ‘I am … the truth’, John 14. 6. Whatever else he had in mind at that time, he was expres…
Tom Wilson (3)
1994 Volume 45 Issue 4
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