“search the scriptures” John 5:39

Series –

Key Men in sacred history
18
Articles in this Series
Adam – The Prototype
IT IS PERHAPS SURPRISING, as well as significant, that so little is set on record regarding Adam, the progenitor of the human race. Authentic data from which to compile an accurate biography of him is…
G. B. Fyfe
1961 Volume 12 Issue 1
Exposition
Abraham the Believer
THE SECOND CHARACTER in this series of sketches presents a distinct contrast to the first one – Adam. While very little is recounted of Adam and his experiences, a great deal is placed on record conce…
G. B. Fyfe
1961 Volume 12 Issue 2
Exposition
Moses – The Man of God
WHEN THE HUMAN RACE COMMENCED, Adam was created as its head: when a family was to be chosen to be God’s elect people Abraham was selected. His descendants, after years of bondage cried unto Jehovah fo…
D. C. Hinton
1961 Volume 12 Issue 3
Devotional
Joshua
‘MOSES MY SERVANT IS DEAD’ – what a blank this must have left in the hearts of the children of Israel. The one leader they had known had been taken from them at a most critical juncture – on the eve o…
D. C. Hinton
1961 Volume 12 Issue 4
Exposition
Samuel the Prophet
THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES, as distinct from the scope of the book of Judges, extends from Judges I to 1 Samuel 7. Throughout, all is seen to be fitful, wilful and unsettled. Moral standards were appall…
C. E. Hocking
1961 Volume 12 Issue 5
Exposition
Saul – the People’s Choice
Saul was the first of the kings of Israel. The duration of his reign was forty years. The phase of history thus opened is known as the united kingdom period. The succeeding reigns of David and Solomon…
C. E. Hocking
1961 Volume 12 Issue 6
Exposition
David – The King of God’s Choice
THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE showed that from God’s angle Israel’s first king failed because of self-will and presumption. In contrast ‘David … a man after mine own heart which shall fulfil all my will’, Acts…
F. W. Peers
1962 Volume 13 Issue 1
Exposition
Solomon
‘So when David was Old … , he made Solomon his son king over Israel’, so reads 1 Chronicles 23.1; but it is important to notice that the choice was in line with the mind of God; ‘and of all my sons . …
F. W. Peers
1962 Volume 13 Issue 2
Exposition
Elijah – the man of power
The bed of the cherith was dry. The impartial course of nature had rendered the prophet a victim of his own prophecy. Though his ministry to God’s people was one of faithful rebuke, he was not thereby…
Clifford Wadey
1962 Volume 13 Issue 3
Exposition
Josiah – the Young Reformer
How vividly young josiah remembered that proud day, only two years before, when his father was crowned king of Judah. But his father when aged twenty-four was murdered by his servants in his own home,…
Clifford Wadey
1962 Volume 13 Issue 4
Exposition
John Baptist
The importance of John the Baptist in the Bible record may be judged from the leading ideas we associate with him. His coming to Israel in the spirit and power of Elijah was foretold in the Old Testam…
R. S. Bowen
1963 Volume 14 Issue 1
Exposition
Peter – Leader, Spokesman, Initiator
That Peter occupied a position of leadership in the early Church no one will doubt, although the Book of the Acts makes it clear that in the sphere of evangelism Paul took the ascendency, whilst James…
A.C. Payne
1963 Volume 14 Issue 2
Exposition
Stephen
Minister – Messenger – MartyrActs 6. 1 to 8. 3 by D. Clapham, Birmingham‘And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.’ These are the pathetic words with which the…
Denis Clapham
1963 Volume 14 Issue 3
Exposition
Paul – Persecutor, Preacher, Prisoner
In the Scriptures, we read of the Apostle to the Gentiles both as a young man and as ‘Paul the aged’, and between these two points is stretched what may surely be called ‘the life of unparalleled suff…
Denis Clapham
1963 Volume 14 Issue 4
Exposition
Timothy
The first notice of this companion of Paul in the Scriptures is in Acts 16. 1. No wonder Paul, who no longer had Barnabas and Mark with him, but only Silas, felt that God had raised up Timothy as a fr…
Tom Bentley
1963 Volume 14 Issue 5
Exposition
John – Disciple, Apostle, Elder
Nero has gone, and the persecution peculiar to his reign goes with him. There is a short lull ere another period of persecution breaks upon the Church. Domitian reigns, the storm breaks out which did …
Tom Bentley
1963 Volume 14 Issue 6
Exposition
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