This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration Going on with Ezekiel 36, at the end of the chapter after God has said «I will» eighteen times, it says in verse 37 «Thus says the Lord God, 'I will [and that's yet one [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration I just want to go briefly through a series of parallels. First of all, as I’ve said, the cause of desolation for both Israel and the church was disobedience and the rejection of [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration Now I want to move on to the picture of restoration which is found in Joel 2. I’ll only read from verse 21 «Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done marvelous [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration Now I want to turn to the book of Joel, if you know where that is. And let me tell you, the minor prophets are minor in length but not in content. Don’t ignore them because [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration Now we’re going back to Psalm 102:14 «For your servants take pleasure in her stones and show favor to her dust». That’s a mark of the servants of the Lord. They take pleasure in [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration Now I want to apply the same principles to the church, the true church. I want to suggest something which may shock some of you, basically I believe the church has been out of its [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration What Peter is saying here is there is a time in God’s program when there’ll be what he calls the times of restoration of all things. Restoration I define this way, as putting [...]

This is an excerpt from: Israel and the Church: Parallel Restoration We’re beginning once again with a proclamation from the Word of God. This one is taken from Daniel 2:20–22, and Daniel 4:34–35. What’s significant about the second part of the [...]

We’re beginning once again with a proclamation from the Word of God. This one is taken from Daniel 2:20–22, and Daniel 4:34–35. What’s significant about the second part of the proclamation is it was made by King Nebuchadnezzar, a Gentile king who’d [...]

This is an excerpt from: How I Became Involved in Israel I have to continue because this is a long narrative. Later God showed Lydia and me very clearly that we were to move to Britain, which we did with great reluctance. But I believe God had His [...]

This is an excerpt from: How I Became Involved in Israel At that time the real tension between Jews and Arabs was really developing. It became unsafe for us to live any longer in an Arab village. During World War II, the Arabs had been very kind [...]

This is an excerpt from: How I Became Involved in Israel Well, a little later I was pacing up and down this depot and the Spirit of God came upon me. Well, I thought, I need to pray for that Danish lady because there she is, she's tired, [...]

This is an excerpt from: How I Became Involved in Israel Well, at the end of three years I was transferred to what was then Palestine. I ended up in a very small medical depot in what was then a little village called Kiriat Motzkin, which is now [...]

This is an excerpt from: How I Became Involved in Israel Just about a week later God baptized me in the Holy Spirit in the same barrack room. I was such a pagan I didn't know you had to go to church to get baptized in the Holy Spirit! And God [...]

This is an excerpt from: How I Became Involved in Israel "For by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship created in Christ [...]

"For by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we [...]

Now I want to turn the tables on you. I want to ask you the final question. And I won't embarrass you, I really want a response. I'm not trying to draw you out; I just want to know as a matter of interest. The second question was will the [...]

So now I don't know how we are doing but, Please ask Brother Derek to deal with the two closing questions on Page 20 of the study guide. These are my responsibilities, I put them in. I'm beginning to wonder whether I should have done it. [...]

Now here's a very good one. It's a little bit long but I'll try and read it. What surprises me is I'm reading without my glasses. I didn't think I could do that. Somebody must have prayed for me. It sounds like, in chapter [...]

I'm still here, I haven't been stoned. Please ask Brother Derek to deal with the two questions on Page 20. I'll do that last, that's the two questions I left. Since God's law is love, please explain Luke 14:26. This is a [...]

Does the local church have the right to establish rules for membership, such as refraining from alcohol, et cetera? This is a very good and important question. We've got to distinguish between rules in two ways. Rules as a means of achieving [...]

The next series of questions is about Israel. And naturally, there are a number of questions. How are the church and Israel related? Does Galatians 3:29 not mean that believers are Abraham's seed adopted Jews? We better look at Galatians 3:29. [...]

Now we come to what is probably the one that could be a little controversial. Everybody knows I'm never controversial! This is about Christians basically taking part in protests or other similar demonstrations against abortion. Let me say, [...]

Let's come now to predestination. And it's not surprising because this is probably one of the most difficult areas of Christian truth, fully to understand and rightly to divide. Let me say at the beginning that I don't believe in the [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 And speaking of this love, Paul goes on in Romans 8 Verses 35-39, The trouble about having preached about Romans is you can't get away from it afterwards. Romans 8:35 and following: Who [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 We come to the third reason in this session, the sixth if we consider the first section, for making the cross central. I hope I've excited you. If I haven't excited you I [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 Let's look in Philippians 3 on this theme for a moment. Philippians 3:7-11. This is Paul's own testimony. But what things were gain to me, those I have counted loss for Christ. And [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 We have to go on. The next reason why we need the cross in the center is because it's the door to God's secret, hidden wisdom. We'll go back to 1 Corinthians 2. Paul has said [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 Look in Romans 5:1, we really don't need to look there, many of you know that. Therefore, being justified by faith we have peace with God. And even then, in Romans 8:1, which says: [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 God did two things through the death of Jesus to deliver us from guilt. Number one, He made provision for the past. So, it says in verse 13 at the end: He forgave us all our trespasses All [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 Now, go back to Colossians 2:13-15 and you find how He did it. I think I enjoy this because of my background in philosophy because there are some benefits in having been a philosopher, and [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 2 This is our second session on the theme of 'The Cross at the Center.' In our previous session I pointed out three major reasons why we have to keep the cross at the center, why [...]

This is our second session on the theme of 'The Cross at the Center.' In our previous session I pointed out three major reasons why we have to keep the cross at the center, why God's plan and our salvation really doesn't work [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 One more reason, this is the third reason why we need the cross. It's through the cross that the supernatural confirmation of God is released for the message we preach. Let's go [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Let's look at Galatians 2:20. This is another confession of Paul. It's interesting to notice how many times Paul himself confessed his faith and his stand. I challenge you to [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Paul makes some amazing statements along this line. 2 Corinthians 12. Have you ever noticed that a lot of people today are busy with 1 Corinthians because it's got all the gifts of the [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Then what is the purpose of the cross, how can we avail ourselves of it? I want to say something that's very easy to say but not always easy to live, which is the purpose of the cross [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Now let's look at one other statement by Paul in Romans 8:31 and following. Again, Paul emphasizes the all sufficiency of the sacrifice of Jesus. Romans 8:31 and following. What then [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 I want to give you a number of different reasons why we need the cross at the center, why nothing else must ever be allowed to take the place of the cross in the church in general, and in [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 Going back for a moment to 1 Corinthians 1, I want to read some verses there because they are my personal testimony. As I've already said, I spent seven years studying Greek philosophy, [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 The theme for this evening is 'The Cross at the Center.' I'll be presenting this theme in two sessions. The theme originates in a conversation that I had with a Christian [...]

The theme for this evening is 'The Cross at the Center.' I'll be presenting this theme in two sessions. The theme originates in a conversation that I had with a Christian friend about two or three years ago. It wasn't a planned [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting But I want to speak about humility as an essential condition for effective prayer and I want to take a number of statements to this effect. Let's look, first of all, before we do that, in [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting Let's turn to one final passage of scripture, Joel 2. This is the passage that the sister had in mind when she spoke about a Joel fast. Joel 2:15: Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting Now, they won many people to the Lord in the cities they visited and then they had to establish churches. First of all, they just had groups of disciples and then they needed to make churches. [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting Now there are many examples in the New Testament of fasting, I just want to take two kinds of examples. They're what I call the individual fast and the corporate fast. In the ministry of [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting Now then, let's consider for a moment people under God's judgment. If the judgment of God were to be proclaimed upon the nation of New Zealand and we wanted to avert it, and that could [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting So, let's look at just a few examples, just two as a matter of fact. First of all, the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16:29-31. Leviticus the 16th chapter, verses 29 to 31. This is a lengthy [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting God has been speaking to me personally just lately about the awful dangers of pride. And Ruth picked up a little book she owned it but had really not paid much attention to it by Andrew Murray [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Power Of Fasting In this session I'm going to continue with some of the secrets of answered prayer. In fact, I'm going to deal with one specific, major key to effective praying. And although this key is [...]