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Old Testament

When this ark of the covenant passed through the midst of the camp, it was literally a representation of the fact that the God-ordained Redeemer Himself was leading them! God’s true and great Joshua was among them, and leading them into great redemptive glory for His name’s sake! Theirs was simply to arise and follow Him in faith.

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I urge each reader, when preparing to study or teach a book of Scripture to consider following this same overall approach. My general impressions on the New Testament sections are given here for the sake of simply stimulating your own study. Formulate your own general impressions of these sections; then move on to general impressions of any (or all) of the books in each section.

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I am convinced that all of Scripture must be interpreted in the light of the eternal redemptive purposes of God in Jesus Christ. This is the broadest area of context, but perhaps the most important, and certainly the most neglected. Until a Bible student has settled in his mind and heart the fact that every passage of Scripture is directly related to the eternal redemptive purposes of God in Jesus Christ, he is not ready to evaluate any other level of context.

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New Testament

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For our daily devotional thoughts Monday through Friday we will answer five key questions each week. These questions will always come in the same order, and will be as follows:

What does this passage reveal to me about the Lord?
What does this passage reveal to me about all true Missions Work?
What does this passage reveal to me about the Local Church?
What does this passage reveal to me about the expectations of the Lord in the life of Every Believer?
How does this passage help me to understand True Prayer?

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To the extent that folks are encouraged to live their lives in accordance with New Testament standards, but not repeatedly brought back to the foundation of their hope to live thus, their lives become examples of a practical denial of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Many, many people are exhorted [as Christians] to just surrender themselves entirely to God, but rarely told that this is possible for them only as they are living and walking in the Spirit, only as they are abiding in the Living Lord by faith.

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Just to summarize what we have seen in this chapter, these atmospheric shifts become the reality in a church that is embracing Galatianism:

1. Responsiveness to the Holy Spirit is replaced with adherence to a set of supposed ‘spiritual markers’ in defining ‘spirituality,’ resulting in a disregard for the fruit of the Spirit.

2. The church shifts from a sense of worshipping God to one of focusing upon men.

3. In the place of liberty in following the leadership of the Spirit, a form of bondage sets in as folks become enslaved to a prescribed set of ‘spiritual markers.’ Many saints actually begin to dread ‘going to church.’

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But, we do well to remember that a church is neither a building nor an ‘institution.’

We must always keep before us what Jesus Himself said: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” When the Holy Spirit speaks here of the church being “the house of God” He is not speaking of a building, or a place.

This “house of God” could as easily be encountered among a handful of early believers meeting in the woods in a country that heavily persecutes true believers, as in any seemingly ‘sacred’ place set aside for Christian use. God sees it as an assembly of genuine disciples among whom He may make His dwelling place. If only we had such high views of every genuine gathering of true disciples!

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The Lord warned His sheep about wolves in sheep’s clothing telling them that “By their fruits ye shall know them.” It is no surprise, then, that as we come toward the conclusion of the canon of Scripture this same Lord plainly identifies the fruit that we ought to expect to see in the lives of those who are believing the Truth, and the fruit that should be expected when people are under a truly redemptive ministry.

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Preaching and Ministry

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I value this book on expository preaching far, far above anything else I have ever studied regarding preaching. There is just nothing to compare with it. Many 'preacher boys' coming out of Bible Colleges and Seminaries these days would set it aside because it demands very serious commitment to the true goals of a genuine messenger of God.

"The text must be accepted and discussed only in the very sense which it had in the mind of the Spirit as he uttered it. The preacher has no concern with, and no right to, any other. It is nervously remarked by the Rev. Richard Cecil, that “the meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture.” The propriety of my law is plain from the fact that the preacher is a herald, and that it is God’s word which is committed to him as his instrument for the redemption of men. If his task is to deliver and commend God’s message, what right has he to change it or to represent it as other than it is?"

Dabney, R. L.. Evangelical Eloquence .

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This is an excellent book on preaching every portion of the Bible in a genuinely Christ-centered way. Chapters 10 and 11 are worth the price of the book. In my opinion, this is a 'must-have' book for all serious-minded messengers of God.

"The redemptive dimension of a particular Scripture may not seem to dominate the text’s landscape because the redemptive features of a passage sometimes appear only in seed form, just as revelation does. Still, to expose the revelation properly we must see its redemptive content and context. We must relate even seed-form aspects of the text to the mature message they signal, or for which they prepare us, in order fully and rightly to interpret what the passage means. You do not explain what an acorn is, even if you say many true things about it (e.g., it is brown, has a cap, is found on the ground, is gathered by squirrels) if you do not in some way relate it to an oak tree. In a similar sense, preachers cannot properly explain biblical revelation, even if they say many true things about it, until they have related it to the redeeming work of God that all Scripture ultimately purposes to disclose."

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Spurgeon was certainly one of the most Christ-centered English preachers. He was also the Head of his own "Preacher's College." This book is a gold mine of blessedness for any newly-called messenger of God. Spurgeon addresses all aspects of the work.

"In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin," even in the best preacher. Give your hearers something which they can treasure up and remember; something likely to be useful to them, the best matter from the best of places, solid doctrine from the divine Word. Give them manna fresh from the skies; not the same thing over and over again, in the same form ad nauseam, like workhouse bread cut into the same shape all the year round. Give them something striking, something that a man might get up in the middle of the night to hear, and which is worth his walking fifty miles to listen to. You are quite capable of doing that. Do it, brethren. Do it continually, and you will have all the attention you can desire."

Alfred Edersheim

This was the first of Edersheim's books I encountered way back when I first started serious Bible study in the late 70s. I discovered that his writing is very detailed and that his knowledge of the Hebrew writings was enormous.

I strongly recommend this book for any serious Bible student that wants a great grasp of the Old Testament writings.

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This book by Edersheim is the best of his works I have used. It is really incredible in its depth and breadth. I highly recommend it to any student of the Gospels and the New Testament in general.

Here is his own identification of his overall purpose for writing it.

"This statement of the general object in view will explain the course pursued in these enquiries. First and foremost, this book was to be a study of the Life of Jesus the Messiah, retaining the general designation, as best conveying to others the subject to be treated.

But, secondly, since Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, spoke to, and moved among Jews, in Palestine, and at a definite period of its history, it was absolutely necessary to view that Life and Teaching in all its surroundings of place, society, popular life, and intellectual or religious development. This would form not only the frame in which to set the picture of the Christ, but the very background of tlie picture itself. It is, indeed, most true that Christ spoke not only to the Jews, to Palestine, and to that time, but — of which history has given the evidence — to all men and to all times."

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While there are numerous excellent books on the Temple and its 'services,' I have found none that explains it all in clearer terms than Edersheim does. This is one of the characteristics that attracts me to Edersheim's writing to begin with.

"We want to be able, as it were, to enter Jerusalem in His train, along with those who on that Palm-Sunday cried, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’; to see its streets and buildings; to know exactly how the Temple looked, and to find our way through its gates, among its porches, courts, and chambers; to be present in spirit at its services; to witness the Morning and the Evening Sacrifice; to mingle with the crowd of worshippers at the great Festivals, and to stand by the side of those who offered sacrifice or free-will offering, or who awaited the solemn purification which would restore them to the fellowship of the Sanctuary. We want to see these rites, as it were, before us—to hear the Temple-music, to know the very Psalms that were chanted, the prayers that were offered, the duties of the priest- hood, the sacrificial worship in which they engaged, and the very attitude of the worshippers—in short, all those details which in their combination enable us vividly to realise the scenes, as if we ourselves were present in them. For, amidst them all, we ever see that one great outstanding Personality, Whose presence filled that house with glory."

Edersheim was a serious scholar of Jewish history and culture. His writing is excellent, even though not as devotional as some others. I highly recommend all of his books for any student that really wants to understand the Jewish underpinnings of the Truth.

G. Campbell Morgan was a very prolific writer, in addition to preaching on both sides of the Atlantic for many years. I have derived great blessing from his insight into Scripture and strong practical application of Truth.

G. Campbell Morgan

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I have numerous books by Campbell-Morgan in my library, and would highly recommend every one of them. But, this one is the best of all in my opinion.

Here is a brief quotation taken from his writing in Matthew.

"In the light of the holiness of His character, and the redemptive purpose of His mission, it is evident that to Him the baptism in water by John was the solemn act by which He assumed a responsibility which by nature He did not share. The multitudes whom John had baptized, had confessed their sins. Jesus had no sins of His own to confess, but by that act He confessed their sins as His own; and was numbered with transgressors, foreshadowing another baptism through which He would pass, in order to accomplish His saving purpose. The King, therefore, is seen facing a kingdom in ruin, and consenting to the only method by which it could be redeemed."

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Morgan looks at the 'life of Christ,' but from the perspective of the Lord's redemptive mission and work. This book really substantiates much of what we identify in our statement of the overall focus of the Bible: The Eternal Redemptive Purposes of God in Jesus Christ.

"It is, however, of equal importance that this wonderful life should be seen as that of the anointed Servant of God, the Christ, Who in all the details of the passing days, was working a larger work, and towards a mightier issue than a mere contemplation of the human life might seem to suggest. Indeed, the beauty of the life itself is only fully appreciated when it is seen as related in its every part to this mighty movement of God towards the redemption of man.

Here therefore attention is to be fixed, not so much upon the words of His lips, or His working of wonders and signs, as upon His uttering of a Divine word, and His accomplishment of a Divine work."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

This book is by far the best resource in my personal library on the Sermon on the Mount. I sincerely believe that any Christian that would read this book all the way through once every ten years would be deeply affected by it every time.

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This is one of my favorite books on the calling of God upon a man to preach/teach the Bible. Morgan has a great deal to say about how to approach the labor of expository preaching of God's Word.

But he also has much to say along the lines of why expository preaching has been largely set aside.

"I would not hesitate to put in the first position: the loss of belief in the authority of the Scriptures, and a diminution in the belief of the Truth. I put this first because I am sure it is the main factor. If you have not got authority, you cannot speak well, you cannot preach. Great preaching always depends upon great themes. Great themes always produce great speaking in any realm, and this is particularly true, of course, in the realm of the Church. While men believed in the Scriptures as the authoritative Word of God and spoke on the basis of that authority you had great preaching. But once that went, and men began to speculate, and to theorise, and to put up hypotheses and so on, the eloquence and the greatness of the spoken word inevitably declined and began to wane. You cannot really deal with speculations and conjectures in the same way as preaching had formerly dealt with the great themes of the Scriptures. But as belief in the great doctrines of the Bible began to go out, and sermons were replaced by ethical addresses and homilies, and moral uplift and socio-political talk, it is not surprising that preaching declined."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones took over pastoral duties at Westminster Chapel when Campbell Morgan retired. Lloyd-Jones had been a medical doctor but labored after his conversion for many years as an excellent expositor of the Word.

Moule published a series of devotional commentaries, the set with the word "Studies" at the end is much more devotional and will grip your heart wonderfully!

H. C. G. Moule

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This book is by far the most wonderful of all the books I have personally read/studied on the book of Colossians. The Philemon part is really good also, but it is the Colossians portion that has really been life-changing for me.

"One thing is certain as to “the Colossian Heresy.” It was a doctrine of God, and of salvation, which cast a cloud over the glory of Jesus Christ. For the present at least, it will be enough to remember this. St Paul, writing to Colossse, had to deal with an error which, whatever else it did, did this—it put Jesus Christ into the background."

"Yes indeed, in the Gospel of God, of Christ, of the Apostles, of the Prophets, Christ is All. He is the Revelation of the Father, the Bond of Man and God, the Giver of the Spirit, CHRIST IS THE CENTRAL SUN

the Merit of the guilty, the Purity of the sinful, the Power of the weak, the everlasting Life for our mortality."

"No surer test, according to the Holy Scriptures, can be applied to anything claiming to be Christian teaching, than this: Where does it put Jesus Christ? What does it make of Jesus Christ? Is He something in it, or is He all ?"

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"The Christ is “given as Head to the Church .” His “Body” is the Church. The Church is His Pleroma , His Plenitude, the sphere in which His blessed attributes are to be realized and displayed through the graces of His people."

"It is a momentous word, Church, Ecclesia. Around it many a great controversy has been fought. Claims have been advanced in its name, as by the Roman power, but not by it only, which would make it as it were an almost substitute for the Lord. It has been presented as a vast organized republic, or oligarchy, or monarchy, worked and managed through an elaborate machinery of human officers."

"It is related more nearly, may we not say ? to heaven than to earth. It is, in its essence, with Christ where He is. It is the wonder of angels. It is the sphere within which glory is given to God as much in eternity (iii. 21) as in time. It (not parts of it, but it) is to be presented to its Lord at last in the heavenly light. Let us beware of lowering the radiant sublimity of the conception by definitions of the Church essentially conditioned by time."

"...it is only too common for really earnest Christians to keep each other's company, and even to take part in united religious work, and to be constantly together as worshippers, aye, perhaps as ministers of the Word and Ordinances of Christ, and yet never, or hardly ever, to exchange a word about HIM, heart to heart; still less to 'speak often one to another,' and share fully together their treasures of experience of what He is and what He has done for them."

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Books on Important Bible Issues

I recommend this book to those Christians that want to examine many of the basics regarding so-called Bible Scholarship and the issues underlying the "right Bible" to use.

I am quite aware that these articles are really only the "tip of the iceberg," so to speak regarding these weighty issues. But, one must start somewhere.

I encourage the serious student to examine sections two through four. I personally found those sections to be helpful earlier in my work, when I was just beginning to examine these serious matters.

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The Bible League Quarterly is an official magazine throughout the world. It contains articles on the Bible and other related subjects (doctrinal, historical, and devotional)... In particular, attention is given to the vexed issue of Bible translations, and The Bible League unashamedly holds to the view that the Authorised Version is the most accurate and faithful English Bible translation available today.

The editor of the Bible League Quarterly is Rev. J.P. Thackway.

Conybeare & Howson

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"The words of the great historian may fill up the picture: 'As regards the manners and mode of life of the Romans, their great object at this time was the acquisition and possession of money. Their moral conduct, which had been corrupt enough before the social war, became still more so by their systematic plunder and rapine. Immense riches were accumulated and squandered upon brutal pleasures. The simplicity of the old manners and mode of living had been abandoned for Greek luxuries and frivolities, and the whole household arrangements had become altered. The Roman houses had formerly been quite simple and were built either of brick or peperino, but in most cases of the former material; now, on the other hand, everyone would live in a splendid house and be surrounded by luxuries. The condition of Italy after the Social and Civil wars was indescribably wretched.'" [p.13]

This is a very brief excerpt taken from their introductory chapter on the conditions of the time during which Paul wrote his epistles. I include it as an example of the kind of writing in the book.

I heartily recommend this scholarly work for those serious students who want depth in their historical studies of the New Testament.

One matter of concern is their willingness to set aside the Authorized Version [as on pp. xxiv-xxv]. I hold without apology to the AV as the only accurate English translation of Scripture.

Old Testament

CLP's Books

New Testament

Preaching and Ministry

Alfred Edersheim

G. Campbell Morgan

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

H. C. G. Moule

Books on Important Bible Issues

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Conybeare & Howson