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Luke (Program #59) – Jubilee (6)
In our materialistic society today, people have many things, but are they really happy? Are they really enjoy the freedom that God had intended for them in Christ?
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Proverbs (Program #5) – Touching the Word of God by Our New Man
The book of Proverbs is a wonderful collection of gems of wisdom concerning nearly every aspect of human life. As such, people of many persuasions appreciate Proverbs and often quote these nuggets of wisdom. While we’re thankful for such a book in the Bible, it also presents a dilemma. And that is that an ethical person, even one who has no personal knowledge or experience of our dear Saviour Jesus, can apply these moral precepts to build himself up and enhance his fallen human life. While we may say that society would surely benefit if all men practice these principles and employ the wisdom expressed in Proverbs, yet God’s goal of bringing us, His children, not into an improved condition but into a new creation will be no closer to reality. While we extol God for the wisdom of His word, our real need is not self-improvement but rather that we put off our old man and put on the new man.
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1 John (Program #9) – The Divine Light and the Divine Truth (1)
What is truth? The word “truth” is used a lot in educational circle and in our society today. But the meaning in the New Testament is much deeper and more significant than the common usage that we are used to.
Stay with us today for the life study from 1 John, as we look at the deeper meaning of the word “truth” in the New Testament.
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Deuteronomy (Program #14) – The Rehearsal of the Law (6 & 7)
The word slavery has a powerful and we would say even a painful connotation in today’s society. Yet in the Bible it often refer to to describe an aspect of everyday life for many of God’s people. In a sense it helps to remember that we all had a background of a very real kind of slavery, that’s slavery to the world and to sin. In Christ God has set us all free. This is the promise of the gospel and the hope of our Christian life. For in Christ not only are the captives set free, but the poor and the needy are fed and are clothed and sheltered. Deuteronomy, is an Old Testament book with many wonderful pictures of these aspects of the life of the New Testament believers.
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Ephesians (Program #1) – Introductory Word to the Book of Ephesians (1)
Many books in the New Testament deal with practical issues associated with sinful fallen man with his struggle with problems, failures and difficulties. These books are written from the perspective or point of view of the sinner. One book in the New Testament however, uniquely takes God’s perspective, God’s view – and that book is Ephesians. Because of this very fact, many scholars consider this book to be the highest of all in Scripture. What this book reveals primarily is the church – the church not as an organization, a society or a school but as the center and focus of God’s eternal purpose. God desires us to see the church and to value the church as He does. But in order to do so, we need to climb up to that same vantage point and view the church from the heavenlies as God does.
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