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Pretentious Foliage

October 2, 2020 by Revella Knight

But its appearance was deceptive. Upon searching its branches, from the lowest bough to the topmost twig, Jesus found ‘nothing but leaves.’ It was a mass of pretentious foliage, nothing more.

Bible Study Guides – The Promise of the Spirit

August 3, 2020 by Reformation Herald Publishing

September 20 – 26, 2020 – The lapse of time has wrought no change in Christ’s parting promise to send the Holy Spirit as His representative. It is not because of any restriction on the part of God that the riches of His grace do not flow earthward to men.

Chapter 2 Desire of Ages — Chapter 64

June 4, 2020June 3, 2020 by Jana Wagner

Today many are being “put out of the synagogue” by the conference men for confessing Christ. But let’s make absolutely sure regarding this “fear of the Jews” inference, shall we?

Bible Study Guides – “The Truth of the Gospel”

February 14, 2020 by Unknown

June 2, 2001 – June 8, 2001 – Men may profess to believe the gospel; but unless they are sanctified by the gospel their profession is of no avail. If they do not gain the victory over sin, then sin is gaining the victory over them.

The Seed, Part II

January 30, 2020 by Craig Meeker

The germination of the seed represents the beginning of spiritual life, and the development of the plant is a beautiful figure of Christian growth. . . . At every stage of development our life may be…

Bible Study Guides – The Gifts of the Spirit

November 26, 2019 by Unknown

March 6, 2004 – March 12, 2004 – So long as the Holy Spirit strives with men, the gifts of the Spirit will be seen to a greater or less degree. God placed these gifts in the church ‘for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.’

Bible Study Guides – Fruit of the Spirit; Works of the Flesh

November 26, 2019 by Unknown

February 28, 2004 – March 5, 2004 – The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. When a man is converted to God, a new moral taste is supplied, a new motive power is given, and he loves the things that God loves; for his life is bound up by the golden chain of the immutable promises to the life of Jesus.