Spiritual Outlines

I.
GOD
A. The Pure Revelation of the Triune God
B. The Triune God in Ephesians
C. God Revealed in the Bible
D. God’s Delight and Good Pleasure
E. Well-Pleasing to God
F. God is Able, the Word is Able
G. God’s Treasure
H. God’s Eternal Purpose
II. CHRIST
A. His Person
1. The Divinity of Christ
2. The Mingling of God with Man
3. I Am
4. Revealed in Books of the Bible
a. Christ in Matthew
b. Christ in John
c. Christ in 1 Corinthians
d. Christ in Colossians
e. Christ in Hebrews
f. Christ in Revelation
B. His Work
1. Incarnation
2. Human Living — Jesus Living by the Father's Life
3. Crucifixion
a. Crucifixion
b. Christ’s Speaking from the Cross
4. Resurrection — The Significance of Christ’s Resurrection
5. Ascension
6. The Lord’s Second Coming
III. THE SPIRIT — The Progressive Revelation of the Spirit in the Bible
IV. THE DIVINE SPIRIT AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT`
V. THE PARTS OF MAN
A. The Parts of Man
B. The Human Spirit in the Old Testament
C. The Human Spirit in the New Testament
D. The Human Spirit in Ephesians
E. Vessels
VI. THE BELIEVERS

A. Their Salvation
1. The Divine Birth
2. Baptism
3. The Mingling of the Triune God with the Believers
4. Salvation
a. The Initial Stage of Salvation —
The Stage of Regeneration
b. The Progressing Stage of Salvation —
The Stage of Transformation
c. The Completing Stage of Salvation —
The Stage of Consummation
d. God’s Complete Salvation —
Judicial Redemption Plus Organic Salvation
B. Their Provisions
1. The Blood of Christ
2. The Zoe (Eternal) Life in the New Testament
3. Life in the Gospel of John
4. The Word: Its Provisions revealed through Metaphors
C. Their Experience
1. Seeking the Lord
2. Turning to the Lord
3. Touching the Lord
4. Receiving Revelation from the Lord
5. Loving the Lord
6. Rejoicing
7. Thanking the Lord
8. Refreshing
9. Filled with God’s New Testament Economy
10. Eating
a. Eating in the Old Testament
b. Eating in the New Testament
11. Drinking
a. Drinking in the Old Testament
b. Drinking in the New Testament
12. Rich toward God
13. Persecuted
14. Poured out for Christ and His Body
15. The Reward
D. Their Practice
1. Morning Watch
2. Eating the Word
3. Calling on the Name of the Lord
4. Six Ropes to Draw Water out of the Wells of Salvation
5. The God-Ordained Way
6. The House in the New Testament
7. One Accord
8. Companions in the Bible
9. The Stewardship in God’s Economy
VII. THE CHURCH
A. The Church in the New Testament
B. The Church in Ephesians
C. The Ground of the Church (one church — one city)
D. The Ground of Unique Worship (O.T. Picture)
E. The Churches (in a province or district)
VIII. GOD’S BUILDING
A. The Revelation of Building in the Bible
B. Stones in the Bible for God’s Building
C. Building in the Gospel of John
D. God’s Building in the New Testament
IX. THE BIBLE — A Romance of a Universal Couple
X. THE COMMON FAITH
XI. THE MYSTERIES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
XII. CRUCIAL VERSES CONCERNING GOD’S ECONOMY
A. Crucial Verses in the Old Testament concerning God’s Economy
B. Crucial Verses in the New Testament concerning God’s Economy
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THE PURE REVELATION OF THE TRIUNE GOD
I. ONE UNIQUE GOD
Deuteronomy 4:35
You were shown these things that you might know that it is Jehovah who is God; there is no other
besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today and bring it to heart that Jehovah is God in heaven above and upon the earth
below; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel, Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one.
Psalm 86:10
For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.
Isaiah 44:6
Thus says Jehovah the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts, I am the First and I am the
Last; And apart from Me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:8
Do not tremble and do not be afraid. Have I not related to you from that time and declared it? And you
are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Or is there any other Rock? I do not know of any.
Romans 3:30
If indeed God is one, who will justify the circumcision out of faith and the uncircumcision through faith.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the
world and that there is no God but one.
Galatians 3:20
But a mediator is not a mediator for one, but God is one.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
II. THE THREE PERSONS OF THE GODHEAD
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become like One of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest
he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever—
Genesis 11:6-7
6. And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is only the
beginning of what they will do; and now nothing which they have purposed to do will be kept from them.
7. Come, let Us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's
speech.
Exodus 3:6
And He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Numbers 6:24-26
24. Jehovah bless you and keep you;

25. Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26. Jehovah lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.
Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us? And I said, Here
am I; send me.
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 1:2
Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
III. ALL THREE BEING GOD
F. THE FATHER
Ephesians 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the full knowledge of Him,
G. THE SON
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of uprightness is the
scepter of Your kingdom.
H. THE SPIRIT
Acts 5:3-4
3. But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to deceive the Holy Spirit and to put
aside for yourself some of the proceeds of the land?
4. While it remained, was it not your own? And when it was sold, was it not under your authority?
Why is it that you have contrived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.
II. ALL THREE BEING ETERNAL
F. THE FATHER
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us, A son is given to us; And the government Is upon His shoulder; And
His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
G. THE SON
Hebrews 1:12
And like a mantle You will roll them up; like a garment they will also be changed; but You are
the same, and Your years will not fail.”
Hebrews 7:3
Being without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor
end of life, but likened to the Son of God, abides a priest perpetually.
H. THE SPIRIT
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
III. THE CO–EXISTENCE OF THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT
Matthew 3:16-17
16. And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were
opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.
17. And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My
delight.
John 14:16-17
16. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever,
17. Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or
know Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6
4. But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

5. And there are distinctions of ministries, yet the same Lord;
6. And there are distinctions of operations, but the same God, who operates all things in all.
2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
all.
Ephesians 2:18
For through Him we both have access in one Spirit unto the Father.
Ephesians 3:14, 16-17a
14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
16. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His
Spirit into the inner man,
17. That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith,...
Revelation 1:4-5
4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and
who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
5. And from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the
earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood
II. THE THREE BEING ONE
P. THE SON BEING CALLED THE FATHER
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us, A son is given to us; And the government Is upon His shoulder; And
His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
John 10:30
I and the Father are one.
John 14:8-11
8. Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father and it is sufficient for us.
9. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? He
who has seen Me has seen the Father; how is it that you say, Show us the Father?
10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I
do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works.
11. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; but if not, believe because of the
works themselves.
Q. CHRIST, THE SON, BEING THE SPIRIT
John 14:16-18, 20
16. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you
forever,
18. I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
20. In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
Romans 8:9-10
9. But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if
anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
10. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of
righteousness.
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-
giving Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17
And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Revelation 5:6
And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders
a Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the
seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS
I. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER ONE

A. THE FATHER
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,
B. THE SON
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the
riches of His grace,
C. THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 1:13-14
13. In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also
believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
14. Who is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise
of His glory.
II. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER TWO
A. THE FATHER
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
Ephesians 2:18
B. THE SON
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:18
C. THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 2:18
III. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER THREE

A. THE FATHER
Ephesians 3:14
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
B. THE SON
Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and
grounded in love,
C. THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 3:16
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power
through His Spirit into the inner man,
IV. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER FOUR

A. THE FATHER
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
B. THE SON
Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism;
C. THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 4:4
One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
V. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS FIVE

A. THE FATHER
Ephesians 5:20
Giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and
Father,
B. THE SON
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with
your heart to the Lord,
C. THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with
Chapter 5 exhorts the believers to praise the Lord, God the Son, with the songs of God
the Spirit, and give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, to God the
Father (Eph. 5:19-20). This is to praise and thank the processed God in His divine trinity
for our enjoyment of Him as the Triune God. 2
2 Corinthians 13:14, Footnote 14 1, W. L.
VI. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER SIX

A. THE FATHER
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,
B. THE SON
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength.
C. THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 6:17
And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God,

GOD REVEALED IN THE BIBLE
I. GOD REVEALED IN THE BIBLE

A. THE GOD OF GODS
Deuteronomy 10:17
For it is Jehovah your God who is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty
and awesome, who does not regard persons and does not take bribes;
Joshua 22:22
The Mighty One, God Jehovah; the Mighty One, God Jehovah; He knows, and may Israel itself
know, whether it was in rebellion, or whether it was in trespass against Jehovah—may You not
save us today—
Psalm 136:2
Give thanks to the God of gods, For His lovingkindness is forever.
Daniel 2:47
The king answered Daniel and said, It is certain that your God is the God of gods and the Lord of
kings and a Revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.
Daniel 11:36
And the king will do as he pleases; and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every
god, and against the God of gods he will speak extraordinary things; and he will prosper until the
indignation is complete; for what has been determined will be done.
B. THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
Matthew 22:32
“I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”? He is not the God of the
dead, but of the living.
Mark 12:26
But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the
section concerning the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, “I am the God of Abraham and the
God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”?
Luke 20:37
But that the dead are raised, even Moses disclosed in the section concerning the bush, when he
calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant
Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to
release Him.
Acts 7:32
“I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.” And Moses trembled
and dared not examine it.
C. THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS
Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant
Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to
release Him.
Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers has raised Jesus, whom you slew by hanging Him on a tree.
Acts 22:14
And he said, The God of our fathers has previously appointed you to know His will and to see the
righteous One and to hear the voice from His mouth;
Acts 24:14
But I confess this to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our
fathers, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets;
D. THE GOD OF THE HEBREWS
Exodus 3:18
And they will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of
Egypt, and you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now let
us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
Exodus 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey
into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God; otherwise He will fall upon us
with pestilence or sword.
Exodus 7:16
And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let My
people go that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But until this very moment you have not
listened.
Exodus 9:1
Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of
the Hebrews, Let My people go that they may serve Me.
Exodus 9:13
And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and present yourself before Pharaoh,
and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go that they may
serve Me.
Exodus 10:3
And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of the
Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go that they
may serve Me.
E. THE GOD OF ISRAEL
Matthew 15:31
So that the crowd marveled, because they saw the dumb speaking, the crippled healthy and the
lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.
Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and accomplished redemption for
His people,
Acts 13:17
The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their sojourn in the
land of Egypt, and with a high arm He led them out of it.
F. THE GOD OF THE LIVING
Matthew 22:32
“I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”? He is not the God of the
dead, but of the living.
Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You err greatly.
Luke 20:38
Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all men are living.
G. THE GOD OF THE SPIRITS
Numbers 16:22
But they fell on their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin
and You be angry with the whole assembly?
Numbers 27:16
Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly,
H. THE GOD OF JUSTICE
Isaiah 30:18
And therefore Jehovah waits to be gracious to you, And therefore He remains on high to have
compassion on you; For Jehovah is a God of justice; Blessed are those who wait for Him.
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Jehovah with your words; but you say, How have we wearied Him? By
saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or,
Where is the God of justice?
I. THE GOD OF TRUTH

Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock—perfect is His work, for all His ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without
injustice; righteous and upright is He.
Psalm 31:5
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth.
Isaiah 65:16
So that he who blesses himself in the earth Will bless himself in the God of faithfulness, And he
who swears in the earth Will swear by the God of faithfulness; Because the former troubles are
forgotten And because they are hidden from My sight.
J. THE GOD OF SALVATION
Psalm 68:20
God is to us A God of deliverance, And with Jehovah the Lord Are the goings forth even from
death.
K. THE GOD OF MY SALVATION
Psalm 18:46
Jehovah lives; and blessed be my rock, And exalted be the God of my salvation,
Psalm 25:5
Guide me in Your truth, and teach me; For You are the God of my salvation; I wait on You all
the day long.
Psalm 27:9
Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in Your anger; You have been
my help. Do not abandon me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalm 51:14
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation; And my tongue will ring
forth Your righteousness.
Psalm 88:1
Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look for Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear
me.
Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will exult in Jehovah; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
L. THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION
1 Chronicles 16:35
And say, Save us, O God of our salvation; And gather us and deliver us out of the nations, That
we may give thanks to Your holy name, That we may glory in Your praise.
Psalm 65:5
By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, You who are the
trust of all the ends of the earth And of the remotest sea;
Psalm 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who day by day loads us with good; God is our salvation. Selah.
Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, For the glory of Your name; And deliver us and expiate our
sins, For Your name's sake.
Psalm 85:4
Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
M. THE GOD OF HEAVEN
Revelation 11:13
And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and seven
thousand men were killed in the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the
God of heaven.
Revelation 16:11
And blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores; and they did not repent of
their works.
N. THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Ezra 5:11
And they returned us an answer in this way, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven
and earth and are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel
built and finished.
O. THE GOD OF BETHEL
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Rise up
now; go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.
P. THE GOD OF JERUSALEM
2 Chronicles 32:19
And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had against the gods of the peoples of the
land, the work of men's hands.
Ezra 7:19
And the vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver in full
before the God of Jerusalem.
Q. THE GOD OF THE SPIRITS OF THE PROPHETS
Revelation 22:6
And he said to me, These words are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the
prophets, has sent His angel to show to His slaves the things which must quickly take place.
R. THE GOD OF PEACE
Romans 15:33
Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Romans 16:20
Now the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be
with you.
Philippians 4:9
The things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these
things; and the God of peace will be with you.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be
preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 13:20
Now the God of peace, He who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of
the sheep, in the blood of an eternal covenant,
S. THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of
all comfort;
T. THE GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE
2 Corinthians 13:1
Finally, brothers, rejoice, be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing, be at peace; and the
God of love and peace will be with you.
U. THE GOD OF ALL GRACE
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you
have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground you.
V. THE GOD OF GLORY
Acts 7:2
And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham
while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
W. THE GOD OF JACOB
Acts 7:46
Who found favor before God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
X. THE GOD OF ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT
Romans 15:5
Now the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind toward one
another according to Christ Jesus,
Y. THE GOD OF HOPE
Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope
in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Z. THE GOD OF MEASURE
2 Corinthians 10:13
But we will not boast beyond our measure but according to the measure of the rule which the
God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach even as far as you.
GOD’S DELIGHT AND GOOD PLEASURE
I. GOD’S DELIGHT
Matthew 3:17
And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My
delight.
Matthew 12:18
“Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul has found delight. I will put
My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the
cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight. Hear Him!
Mark 1:11
And a voice came out of the heavens: You are My Son, the Beloved; in You I have found My delight.
Luke 3:22
And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form as a dove upon Him. And a voice came out of heaven:
You are My Son, the Beloved; in You I have found My delight.
2 Peter 1:17
For He received from God the Father honor and glory, a voice such as this being borne to Him by the
magnificent glory: This is My Son, My Beloved, in whom I delight.
II. GOD’S GOOD PLEASURE
Ephesians 1:5
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
will,
Ephesians 1:9
Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in
Himself,
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure.
WELL–PLEASING TO GOD
I. WELL–PLEASING TO GOD
Luke 10:21
In that hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.
Yes, Father, for thus it has been well pleasing in Your sight.
Luke 12:32
Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father has been well pleased to give you the kingdom.
Romans 12:1
I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in this is well pleasing to God and approved by men.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased
through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we are determined, whether at home or abroad, to gain the honor of being well pleasing
to Him.
Ephesians 5:10
Proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Philippians 4:18
But I have received in full all things and abound; I have been filled, receiving from Epaphroditus the
things from you, a sweet-smelling savor, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was translated so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had
translated him. For before his translation he obtained the testimony that he had been well pleasing to
God.
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to Him: for he who comes forward to God must
believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hebrews 13:16
But do not forget doing good and sharing with others, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Hebrews 13:21
Perfect you in every good work for the doing of His will, doing in us that which is well pleasing in His
sight through Jesus Christ; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
II. PLEASING TO GOD
Galatians 1:15
But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,
III. PLEASING GOD
1 Corinthians 7:32
But I desire you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please
the Lord;
Colossians 1:10
To walk worthily of the Lord to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing
by the full knowledge of God,
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing
men but God, who proves our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Furthermore, brothers, we ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that even as you received from us how
you ought to walk and please God, even as indeed you do walk, that you abound still more.
1 John 3:22
And whatever we ask we receive from Him because we keep His commandments and do the things that
are pleasing in His sight.
GOD IS ABLE, THE WORD IS ABLE
I. GOD IS ABLE
Matthew 3:9
And do not presume to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father; for I tell you that God is
able, out of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able
to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Luke 3:8
Produce then fruits worthy of your repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have
Abraham as our father; for I tell you that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Romans 4:21
And being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able also to do.
Romans 11:23
And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in
again.
Romans 14:4
Who are you who judge another's household servant? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will
be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound unto you, that, in everything always having all sufficiency,
you may abound unto every good work;
Ephesians 3:20
But to Him who is able to do superabundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
which operates in us,
Philippians 3:21
Who will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory, according to
His operation by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.
2 Timothy 1:12
For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and
I am persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit unto that day.
Hebrews 2:18
For being tempted in that which He Himself has suffered, He is able to help those who are being
tempted.
Hebrews 5:7
This One, in the days of His flesh, having offered up both petitions and supplications with strong crying
and tears to Him who was able to save Him out of death and having been heard because of His piety,
Hebrews 7:25
Hence also He is able to save to the uttermost those who come forward to God through Him, since He
lives always to intercede for them.
Hebrews 11:19
Counting that God was able to raise men even from the dead, from which he also received him back in
figure.
James 4:12
One is Lawgiver and Judge, who is able to save and destroy. But who are you who judge your neighbor?
Jude 24
But to Him who is able to guard you from stumbling and to set you before His glory without blemish in
exultation,
II. THE WORD IS ABLE
Acts 20:32
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to
give you the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto
salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
James 1:21
Therefore putting away all filthiness and the abundance of malice, receive in meekness the implanted
word, which is able to save your souls.
GOD’S TREASURE
I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice, and keep My covenant, then you shall be My personal
treasure from among all peoples, for all the earth is Mine.
Numbers 23:21
He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; Jehovah their God is with them,
And the shout of a king is among them.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; it is you whom Jehovah your God has chosen from
among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth to be a people for His personal treasure.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His
personal treasure, from among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And it is Jehovah who has today declared you to be a people for His personal treasure, even as He
promised you; and that you will keep all His commandments;
Deuteronomy 32:9-10
9. For Jehovah's portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10. He found him in a land of wilderness, And in a howling desert waste; He encircled him, cared for him
with all attention; He guarded him like the pupil of His eye.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus says Jehovah of hosts, After the glory He has sent Me against the nations who plunder you; for
he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.
II. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 13:45-46
45. Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking fine pearls;
46. And finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
Acts 20:28
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers to
shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through 5His own blood.
Indicating the precious love of God for the church and the preciousness, the exceeding worth, of the
church in the eyes of God. Here the apostle did not touch the divine life and nature of the church as in
Eph. 5:23-32, but the value of the church as a treasure to God, a treasure which He acquired with His
own precious blood. Paul expected that the elders as overseers would treasure the church as God did....
Acts 20:28, Footnote 285, W.L.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Titus 2:14
Who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify to Himself a
particular people as His unique possession, zealous of good works.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen 1race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired for a possession, so that
you may tell out the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Race, priesthood, nation, and people are all collective nouns, referring to the believers corporately.
As a race, we, the believers, are chosen; as a priesthood, a body of priests, we are royal, kingly; as a
nation, we are holy; as a people, we are God's possession, a possession particularly acquired and owned
by God as His treasure (Titus 2:14 and note 3). Chosen race denotes our descent from God; royal
priesthood, our service to God; holy nation, our being a community for God; and people acquired for a
possession, our preciousness to God. These are all in a corporate sense. Hence, we need to be built
together (v. 5).
1 Peter 2:9, Footnote 91, W.L.
GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE
If we are acquainted with all Scripture, we will clearly see that God’s deep desire is to be expressed,
and, even more, to be represented through man upon this earth. God exists in this universe, but who has
seen Him? God’s deep desire is to be expressed, not through or by Himself, but through man. The New
Testament uncovers this great mystery: God manifested Himself in flesh, in a man. We know God is
real, yet no man had ever seen Him. However, He has now been expressed through humanity. God is
constantly desirous of expressing Himself, using man as His vessel and representative on this earth.
God never ordained anything else to be His representative, holding His authority. Out of the
multimillion items of His creation, God ordained only man to be His representative on this earth. This is
why man was expressly made in God’s image and committed with God’s authority.
The Vision of God’s Building, pg. 13, W.L.
The main purpose of God’s restoration and further creation was to have man, a corporate man, to
express God (Gen. 1:26, 27). The man God created was a corporate man. God did not create many men.
God created mankind collectively in one person, Adam. God created Adam and Adam was a corporate
man, a collective man. …God did not create an individual man, but a corporate man to express Himself.
In verse 26 God said, “Let them”—one man, but the pronoun is “them.” This proves that this man is a
corporate man. In this verse, as the pronoun “us” signifies that God is triune, so the pronoun “them”
signifies that man is corporate. God created such a corporate man in His own image and after His
likeness so that man might express God Himself.
Life-Study of Genesis, Message 6, pp. 65-66, W.L.
I. GOD’S PURPOSE REVEALED IN HIS CREATION OF MAN

A. THE MAN IN CREATION CREATED TO EXPRESS GOD WITH HIS IMAGE AND TO
REPRESENT GOD WITH HIS DOMINION:
Genesis 1:26-28
26. And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the
earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female
He created them.
28. And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and
subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over every
living thing that moves upon the earth.
B. CHRIST AS THE MAN IN PROPHECY COMING TO FULFILL GOD’S ETERNAL
PURPOSE AFTER THE FIRST MAN FAILED GOD IN HIS PURPOSE.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman And between your seed and her seed; He will
bruise you on the head, but you will bruise him on the heel.
Psalm 8:3-6
3. When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have
ordained,
4. What is mortal man, that You remember him, And the son of man, that You visit him?
5. You have made him a little lower than angels And have crowned him with glory and honor.
6. For You have caused him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his
feet:
C. CHRIST AS THE MAN IN FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECY ACCOMPLISHING
GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE:
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is out of heaven.
Hebrews 2:6-9
6. But one has solemnly testified somewhere, saying, “What is man, that You bring him to mind? Or
the son of man, that You care for him?
7. You have made Him a little inferior to the angels; You have crowned Him with glory and honor
and have set Him over the works of Your hands;
8. You have subjected all things under His feet.” For in subjecting all things to Him, He left nothing
unsubject to Him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to Him,
9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death on behalf of
everything.
II. GOD’S PURPOSE FULFILLED IN CHRIST
A. CHRIST EXPRESSED GOD
26. He is the Word of God
John 1:1, 14
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14. And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as
of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
27. He Declared God
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He
has declared Him.
28. To See Christ was to See the Father
John 14:9
Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me,
Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how is it that you say, Show us the
Father?
29. He is the Image of God
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation,
30. He is the Mystery of God
Colossians 2:2
That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the
riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of
God, Christ,
31. He is the Embodiment of the Fullness of God
Colossians 2:9
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
32. He is God Manifest in the Flesh
1 Timothy 3:16
And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the
world, Taken up in glory.
33. He is the Effulgence of His Glory and the Express Image of His Substance
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding
and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
B. CHRIST REPRESENTED GOD
26. When Christ came, the Kingdom of God came
Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to proclaim and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the
heavens has drawn near.
27. Christ cast out Demons to bring in the Kingdom of God
Matthew 12:28
But if I, by the Spirit of God, cast out the demons, then the kingdom of God has come
upon you.
28. Christ Gave His Disciples Authority Over the Power of the Enemy
Luke 10:19
Behold, I have given you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all
the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
29. Christ Received All Authority
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven
and on earth.
III. GOD’S PURPOSE REALIZED WITH THE CHURCH

A. THE CHURCH EXPRESSES GOD
26. The Church is the New Man
Ephesians 2:15
Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create
the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and
holiness of the reality.
Colossians 3:10-11
10. And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to
the image of Him who created him,
11. Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian,
Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.
27. The Church makes known the Multifarious Wisdom of God
Ephesians 3:10
In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious
wisdom of God might be made known through the church,
28. The Church expresses God through the function of all the members
24. But if all prophesy and some unbeliever or unlearned person enters, he is convicted by
all, he is examined by all;
25. The secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling on his face, he will worship God,
declaring that indeed God is among you.
29. The Church expresses God through the Sonship
Ephesians 1:5
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good
pleasure of His will,
30. The Church expresses God through Transformation and Conformation
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the
Lord Spirit.
Romans 8:29
Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image
of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;
B. THE CHURCH REPRESENTS GOD
26. The Gates of Hades cannot prevail against the builded Church
Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and
the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
27. The Church has the Authority to Bind and Loose
Matthew 18:18
Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on the earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
28. God will crush Satan under the feet of the Church
Romans 16:20
Now the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord
Jesus be with you.
29. The Church has to fight against the Enemy
3. For though we walk in flesh, we do not war according to flesh;

4. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful before God for the
overthrowing of strongholds,
5. As we overthrow reasonings and every high thing rising up against the knowledge of
God, and take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ.
Ephesians 6:11-13
11. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of
the devil,
12. For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in
the heavenlies.
13. Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil
day, and having done all, to stand.
IV. GOD’S PURPOSE MANIFESTED IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
A. THE OVERCOMERS EXPRESSING GOD AS PRIESTS OF GOD
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no
authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand
years.
B. THE OVERCOMERS REPRESENTING GOD AS KINGS
26. The Overcoming Saints Receiving Authority to Rule over the Nations
Revelation 2:26-27
26. And he who overcomes and he who keeps My works until the end, to him I will give
authority over the nations;
27. And he will shepherd them with an iron rod, as vessels of pottery are broken in pieces, as
I also have received from My Father;
27. The Overcoming Saints Reigning with Christ a Thousand Years
Revelation 20:4, 6
4. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And I
saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and
because of the word of God, and of those who had not worshipped the beast nor his
image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they lived
and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
6. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; over these the second death
has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for
a thousand years.
V. GOD’S PURPOSE ULTIMATELY CONSUMMATED AND MANIFESTED IN THE NEW
JERUSALEM
A. THE NEW JERUSALEM EXPRESSING GOD
(In the Appearance of God for the Expression of God in Eternity)
Revelation 4:2-3
2. Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the
throne there was One sitting;
3. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and there was a
rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance.
Revelation 21:10-11
10. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
11. Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as
crystal.
B. THE NEW JERUSALEM REPRESENTING GOD
26. The New Jerusalem Possessing the Divine Authority of the Headship
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street.
27. Those in the New Jerusalem Reigning for Eternity
Revelation 22:5
And night will be no more; and they have no need of the light of a lamp and of the light
of the sun, for the Lord God will shine upon them; and they will reign forever and ever.
VI. CRUCIAL MINISTRY

A. Hebrews Life-Study, Message 7, pp. 80-86
B. Outlines for Training, Book 1, Number 5, “God’s Eternal Purpose”, pp. 27-32
THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST
I. THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us, A son is given to us; And the government Is upon His shoulder; And His name
will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel”
(which is translated, God with us).
Isaiah 40:3; Matthew 3:3
3. The voice of one who cries In the wilderness: Make clear The way of Jehovah; Make straight in the desert
A highway for our God.
3. For this is he who was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “A voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight His paths.”
Isaiah 31:5; Matthew 23:37
5. Like flying birds So Jehovah of hosts will protect Jerusalem; He will protect and deliver it; He will pass
over and rescue it.
37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I desired to
gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
Mark 2:5-7
5. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Child, your sins are forgiven.
6. But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
7. Why is this man speaking this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except One, God?
John 1:1, 14
14. And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only
Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
John 5:17-18
17. But Jesus answered them, My Father is working until now, and I also am working.
18. Because of this therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath
but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
Exodus 3:13-14; John 8:24, 28, 56-58
13. Then Moses said to God, If I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has
sent me to you, and they say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14. And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And he said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I
AM has sent me to you.
24. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your
sins.
28. Jesus therefore said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am, and that I do
nothing from Myself, but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things.
56. Your father Abraham exulted that he would see My day, and he saw it and rejoiced.
57. The Jews then said to Him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?
58. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.
John 10:30
John 10:33
The Jews answered Him, We are not stoning You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You,
being a man, are making Yourself God.
John 14:9
Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? He who
has seen Me has seen the Father; how is it that you say, Show us the Father?
John 20:28
Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God!
Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is God
over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Philippians 2:5-6
5. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

6. Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped,
Colossians 2:9
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of
Your kingdom.
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might know Him
who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Revelation 1:8; 22:12-13, 20
8. I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, He who is and who was and who is coming, the
Almighty.
12. Behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me to render to each one as his work is.
13. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
20. He who testifies these things says, Yes, I come quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
Isaiah 44:6; Revelation 1:17-18
6. Thus says Jehovah the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts, I am the First and I am the
Last, And apart from Me there is no God.
17. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead; and He placed His right hand on me, saying, Do not fear; I
am the First and the Last
18. And the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of
death and of Hades.
THE MINGLING OF GOD WITH MAN

I. THE TYPE IN LEVITICUS
Leviticus 2:4
And when you present an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be of fine flour,
unleavened cakes mingled with oil or unleavend wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus 7:12
If he presents it for a thanksgiving, then he shall present with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened
cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and saturated cakes of fine flour.
II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TYPE IN LEVITICUS

A. FINE FLOUR TYPIFYING THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST
Matthew 26:26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and He broke it and gave it to the
disciples and said, Take, eat; this is My body.
23. For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in
which He was betrayed took bread,
24. And having given thanks, He broke it and said, This is My body, which is given for you; this do
unto the remembrance of Me.
B. OIL TYPIFYING THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me; Because Jehovah has anointed Me To bring good
news to the afflicted; He has sent Me to bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted, To proclaim
liberty to the captives, And the opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to announce the gospel to the
poor; He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to
send away in release those who are oppressed,
Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed
You with the oil of exultant joy above Your partners”;
III. MINGLING PORTRAYED IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST

A. ORIGIN OF CHRIST
23. In His divinity
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
24. In His humanity
Matthew 1:1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
B. CONCEPTION AND BIRTH OF CHRIST
23. Conceived of the Holy Spirit, having the essence of God
Matthew 1:20
But while he pondered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a
dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for that
which has been begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing which is born
will be called the Son of God.
24. Born of a human virgin, having the essence of man
Luke 1:31
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call His name
Jesus.
Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
under law,
C. THE LIVING OF CHRIST
23. As the Son of Man
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a
ransom for many.
24. As the Son of God
Matthew 27:54
Now the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and
the things that happened, became greatly frightened, saying, Truly this was the Son of
God.
IV. THE MINGLING AS SEEN IN CHURCH HISTORY

A. CYRIL EXPOUNDING ON ISAIAH 6:6
And searching according to our power into the depth of the vision, we say that none other save
our Lord Jesus Christ is the spiritual coal laid on the altar whereon by us it gives forth the sweet
savour of incense to God the Father: For through Him have we had access and are acceptable,
offering the spiritual worship....
And He is compared to a coal, yet by a true concurrence: they are all but knit together unto
union. For the fire entering into the wood, will transelement it somehow into its own glory and
might, albeit it has retained what it was.
Cyril of Alexandria, Against Nestorius, Tome II, pp. 41-42
This illustration was used along with that of iron heated by fire to show that just as the coal or
iron is penetrated by fire, each retaining its own properties, in the same way the humanity of
Christ is penetrated by His divinity; each retains its properties or inherent natures, but each
penetrates the other.
Testimony of Church History Regarding the Mystery

of the Mingling of God with Man, pg. 24, B.F.
B. MARTIN LUTHER—EXPOUNDING ON JOHN 6:57
This applies in every respect except that we are not one natural essence with God as Christ is.
For humanity and divinity are not one natural single being; but in this one indivisible Person they
are so united that the one cannot be separated from the other; just as sugarwater is still water, but
the sugar is so blended with the water that the two cannot be separated even though they are two
distinct constituents. This is, admittedly, not a perfect comparison; but it shows, at least after a
fashion, how Christ, our true Savior, is God and man in such a manner that if a person lays hold
of His humanity, he also has His divinity. Just as you find real sugar in sugarwater, so the
divinity and the humanity of Christ form one cake.
Testimony of Church History regarding the Mystery

C. MADAM GUYON—EXPOUNDING ON THE SONG OF SONGS
It is only to God that the souls can be thus united, because such is its nature by creation. This is
what Saint Paul calls being changed into the same image (2 Cor. 3:18), and the Savior, oneness
(John 17:11, 21)....It is as when a drop of water is let fall into a cup of wine; it loses its own
appropriate form and character, and is apparently changed into wine; but its being and substance
always remains entirely distinct; so that, if it were the will of God, an Angel could, at any time,
separate the identical drop.
Testimony of Church History Regarding the Mystery

V. ILLUSTRATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. GRAFTING
Romans 11:17, 19
17. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in
among them and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the olive tree,
19. You will say then, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
B. THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for
apart from Me you can do nothing.
It was in connection with the Parable of the Vine that our Lord first used the expression,
“Abide in Me.” That parable, so simple, and yet so rich in its teaching, gives us the best and most
complete illustration of our Lord's command, and the union to which He invites us. The parable
teaches us the nature of that union. The connection between the vine and the branch is a living
one. No external, temporary union will suffice; no work of man can effect it: the branch, whether
an original or an engrafted one, is such only by the Creator's own work, in virtue of which the
life, the sap, the fatness, and the fruitfulness of the vine communicate themselves to the branch.
And just so it is with the believer too. His union with his Lord is no work of human wisdom or
human will, but an act of God, by which the closest and most complete life-union is effected
between the Son of God and the sinner. “God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts.” The same Spirit which dwelt and still dwells in the Son, becomes the life of the believer;
in the unity of that one Spirit, and the fellowship of the same life which is Christ, he is one with
Him. As between the vine and the branch, it is a life-union that makes them one
Abide in Christ, pg. 27, A.M.
C. EATING
John 6:56-57
56. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him.
57. As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who 1eats Me, he also
shall live because of Me.
To eat is to take food into us that it may be assimilated organically into our body. Hence, to
eat the Lord Jesus is to receive Him into us that He may be assimilated by the regenerated new
man in the way of life. Then we live by Him whom we have received. It is by this that He, the
resurrected One, lives in us ([John] 14:19-20).
John 6:57, Footnote 571, W.L.
VI. THE INITIATION OF THE MINGLING IN OUR EXPERIENCE—OUR SPIRIT
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:16
The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
VII. MINGLING IN THE BELIEVER’S EXPERIENCE
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and
the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave
Himself up for me.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace unto me did not turn out to be in vain, but, on the
contrary, I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I but the grace of God which is with me.
Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6
15. For you have not received a spirit of slavery bringing you into fear again, but you have received a spirit of
sonship in which we cry, Abba, Father!
6. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father!
II. THE MINGLING SHOWN THROUGH THE CHURCH
Acts 8:3; 9:4
3. But Saul was devastating the church, entering house after house; and dragging off men and women, he
delivered them to prison.
4. And he fell on the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?
24. But if all prophesy and some unbeliever or unlearned person enters, he is convicted by all, he is examined
by all;
25. The secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that
indeed God is among you.
Hebrews 2:12
Saying, “I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church 3I will sing hymns of praise
to You.”
This is the firstborn Son’s praising of the Father within the Father’s many sons in the church
meetings. When we, the many sons of God, meet as the church and praise the Father, the firstborn Son
praises the Father in our praising. It is not that He praises the Father apart from us and alone; rather, He
praises within us and with us through our praising. In our singing He sings hymns of praise to the
Father. If then we do not sing, how can He sing? The more we sing to the Father, the more we enjoy His
presence, His moving, His anointing, and His life-imparting within us. Thus we will grow in Him and be
brought into His glorification above all.
Hebrews 2:12, Footnote 123, W.L.
I AM
John 8:24
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in
your sins.
John 8:28
Jesus therefore said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am, and that I
do nothing from Myself, but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things.
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.
John 18:5-8
5. They answered Him, Jesus the Nazarene. He said to them, I am. And Judas also, who was betraying Him,
was standing with them.
6. When therefore He said to them, I am, they drew back and fell to the ground.
7. Then again He asked them, Whom do you seek? And they said, Jesus the Nazarene.
8. Jesus answered, I told you that I am; if therefore you seek Me, let these go away,
II. THE BREAD OF LIFE
John 6:35
Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who
believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.
John 6:41
The Jews therefore murmured concerning Him because He said, I am the bread that came down out of
heaven.
John 6:48
I am the bread of life.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever;
And the bread which I will give is My flesh, given for the life of the world.
III. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
John 8:12
Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall by no
means walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 9:5
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
IV. THE DOOR
John 10:7
Jesus therefore said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you that I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:9
I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and go out and shall find
pasture.
V. THE GOOD SHEPHERD
John 10:11
I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:14
I am the good Shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me,
VI. THE SON OF GOD
John 10:36
Do you say of Him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You are blaspheming,
because I said, I am the Son of God?
VII. THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall
live;
VIII. THE WAY, THE REALITY, AND THE LIFE
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through
Me.
IX. THE TRUE VINE
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman.
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart
from Me you can do nothing.
X. THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA
Revelation 1:8
I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, He who is and who was and who is coming, the
Almighty.
Revelation 21:6
And He said to me, They have come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
I will give to him who thirsts from the spring of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
XI. THE FIRST AND THE LAST

Revelation 1:17
And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead; and He placed His right hand on me, saying, Do not fear;
I am the First and the Last
Revelation 22:13
XII. THE LIVING ONE
Revelation 1:17-18
17. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead; and He placed His right hand on me, saying, Do not fear; I
am the First and the Last
18. And the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of
death and of Hades.
XIII. THE BEGINNING AND THE END
Revelation 21:6
Revelation 22:13
XIV. THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID
Revelation 22:16
I Jesus have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the Root and the
Offspring of David, the bright morning star.
XV. THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR
Revelation 22:16
CHRIST IN MATTHEW
1. THE SON OF DAVID
Matthew 1:1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: (Matthew 9:27;
12:23; 15:22; 20:30, 31; 21:9, 15)
2. THE SON OF ABRAHAM
Matthew 1:1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
3. JESUS
Matthew 1:21
And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from
their sins.
4. EMMANUEL—GOD WITH US
Matthew 1:23
5. THE KING OF THE JEWS
Matthew 2:2; 27:11
2. Saying, Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star at its rising and have
come to worship Him.
11. And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, Are You the King of the
Jews? And Jesus said, It is as you say.
6. A RULER
Matthew 2:6
“And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, by no means are you the least among the princes of Judah; for out
of you shall come forth a Ruler, One who will shepherd My people Israel.”
7. THE SON
Matthew 2:15
And was there until the death of Herod, in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet
might be fulfilled, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
8. A NAZARENE
Matthew 2:23
And he came and settled in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might
be fulfilled, He shall be called a Nazarene.
9. A GREAT LIGHT
Matthew 4:16
The people sitting in darkness have seen a great light; and to those sitting in the region and shadow of
death, to them light has risen.”
10. A TEACHER
Matthew 8:19
And a scribe came near and said to Him, Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.
(Matthew 12:38; 19:16; 23:8)
11. THE SON OF MAN
Matthew 8:20
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have roosts, but the Son of Man
has nowhere to lay His head. (Matthew 9:6; 11:19; 12:8, 32, 40; 13:37, 41; 16:13, 27, 28; 19:28; 25:31;
26:64)
12. A PHYSICIAN
Matthew 9:12
Now when He heard this, He said, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are
ill.
13. THE BRIDEGROOM
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with
them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they
will fast.
Matthew 25:1
At that time the kingdom of the heavens will be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went
forth to meet the bridegroom.
The bridegroom signifies Christ as the pleasant and attractive person (John 3:29; Matt. 9:15).
Matthew 25:1, Footnote 16, W.L.
14. THE UNSHRUNK CLOTH
Matthew 9:16
No one puts a patch of unfulled cloth on an old garment, for that which fills it up pulls away from the
garment, and a worse tear is made.
15. THE NEW WINE
Matthew 9:17
Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out,
and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
16. THE SHEPHERD
Matthew 9:36
And seeing the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and cast
away like sheep not having a shepherd.
17. THE LORD OF THE HARVEST
Matthew 9:38
Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest.
18. WISDOM
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking; and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a
friend of tax collectors and sinners. Yet wisdom is justified by her works.
19. THE REAL DAVID
Matthew 12:3
But He said to them, Have you not read what 2David did when he became hungry, and those who were
with him;
The Lord's word here implies that He is the real David. In the ancient time David and his followers,
when rejected, entered into the house of God and ate the bread of the presence (v. 4), seemingly
breaking the Levitical law. Now the real David and His followers were rejected, and the disciples took
action to pick ears of grain and eat, seemingly going against the sabbatical regulation. Just as David and
his followers were not held guilty, so Christ and His disciples should not have been condemned.
20. THE GREATER TEMPLE
Matthew 12:6
But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.
21. THE LORD OF THE SABBATH
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
22. GOD’S SERVANT
Matthew 12:18
My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles.
23. THE BELOVED
Matthew 12:18
My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles. (Matthew 3:17; 17:5)
24. THE ONE WHO IS MORE THAN JONAH
Matthew 12:41
Ninevite men will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they
repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something more than Jonah is here.
25. THE ONE WHO IS MORE THAN SOLOMON
Matthew 12:42
The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because
she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something more than
Solomon is here.
26. THE SOWER
Matthew 13:3
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow.
27. THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE
Matthew 13:27
And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your
field? Where then did the tares come from?
28. A MAN
Matthew 13:44
The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid, and in his
joy goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
29. A MERCHANT
Matthew 13:45
Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking fine pearls;
30. A PROPHET
Matthew 13:57
And they were stumbled because of Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except
in his own country and in his own house.
31. THE SON OF GOD
Matthew 14:33; 16:16
33. And those who were in the boat worshipped Him, saying, Truly You are the Son of God.
16. And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
(Matthew 4:3, 6; 8:29; 27:40, 43, 54)
32. THE CHILDREN’S BREAD
Matthew 15:26
But He answered and said, It is not good to take the children's 1bread and throw it to the little dogs.
The heavenly King's ministry in all His visits created opportunities for Him to reveal Himself further.
In the situations created in chs. 9 and 12, He had opportunities to reveal Himself as the Physician, the
Bridegroom, the new cloth, the new wine, the Shepherd, the real David, the greater temple, the Lord of
the harvest, the One who is more than Jonah, and the One who is more than Solomon. Here another
opportunity was created for Him to reveal Himself, this time as the children's bread. The Canaanite
woman considered Him the Lord—a divine person—and the Son of David—a royal descendant, great
and high in reign. But He unveiled Himself to her as small pieces of bread, good for food. This implies
that as the heavenly King, He rules over His people by feeding them with Himself as bread. We can be
the proper people in His kingdom only by being nourished with Him as our food. To eat Christ as our
supply is the way to be the kingdom people in the reality of the kingdom.
33. THE CRUMBS WHICH FALL FROM THE MASTERS’ TABLE
Matthew 15:27
And she said, Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
34. THE CHRIST
Matthew 16:16
And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
35. THE ROCK
Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of
Hades shall not prevail against it.
36. TODAY’S MOSES AND TODAY’S ELIJAH
Matthew 17:3-5, 8
3. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with Him.
4. And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You are willing, I will make
three tents here, one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah.
5. While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the
8. And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw 1no one except Jesus Himself alone.
Peter proposed to keep Moses and Elijah, i.e., the law and the prophets, with Christ, but God took
Moses and Elijah away, leaving no one except Jesus Himself. The law and the prophets were shadows
and prophecies, not the reality; the reality is Christ. Now that Christ, the reality, is here, the shadows and
prophecies are no longer needed. No one except Jesus Himself should remain in the New Testament.
Jesus is today's Moses; as such, He imparts the law of life into His believers. Jesus is also today's Elijah;
as such, He speaks forth God within His believers. This is God's New Testament economy.
37. THE DELIGHT OF GOD
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the
38. A HOUSEHOLDER
Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, who is a householder, who went out early in the morning
to hire workmen for his vineyard.
39. THE CORNERSTONE
Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, “The stone which the builders rejected, this
has become the head of the corner. This was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes”?
40. THE STUMBLING STONE AND SMITING STONE
Matthew 21:44
And he who falls on this stone shall be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it shall crush him to
powder and scatter him like chaff.
41. THE LORD
Matthew 22:43-44
43. He said to them, How then does David in spirit call Him Lord, saying,
44. “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies underneath Your feet”?
42. THE INSTRUCTOR
Matthew 23:10
Neither be called instructors, because One is your Instructor, the Christ.
43. A HEN
Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I desired
to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
44. A THIEF
Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the householder had known in which watch the thief was coming, he would have
watched and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
45. THE MASTER

Matthew 24:45
Who then is the faithful and prudent slave, whom the master has set over his household to give them
food at the proper time?
CHRIST IN JOHN
1. THE WORD
John 1:1, 14
2. THE TABERNACLE
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only
3. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
John 1:18; 3:16
18. No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has
declared Him.
16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes into Him
would not perish, but would have eternal life.
4. THE LAMB OF GOD
John 1:29, 36
29. The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of
the world!
36. And looking at Jesus walking, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God!
5. THE SON OF GOD
John 1:34
And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.
(John 1:49; 9:35-37; 10:36; 20:31)
6. THE MESSIAH (CHRIST)

John 1:41
He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah (which translated
means Christ).
(John 4:25, 29; 7:26, 31, 41-42; 20:31)
7. THE KING OF ISRAEL
John 1:49
Nathanael answered Him, Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel. (John 12:13)
8. THE SON OF MAN (THE LADDER JOINING EARTH TO HEAVEN)
John 1:51
And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You will see heaven opened and the angels of God
ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
9. THE GOOD WINE
John 2:10
And said to him, Every man sets out the good wine first, and when they have drunk freely, then that
which is worse; you have kept the good wine until now.
10. THE BRASS SERPENT
John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
11. THE BRIDEGROOM
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him,
rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This joy of mine therefore is made full.
12. THE LIVING WATER
John 4:10
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give Me a
drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. (John 7:37-38)
13. THE BREAD OF LIFE
John 6:35, 48
35. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who
48. I am the bread of life.

14. THE LIVING BREAD
John 6:51
15. THE SPIRIT
John 6:63a; 7:39
63. It is the Spirit who gives life…
39. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive;
for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
16. THE HOLY ONE OF GOD
John 6:69
And we have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.
17. THE LORD
John 8:11
And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no
more.
(John 13:13-14)
18. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
John 8:12; 9:5
12. Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall by no
5. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

19. I AM
John 8:24, 28, 58
24. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your
sins.
58. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.
20. THE DOOR
John 10:7, 9
7. Jesus therefore said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you that I am the door of the sheep.
9. I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and go out and shall find
pasture.
21. THE GOOD SHEPHERD
John 10:11, 14
11. I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
14. I am the good Shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me,
22. THE RESURRECTION
John 11:25
live;
23. THE GRAIN OF WHEAT
John 12:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if
it dies, it bears much fruit.
24. THE TEACHER
John 13:13-14
13. You call Me the Teacher and the Lord, and you say rightly, for I am.
14. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
(John 20:16)
25. THE WAY
John 14:6
Me.
26. THE REALITY
John 14:6
Me.
27. THE LIFE
John 14:6
Me.
(John 11:25)
28. THE FATHER
John 14:9-10
9. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? He who has
seen Me has seen the Father; how is it that you say, Show us the Father?
10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not
speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works.
29. THE SPIRIT OF REALITY (THE COMFORTER)
John 14:16-18, 20
30. THE TRUE VINE
John 15:1, 5
1. I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman.
5. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart
from Me you can do nothing.
31. JESUS THE NAZARENE
John 18:5
They answered Him, Jesus the Nazarene. He said to them, I am. And Judas also, who was betraying
Him, was standing with them.
(John 18:7; 19:19)
32. THE KING OF THE JEWS
John 19:19
And Pilate wrote a notice also and put it on the cross; and it was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE,
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
(John 19:3, 21)
CHRIST IN 1 CORINTHIANS
1. THE PORTION GIVEN TO US BY GOD
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, the called
saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who is theirs and
ours:
2. THE POWER OF GOD
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
3. THE WISDOM OF GOD
1 Corinthians 1:24
4. RIGHTEOUSNESS
1 Corinthians 1:30
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and
sanctification and redemption,
5. SANCTIFICATION
1 Corinthians 1:30
6. REDEMPTION
1 Corinthians 1:30
7. THE LORD OF GLORY FOR OUR GLORIFICATION
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God predestined
before the ages for our glory,
8. THE DEPTHS (DEEP THINGS) OF GOD
1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us God has revealed them through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of
God.
9. THE UNIQUE FOUNDATION OF GOD’S BUILDING
1 Corinthians 3:11
For another foundation no one is able to lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
10. THE PASSOVER
1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our Passover,
Christ, also has been sacrificed.
11. THE UNLEAVENED BREAD
1 Corinthians 5:8
So then let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
12. SPIRITUAL FOOD
1 Corinthians 10:3
And all ate the same spiritual food,
13. SPIRITUAL DRINK
1 Corinthians 10:4
And all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them, and the
rock was Christ.
14. THE SPIRITUAL ROCK
1 Corinthians 10:4
rock was Christ.
15. THE HEAD
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and
God is the head of Christ.
16. THE BODY
1 Corinthians 12:12
For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are
one body, so also is the Christ.
17. THE FIRSTFRUITS
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
18. THE SECOND MAN
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is out of heaven.
19. THE LAST ADAM
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving
Spirit.
20. THE LIFE–GIVING SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 15:45
Spirit.
CHRIST IN COLOSSIANS
1. THE ALLOTTED PORTION OF THE SAINTS
Colossians 1:12
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the
light;
2. THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD
Colossians 1:15a
Who is the image of the invisible God…
3. THE FIRSTBORN OF ALL CREATION
Colossians 1:15b
...the Firstborn of all creation,
4. THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD
Colossians 1:18
And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He
Himself might have the first place in all things;
5. THE ONE IN WHOM ALL THE FULLNESS WAS PLEASED TO DWELL
Colossians 1:19
For in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell
6. THE MYSTERY OF GOD’S ECONOMY
Colossians 1:27
To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
7. THE MYSTERY OF GOD
Colossians 2:2
That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full
assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,
8. THE REALITY OF ALL POSITIVE THINGS

Colossians 2:16-17
1. Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the
Sabbath,
2. Which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ.
9. THE CONSTITUENT OF THE NEW MAN
Colossians 3:11
Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free
man, but Christ is all and in all.
CHRIST IN HEBREWS
1. THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS
Hebrews 1:2
Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through
whom also He made the universe;
2. THE EFFULGENCE OF GOD’S GLORY
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and bearing all
things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high;
3. THE IMPRESS OF HIS SUBSTANCE
Hebrews 1:3
Majesty on high;
4. THE FIRSTBORN SON
Hebrews 1:5-6
5. For to which of the angels has He ever said, “You are My Son; this day have I begotten You”? And again,
“I will be a Father to Him, and He will be a Son to Me”?
6. And when He brings again the Firstborn into the inhabited earth, He says, “And let all the angels of God
worship Him.”
5. THE SON OF GOD—AS GOD
Hebrews 1:8
Your kingdom.
6. THE SON OF MAN—AS MAN
Hebrews 2:6-7, 9
6. But one has solemnly testified somewhere, saying, “What is man, that You bring him to mind? Or the son
of man, that You care for him?
7. You have made Him a little inferior to the angels; You have crowned Him with glory and honor and have
set Him over the works of Your hands;
9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death on behalf of everything.
7. THE AUTHOR OF SALVATION
Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many
sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
8. THE SANCTIFIER
Hebrews 2:11
For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not
ashamed to call them brothers,
9. THE APOSTLE
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our
confession, Jesus,
10. THE HIGH PRIEST
Hebrews 2:17
Hence He should have been made like His brothers in all things that He might become a merciful and
faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 4:14
Having therefore a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us
hold fast the confession.
Hebrews 5:10
Being addressed by God as a High Priest according to the order of Melchisedec;
Hebrews 7:26
For such a High Priest was also fitting to us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners and
having become higher than the heavens,
Hebrews 8:1
Now in the things which are being said the chief point is this: We have such a High Priest, who sat down
on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
Hebrews 9:11
But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things that have come into being, through the
greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,
(Hebrews 3:1; 5:5; 6:20; 8:3; 10:21)
11. THE FORERUNNER
Hebrews 6:20
Where the Forerunner, Jesus, has entered for us, having become forever a High Priest according to the
order of Melchisedec.
12. THE SURETY
Hebrews 7:22
By so much Jesus has also become the surety of a better covenant.
13. A MINISTER
Hebrews 8:2
A Minister of the holy places, even of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
14. THE MEDIATOR
Hebrews 8:6
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as He is also the Mediator of a better
covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.
Hebrews 9:15
And because of this He is the Mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for
redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who have been called might receive the
promise of the eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaks something
better than that of Abel.
15. THE AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH
Hebrews 12:2
Looking away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured
the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
CHRIST IN REVELATION
1. JESUS CHRIST
Revelation 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must quickly
take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John,
2. THE FAITHFUL WITNESS
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the
Revelation 3:14
And to the messenger of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true
Witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
3. THE FIRSTBORN OF THE DEAD
Revelation 1:5
4. THE RULER OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH
Revelation 1:5
5. THE SON OF GOD
Revelation 2:18
And to the messenger of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, He who has
eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like shining bronze:
6. THE SON OF MAN
Revelation 1:13
And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet,
and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle.
7. THE FIRST AND THE LAST
Revelation 1:17
And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead; and He placed His right hand on me, saying, Do not fear;
I am the First and the Last
Revelation 2:8
And to the messenger of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last, who
became dead and lived again:
Revelation 22:13
8. THE BEGINNING AND THE END
Revelation 22:13
9. THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA
Revelation 21:6
Revelation 22:13
10. THE LIVING ONE
Revelation 1:18
And the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of
death and of Hades.
11. THE HOLY ONE
Revelation 3:7
And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy One, the true One,
the One who has the key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens:
12. THE TRUE ONE
Revelation 3:7
And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy One, the true One,
the One who has the key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens:
13. THE FAITHFUL ONE
Revelation 19:11
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sits on it called Faithful and True, and
in righteousness He judges and makes war.
14. THE AMEN
Revelation 3:14
15. THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD
Revelation 3:14
16. THE ROOT OF DAVID
Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,
has overcome so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.
Revelation 22:16
17. THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID
Revelation 22:16
18. THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,
has overcome so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.
19. THE LAMB
Revelation 5:6
And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a
Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits
of God sent forth into all the earth.
Revelation 21:23
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God
illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of
the Lamb in the middle of its street.
20. THE SHEPHERD
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and guide them to springs of waters
of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
21. THE KING OF KINGS
Revelation 19:16
And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF
LORDS.
22. THE LORD OF LORDS
Revelation 19:16
LORDS.
23. THE WORD OF GOD
Revelation 19:13
And He is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and His name is called the Word of God.
24. THE MORNING STAR
Revelation 22:16
25. THE LAMP
Revelation 21:23
26. THE HUSBAND
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
27. ANOTHER ANGEL
Revelation 7:2
And I saw another Angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and He
cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom authority was given to harm the earth and the sea,
Revelation 8:3
And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and much incense was given to
Him to offer with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Revelation 10:1
And I saw another strong Angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was
upon His head, and His face was like the sun, and His feet like pillars of fire;
Revelation 18:1
After these things I saw another Angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth
was illumined with His glory.
28. THE TEMPLE
Revelation 21:22
And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
29. THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE
Revelation 21:6
Revelation 22:1
30. THE TREE OF LIFE
Revelation 22:2
And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its
fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
INCARNATION
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son,
and she will call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us, A son is given to us; And the government Is upon His shoulder; And His name
Matthew 1:23
John 1:1, 14
Philippians 2:5-8

6. Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped,
7. But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men;
8. And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death,
and that the death of a cross.
1 Timothy 3:16
And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the
Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.
JESUS LIVING BY THE FATHER’S LIFE
John 5:19
Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing from Himself
except what He sees the Father doing, for whatever that One does, these things the Son also does in like
manner.
John 5:30
I can do nothing from Myself; as I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own
will but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:57
As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live
because of Me.
John 7:16
Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.
John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him,
this One is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him.
John 8:28-29
29. And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to
Him.
John 8:38
I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; so then, you also do the things which you have
heard from your father.
John 12:49-50
49. For I have not spoken from Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He Himself has given Me
commandment, what to say and what to speak.
50. And I know that His commandment is eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father
has said to Me, so I speak.
John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not
speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works.
John 14:24
He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the
Father's who sent Me.
CRUCIFIXION
I. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION

A. SIN
1. As Seen in the Old Testament Types and Prophecy
Leviticus 4:3
If the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him present a bull of
the herd without blemish to Jehovah for for a sin offering for his sin that he committed.
2. As Seen in the New Testament
Romans 8:3
For that which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending
His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the
flesh,
Corinthians 5:21
Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.
Hebrews 9:26
Since then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world. But now
once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested for the putting away of sin
through the sacrifice of Himself.
B. SINS
1. As Seen in the Old Testament Types and Prophecy
Leviticus 5:15
If anyone acts unfaithfully and sins without intent in the holy things of Jehovah, then he
shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock
according to your valuation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
for a trespass offering.
Isaiah 53:5-6, 10-11
5. But He was wounded because of our transgressions; He was crushed because of our
iniquities; The chastening for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we have been
healed.
6. We all like sheep have gone astray; Each of us has turned to his own way, And Jehovah
has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
10. But Jehovah was pleased to crush Him, to afflict Him with grief. When He makes
Himself an offering for sin, He will see a seed, He will extend His days, And the pleasure
of Jehovah will prosper in His hand.
11. He will see the fruit of the travail of His soul, And He will be satisfied; By the knowledge
of Him, the righteous One, My Servant, will make the many rightous, And He will bear
their iniquities.
2. As Seen in the New Testament
John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes
away the sin of the world!
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you, first of all, that which also I received, that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures;
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding
and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 7:27
Who does not have daily need, as the high priests do, to offer up sacrifices first for his
own sins and then for those of the people; for this He did once for all when He offered up
Himself.
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second
time to those who eagerly await Him, apart from sin, unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:12
But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on the right hand of
God,
1 Peter 2:24
Who Himself bore up our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to
sins, might live to righteousness; by whose bruise you were healed.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also has suffered once for sins, the Righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that
He might bring you to God, on the one hand being put to death in the flesh, but on the
other, made alive in the Spirit;
3. Satan
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed;
He will bruise you on the head, but you will bruise him on the heel.
John 12:31-32
31. Now is the 1judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.
32. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.
On the cross the Lord as the Son of Man (v. 23) was lifted up in the form of the
serpent (3:14), that is, in the likeness of the flesh of sin (Rom. 8:3). Satan as the
old serpent (Rev. 12:9; 20:2), the ruler of this world, had injected himself into
man's flesh. Through His death on the cross in the likeness of the flesh of sin, the
Lord destroyed Satan, who is in man's flesh (Heb. 2:14).
Hebrews 2:14
Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like
manner partook of the same, that through death He might 1destroy him who has the might
of death, that is, the devil,
...After the devil, the serpent, seduced man into the fall, God promised that the seed of
woman would come to bruise the head of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). In the fullness of the
time the Son of God came to become flesh (John 1:14; Rom. 8:3) by being born of a
virgin (Gal. 4:4), that He might destroy the devil in man's flesh through His death in the
flesh on the cross. (See notes 141 in John 3, 311 in John 12, and 33 in Rom. 8.) This was to
abolish Satan, to bring him to naught. Hallelujah, Satan has been abolished and done
away with!
1 John 3:8
He who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For
this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the
devil.
4. Kingdom of Satan
Colossians 2:14-15
14. Wiping out the handwriting in ordinances, which was against us, which was contrary to
us; and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
15. Stripping off the rulers and the authorities, He made a display of them openly, triumphing
over them in it.
5. World
John 12:31
Now is the 1judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.
...By judging Satan (16:11) in this way, the Lord also judged the world, which is
hanging on Satan. Hence, the Lord's being lifted up caused the world to be judged and its
ruler, Satan, to be cast out.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
Colossians 2:20
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do
you subject yourselves to ordinances:
6. Death
Timothy 1:10
But now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who
nullified death and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,
Hebrews 2:14-15
14. Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like
manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might
of death, that is, the devil,
15. And might release those who because of the fear of death through all their life were held
in slavery.
7. Flesh
Galatians 5:24
But they who are of Christ Jesus 2have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts.
...The crucifixion of our old man and the “I” is a fact accomplished by Christ on the
cross, whereas the crucifying of our flesh with its passions and its lusts is our practical
experience of the fact. This practical experience must be carried out through the Spirit by
our executing of the crucifixion that Christ accomplished. This is to put to death by the
Spirit the practices of our lustful body with its evil members (Rom. 8:13b; Col. 3:5).
There are three aspects of the experience of the cross: (1) the fact accomplished by
Christ (Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20); (2) our application of the accomplished fact (v. 24); and (3)
our experience of what we have applied, by bearing the cross daily (Matt. 16:24; Luke
9:23).
Galatians 5:24, Footnote 242, W.L.
8. The Old Man
Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin
might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;
Romans 6:8
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
2 Timothy 2:11
Faithful is the word: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
9. Self
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me and gave Himself up for me.
10. The Old Creation
Colossians 1:20
And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the
blood of His cross—through Him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the
heavens.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death on
behalf of everything.
Exodus 26:31; Matthew 27:51
31. And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen; it
shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
51. And behold, the veil of the temple was split in two from top to bottom, and the earth was
shaken and the rocks were split,
Hebrews 10:19-20
19. Having therefore, brothers, boldness for entering the Holy of Holies in the blood of Jesus,
20. Which entrance He initiated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, His
flesh,
11. The Law of Commandments in Ordinances
Ephesians 2:13-15
13. But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have become near in the blood of
Christ.
14. For He Himself is our peace, He who has made both one and has broken down the middle
wall of partition, the enmity,
15. Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create
the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,
Colossians 2:14
Wiping out the handwriting in ordinances, which was against us, which was contrary to
us; and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
12. The Release of the Divine Life
John 12:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it
abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 19:34
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came
out 1blood and 1water.
Two substances came out of the Lord's pierced side: blood and water. Blood is for
redemption, to deal with sins (1:29; Heb. 9:22) for the purchasing of the church (Acts
20:28). Water is for imparting life, to deal with death (12:24; 3:14-15) for the producing
of the church (Eph. 5:29-30). The Lord's death, on the negative side, takes away our sins,
and on the positive side, imparts life into us. Hence, it has two aspects: the redemptive
aspect and the life-imparting aspect. The redemptive aspect is for the life-imparting
aspect. The record of the other three Gospels portrays only the redemptive aspect of the
Lord's death; John's record portrays not only the redemptive aspect but also the life-
imparting aspect. In Matt. 27:45, 51, Mark 15:33, and Luke 23:44-45, darkness, a symbol
of sin, appeared, and the veil of the temple, which separated man from God, was rent.
These signs are related to the redemptive aspect of the Lord's death. The words spoken by
the Lord on the cross in Luke 23:34, “Father, forgive them,” and in Matt. 27:46, “My
God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (because He bore our sin at that time), also
depict the redemptive aspect of His death. But the flowing water and the unbroken bone
mentioned by John in vv. 34 and 36 are signs that relate to the life-imparting aspect of the
Lord's death (see note 261). This death that imparts life released the Lord's divine life
from within Him for the producing of the church, which is composed of all His believers,
into whom His divine life has been imparted. This life-imparting death of the Lord's is
typified by Adam's sleep, out from which Eve was produced (Gen. 2:21-23), and is
signified by the death of the one grain of wheat that fell into the ground for the bringing
forth of many grains (12:24) to make the one bread—the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17).
Hence, it is also the life-propagating, life-multiplying death, the generating and
reproducing death....
II. CRUCIAL MINISTRY
The Economy of God, chapter 14, “The principles of the cross”, pp. 123-129
CHRIST'S SPEAKING FROM THE CROSS

Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is,
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is interpreted,
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Luke 23:34
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And dividing His
garments, they cast lots.
Luke 23:43
And He said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise.
Luke 23:46
And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. And saying this,
He expired.
John 19:26-27
26. Then Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, said to His mother, Woman,
behold, your son.
27. Then He said to the disciple, Behold, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his
own home.
John 19:28
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had now been finished and so that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, said, I thirst.
John 19:30
Then when Jesus had taken the vinegar, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and delivered
up His spirit.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION
I. DESIGNATED THE FIRSTBORN SON OF GOD
Romans 1:4
Who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection
of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;
Romans 8:29
Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;
Acts 13:33
That God has fully fulfilled this promise to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in
the second Psalm, “You are My Son; this day have I begotten You.”
II. CHRIST BECOMING THE LIFE–GIVING SPIRIT
John 14:16-18, 20
17. Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him;
but you know Him, because 2He abides with you and shall be in you.
The very “He” who is the Spirit of reality in this verse becomes the very “I” who is the Lord Himself
in v. 18. This means that the Christ who was in the flesh went through death and resurrection to become
the life-giving Spirit, the pneumatic Christ. First Corinthians 15:45 confirms this. In dealing with the
matter of resurrection, that verse says, “The last Adam [Christ in the flesh] became a life-giving Spirit.”
John 14:17-18, Footnote 172, W.L.
Romans 8:9, 10
9. But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if anyone does
not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
10. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 15:45
Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17
And the 2Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
According to the context of this section, which begins at 2:12, the Lord here must refer to Christ the
Lord (2:12, 14-15, 17; 3:3-4, 14, 16; 4:5). This then is a strong word in the Bible, telling us emphatically
that Christ is the Spirit. “The Lord Christ of v. 16 is the Spirit who pervades and animates the new
covenant of which we are ministers (v. 6), and the ministration of which is with glory (v. 8). Compare
Rom. 8:9-11; John 14:16, 18” (Vincent). “The Lord of v. 16, is the Spirit... which gives the life, v. 6:
meaning, 'the Lord,' as here spoken of, 'Christ,' 'is the Spirit,' is identical with the Holy Spirit... Christ,
here, is the Spirit of Christ” (Alford). “All that transforming and indwelling Spirit is Christ Himself.
'The Lord is the Spirit' ” (Williston Walker).
2 Cor. 3:17, Footnote 172, W.L.
Revelation 2:18, 29
18. And to the messenger of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, He who has eyes
like a flame of fire, and His feet are like shining bronze:
29. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
At the beginning of each of the seven epistles recorded in chs. 2 and 3, it is the Lord who speaks (vv.
1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14). But at the end of each epistle, it is the Spirit who speaks to the churches (vv. 7,
11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). This not only indicates that the Spirit is the Lord and the Lord is the Spirit, but it
also emphasizes that in the darkness of the church's degradation the Spirit is vitally important, as
indicated by the sevenfold intensified Spirit in 1:4. The same emphasis is seen also in 14:13 and 22:17.
Revelation 2:7, Footnote 72, W.L.
Revelation 5:6
III. REGENERATING HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE
1 Peter 1:2-3
2. Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has
regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Ephesians 2:5-6
5. Even when we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
6. And raised us up together with Him and seated us together with Him in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
ASCENSION
Mark 16:19
So then the Lord Jesus, after speaking to them, was 1taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of
God.
The Slave-Savior's ascension for His exaltation by God was a sign of God's acceptance of all He had
done for God's eternal plan according to God's New Testament economy (Acts 2:33-36). In this
exaltation God crowned Him with glory and honor (Heb. 2:9), bestowed on Him the name that is above
all names (Phil. 2:9), and made Him the Lord of all (Acts 2:36) and the Head over all things (Eph. 1:22)
that He may have all authority in heaven and on earth (Matt. 28:18) to rule over the heavens, the earth,
and the nations so that they can work together for the universal spreading of His gospel service.
Mark 16:19, Footnote 191, W.L.
Luke 24:51
And while He blessed them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
John 6:62
Then what if you saw the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?
John 20:17
Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and
say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.
Acts 1:2
Until the day on which He was taken up, after He had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to
the apostles whom He chose;
Acts 1:9-11
9. And when He had said these things, while they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him
away from their sight.
10. And while they were looking intently into heaven as He went, behold, two men in white clothing stood
beside them,
11. Who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up
from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you beheld Him going into heaven.
Acts 1:22
Beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which He was taken up from us, one of these
should become a witness of His resurrection with us.
Acts 2:33-36
33. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy
Spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you both see and hear.
34. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My
right hand
35. Until I set Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”
36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this
Jesus whom you have crucified.
Ephesians 4:8-10
8. Therefore the Scripture says, “Having ascended to the height, He led captive those taken captive and gave
gifts to men.”
9. (Now this, “He ascended,” what is it except that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10. He who descended, He is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens that He might fill all
things.)
Philippians 2:9
Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
Hebrews 4:14
Having therefore a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us
hold fast the confession.
THE LORD’S SECOND COMING
I. IN THE GOSPELS
A. MATTHEW
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will repay
each man according to his doings.
Matthew 24:3
And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us,
When will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming and of the consummation
of the age?
Matthew 24:27
For just as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines to the west, so will the coming of
the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:30
And at that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the
land will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power
and great glory.
Matthew 24:37
For just as the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:39
And they did not know that judgment was coming until the flood came and took all away, so also
will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:42
Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes.
Matthew 24:44
For this reason you also be ready, because at an hour when you do not expect it, the Son of Man
is coming.
Matthew 26:64
Jesus said to him, You have said rightly. Nevertheless I say to you, From now on you will see the
Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.
B. MARK
Mark 14:62
And Jesus said, I am. And you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and
coming with the clouds of heaven.
C. LUKE
Luke 17:30
It will be in the same way on the day in which the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 21:27
And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
D. JOHN
John 21:22
Jesus said to him, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.
II. IN ACTS
Acts 1:11
Who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken
up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you beheld Him going into heaven.
III. IN THE EPISTLES

A. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 1:7
So that you do not lack in any gift, eagerly awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 4:5
So then do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light
the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then there will
be praise to each from God.
1 Corinthians 11:26
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you declare the Lord's death until He comes.
1 Corinthians 15:23
But each one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ; then those who are Christ's at His coming;
1 Corinthians 16:22
If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed! The Lord comes!
B. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 3:20
For our commonwealth exists in the heavens, from which also we eagerly await a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ,
C. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 3:4
When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.
D. 1 THESSALONIANS
And await His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us
from the wrath which is coming.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at His coming? Are not
even you?
So that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the
coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-16
15. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who are left remaining
unto the coming of the Lord, shall by no means precede those who have fallen asleep;
16. Because the Lord Himself, with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the
trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
E. 2 THESSALONIANS
2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven
with the angels of His power, in flaming fire,
2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now we ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering
together to Him,
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then the lawless one will be revealed (whom the Lord Jesus will slay by the breath of His
mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of His coming),
F. 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 6:14
To keep the commandment spotless, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
G. 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 4:1
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and
by His appearing and His kingdom:
2 Timothy 4:8
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, with which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, will recompense me in that day, and not only me but also all those who have loved His
appearing.
H. TITUS
Titus 2:13
Awaiting the blessed hope, even the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus
Christ,
I. HEBREWS
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time to
those who eagerly await Him, apart from sin, unto salvation.
J. JAMES
James 5:7-8
7. Therefore be long-suffering, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer eagerly
awaits the precious fruit of the earth, exercising long-suffering over it until it receives the early
and late rain.
8. You also be long-suffering; establish your hearts because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.
K. 1 PETER
1 Peter 1:7
So that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes though it is
proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore girding up the loins of your mind and being sober, set your hope perfectly on the grace
being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 4:13
But inasmuch as you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of His
glory you may rejoice exultingly.
L. 1 JOHN
1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in Him, so that if He is manifested, we may have boldness and not
be put to shame from Him at His coming.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We
know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.
M. JUDE
Jude 14
And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also of these, saying, Behold, the Lord came
with myriads of His saints
IV. IN REVELATION
Revelation 1:7
Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the
tribes of the land will mourn over Him. Yes, amen.
Revelation 2:25
Nevertheless what you have hold fast until I come.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore you will not
watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall by no means know at what hour I will come upon you.
Revelation 3:11
I come quickly; hold fast what you have that no one take your crown.
Revelation 16:15
(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments that he may not walk
naked and they see his shame.)
Revelation 22:7
And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this scroll.
Revelation 22:12
Behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me to render to each one as his work is.
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies these things says, Yes, I come quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
THE PROGRESSIVE REVELATION OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BIBLE
I. THE SPIRIT OF GOD
Genesis 1:2
But the earth became waste and emptiness, and darkness was on the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of
God was brooding upon the surface of the waters.
II. THE COMPOUND SPIRIT
Exo. 30:23-24
23. You also take the finest spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as
much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
24. And of casssia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
III. THE SPIRIT OF JEHOVAH
Judges 6:34
And the Spirit of Jehovah clothed Gideon; and he blew the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called up
behind him.
IV. THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS
Psalm 51:11
Do not cast me from Your presence, And do not take the Spirit of Your holiness away from me.
V. THE HOLY SPIRIT
Matthew 1:20
But while he pondered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for that which has been begotten in her is
of the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called the Son of God.
VI. THE SPIRIT OF JESUS
Acts 16:7
And when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the Spirit of Jesus did not allow
them.
VII. THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST
Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if anyone
does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
VIII. THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
Philippians 1:19
For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of
the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
IX. THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
2 Corinthians 3:17
X. THE LIFE–GIVING SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 15:45
Spirit.
XI. THE SPIRIT OF LIFE
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.
XII. THE SEVEN SPIRITS
Revelation 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was
and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
Revelation 3:1
And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: These things says He who has the seven Spirits of
God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and yet you are
dead.
Revelation 4:5
And out of the throne come forth lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire
burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
Revelation 5:6
XIII. THE SPIRIT
John 7:39
But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive;
Galatians 3:2
This only I wish to learn from you, Did you receive the Spirit out of the works of law or out of the
hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:5
He therefore who bountifully supplies to you the Spirit and does works of power among you, does He do
it out of the works of law or out of the hearing of faith?
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I
will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.
Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who is thirsty
come; let him who wills take the water of life freely.
CRUCIAL MINISTRY
Life–Study of Philippians, message 5, pp. 41-46
THE DIVINE SPIRIT AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
John 3:6
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.
Romans 8:5
For those who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the
spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if anyone
does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
Romans 8:16
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? In the same
way, the things of God also no one has known except the Spirit of God.
1 John 4:2
In this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is of God,

THE PARTS OF MAN
I. THE THREE PARTS OF MAN—SPIRIT, SOUL, BODY
And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved
complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
II. THE DISTINCTION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT
Luke 1:46-47
46. And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,

47. And my spirit has exulted in God my Savior;
Philippians 1:27
Only, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether coming and seeing
you or being absent, I may hear of the things concerning you, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one
soul striving together along with the faith of the gospel,
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to
the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions
of the heart.
III. THE THREE PARTS OF THE SOUL—MIND, EMOTION, WILL
TT. THE MIND
Psalm 13:2
How long will I bear concern in my soul And sorrow in my heart day after day? How long will
my enemy be exalted over me?
Psalm 139:14
I will praise You, for I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, And
my soul knows it well.
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Proverbs 19:2
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet
sins.
Proverbs 24:14
Know that wisdom is such for your soul; if you find it, then there will be a latter end, and your
hope will not be cut off.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul remembers them well and is bowed down within me.
UU. THE EMOTION
1 Samuel 18:1
Now when he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became knit with the soul of
David; and Jonathan loved him like his own soul.
Song of Songs 1:7

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock? Where do you make it lie
down at noon? For why should I be like one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your
companions?
2 Samuel 5:8
And David said on that day, Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him go up to the
watercourse and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul. Therefore they say,
The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
Psalm 107:18
Their soul loathed all food, And they drew near to the gates of death.
Psalm 86:4
Cause the soul of Your servant to rejoice, For unto You, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Isaiah 61:10
I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah, My soul will exult in My God; For He has clothed Me with the
garments of salvation, He has wrapped Me with the robe of righteousness; I am like a
bridegroom who wears the headdress of the priest, And like a bride who adorns herself with her
jewels.
Judges 10:16
And they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Jehovah. And His soul could no
longer bear Israel's misery.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was very distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for the soul of all the
people was bitter, every man because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened
himself in Jehovah his God.
Deuteronomy 14:26
And you shall exchange the money for anything that your soul desires, for oxen, for sheep, for
wine, for strong drink, or for anything that your soul would like; and you and your household
shall eat there before Jehovah your God and rejoice.
1 Samuel 20:4
And Jonathan said to David, Whatever you say, I will do for you.
VV. THE WILL
Job 7:15
So that my soul would choose strangulation and death rather than my bones.
Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them; they are like putrid food to me.
1 Chronicles 22:19
Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Jehovah your God; and arise and build the
sanctuary of Jehovah God, in order to bring the ark of covenant of Jehovah and all the holy
vessels of God to the house that is to be built for the name of Jehovah.
II. THE THREE PARTS OF THE SPIRIT—CONSCIENCE, FELLOWSHIP, INTUITION
TT.THE CONSCIENCE
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon the king of Heshbon, would not let us pass through his land, for Jehovah your God
hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate for the purpose of delivering him into your hand,
as he is today.
Psalm 34:18
Jehovah is near to those who are broken in heart, And He saves those who are contrite in spirit.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Romans 9:1; 8:16
1. I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
16. The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
1 Corinthians 5:3
For I, on my part, though being absent in the body but present in the spirit, have already judged,
as if being present, him who has thus done this,
UU. THE FELLOWSHIP
Luke 1:47
And my spirit has exulted in God my Savior;
John 4:24
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I
make mention of you always in my prayers,
Romans 7:6
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so
that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
Romans 8:16
1 Corinthians 6:17
Ephesians 6:18
By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all
perseverance and petition concerning all the saints,
VV. THE INTUITION
Mark 2:8
And immediately Jesus, knowing fully in His spirit that they were reasoning this way within
themselves, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?
Mark 8:12
And He groaned deeply in His spirit and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I tell
you, No sign shall be given to this generation.
John 11:33
Then Jesus, when He saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was moved
with indignation in His spirit and was troubled,
To perceive, to sigh, and to groan in our spirit come from a direct sense of discernment which
is not dependent upon reason. This we call the intuition, the third function of our spirit.
The Economy of God, p. 59, W.L.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? In the
same way, the things of God also no one has known except the Spirit of God.
III. THE FOUR PARTS OF THE HEART—MIND, EMOTION, WILL, CONSCIENCE
TT.THE MIND
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Matthew 9:4
And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing
even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts
and intentions of the heart.
UU. THE EMOTION
John 16:6
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
John 16:22
Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no
one takes your joy away from you.
VV. THE WILL
Acts 11:23
Who, when he arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain
with the Lord with purpose of heart;
Hebrews 4:12
WW. THE CONSCIENCE
Hebrews 10:22
Let us come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
1 John 3:20
Because if our heart blames us, it is because God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
IV. CRUCIAL MINISTRY

The Economy of God, chapter 6, “The inward and hidden parts,” pp. 52-61
THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
I. THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. GENESIS
Genesis 2:7
Jehovah God formed man with the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, and man became a living soul.
Genesis 41:8
And in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt,
and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could
interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 45:27
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them; and when he saw the
wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
B. EXODUS
Exodus 6:9
And Moses spoke this to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of
exasperation of spirit and harsh bondage.
Exodus 35:21
And they came, every one whose heart lifted him up and everyone whose spirit made him
willing, and brought the heave offering of Jehovah to the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all
its service and for the holy garments.
C. NUMBERS
Numbers 14:24
Only My servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has fully followed Me, will I bring
into the land which he entered and his descendents shall take possession of it.
Numbers 16:22
But they fell on their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin
and You be angry with the whole assembly?
Numbers 27:16
Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly,
D. DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass through his land, for Jehovah your God
hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate for the purpose of delivering him into your hand,
as he is today.
E. JUDGES
Judges 15:19
But God broke open the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came forth from it. And when he
drank, his spirit returned and he was revived; therefore he called the name of that place
Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
F. EZRA
Ezra 1:1
Now in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, so that the word Jehovah by the mouth of
Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia; and he
made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:5
Then the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose
up, even everyone whose spirit God had stirred up to go up to build the house of Jehovah which
is in Jerusalem.
G. JOB
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me, The poison of which my spirit drinks up; The terrors
of God are arrayed against me.
Job 7:11
For my part, I also will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will
complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:12
You have granted me life and lovingkindness, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Job 15:13
That you turn your spirit against God and let words go forth from your mouth?
Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should my spirit not be impatient?
Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Job 32:18
For I am full of words; the spirit in my inward parts constrains me.
H. PSALMS
Psalm 31:5
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth.
Psalm 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not impute iniquity And in whose spirit there is no
deceit.
Psalm 34:18
Jehovah is near to those who are broken in heart, And He saves those who are contrite in spirit.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not
despise.
Psalm 77:3
I remember God, and I moan; I complain, and my spirit faints. Selah.
Psalm 77:6
I remember my song in the night; I muse with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.
Psalm 78:8
That they might not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that
did not set their heart right, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 106:33
For they rebelled against His Spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips.
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit fainted within me, You knew my path. On the way on which I walked They have
hidden a trap for me.
Psalm 143:4
Therefore my spirit faints within me; My heart is appalled in the midst of me.
Psalm 143:7
Hurry and answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit fails. Do not hideYour face from me, Lest I become
like those who go down into the pit.
I. PROVERBS
Proverbs 11:13
He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets, But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a
matter.
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, But he who has a hasty spirit exalts folly.
Proverbs 15:4
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weighs the spirits.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:19
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he who rules his spirit, than he who
captures a city.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:27
He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who is cool in spirit is one who has
understanding.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man can sustain his sickness, but a broken spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the innermost parts of the inner being.
Proverbs 25:28
Like a city that is broken down, without walls, is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride will bring him low, But he who is of a lowly spirit will obtain honor.
J. ECCLESIASTES
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and indeed, all is vanity and a chasing after
wind.
(2:11, 17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9)
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is patience of spirit than haughtiness of
spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the ruler's spirit rises up against you, do not leave your place; for composure allays great
offenses.
K. ISAIAH
Isaiah 26:9
My soul desires You in the night; Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You at the dawn; For when
Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 29:24
And those who have erred in spirit will come to understand, And the murmurers will learn
teaching.
Isaiah 38:16
Lord, upon all these things men live; And in all of these things is the life of my spirit; Therefore
may You restore my strength And make me live.
Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God Jehovah, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the
earth and what springs up from it, Who gives breath to the people upon it And spirit to those who
walk on it:
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the high and exalted One, Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I will dwell
in the high and holy place, And with the contrite and lowly of spirit, To revive the spirit of the
lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would faint before Me,
And the souls which I have made.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things My hand has made, And so all these things have come into being, declares
Jehovah. But to this kind of man will I look, to him who is poor And of a contrite spirit, and who
trembles at My word.
L. JEREMIAH
Jeremiah 51:11
Polish the arrows, Take up the shields. Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes, because His purpose is against Babylon, to destroy her; For this is the vengeance of
Jehovah, the vengeance for His temple.
M. EZEKIEL
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony
heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh,
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and get yourselves a
new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
N. DANIEL
Daniel 2:1
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams and
his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.
Daniel 2:3
And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Daniel 5:12
Because an excellent spirit and knowledge and insight, and the interpretation of dreams, the
declaring of riddles, and the resolving of problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king
named Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be called, and he will declare the interpretation.
Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel distinguished himself among the chief ministers and satraps because in him
there was an excellent spirit, and the king considered setting him over the whole kingdom.
Daniel 7:15
As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was distressed, and the visions of my head alarmed me.
O. HAGGAI
Haggai 1:14
And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the
spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the
people; and they came and did work in the house of Jehovah of hosts their God,
P. ZECHARIAH
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth
the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him,
Q. MALACHI
Malachi 2:15
But did he not make them one? And the remnant of the Spirit was His. And why the one? He
sought the seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one be treacherous to the wife
of his youth.
Malachi 2:16
For I hate divorce, says Jehovah the God of Israel; and he who does it behaves in violence, says
Jehovah of hosts. Take heed then to your spirit, and do not be treacherous.
THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
I. IN THE GOSPELS
A. MATTHEW
Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
Matthew 22:43
He said to them, How then does David in spirit call Him Lord, saying,
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is
weak.
B. MARK
Mark 2:8
And immediately Jesus, knowing fully in His spirit that they were reasoning this way within
themselves, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?
Mark 8:12
And He groaned deeply in His spirit and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I tell
you, No sign shall be given to this generation.
Mark 14:38
Watch and pray that you may not come into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is
weak.
C. LUKE
Luke 1:47
And my spirit has exulted in God my Savior;
Luke 1:80
And the little child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day
of his presentation to Israel.
Luke 8:55
And her spirit returned and she rose up instantly; and He directed that something be given to her
to eat.
Luke 23:46
And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. And
saying this, He expired.
D. JOHN
John 3:6
John 4:23-24
23. But an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit
and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him.
24. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.
John 11:33
Then Jesus, when He saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was moved
with indignation in His spirit and was troubled
John 13:21
When Jesus had said these things, He became troubled in His spirit, and He testified and said,
Truly, truly, I say to you that one of you will betray Me.
II. IN THE ACTS
Acts 7:59
And they stoned Stephen as he called upon the Lord and said, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!
Acts 17:16
And while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld that the
city was full of idols.
Acts 18:25
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught
accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Acts 19:21
And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in his spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia
and go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
Acts 20:22
And now, behold, I am going bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will meet me there,

A. ROMANS
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I
make mention of you always in my prayers,
Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter,
whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Romans 7:6
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so
that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
Romans 8:4
That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to
the flesh but according to the spirit.
Romans 8:5
For those who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are
according to the spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:10
But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of
righteousness.
Romans 8:15
For you have not received a spirit of slavery bringing you into fear again, but you have received
a spirit of sonship in which we cry, Abba, Father!
Romans 8:16
Romans 12:11
Do not be slothful in zeal, but be burning in spirit, serving the Lord.
B. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? In the
same way, the things of God also no one has known except the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod or in love and a spirit of meekness?
1 Corinthians 5:3
For I, on my part, though being absent in the body but present in the spirit, have already judged,
as if being present, him who has thus done this,
1 Corinthians 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and my spirit have been assembled, with the power of
our Lord Jesus,
1 Corinthians 5:5
To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the
day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:17
1 Corinthians 7:34
And is distracted. Both the unmarried woman and the virgin care for the things of the Lord, that
she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she who has married cares for the things of the
world, how she may please her husband.
1 Corinthians 14:2
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one hears, but
in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:14
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:15
What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind; I will sing with the
spirit, and I will sing also with the mind.
1 Corinthians 14:16
Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned in
tongues say the Amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
1 Corinthians 14:32
And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;
1 Corinthians 16:18
For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Acknowledge therefore such ones.
C. 2 CORINTHIANS
Corinthians 2:13
I had no rest in my spirit, for I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went
forth into Macedonia.
Corinthians 4:13
And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, “I believed, therefore I
spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of
flesh and of spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:13
Because of this we have been comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced more
abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.
2 Corinthians 12:18
I entreated Titus and sent with him the brother. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did
we not walk in the same spirit? In the same steps?
D. GALATIANS
Galatians 6:1
Brothers, even if a man is overtaken in some offense, you who are spiritual restore such a one in
a spirit of meekness, looking to yourself lest you also be tempted.
Galatians 6:18
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
E. EPHESIANS
Ephesians 1:17
Ephesians 2:22
In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.
Ephesians 3:5
Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed
to His holy apostles and prophets in spirit,
Ephesians 3:16
Ephesians 4:23
And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind
Ephesians 5:18
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in spirit,
Ephesians 6:18
F. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1:27
Only, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether coming and
seeing you or being absent, I may hear of the things concerning you, that you stand firm in one
spirit, with one soul striving together along with the faith of the gospel,
Philippians 2:1
If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of
spirit, if any tenderheartedness and compassions,
Philippians 4:23
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
G. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 2:5
For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and seeing
your order and the solid basis of your faith in Christ.
H. 1 THESSALONIANS
I. 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of
sobermindedness.
2 Timothy 4:22
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
J. PHILEMON
Philemon 25
K. HEBREWS
Hebrews 4:12
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had the fathers of our flesh as discipliners and we respected them; shall we
not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Hebrews 12:23
And to the church of the firstborn, who have been enrolled in the heavens; and to God, the Judge
of all; and to the spirits of righteous men who have been made perfect;
L. JAMES
James 2:26
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
M. 1 PETER
1 Peter 3:4
But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptible adornment of a meek and quiet spirit, which
is very costly in the sight of God.
1 Peter 4:6
For unto this end the gospel was announced also to those who are now dead, that they might be
judged in the flesh according to men but live in the spirit according to God.
N. JUDE
Jude 19
These are those who make divisions, soulish, having no spirit.
IV. IN REVELATION
Revelation 1:10
I was in spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Revelation 4:2
Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne there
was One sitting;
Revelation 17:3
And he carried me away in spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full
of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city,
Revelation 22:6
And he said to me, These words are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the
prophets, has sent His angel to show to His slaves the things which must quickly take place.
THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN EPHESIANS
I. THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN EPHESIANS

A. CHAPTER ONE
Ephesians 1:17
B. CHAPTER TWO
Ephesians 2:22
C. CHAPTER THREE
Ephesians 3:5
Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed
Ephesians 3:16
D. CHAPTER FOUR
Ephesians 4:23
E. CHAPTER FIVE
Ephesians 5:18
F. CHAPTER SIX
Ephesians 6:18
VESSELS
Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, Comparable to fine gold, How they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, The
work of the hands of a potter.
Matthew 25:4
But the prudent took oil in their 1vessels with their lamps.
Man is a vessel made for God (Rom. 9:21, 23-24), and man’s personality is in his soul.
Hence, vessels here signifies the souls of the believers. The five prudent virgins not only have oil in their
lamps but also take oil in their vessels. That they have oil in their lamps signifies that they have the
Spirit of God dwelling in their spirit (Rom. 8:9, 16), and that they take oil in their vessels signifies that
they have the Spirit of God filling and saturating their souls.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before both the
Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;
Romans 9:21, 23-24
21. Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel unto honor
and another unto dishonor?
23. In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before
prepared unto glory,
24. Even us, whom He has also called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out
of us.
1 Thessalonians 4:4
That each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
2 Timothy 2:20-21
20. But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels but also wooden and earthen; and some are
unto honor, and some unto dishonor.
21. If therefore anyone cleanses himself from these, he will be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, useful to the
master, prepared unto every good work.
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in like manner dwell together with them according to knowledge, as with the weaker, female
vessel, assigning honor to them as also to fellow heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be
hindered.
THE DIVINE BIRTH
John 1:13
Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:3, 5-8
3. Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
5. Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God.
6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born anew.
8. The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from
and where it goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus
I have begotten you through the gospel.
Philemon 10
I entreat you concerning my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
James 1:18
He brought us forth by the word of truth, purposing that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His
creatures.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has
1 Peter 1:23
Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding
word of God.
1 John 2:29
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness also has
been 7begotten of Him.
John’s writings on the mysteries of the eternal divine life stress very much the divine birth (3:9; 4:7;
5:1, 4, 18; John 1:12-13), which is our regeneration (John 3:3, 5). It is the greatest wonder in the entire
universe that human beings could be begotten of God and sinners could be made children of God!
Through such an amazing divine birth we have received the divine life, which is the eternal life (1:2), as
the divine seed sown into our being (3:9). Out of this seed all the riches of the divine life grow from
within us. It is by this that we abide in the Triune God and live out the divine life in our human living,
i.e., live out the life that does not practice sin (3:9) but practices righteousness (2:29), loves the brothers
(5:1), overcomes the world (5:4), and is not touched by the evil one (5:18).
1 John 2:29, Footnote 297, W.L.
1 John 3:9
Everyone who has been begotten of God does not practice sin, because His seed abides in him; and he
cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and everyone who loves has been begotten of
God and knows God.
1 John 5:1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God, and everyone who loves Him
who has begotten loves him also who has been begotten of Him.
1 John 5:4
For everything that has been begotten of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which has
overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:18
We know that everyone who is begotten of God does not sin, but he who has been begotten of God
keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.
BAPTISM
I. TYPIFIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. THE FLOOD OF THE DELUGE
Genesis 7:6-10
6. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
7. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, because of
the waters of the flood.
8. Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of birds and of every thing that creeps
upon the ground,
9. Two by two they came into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
1 Peter 3:20-21
20. Who had formerly disobeyed when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while
the ark was being prepared; entering into which, a few, that is, eight souls, were brought safely
through by water.
21. Which water, as the antitype, also now saves you, that is, baptism, not a putting away of the filth
of the flesh but the appeal of a good conscience unto God, through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ,
B. THE WATERS OF THE RED SEA
Exodus 14:21-22
21. And when Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a
strong east wind all the night and made the sea dry land; and the waters were divided.
22. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground, and the waters were
a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
23. For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all
passed through the sea;
24. And all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
C. THE LAVER OF THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 30:18-20
18. You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it
between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
19. And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it;
20. When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or
when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering by fire to Jehovah,
D. THE WATERS OF THE RIVER JORDAN
Joshua 3:15-17
15. And when those who carried the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who carried
the ark dipped into the edge of the water (now the Jordan overflowed all its banks throughout all
the days of the harvest),
16. The waters that flowed down from upstream stood and rose up in a heap a great distance away, at
Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that flowed down toward the sea of the Arabah,
the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people crossed over from opposite Jericho.
17. And the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah stood firmly on dry ground in the
middle of the Jordan while all Israel was crossing over on dry ground, until all the nation had
completely crossed over the Jordan.
Joshua 4:8-9
8. And the children of Israel did as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones from the middle
of the Jordan, as Jehovah told Joshua to do, according to the number of the tribes of the children
of Israel. And they brought them over with them to the place where they were to lodge, and they
laid them down there.
9. Then Joshua erected twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the
priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.
E. THE BRASS SEA AND THE TEN LAVERS
Kings 7:23, 38
23. And he made the molten sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, fully round; and it was five cubits
high, and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it.
38. And he made ten bronze lavers; each laver held forty baths; each laver was four
cubits across; there was one laver upon every one of the ten bases.
II. BAPTISM PRACTICED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
A. BAPTISM IN THE GOSPELS
6. John the Baptist
Matthew 3:5-6, 11
5. At that time Jerusalem and all Judea and all the surrounding region of the Jordan went out
to him,
6. And they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
11. I baptize you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is stronger than I,
whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He Himself will baptize you in the Holy Spirit
and fire,
Mark 1:8
I have baptized you in water, but He Himself will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
Luke 3:2-3
2. During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the
son of Zachariah in the wilderness.
3. And he came into all the region surrounding the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of
repentance for forgiveness of sins,
John 1:26
John answered them, saying, I baptize in water; but among you stands One whom you do
not know,
7. The Baptism of Jesus
Matthew 3:13, 16
13. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.
16. And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and behold, the
heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and
coming upon Him.
Mark 1:9
And in those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by
John.
Luke 3:21
Now when all the people were baptized and as Jesus was baptized and was praying,
heaven was opened,
8. The Disciples of Jesus Baptizing
John 4:2
(Although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but rather His disciples),
9. The Charge of Baptism in the Gospels
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be
condemned.
B. BAPTISM IN ACTS
6. Peter's first message to the Jews and their Baptism
Acts 2:37-38, 41
37. And when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and they said to Peter and the
rest of the apostles, What should we do, brothers?
38. And Peter said to them, Repent and each one of you be baptized upon the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
41. Those then who received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about
three thousand souls.
7. The Baptism of the Samaritans
Acts 8:12
But when they believed Philip, who announced the gospel of the kingdom of God and of
the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
8. The Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch
Acts 8:36, 38
36. And as they were going along the road, they came upon some water, and the eunuch said,
Look, water. What prevents me from being baptized?
38. And he ordered the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, Philip
and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
9. The Baptism of Paul
Acts 9:18
And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight
and rose up and was baptized.
Acts 22:16
And now, why do you delay? Rise up and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling
on His name.
10. The Baptism of the House of Cornelius
Acts 10:47-48
47. Can anyone forbid the water so that these would not be baptized, who have received the
Holy Spirit even as we?
48. And he charged them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to
remain for some days.
11. The Baptism of Lydia and her Household
Acts 16:15
And when she was baptized, as well as her household, she entreated us, saying, If you
have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide. And she
constrained us.
12. The Baptism of the Philippian Jailer and his Household
Acts 16:33
And he took them with him in that very hour of the night and washed their wounds. And
he was baptized immediately, he and all his household.
13. The Baptism of the Corinthians

Acts 18:8
And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his whole household;
and many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
14. The Baptism of the Disciples in Ephesus
Acts 19:5
And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
C. BAPTISM IN THE EPISTLES
6. Baptized into the death of Christ
Romans 6:3-4
3. Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been
baptized into His death?
4. We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that
just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might
walk in newness of life.
7. The Baptism of Crispus, Gaius, and the household of Stephanas
1 Corinthians 1:14, 16
14. I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
16. And I did baptize the household of Stephanas also; beyond that I do not know if I
baptized any other.
8. Baptized into the Body of Christ
1 Corinthians 12:13
For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks,
whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.
9. Baptized into Christ
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
10. One Baptism
Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism;
11. Buried with Him in Baptism
Colossians 2:12
Buried together with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised together
with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead.
D. BAPTISM IN REVELATION
6. The Overcomers standing on the Glassy Sea
Revelation 15:2-3
2. And I saw as it were a glassy sea mingled with fire and those who come away victorious
from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name standing on the
glassy sea, having harps of God.
3. And they sing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
Great and wonderful are Your works, Lord God the Almighty! Righteous and true are
Your ways, O King of the nations!
III. THE COMPLETE STEP FOR RECEIVING THE FULL SALVATION OF GOD: BELIEVE
AND BE BAPTIZED
Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned.
Acts 8:37-38
37. And Philip said, If you believe from all your heart, you will be saved. And he answered and said, I
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38. And he ordered the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch,
and he baptized him.
Acts 16:31, 33
31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.
33. And he took them with him in that very hour of the night and washed their wounds. And he was baptized
immediately, he and all his household.
II. BAPTIZED INTO:
KK. TRIUNE GOD
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
LL. CHRIST
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
MM. DEATH OF CHRIST
Romans 6:3-4
3. Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized
into His death?
4. We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as
Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in
newness of life.
NN. BODY OF CHRIST
1 Corinthians 12:13
For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether
slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.
THE MINGLING OF THE TRIUNE GOD WITH THE BELIEVERS
I. THE TRIUNE GOD IN THE BELIEVERS

A. THE FATHER IN THE BELIEVERS
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are distinctions of operations, but the same God, who operates all things in all.
16. And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living
God, even as God said, “I will dwell among them and walk among them; and I will be their God,
and they will be My people.”
18. “And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord
Almighty.”
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure.
Hebrews 13:20-21
20. Now the God of peace, He who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of
the sheep, in the blood of an eternal covenant,
21. Perfect you in every good work for the doing of His will, doing in us that which is well pleasing
in His sight through Jesus Christ; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 John 4:12-13
12. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is
perfected in us.
13. In this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, that He has given to us of His Spirit.
1 John 4:15-16
15. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.
16. And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in
love abides in God and God abides in him.
B. CHRIST IN THE BELIEVERS
John 14:20
In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
John 15:4-5
4. Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so
neither can you unless you abide in Me.
5. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for
John 17:23
I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You
have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
John 17:26
And I have made Your name known to them and will yet make it known, that the love with
which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.
Romans 8:10
righteousness.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Test yourselves whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not realize about
yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disapproved?
Galatians 1:15-16
15. But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through His
grace,
16. To reveal His Son in me that I might announce Him as the gospel among the Gentiles,
immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,
Galatians 2:20
the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and
gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 4:19
My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you,
Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and
grounded in love,
Colossians 1:27
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, being always ready for a defense to everyone who
asks of you an account concerning the hope which is in you,
1 John 3:24
And he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And in this we know that
He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave to us.
C. THE SPIRIT IN THE BELIEVERS
John 14:17
Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or
Romans 8:9, 11
9. But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if
anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
11. And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ
Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have
from God, and you are not your own?
2 Timothy 1:14
Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: “The Spirit, whom He has caused to dwell in us,
longs to envy”?
II. THE BELIEVERS IN THE TRIUNE GOD

A. THE BELIEVERS IN THE FATHER
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
2 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ:
1 John 2:24
As for you, that which you heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If that which you heard
from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 4:12-13
12. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is
perfected in us.
13. In this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, that He has given to us of His Spirit.
1 John 4:15-16
15. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.
16. And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in
love abides in God and God abides in him.
Jude 1
Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who are called, beloved in God the
Father, and kept by Jesus Christ:
B. THE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST
Romans 6:3
Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized
into His death?
Romans 8:1
There is now then no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the
apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
1 Corinthians 1:30
2 Corinthians 5:17
So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold,
they have become new.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I do not know, or outside the
body I do not know; God knows) such a one was caught away to the third heaven.
Galatians 3:27-28
27. For as many as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28. There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there cannot be slave nor free man, there cannot be male and
female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and are
faithful in Christ Jesus:
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi,
with the overseers and deacons:
Philippians 3:9
And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is out of the law, but that which
is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is out of God and based on faith,
Colossians 1:2
To the saints in Colossae and faithful brothers in Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our
Father.
Colossians 2:6
As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,
1 Peter 3:16
Yet with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, so that in the matter in which you are
spoken against, those who revile your good manner of life in Christ may be put to shame.
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you
have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground you.
1 Peter 5:14
Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to you all who are in Christ.
1 John 2:5-6
5. But whoever keeps His word, truly in this one the love of God has been perfected. In this we
know that we are in Him.
6. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.
1 John 2:24
As for you, that which you heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If that which you heard
from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:27
And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no
need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true
and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.
1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in Him, so that if He is manifested, we may have boldness and not
be put to shame from Him at His coming.
1 John 3:6
Everyone who abides in Him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen Him or known Him.
1 John 3:24
And he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And in this we know that
He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave to us.
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might
know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true
God and eternal life.
C. THE BELIEVERS IN THE SPIRIT
Matthew 3:11
I baptize you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is stronger than I, whose
sandals I am not worthy to carry. He Himself will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
Acts 1:5
For John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from
now.
Acts 11:15-16
15. And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as also on us in the beginning.
16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, John baptized with water, but you shall be
baptized in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed;
and no one can say, Jesus is Lord! except in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption.
THE INITIAL STAGE OF SALVATION—THE STAGE OF REGENERATION
I. REDEMPTION
The word redeem means to purchase back something which originally was yours but which had become
lost. Thus redemption means to repossess at a cost.
We originally belonged to God. We were His possession. However, we were lost. Nevertheless, God
did not give us up. He paid the price to have us back, repossessing us at a great cost. This is redemption.
Even after we had become lost, He desired to regain us. …Because we were lost we had many problems
with God in respect to His righteousness, holiness, and glory. We were under a threefold demand, the
demand of righteousness, holiness, and glory. Many requirements were laid upon us, and it was
impossible for us to fulfill them. The price was too great. God paid the price for us, repossessing us at a
tremendous cost. Christ died on the cross to accomplish eternal redemption for us (Gal. 3:13; 1 Pet.
2:24; 3:18; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 10:12; 9:28). His blood has obtained eternal redemption for us (Heb. 9:12,
14; 1 Pet. 1:18-19).
An Exposition of New Testament Words, pp. 221-222, W.L.
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse on our behalf; because it is
written, “Cursed is every one hanging on a tree”;
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the riches of
His grace,
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
Titus 2:14
Hebrews 9:12
And not through the blood of goats and calves but through His own blood, entered once for all into
the Holy of Holies, obtaining an eternal redemption.
1 Peter 1:18-19
18. Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from your
vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,
19. But with precious blood, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ;
II. FORGIVENESS OF SINS
Luke 24:47
And that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations,
beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 2:38
And Peter said to them, Repent and each one of you be baptized upon the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 5:31
This One God has exalted to His right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and
forgiveness of sins.
Acts 10:43
To this One all the prophets testify that through His name everyone who believes into Him will receive
forgiveness of sins.
Acts 13:38
Therefore let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One forgiveness of sins is announced
to you;
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they
may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in
Me.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the riches of
His grace,
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ also forgave
you.
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
Colossians 2:13
And you, though dead in your offenses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made alive together
with Him, having forgiven us all our offenses;
1 John 2:12
I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you because of His name.
III. WASHED
Acts 22:16
And now, why do you delay? Rise up and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on His name.
1 Corinthians 6:11
And these things were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
IV. SANTIFICATION (POSITIONAL)
1 Corinthians 6:11
But we ought to thank God always concerning you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God chose
you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,
V. JUSTIFICATION
Justification is God’s action in approving people according to His standard of righteousness. His
righteousness is the standard, not ours…. Although you may be right with everyone—with your parents,
your children, and your friends—your righteousness will never justify you before God. You may justify
yourself according to your standard of righteousness, but that does not enable you to be justified by God
according to His standard. We need justification by faith. Justification by faith before God means we are
approved by God according to the standard of His righteousness.
How can God do this? He can do it because our justification is based upon the redemption of Christ.
When the redemption of Christ is applied to us, we are justified. If there were no such redemption, it
would be impossible for us to be justified by God. Redemption is the basis of justification.
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Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
Romans 3:28
For we account that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Romans 4:25
Who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification.
Romans 5:1
Therefore having been justified out of faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 5:9
Much more then, having now been justified in His blood, we will be saved through Him from the wrath.
Romans 8:30
And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also
justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Galatians 2:16
And knowing that a man is not justified out of works of law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we also
have believed into Christ Jesus that we might be justified out of faith in Christ and not out of the works
of law, because out of the works of law no flesh will be justified.
Galatians 3:24
So then the law has become our child-conductor unto Christ that we might be justified out of faith.
Titus 3:7
In order that having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal
life.
VI. PROPITIATION
Propitiation means to make us one with God because there had been a separation between us and God.
What was the problem that kept us from God, that made it impossible to have direct fellowship with
Him? The problem was our sins. Our sins kept us away from God’s presence and hindered God from
coming to us. Therefore, we needed propitiation to appease God’s demands. Christ accomplished this on
the cross when He offered Himself as the propitiatory sacrifice. On the cross He propitiated for us and
brought us back to God, making us one with God.
Hebrews 2:17
Hence He should have been made like His brothers in all things that He might become a merciful and
faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
1 John 2:2
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for those of the whole
world.
1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as a propitiation for
our sins.
VII. RECONCILIATION
The problem of being an enemy is even more serious than the problem that necessitates propitiation. If I
am your enemy, propitiation is inadequate. I need reconciliation. Sinners need propitiation; enemies
need reconciliation. Enmity is the greatest problem between man and God. When we were enemies of
God, we not only needed propitiation, but also reconciliation. Propitiation mainly deals with sins;
reconciliation deals with enmity as well as sins. Therefore, reconciliation includes propitiation. Romans
5 tells us that before we were saved we were both sinners and enemies. As sinners we needed
propitiation and as enemies we needed reconciliation.
Reconciliation is based upon Christ’s redemption (Rom. 5:10, 11) and was accomplished through
God’s justification (2 Cor. 5:18-19; Rom. 5:1,11). Hence reconciliation is the issue of redemption with
justification.
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Romans 5:10-11
10. For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be
saved in His life, having been reconciled,
11. And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.
18. But all things are out from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and has given to us the
ministry of reconciliation;
19. Namely, that God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself, not accounting their offenses to them,
and has put in us the word of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:16
And might reconcile both in one Body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.
Colossians 1:20, 22
20. And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross—
through Him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
22. He now has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish
and without reproach before Him;
VIII. REGENERATION
According to the Scripture, to be regenerated is to be born of the Spirit (John 3:3-6). Originally our spirit
was dead, but at the time we believed, God’s Spirit came to touch our spirit; thus our spirit obtained
God’s life and was made alive. It is in this way that God’s Spirit gave birth to us, apart from our first,
natural birth. In brief, to be regenerated is to be born once again, to be born of God (John 1:13), or, apart
from our original human life to obtain God’s life.
John 1:12-13
12. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who
believe into His name,
13. Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:5-6
5. Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God.
6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Titus 3:5
Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the
washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
James 1:18
creatures.
1 Peter 1:3
1 Peter 1:23
word of God.
IX. RECEIVING GOD’S ETERNAL SALVATION
Hebrews 5:9
And having been perfected, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
X. RECEIVING THE ETERNAL LIFE
John 3:15
That every one who believes into Him may have eternal life.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 John 5:11
And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son.
XI. BECOMING GOD’S CHILDREN
John 1:12-13
12. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who
XII. NOT PERISHING FOREVER
John 10:28-29
28. And I give to them eternal life, and they shall by no means perish forever, and no one shall snatch them
out of My hand.
29. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of My Father’s
hand.
XIII. SAVED FROM GOD’S CONDEMNATION AND ETERNAL PERDITION
John 3:18, 16
18. He who believes into Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already,
because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.
16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes into Him
THE PROGRESSING STAGE OF SALVATION—THE STAGE OF

TRANSFORMATION
I. FREEDOM FROM SIN
Romans 6:6-7
6. Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be
annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;
7. For he who has died is justified from sin.
Romans 6:18
And having been freed from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.
Romans 6:22
But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and
the end, eternal life.
Romans 8:2
II. SANCTIFICATION (MAINLY DISPOSITIONAL)
Sanctification is not only a matter of position, that is, to be separated from a common worldly position
for God, as illustrated in Matthew 23:17, 19 (where the gold is sanctified by the temple, and the gift by
the altar, in changing their position), and in 1 Timothy 4:3-5 (where food is sanctified by the saint’s
prayer). Sanctification is also a matter of disposition, that is to be transformed from the natural
disposition to a spiritual one, as mentioned in Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18. This is a matter of a
long process, beginning from regeneration (1 Pet. 1:2-3; Titus 3:5), passing through the whole Christian
life (1 Thes. 4:3; Heb. 12:14; Eph 5:26), and being completed at the time of rapture, at the maturity of
life (1 Thes. 5:23).
Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members
as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to
righteousness unto sanctification.
Romans 6:22
Romans 15:16
That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order
that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:30
Ephesians 5:26
That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word,
Hebrews 2:11
Hebrews 12:10
For they disciplined for a few days as it seemed good to them; but He, for what is profitable that we
might partake of His holiness.
Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all men and sanctification, without which no one will see the Lord;
III. GROWTH IN LIFE
The growth of life is not the improvement of behavior, not the expression of piety, not the zealous
serving, not the increase of knowledge, not to abound in gifts, not the increase of power; but the growth
of life is the increase of the element of God, the increase of the stature of Christ, the expanding of the
ground of the Holy Spirit, the decrease of the human element, the breaking of the natural life, and the
subduing of every part of the soul.
An Exposition of New Testament Words, pp. 120-121 W.L.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7
6. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.

7. So then neither is he who plants anything nor he who waters, but God who causes the growth.
Ephesians 2:21
In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord;
Ephesians 4:15
But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the
rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body
unto the building up of itself in love.
Colossians 2:19
And not holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by
means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.
1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto
salvation,
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both
now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
IV. TRANSFORMATION
Transformation is the divine essence coming into us to replace the fallen human element. We are human,
but the divine elements are coming into our being to replace our natural essence. This is what the New
Testament calls transformation. Transformation is not an outward change, but an inward metabolism.
Metabolism is an inward change caused by a new element replacing the old.
In the process of metabolism a new element is supplied to an organism. This new element replaces
the old element and causes it to be discharged. Therefore, as the process of metabolism takes place
within a living organism, something new is created within it to replace the old element, which is carried
away. Metabolism, therefore, includes three matters: first, the supplying of a new element; second, the
replacing of the old element with this new element; and third, the discharge or the removal of the old
element so that something new may be produced...I wish to emphasize the fact that transformation is a
metabolic process, a metabolic change. We may define transformation as spiritual metabolism.

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Romans 12:2
And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you
may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
Ephesians 4:23
V. BUILDING UP
To fulfill His eternal purpose God must accomplish two categories of work: the work of creation and the
work of building. Scripture opens with God’s creation and finishes with His building. God’s creation is
for His building, and God’s building is the ultimate consummation which fulfills His purpose in
creation. The principle means for accomplishing God’s creation is His divine power. But the main
element utilized for God’s building is the divine life. We were born into God’s creation, but we are
reborn for God’s building, which is the church, the ultimate consummation of which is the New
Jerusalem.
Ephesians 2:22
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the
rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body
unto the building up of itself in love.
Colossians 2:7
Having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were
taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
1 Peter 2:5
You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to
offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
VI. MATURING
1 Corinthians 2:6
But we do speak wisdom among those who are full-grown, yet a wisdom not of this age nor of the rulers
of this age, who are being brought to nought;
Ephesians 4:13
Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-
grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as are full-grown, have this mind; and if in anything you are otherwise
minded, this also God will reveal to you.
Colossians 1:28
Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may
present every man full-grown in Christ;
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the full-grown, who because of practice have their faculties exercised for
discriminating between both good and evil.
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be brought on to maturity, not laying again
a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith in God,
Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, Send
forth Your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come because the 1harvest of the earth is ripe.
The harvest of the earth is God’s people on earth, the believers in Christ (1 Cor. 3:9). At His first
coming to the earth, the Lord sowed Himself into His believers (Matt. 13:3-8, 24). All the believers
since that time, who have received Him as the seed of life, have become God’s crop on the earth. The
first-ripe ones will be reaped as the firstfruits to God before the great tribulation, as indicated in vv. 1-5.
The majority will ripen with the help of the sufferings in the great tribulation and will be reaped,
raptured, at the end of the great tribulation.

THE COMPLETING STAGE OF SALVATION—THE STAGE OF
CONSUMMATION
I. REDEMPTION (TRANSFIGURATION) OF OUR BODY
Our spirit has been regenerated and our soul may be also fully transformed, yet our body still remains
old. With all its physical weakness and illnesses, it is under the power of death. It is still mortal and
subject to infirmity and death. Though it may be quickened today by the Lord’s Spirit that dwells in us
(Rom. 8:11), yet it is a mortal body, subject to death and needing to be fully redeemed (Rom. 8:23).
Today, by cooperating with Him in our spirit, we may experience the Lord’s Spirit spreading His life-
power into our body to quicken and even saturate it to a certain degree. But regardless of how much it
may be quickened and even saturated by the Lord’s Spirit, it still requires the Lord’s full redemption.
This is why we often groan within ourselves. But when He comes back, He will transfigure “the body of
our humiliation, conforming it to the body of His glory” (Phil. 3:21). Then “we shall be like Him” (1
John 3:2), not only in our spirit and in our soul, but also in our body. By that time we shall be in His full
likeness both inwardly and outwardly, from the very center of our being to the full circumference, from
our innermost spirit to our outermost body. That will be the ultimate consummation of the Lord’s
salvation. That is what we are now waiting and looking for (Rom. 8:23; Phil. 3:20).
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Luke 21:28
And when these things begin to happen, stand erect and lift up your heads, because your redemption is
drawing near.
Romans 8:23
And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in
ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body.
1 Corinthians 1:30
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will
be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Ephesians 1:14
Who is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His
glory.
Ephesians 4:30
Philippians 3:21
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that
if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.
II. CONFORMITY TO THE LORD
God’s firstborn Son is the prototype, and we are the mass production. Christ is the model, mold, and
pattern. God has put us all into Him that we may be molded into the image of His firstborn Son.
Eventually we all shall be conformed to the mold…
This is even higher than transformation. Transformation is something within; it is a matter of essence.
But conformity is something outward. Christ has a form, and we need to be conformed to His form. This
is only possible by the fellowship of His sufferings.
Romans 8:29
Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;
III. GLORIFICATION
The last step of God’s great salvation is to bring His many sons into glory. Romans 8 tells us that God’s
work of grace upon us began with His foreknowing, passed through His predestination, calling, and
justification, and will end with His glorification (Rom. 8:29-30). Also, Rom. 8 tells us that the whole
creation eagerly awaits the revelation (glorification) of the sons of God, in hope that the creation itself
will enter into the freedom of the glory of the children of God (Rom. 8:19-21). This will be
accomplished by the Lord’s coming back (Phil. 3:21), at which time we will be manifested with Him in
glory (Col. 3:4); this is our hope (Col. 1:27). This glorification of the sons of God, as the goal of God’s
salvation, will last through the millennial kingdom and will be manifested in full in the New Jerusalem
for eternity (Rev. 21:11, 23).
Although we are the sons of God, we are veiled, not yet revealed. When the Lord Jesus was on the
earth He was the Son of God, but He was veiled by His human flesh. One day on the mountain He was
unveiled and revealed (Matt. 17:1-2). It is the same with us. Although we are sons of God, yet we are
under a veil. One day this veil will be removed—that will be our glorification. All the sons of God will
come out from under the veil and be revealed. Then the whole universe will behold the sons of God.
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Romans 8:17
And if children, heirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God; on the other, joint heirs with Christ, if indeed
we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him.
Romans 8:21
In hope that the creation itself will also be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the
glory of the children of God.
Romans 8:30
And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also
justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Colossians 1:27
Colossians 3:4
So that you might walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
When He comes to be glorified in His saints and to be marveled at in all those who have believed
(because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
Hebrews 2:10
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have
suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground you.
IV. INHERITANCE OF GOD'S KINGDOM
The inheritance of the kingdom of God refers to the enjoyment of the coming kingdom as a reward to
the overcoming believers. It is not the same as a believer’s salvation; rather, it is a reward in addition to
the believer’s salvation. See notes 53 in Eph. 5 and 281 in Heb. 12.
Galatians 5:21, Footnote 212, W.L.
Acts 14:22
Establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith and saying that through
many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
9. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray;
neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals
10. Nor thieves nor the covetous, not drunkards, not revilers, not the rapacious will inherit the kingdom of
God.
1 Corinthians 15:50
Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption
inherit incorruption.
Galatians 5:21
Envyings, bouts of drunkenness, carousings, and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand, even
as I have said before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:5
For this you realize, knowing that every fornicator or unclean person or greedy person (who is an
idolater) has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
So that you might walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
2 Thessalonians 1:5
A plain indication of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be accounted worthy of the kingdom
of God, for which also you suffer;
2 Timothy 4:18
The Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will save me into His heavenly kingdom, to whom
be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 12:28
Therefore receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may serve God well-
pleasingly with piety and fear;
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the
kingdom, which He promised to those who love Him?
2 Peter 1:11
For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be
richly and bountifully supplied to you.
V. PARTICIPATION IN CHRIST’S KINGSHIP
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us;
Revelation 2:26-27
26. And he who overcomes and he who keeps My works until the end, to him I will give authority over the
nations;
27. And he will shepherd them with an iron rod, as vessels of pottery are broken in pieces, as I also have
received from My Father;
Revelation 12:5
And she brought forth a son, a man-child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her
child was caught up to God and to His throne.
Revelation 20:4, 6
4. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those
who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and of
those who had not worshipped the beast nor his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead
and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
6. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority,
but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
VI. THE TOPMOST ENJOYMENT OF THE LORD
Matthew 25:21, 23
21. His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set
you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.
23. His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set
you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.
The joy of your master signifies the enjoyment of the Lord in the coming kingdom. This refers to
inward satisfaction, not to outward position. To participate in the Lord’s joy is the greatest reward, better
than the glory and position in the kingdom.
CRUCIAL MINISTRY—FOOTNOTE, 1 Peter 1:55
GOD’S COMPLETE SALVATION—JUDICIAL REDEMPTION PLUS ORGANIC

SALVATION
Rom. 5:10
For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be
I. ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CONCERNING THE JUDICIAL ASPECT

AND THE ORGANIC ASPECT OF GOD’S SALVATION
A. THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE FLESH OF THE LAMB
Exo. 12:3, 6-8
3. Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a lamb
according to his fathers’ house, a lamb for a household
6. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole congregation of the
assembly of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
7. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the
houses in which they eat it.
8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened
bread with bitter herbs.
B. THE ROBE AND THE CALF
Lu. 15:22-23
22. But the father said to his slaves, Bring out quickly the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring
on his hand and sandals on his feet.
23. And bring the fattened calf; slaughter it, and let us be merry,
C. THE LORD’S BLOOD AND THE LORD’S FLESH
Jn. 6:54-55
54. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
55. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.
D. BLOOD AND WATER
Jn. 19:34
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and
water.
E. GOD’S LOVE IN PROPITIATION AND LIFE IMPARTATION
1 Jn. 4:9-10
9. In this the love of God was manifested among us, that God sent His only begotten Son into the
world that we might have life and live through Him.
10. Herein is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as a propitiation
for our sins.
II. GOD’S JUDICIAL REDEMPTION IS THE JUDICIAL ASPECT OF GOD’S COMPLETE
SALVATION:
A. FORGIVENESS OF THE BELIEVERS’ SINS
Lu. 24:47
And that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations,
beginning from Jerusalem.
Ac. 5:31
This One God has exalted to His right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel
and forgiveness of sins.
Ac. 10:43
To this One all the prophets testify that through His name everyone who believes into Him will
receive forgiveness of sins.
B. WASHING AWAY THE BELIEVERS’ SINS
Heb. 1:3
Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and
bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the
right hand of the Majesty on high;
C. JUSTIFYING THE BELIEVERS

Rom. 3:24-25
24. Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
25. Whom God set forth as a propitiation place through faith in His blood, for the demonstrating of
His righteousness, in that in His forbearance God passed over the sins that had previously
occurred,
D. RECONCILING THE BELIEVERS WHO WERE HIS ENEMIES TO HIMSELF
Rom. 5:10a
For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son,
E. SANCTIFYING THE BELIEVERS IN THEIR POSITION UNTO HIMSELF AS HIS

HOLY PEOPLE
1 Cor. 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, the
called saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who
is theirs and ours:
Heb. 10:29
…and has considered the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified…
Heb. 13:12
Therefore also Jesus, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside
the gate.
1 Cor. 6:11
III. GOD’S ORGANIC SALVATION:

A. REGENERATION (THE PROPAGATION OF THE DIVINE LIFE)
John 3:6b
…and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
1 Pet. 1:3
Jn. 1:12-13
12. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those
who believe into His name,
B. FEEDING IN SHEPHERDING (THE NOURISHMENT OF THE DIVINE LIFE)
John 21:15-17
15. Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love
Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed
My lambs.
16. He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes,
Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep.
17. He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? Peter was grieved that He
said to him the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things; You
know that I love You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.
Eph. 4:11-16
11. And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some
as shepherds and teachers,
12. For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of
Christ,
13. Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a
full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
14. That we may be no longer little children tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of
teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to a system of error,
15. But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,
16. Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of
the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of
the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
Eph. 5:29
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the
church,
1 Pet. 2:2
salvation,
1 Pet. 5:2-3
2. Shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion but willingly, according
to God; not by seeking gain through base means but eagerly;
3. Nor as lording it over your allotments but by becoming patterns of the flock.
Ac. 20:28
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as
overseers to shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood.
C. DISPOSITIONAL SANCTIFICATION (CONSTITUTING THE BELIEVERS WITH

GOD’S DIVINE NATURE)
Rom. 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your
members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your
members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.
Rom. 15:16
That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God,
in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy
Spirit.
2 Pet. 1:4
Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these
you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the
world by lust.
Eph. 1:4
Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish
before Him in love,
Rom. 6:22
But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto
sanctification, and the end, eternal life.
Rev. 21:2, 10
2. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.
D. RENEWING (THE PROCESS OF GOD’S NEW CREATION)
2 Cor. 5:17
So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold,
they have become new.
Titus 3:5
Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through
the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
2 Cor. 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being
renewed day by day.
Eph. 4:22-24
22. That you put off, as regards your former manner of life, the old man, which is being corrupted
according to the lusts of the deceit,
23. And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind
24. And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of
the reality
E. TRANSFORMATION (THE METABOLIC PROCESS IN THE DIVINE LIFE)
Rom. 12:2b
…but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
2 Cor. 3:18
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are
being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
F. BUILDING UP (THE JOINING AND KNITTING TOGETHER IN THE DIVINE LIFE)
Eph. 4:15-16
15. But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,
16. Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of
the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of
the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
Rev. 3:12
He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means
go out anymore, and I will write upon him the name of My God and the name of the city of My
God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.
G. CONFORMATION (THE MATURITY IN THE DIVINE LIFE)
Rom. 8:29
Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;
Col. 1:28
Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may
present every man full-grown in Christ;
Eph. 4:13
Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a
full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
1 Jn. 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We
know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.
H. GLORIFICATION (THE FULL MANIFESTATION OF GOD’S COMPLETE

SALVATION)
2 Thes. 1:10
When He comes to be glorified in His saints and to be marveled at in all those who have believed
(because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
Rom. 8:23
And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body.
Eph. 4:30
Heb. 2:10
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading
many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Phil. 3:20-21
20. For our commonwealth exists in the heavens, from which also we eagerly await a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ,
21. Who will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory,
according to His operation by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.
THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
Hebrews 10:19
Having therefore, brothers, boldness for entering the Holy of Holies in the blood of Jesus,
What, after all, is your basis of approach to God? Do you come to Him on the uncertain ground of
your feeling, the feeling that you may have achieved something for God today? Or is your approach
based on something far more secure, namely, the fact that the Blood has been shed, and that God looks
on the Blood and is satisfied? Of course, were it conceivably possible for the Blood to suffer any
change, the basis of your approach to God might be less trustworthy. But the Blood has never changed
and never will. Your approach to God is therefore always in boldness; and that boldness is yours through
the Blood and never through your personal attainment. Whatever be your measure of attainment today or
yesterday or the day before, as soon as you make a conscious move into the Most Holy Place,
immediately you have to take your stand upon the safe and only ground of the shed Blood. Whether you
have had a good day or a bad day, whether you have consciously sinned or not, your basis of approach is
always the same—the Blood of Christ. God's acceptance of that Blood is the ground upon which you
may enter, and there is no other.
As with many other facts of our Christian experience, this matter of access to God has two phases, an
initial and a progressive one. The former is presented in Ephesians 2 and the latter in Hebrews 10.
Initially, our standing with God was secured by the blood, for we are “made nigh in the blood of Christ”
(Eph. 2:13). But thereafter our ground of continual access is still by the Blood, for the apostle exhorts
us: “Having therefore…boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus…let us draw near”
(Heb. 10:19, 22). To begin with I was made nigh by the Blood, and to continue in that new relationship I
come through the Blood every time. It is not that I was saved on one basis and that I now maintain my
fellowship on another....No, my initial approach to God is by the Blood, and every time I come before
Him it is the same. Right to the end it will always and only be on the ground of the precious Blood.
The Normal Christian Life, pp. 23-25, W.N.
I. MAN’S APPROACH TO GOD BY THE OFFERINGS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. ABEL
Genesis 4:4
And Abel also brought an offering of the firstlings of his flock, that is, from their fat portions.
And Jehovah had regard for Abel and for his offering.
B. ABRAHAM
Genesis 12:8
And he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with
Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah and called upon the
name of Jehovah.
C. ISAAC
Genesis 26:25
And he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah and pitched his tent there. And
there Isaac’ s servants dug a well.
D. THE LORD’S CHARGE TO MOSES
Exodus 3:18
And they will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of
Egypt, and you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now let
us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
E. BRINGING THE BLOOD WITHIN THE VEIL
Leviticus 16:14-15
14. And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger upon the expiation
cover toward the east, and before the expiation cover he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his
finger seven times.
15. Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood
inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it upon the
expiation cover and before the expiation cover.
Hebrews 9:7
But into the second, only the high priest enters, once a year and not without blood, which he
offers for himself and for the sins of ignorance of the people,
II. MAN’S APPROACH TO GOD BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
A. OUR INITIAL STANDING BEFORE GOD SECURED BY THE BLOOD
Matthew 26:28
For this is My blood of the covenant, which is being poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.
Romans 3:24-25
24. Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
25. Whom God set forth as a propitiation place through faith in His blood, for the demonstrating of
His righteousness, in that in His forbearance God passed over the sins that had previously
occurred,
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the
riches of His grace,
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ.
Colossians 1:20
And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His
cross—through Him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
Hebrews 9:12
And not through the blood of goats and calves but through His own blood, entered once for all
into the Holy of Holies, obtaining an eternal redemption.
1 Peter 1:2
Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto
the obedience and 8sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
In typology the sprinkling of the propitiating blood ushered the sprinkled people into the old
covenant (Exo. 24:6-8). Likewise, the sprinkling of Christ’s redeeming blood brings the
sprinkled believers into the blessing of the new covenant, that is, into the full enjoyment of the
Triune God (Heb. 9:13-14). This is a striking mark that separates the sprinkled people from the
common people, who are without God.
1 Peter 1:18-19
18. Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from
your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,
B. OUR CONTINUAL ACCESS TO GOD BY THE BLOOD
Hebrews 9:14
Hebrews 10:19-20, 22
20. Which entrance He initiated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, His flesh,
22. Let us come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
1 John 1:7, 9
7. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin.
9. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
When we live in the divine light, we are under its enlightenment, and it exposes, according to
God’s divine nature and through God’s nature in us, all our sins, trespasses, failures, and defects,
which contradict His pure light, perfect love, absolute holiness, and excelling righteousness. At
such a time we sense in our enlightened conscience the need of the cleansing of the redeeming
blood of the Lord Jesus, and it cleanses us in our conscience from all sins that our fellowship
with God and with one another may be maintained. Our relationship with God is unbreakable,
yet our fellowship with Him can be interrupted. The former is of life, whereas the latter is based
on our living, though it also is of life. One is unconditional; the other is conditional. Our
fellowship, which is conditional, needs to be maintained by the constant cleansing of the Lord's
blood....
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have 4right to the tree of life and may enter
by the gates into the city.
After being created, man was put before the tree of life (Gen. 2:8-9), indicating that he was
privileged to partake of it. But because of the fall of man, the way to the tree of life was closed to
man by God’s glory, holiness, and righteousness (Gen. 3:24). Through Christ’s redemption,
which fulfilled all the requirements of God’s glory, holiness, and righteousness, the way to the
tree of life was opened again to believers (Heb. 10:19-20). Hence, those who wash their robes in
the redeeming blood of Christ have the right to enjoy the tree of life as their eternal portion in the
holy city, the Paradise of God, in eternity (2:7).
III. OVERCOMING THE ACCUSER BY THE BLOOD
Revelation 12:10-11
10. And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now has come the salvation and the power and the kingdom
of our God and the authority of His Christ, for the accuser of our brothers has been cast down, who
accuses them before our God day and night.
11. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony,
and they loved not their soul-life even unto death.
Day after day we need the blood, not only to cleanse us, but also to cover us. We not only have the
redeeming blood, but also the prevailing, overcoming blood. If you have done wrong, you need to clear
it, but do not take the accusations of the enemy. Whenever you wake up and take your standing against
the dragon as a stronger part of the woman, the dragon will immediately accuse you in your conscience.
Do not listen to those accusations. Rather, you must say, “Lord, cover my conscience, thoughts, and
realizations with Your prevailing blood. Your blood defeats the enemy.” You need to make your
conscience strong under the covering blood. The brothers overcame the accuser by the blood of the
Lamb.
Life-study of Revelation, Message 36, p. 428, W.L.

THE ZOE (ETERNAL) LIFE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
(BIOS); the physical, biological life, the duration of a man’s existence, the physical means of life and
livelihood.
(PSUCHE); the soul-life; the psychological life; the personality.
(ZOE); life in motion and in activity, life as the principle of life – in the absolute sense of being really
life; hence, God’s life, the highest life, almost always with “the eternal” life.
An Exposition of New Testament Words, p. 167, W. L.
According to the Greek New Testament, there are three kinds of lives: the bios (physical) life, the
psuche (psychological) life, and the zoe (eternal) life.
Stream, Feb. '73, p. 6, W.L.
I. THE TRIUNE GOD AS LIFE

A. GOD—THE SOURCE OF LIFE
John 5:26
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son to also have life in Himself;
Ephesians 4:18
Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance
which is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
B. CHRIST IS LIFE
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should
die, shall live;
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except
through Me.
Acts 3:15
And the Author of life you killed, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are
witnesses.
Colossians 3:4
1 John 5:11-12
11. And this is the testimony, that God 1gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son.
12. He who 1has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
The testimony of God is not only that Jesus is His Son but also that He gives to us eternal life,
which is in His Son. His Son is the means through which He gives us His eternal life, which is
His goal for us.
Because the life is in the Son (John 1:4) and the Son is the life (John 11:25; 14:6; Col. 3:4),
the Son and the life are one, inseparable. Hence, he who has the Son has the life, and he who
does not have the Son does not have the life.
1 John 5:11-12, Footnotes 111, 121, W.L.
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might
know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true
God and eternal life.
C. CHRIST CAME TO GIVE LIFE
John 5:39-40
39. You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that
testify concerning Me.
40. Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life
and may have it abundantly.
John 10:28
And I give to them eternal life, and they shall by no means perish forever, and no one shall
snatch them out of My hand.
D. THE SPIRIT OF LIFE
Romans 8:2
For the 1law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.
...Life is the content and issue of the Spirit, and the Spirit is the ultimate and consummate
manifestation of the Triune God after His being processed through incarnation, crucifixion, and
resurrection and becoming the indwelling, life-giving Spirit, who is life to all the believers in
Christ....
Romans 8:2, Footnote 21, W.L.
E. THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE
John 6:63
It is the 1Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are
spirit and are life.
At this point the Spirit who gives life is brought in. After resurrection and through
resurrection, the Lord Jesus, who had become flesh (1:14), became the Spirit who gives life, as is
clearly mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:45. It is as the life-giving Spirit that He can be life and the life
supply to us. When we receive Him as the crucified and resurrected Savior, the Spirit who gives
life comes into us to impart eternal life into us. We receive the Lord Jesus, but we get the Spirit
who gives life.
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-
giving Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of
the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Spirit, who is the ultimate expression of the Triune God, was not yet in John 7:39,
because at that time Jesus had not yet been glorified. He had not yet finished the process that He,
as the embodiment of God, had to pass through. After His resurrection, that is, after the finishing
of all the processes, such as incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, that the Triune God had to
pass through in man for His redemptive economy, He became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).
In the New Testament, this life-giving Spirit is called “the Spirit” (Rom. 8:16, 23, 26-27; Gal.
3:2, 5, 14; 6:8; Rev. 2:7; 3:22; 14:13; 22:17), the Spirit who gives us the divine life (v. 6; John
6:63) and frees us from the bondage of the law.
2 Corinthians 3:17, Footnote 173, W.L.
II. THE WORD IS LIFE
John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit
and are life.
Acts 5:20
Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life.
Philippians 2:16
Holding forth the 2word of life, so that I may have a boast in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain
nor labor in vain.
Different from the doctrine of dead letters. The word of life is the living breath of God (2 Tim. 3:16),
the Spirit who gives life (John 6:63). We have the Lord Jesus as our pattern (vv. 6-11), we have God
operating in us (v. 13), we are God’s children, having God’s life and the divine nature (v. 15), we are
luminaries qualified to reflect the divine light of Christ (v. 15), and we have the word of life to hold
forth, to present, to others. What a divine and rich provision! By such we are well able to carry out
God’s salvation to its climax.
Philippians 2:16, Footnote 162, W.L.
III. LIFE IN THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BELIEVERS

A. THE PROMISE OF LIFE
2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God according to the promise of life, which is
in Christ Jesus,
Titus 1:2
In the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, 3promised before the times of the ages
This must be the promise of the Father to the Son in eternity. The Father chose us in the Son
and predestinated us unto sonship through Him (Eph. 1:5) before the foundation of the world. It
must have been in eternity that the Father promised the Son that He would give His eternal life to
His believers. By this life the believers, who were given to the Son in eternity (John 17:2), would
become His brothers (Heb. 2:11).
Titus 1:2, Footnote 23, W.L.
1 John 2:25
And this is the promise which He Himself promised us, 3the eternal life.
According to the context of vv. 22-25, the eternal life is just Jesus, Christ, the Son, and the
Father; all these are a composition of the eternal life. Hence, the eternal life also is an element of
the all-inclusive, compound indwelling Spirit, who moves within us.
B. THE GIFT OF GOD—ETERNAL LIFE
Romans 6:23
1 John 5:11
And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son.
C. APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE
Acts 13:48
And the Gentiles, hearing this, rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were
appointed to eternal life believed.
D. LIFE THROUGH THE GOSPEL
2 Timothy 1:10
But now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who nullified
death and brought 3life and 4incorruption to light through the gospel,
The eternal life of God, which is given to all believers in Christ (1 Tim. 1:16) and which is the
main element of the divine grace given to us (Rom. 5:17, 21). This life has conquered death
(Acts 2:24) and will swallow up death (2 Cor. 5:4). It was according to the promise of such a life
that Paul was an apostle (v. 1). This life and the incorruption that is its consequence have been
brought to light and made visible to men through the preaching of the gospel.
Life is the divine element, even God Himself, imparted into our spirit; incorruption is the
consequence of life's saturating of our body (Rom. 8:11)....
2 Timothy 1:10, Footnote 103, 104, W.L.
E. REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE
Acts 11:18
And when they heard these things, they became silent and glorified God, saying, Then to the
Gentiles also God has given repentance unto life.
F. BELIEVING INTO THE SON UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
John 3:15
That every one who believes into Him may have 1eternal life.
This is the divine life, the uncreated life of God, which not only is everlasting with respect to
time but also is eternal and divine in nature. So in vv. 16, 36.
See note 103 in 2 Tim. 1.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes into
Him would not perish, but would have eternal life.
John 3:36
He who believes into the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but
the wrath of God abides upon him.
John 6:40
For this is the will of My Father, that every one who beholds the Son and believes into Him
should have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:47
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes has eternal life.
John 20:31
But these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and
that believing, you may have life in His name.
1 Timothy 1:16
But because of this I was shown mercy, that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might display all
His long-suffering for a pattern to those who are to believe on Him unto 2eternal life.
The uncreated life of God, the ultimate gift and topmost blessing given by God to those who
believe on Christ.
1 Timothy 1:16, Footnote 162, W.L.

G. PASSING OUT OF DEATH INTO LIFE
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life,
and does not come into judgment but has passed out of death into life.
1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers. He who does
not love abides in death.
H. JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE
Romans 5:18
So then as it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one
righteous act unto justification of life to all men.
I. WALKING IN NEWNESS OF LIFE
Romans 6:4
We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as
newness of life.
J. LAYING HOLD OF ETERNAL LIFE
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have
confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:19
Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the future, that they may lay hold
on that which is really life.
K. EATING THE BREAD OF LIFE
John 6:33, 35
33. For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
35. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he
who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.
L. EATING THE TREE OF LIFE
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to
him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter
by the gates into the city.
M. DRINKING THE WATER OF LIFE
John 4:14
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the
water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up into eternal life.
Revelation 21:6
And He said to me, They have come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and
the End. I will give to him who thirsts from the spring of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who is
thirsty come; let him who wills take the water of life freely.
This verse [v.14] can be considered a promise of the enjoyment of the tree of life, which is
Christ with all the riches of life; and the second half of v. 17 can be considered a call to take the
water of life, which is the life-giving Spirit. Thus this book ends in a promise and a call, both of
which are for eating and drinking the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit.
N. LIFE OPERATING IN THE BELIEVERS
2 Corinthians 4:12
So then death operates in us, but life in you.
O. LIFE MANIFESTED IN THE BELIEVERS
15. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who are
perishing:
16. To some a savor out of death unto death, and to the others a savor out of life unto life. And who is
sufficient for these things?
10. Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our body.
11. For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life of Jesus
also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
P. SAVED IN HIS LIFE
Romans 5:10
For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we
will be saved in His life, having been reconciled,
Q. REAPING ETERNAL LIFE
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows unto his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh, but he who sows unto the
Spirit will of the Spirit reap eternal life.
R. REIGNING IN LIFE
Romans 5:17
For if by the offense of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus
Christ.
S. THE CROWN OF LIFE
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures trial, because when he has become approved by testing, he will
receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.
Revelation 2:10
Do not fear the things that you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you
into prison that you may be tried, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful unto
death, and I will give you the crown of life.
T. OUR NAMES WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE
Philippians 4:3
Yes, I ask you also, genuine yokefellow, assist them, since they contended with me in the gospel,
as well as with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:27
And anything common and he who makes an abomination and a lie shall by no means enter into
it, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
IV. LIFE DISPENSED INTO THE TRIPARTITE MAN

A. THE SPIRIT
Romans 8:10
righteousness.
B. THE SOUL—(MIND)
Romans 8:6
C. THE BODY
Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ
Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells
you.
LIFE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
John 1:4
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 3:15
That every one who believes into Him may have eternal life.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes into Him
John 3:36
He who believes into the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the
wrath of God abides upon him.
John 4:14
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I
will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up into eternal life.
John 4:36
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, in order that he who sows and he who
reaps may rejoice together.
John 5:21
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wills.
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life, and
does not come into judgment but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:26
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son to also have life in Himself;
John 5:29
And will come forth: those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have
practiced evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
John 5:39
You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that testify
concerning Me.
John 5:40
Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
John 6:27
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of
Man will give you; for Him has the Father, even God, sealed.
John 6:33
For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
John 6:35
John 6:40
For this is the will of My Father, that every one who beholds the Son and believes into Him should have
eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:47
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes has eternal life.
John 6:48
John 6:51
John 6:53
Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His blood, you do not have life within yourselves.
John 6:54
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:63
and are life.
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life,
John 8:12
John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and
may have it abundantly.
John 10:28
And I give to them eternal life, and they shall by no means perish forever, and no one shall snatch them
out of My hand.
John 11:25
live;
John 12:25
He who loves his soul-life loses it; and he who hates his soul-life in this world shall keep it unto eternal
life.
John 12:50
And I know that His commandment is eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father
has said to Me, so I speak.
John 14:6
Me.
John 17:2
Even as You have given Him authority over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom You have given
Him.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Him whom You have sent,
Jesus Christ.
John 20:31
But these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
believing, you may have life in His name.
THE WORD: ITS PROVISIONS REVEALED THROUGH METAPHORS
I. THE METAPHORS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. LAMP
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
B. LIGHT
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
C. MEDICINE
Proverbs 4:20-22
20. My son, be attentive to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

21. Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
22. For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their flesh.
D. RAIN AND SNOW
Isaiah 55:10-11
10. For just as the rain comes down And the snow from heaven, And does not return there, Until it
waters the earth And makes it bear and sprout forth, That it may give seed to the sower and bread
to the eater;
11. So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to me vainly, But it will
accomplish what I delight in, And it will prosper in the matter to which I have sent it.
E. FIRE
Jeremiah 23:29
Is not My word thus—like fire, declares Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in
pieces?
F. HAMMER
Jeremiah 23:29
Is not My word thus—like fire, declares Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in
pieces?
II. THE METAPHORS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. FOOD
Matthew 4:4
But He answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word
that proceeds out through the mouth of God.”
B. SWORD OF THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 6:17
And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God,
C. GOD’S BREATH
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness,
D. SOLID FOOD
Hebrews 5:12
For when because of the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to
teach you what the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God are and have become those
who have need of milk and not of solid food.
E. PLANT OF LIFE
James 1:21
Therefore putting away all filthiness and the abundance of malice, receive in meekness
the 1implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
This likens the word of God to a living plant that is planted into our being and grows in
us to bring forth fruit for the salvation of our souls. We need to receive such a word in
meekness, in all submission, without any resistance.
James 1:21, Footnote 211, W.L.
F. SEED
1 Peter 1:23
Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and
abiding word of God.
G. MILK
1 Peter 2:2
salvation,
H. LAMP
2 Peter 1:19
And we have the prophetic word made more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a lamp
shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
SEEKING THE LORD
I. SEEKING THE LORD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy 4:29
And from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him
with all your heart and with all your soul.
B. 1 CHRONICLES
1 Chronicles 16:10-11
10. Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice.
11. Seek Jehovah and His strength; seek His face continually.
1 Chronicles 22:19
Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Jehovah your God; and arise and build the
sanctuary of Jehovah God, in order to bring the ark of the Covenant of Jehovah and all the holy
vessels of God to the house that is to be built for the name of Jehovah.
C. 2 CHRONICLES
2 Chronicles 11:16
And those from all the tribes of Israel who set their hearts to seek Jehovah the God of Israel
came after them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 12:14
And he did what was evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 14:4
And he commanded Judah to pursue Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and perform the law and
the commandment.
2 Chronicles 15:2, 12
2. And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, Hear me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah
is with you while you are with Him; and if you pursue Him, He will be found by you; but if you
forsake Him, He will forsake you.
12. And they entered into a covenant to pursue Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart
and with all their soul,
2 Chronicles 20:3-4
3. And Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to pursue Jehovah, and he proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah.
4. And Judah gathered themselves to seek help from Jehovah; indeed out of all the cities of Judah
they came to seek Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 26:5
And he set himself to seek after God during the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the
vision of God; and as long as he sought after Jehovah, God caused him to prosper.
2 Chronicles 30:18-19
18. For a great number of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh and Issachar and Zebulun,
had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than as prescribed; for Hezekiah
prayed for them, saying, May Jehovah the Good expiate for everyone
19. Who has prepared his heart to seek after God, after Jehovah, the God of his fathers, even though
he is not according to the rules of purification for the sanctuary.
2 Chronicles 31:21
And in every work that he began in service to the house of God and in accordance with the law
and the commandment, to seek after his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
D. EZRA
Ezra 6:21
And the children of Israel who returned from the captivity and all who had separated themselves
from the defilement of the nations of the land to join them, to seek Jehovah the God of Israel,
ate the passover
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to ask for troops and horsemen from the king to help us against the enemy in
the way because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is for good upon all
those who seek Him, but His power and His wrath is against all those who forsake Him.
E. JOB
Job 5:8
But as for me, I would seek after God, And I would commit my cause to God,
Job 8:5
If you seek earnestly after God And make supplication unto the Almighty,
F. PSALMS
Psalm 9:10
And those who know Your name put their trust in You, For You have not forsaken those who
seek You, O Jehovah.
Psalm 14:2
Jehovah looked down from heaven Upon the sons of men To see if there was anyone who had
insight, who seeks after God.
Psalm 22:26
The lowly will eat and be satisfied; Those who seek after Jehovah will praise Him¯May your
hearts live forever!
Psalm 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, Those who seek Your face, even Jacob. Selah.
Psalm 27:8
When You say, Seek My face, To You my heart says, Your face, O Jehovah, will I seek.
Psalm 34:4
I sought Jehovah, and He answered me; And He delivered me from all that terrified me.
Psalm 34:10
The young lions hunger and starve, But those who seek Jehovah will not lack any good thing.
Psalm 63:1
God, You are my God; I seek You diligently. My soul thirsts for You, My flesh faints in longing
for You, In a dry and weary land without water.
Psalm 63:8
My soul pursues after You; Your right hand upholds me.
Psalm 70:4
May all those who seek You Be glad and rejoice in You; And may those who love Your
salvation Say continually, May God be magnified!
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my distress I sought the Lord; My hand was stretched out in the night, and it did not
drop. My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalm 78:34
When He slew them, they inquired after Him, And they returned and diligently sought God.
Psalm 83:16
Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Jehovah.
Psalm 105:3-4
3. Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice.
4. Seek Jehovah and His strength; Seek His face continually.
Psalm 119:2
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.
Psalm 119:10
With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
Psalm 130:5-6
5. I wait for Jehovah; my soul waits, And in His word I hope.

6. My soul waits for the Lord More than watchmen for the morning, Yes, watchmen for the
morning.
G. PROVERBS
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek Jehovah understand all things.
H. SONG OF SONGS
Song of Songs 3:1-4
1. On my bed night after night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not.
2. I will rise now and go about in the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my
soul loves. I sought him, but found him not.
3. The watchmen who go about in the city found me—Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
4. Scarcely had I passed them When I found him whom my soul loves; I held him and would not let
go Until I had brought him into my mother's house And into the chamber of her who conceived
me.
I. ISAIAH
Isaiah 8:19
When they say to you, Inquire of the necromancers and the familiar spirits, who twitter and
mutter; say to them, Should not a people inquire of their God? Should they go to the dead on
behalf of the living—
Isaiah 26:8-9
8. Indeed in the path of Your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for You. Your name, that is,
Your memorial, Is the desire of our soul.
9. My soul desires You in the night; Indeed my spirit within me seeks You at the dawn; For when
Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek
Me in vain. I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are right.
Isaiah 51:1
Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, Who seek after Jehovah, Look to the rock from
which you were hewn, And to the excavation of the quarry from which you were dug.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek Jehovah while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
J. JEREMIAH
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will seek Me and find Me if you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah, The children of Israel will come, Both they and
the children of Judah together; They will go along with weeping as they go, And they will seek
Jehovah their God.
K. LAMENTATIONS
Lamentations 3:25
Jehovah is good to those who wait on Him, To the soul that seeks Him.
L. DANIEL
Daniel 9:3
So I set my face toward the Lord God to seek Him in prayer and supplications with fasting and
sackcloth and ashes.
M. HOSEA
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their King,
and they will come with fear to Jehovah and to His goodness in the last days.
Hosea 5:6
With their flocks and with their herds they will go To seek Jehovah, But they will not
find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
Hosea 5:15
I will go away, I will return to My place, Until they acknowledge their offense And seek My
face; In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.
Hosea 10:12
Sow unto righteousness for yourselves; Reap according to lovingkindness; Break up your fallow
ground; For it is time to seek Jehovah Until He comes and rains Righteousness on you.
N. AMOS
Amos 5:4, 6, 8
4. For thus says Jehovah to the house of Israel, Seek Me, and live;
6. Seek Jehovah, and live; Lest He rush upon the house of Joseph like fire, And it devour it, and
there be none to extinguish the fire in Bethel.
8. He who makes the Pleiades and Orion And turns the shadow of death into the morning And
darkens the day with the night; He who calls for the water of the sea And pours it upon the
surface of the earth, Jehovah is His name,
O. ZEPHANIAH
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Jehovah, All you meek of the earth, Who have performed His judgments. Seek
righteousness; Seek meekness; Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of Jehovah's anger.
P. ZECHARIAH
Zechariah 8:22
Indeed, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to
entreat the favor of Jehovah.
II. SEEKING THE LORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. MATTHEW
Matthew 7:7, 11
7. Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
11. If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your
Father who is in the heavens give good things to those who ask Him!
Matthew 28:5
And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not be afraid, for I know that you are seeking
Jesus, the crucified.
B. MARK
Mark 1:36-37
36. And Simon and those with him hunted for Him,
37. And they found Him and said to Him, All are seeking You.
Mark 16:6
And he said to them, Do not be alarmed. You are seeking Jesus the Nazarene, who has been
crucified. He has been raised; He is not here. Behold the place where they laid Him.
C. LUKE
Luke 11:9, 13
9. And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be
opened to you.
13. If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the
Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!
Luke 13:24
And He said to them, Struggle to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will
seek to enter, yet will not be able.
Luke 24:5
And they became frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, and the men said to them, Why
are you seeking the living One among the dead?
D. JOHN
John 6:24
So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the
small boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
John 13:33
Little children, I am still with you a little while; you will seek Me, and even as I said to the Jews,
Where I am going, you cannot come, now I say to you also.
John 20:14-15
14. When she said these things, she turned backward and beheld Jesus standing there, yet she did not
know that it was Jesus.
15. Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? She, supposing that He
was the gardener, said to Him, Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid
Him, and I will take Him away.
E. ACTS
Acts 15:17
So that the remainder of men may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles upon whom My name
has been called,
Acts 17:27
That they might seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, even though He is
not far from each one of us;
F. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 3:1
If therefore you were raised together with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ
is, sitting at the right hand of God.
G. HEBREWS
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to Him, for he who comes forward to God
must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
TURNING TO THE LORD
Luke 1:16
And many of the sons of Israel he will turn to the Lord their God.
Acts 9:35
And all those dwelling in Lydda and Sharon saw him; and they turned to the Lord.
Acts 11:21
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
Acts 14:15
And saying, Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like feeling as
you, and announce the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who
made heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them;
Acts 15:19
Therefore I judge that we do not harass those from the Gentiles who are turning to God,
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they
may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in
Me.
Acts 26:20
But declared both to those in Damascus first and in Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea
and to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
2 Corinthians 3:16
But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of entrance we had toward you and how you turned
to God from the idols to serve a living and true God
TOUCHING THE LORD
Matthew 9:20-22
20. And behold, a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years approached from
behind and touched the fringe of His garment,
21. For she said within herself, If only I touch His garment, I will be healed.
22. And Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Take courage, daughter; your faith has healed you. And the
woman was healed from that hour.
Mark 5:27-31
27. When she heard the things concerning Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His
garment,
28. For she said, If I touch even His garments, I will be healed.
29. And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was cured of
the affliction.
30. And immediately Jesus, realizing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd
and said, Who touched My garments?
31. And His disciples said to Him, You see the crowd pressing upon You and You say, Who touched Me?
The Slave-Savior was God incarnated to be a man (John 1:1, 14). His garments signify His
perfect behavior in His humanity—His perfection in His human virtues. To touch His garments
was actually to touch Him in His humanity, in which God was embodied (Col. 2:9). By such a
touch His divine power was transfused, through the perfection of His humanity, into the one who
had touched Him, and it became her healing. The God who dwells in unapproachable light
became touchable in the Slave-Savior through His humanity for her salvation and enjoyment.
This was the service of the Slave-Savior, as the Slave of God, to the sick sinner.
Matthew 14:36
And they begged Him that they might only touch the fringe of His garment. And as many as touched
were completely healed.
Mark 3:10
For He healed many, so that as many as had afflictions pressed toward Him to touch Him.
Mark 6:56
And wherever He entered into villages or into cities or into the countryside, they laid those who were
sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch if even the fringe of His garment; and as
many as touched Him were healed.
Luke 6:19
And all the crowd sought to touch Him, because power was going out from Him and healing all.
RECEIVING REVELATION FROM THE LORD
I. RECEIVING REVELATION FROM THE LORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. MATTHEW
Matthew 11:25, 27
25. At that time Jesus answered and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because
You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.
27. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the
Father; neither does anyone fully know the Father except the Son and him to whom the Son wills
to reveal Him.
Matthew 16:16-17
17. And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in the heavens.
B. LUKE
Luke 10:21-24
21. In that hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to
babes. Yes, Father, for thus it has been well pleasing in Your sight.
22. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the
Father, and who the Father is except the Son and him to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
23. And turning to the disciples, He said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you
see.
24. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have wanted to perceive the things that you see, and
have not perceived them, and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.
Luke 24:31
And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and He disappeared from them.
Luke 24:35
And they related the things that occurred on the road, and how He was made known to them in
the breaking of the bread.
Luke 24:45
Then He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures;
C. ACTS
Acts 26:19
Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
D. ROMANS
Romans 16:25
Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, that is, the proclamation of
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which has been kept in silence in the
times of the ages
E. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us God has revealed them through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the
depths of God.
1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, unless I speak to
you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in teaching?
1 Corinthians 14:26
What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a
revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
1 Corinthians 14:30
But if something is revealed to another sitting by, the first should be silent.
F. 2 CORINTHIANS
1. To boast is necessary, though indeed not expedient; yet I will come to visions and revelations of
the Lord.
7. And because of the transcendence of the revelations, in order that I might not be exceedingly
lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet
me, in order that I might not be exceedingly lifted up.
G. GALATIANS
Galatians 1:12
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation by
Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:15-16
grace,
Galatians 2:2
And I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the gospel which I proclaim among
the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest perhaps I should be running, or had
run, in vain.
H. EPHESIANS
Ephesians 1:9
Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed
in Himself,
Ephesians 1:17-18
17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom
18. The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His
calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 3:3, 5
3. That by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have written previously in brief,
5. Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed
Ephesians 3:9
And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the
ages has been hidden in God, who created all things,
I. HEBREWS
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he persevered as one seeing the
unseen One.
J. 1 PETER
1 Peter 1:12
To them it was revealed that not to themselves but to you they ministered these things, which
have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy
Spirit sent from heaven, which things angels long to look into.
K. REVELATION
Revelation 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must
quickly take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John,
Revelation 1:10, 12-13
10. I was in spirit on the Lord’s Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
12. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden
lampstands,
13. And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment reaching to
the feet, and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle.
Revelation 4:2
Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the
Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of
David, has overcome so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.
Revelation 17:3
And he carried me away in spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 21:10
LOVING THE LORD
Exodus 20:6
Yet showing lovingkindness to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My
commandments. (cf. Deuteronomy 5:10)
Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that it is Jehovah your God who is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and
lovingkindness to the thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments, (cf.
Nehemiah 1:5; Daniel 9:4)
Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you fear Jehovah your God so
that you would walk in all His ways and love Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and
with all your soul;
Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and
His commandments always.
Deuteronomy 11:13-15
13. And if you are certain to listen to my commandments, which I am commanding you today, to love
Jehovah your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14. I will give rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your
grain and your new wine and your fresh oil.
15. And I will put grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
22. For if you are certain to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Jehovah
your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,
23. Jehovah will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and
mightier than you.
Deuteronomy 13:3
You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God is
testing you in order to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
Deuteronomy 30:6
And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, so that you will love
Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:20
In loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and holding fast to Him; for He is your life and the
length of your days, that you may dwell upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Joshua 22:5
However be very careful to perform the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah
commanded you, to love Jehovah your God and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments
and to cling to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 23:11
Be very careful therefore for yourselves, that you love Jehovah your God.
1 Kings 3:3
And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; however he sacrificed and
burned incense in the high places.
Psalm 18:1
I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.
Psalm 31:23
Love Jehovah, all you who are His faithful ones; Jehovah guards the trustworthy, And recompenses
abundantly Him who acts haughtily.
Psalm 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven but You? And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth.
Psalm 116:1
I love Jehovah because He hears My voice, my supplications,
Psalm 145:20
Jehovah preserves all who love Him, But He will destroy all the wicked.
Proverbs 8:17, 21
17. I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.
21. That I may cause those who love me to inherit substance And that I may fill their treasuries.
Song of Songs 1:2-4
2. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.
3. Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; Your name is like ointment poured forth; Therefore the
virgins love you.
4. Draw me; we will run after you—The king has brought me into his chambers—We will be glad and
rejoice in you; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
Life is a Person, and there is no other way to apply and enjoy this Person but by love. We need
to love Him. Some of the saints in past centuries used to pray, “Lord, show me your love that I
may love You.” We need to pray the same prayer. Once we see the love of Jesus, we will be so
constrained, so captured, and so attracted. We will spontaneously love Him. Then by loving Him,
we will enjoy Him. If we are going to deal with this Person, we must have a hot and loving heart, a
heart so full of affection that we would contact Him all the time. One book among the sixty-six
books of the Bible, the Song of Songs, illustrates how the Lord Jesus is altogether lovely. This book
shows how the Lord is so attractive, and how we are those who love Him. We just love Him! Could
you love some doctrine in this way? I do not believe that you could even love the gifts in this way.
Do you love the gifts? Could you say, “O dear gifts, you are altogether lovely! Oh, the healing! Oh,
the speaking in tongues! All the gifts are so sweet!”? Just try to speak this way. It simply does not
fit. But we can say a thousand times, “Lord Jesus, You are altogether lovely! O Lord Jesus, You
are altogether lovely!”
Life and Building in the Song of Songs, pp. 21-22, W.L.
Mark 12:30
And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your
whole mind and from your whole strength.”
(cf. Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27)
John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will
be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love
him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.
John 21:15
Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me
more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.
(cf. John 21:16-17)
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called
according to His purpose.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not come up in
man's heart; things which God has prepared for those who 3love Him.”
To realize and participate in the deep and hidden things God has ordained and prepared for us
requires us not only to believe in Him but also to love Him. To fear God, to worship God, and to
believe in God (that is, to receive God) are all inadequate; to love Him is the indispensable
requirement. To love God means to set our entire being—spirit, soul, and body, with the heart,
soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)—absolutely on Him, that is, to let our entire being be
occupied by Him and lost in Him, so that He becomes everything to us and we are one with Him
practically in our daily life. In this way we have the closest and most intimate fellowship with
God....
1 Corinthians 8:3
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
In verse 3 Paul seems to be telling the Corinthians that they do not need so much knowledge;
instead, they need to love God. Loving God is the base of our Christian life. If we do not have such
a love, we do not have the standing, the base, for the Christian life. As far as the Christian life is
concerned, knowledge is like a vapor; it can disappear quickly. Loving God, however, is solid and
substantial. Hence it is the base of the Christian life.
In verse 3 Paul says that if we love God, we are known by Him. It is more necessary for us to be
known by God than for us to know God. The expression “known by Him” is very meaningful. To
be known by God means to be owned and possessed by Him. The one who is known by God
becomes God's possession, joy, entertainment, and pleasure. Our knowledge does not please God.
But if we love God, we shall make Him happy. He will know us, enjoy us, and be happy with us.
He will even find in us His entertainment. All this is implied by the words “known by Him.”
Life-Study of 1 Corinthians, Message 44, pg.388, W.L.
1 Corinthians 16:22
Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures trial, because when he has become approved by testing, he will receive
the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.
James 2:5
1 Peter 1:8
Whom having not seen, you love; into whom though not seeing Him at present, yet believing, you exult
with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
1 John 4:21
And this commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God love his brother also.
Revelation 2:4
But I have one thing against you, that you have left your first love.
REJOICING
I. REJOICING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. MATTHEW
Matthew 2:10
And when they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets
who were before you.
Matthew 18:13
And if it so happens that he finds it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the
ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
B. LUKE
Luke 1:14
And you will have joy and exultation, and many will rejoice at his birth.
Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their
fathers did to the prophets.
Luke 10:20
However do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are
recorded in the heavens.
Luke 15:6, 9, 32
6. And when he comes into his house, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to
them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.
9. And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I
have found the coin which I lost.
32. But we had to be merry and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life,
and he was lost and has been found.
Luke 19:37
And as He was already drawing near to the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of
the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the works of power which
they had seen,
C. JOHN
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears
him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This joy of mine therefore is made full.
John 4:36
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, in order that he who sows and he
who reaps may rejoice together.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham exulted that he would see My day, and he saw it and rejoiced.
John 16:22
John 20:20
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples therefore
rejoiced at seeing the Lord.
D. ACTS
Acts 5:41
So they went from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be
dishonored on behalf of the Name.
Acts 8:39
And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away; and the
eunuch did not see him anymore, for he went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 11:23
Acts 15:23
Writing to them and sending by their hand the following: The apostles and the elder brothers, to
the brothers throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia who are of the Gentiles, rejoice.
Acts 15:31
And when they read it, they rejoiced at the encouragement.
E. ROMANS
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope; endure in tribulation; persevere in prayer.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
Romans 15:10
And again he says, “Rejoice, Gentiles, with His people.”
F. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 12:26
And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is glorified, all
the members rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians 13:6
It does not rejoice because of unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
G. 2 CORINTHIANS
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very thing to you that when I come I would not have sorrow from those who
ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:10
As made sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet
possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 7:7
And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted because of
you, declaring to us your longing, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to
repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to God, that in nothing you might suffer loss
from us.
2 Corinthians 7:13
2 Corinthians 7:16
I rejoice that in everything I have boldness because of you.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are powerful; this also we pray for, your
perfecting.
2 Corinthians 13:11
H. GALATIANS
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, “Rejoice, barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not
travailing, because many are the children of her who is desolate rather than of her who has her
husband.”
I. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1:18
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truthfulness, Christ is announced;
and in this I rejoice; yes, and I will rejoice;
Philippians 2:17
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith,
I rejoice, and I rejoice together with you all.
Philippians 2:18
And in like manner you also rejoice, and you rejoice together with me.
Philippians 2:28
I have sent him therefore the more eagerly, so that when you see him again, you may rejoice and
I may be less sorrowful.
Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, for me it is not
irksome, but for you it is safe.
Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
Philippians 4:10
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because now at length you have caused your thinking for me to
blossom anew; for which matter you had indeed taken thought, but lacked opportunity.
J. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1:24
I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the
afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His Body, which is the church;
K. 1 THESSALONIANS
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanks can we return to God concerning you for all the joy with which we rejoice
because of you before our God,
Always rejoice,
L. 1 PETER
1 Peter 4:13
M. 2 JOHN
2 John 4
I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received
commandment from the Father.
N. 3 JOHN
3 John 3
For I rejoiced greatly at the brothers’ coming and testifying to your steadfastness in the truth,
even as you walk in truth.
O. REVELATION
Revelation 19:7
Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and His wife has made herself ready.
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III.
THANKING THE LORD

I. THANKING THE LORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
A. MATTHEW
Matthew 15:36
He took the seven loaves and the fish, and giving thanks, He broke them and gave them to the
disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.
Matthew 26:27
And He took a cup and gave thanks, and He gave it to them, saying, Drink of it, all of you,
B. LUKE
Luke 2:38
And at that very hour she came up and returned thanks to God, and spoke concerning Him to all
those waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
Luke 17:15-16
15. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice;
16. And he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.
Luke 22:17, 19
17. And He received a cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves;
19. And He took a loaf and gave thanks, and He broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is My body
which is being given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.
C. JOHN
John 6:11, 23
11. Jesus then took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to those who were
reclining; likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.
23. But other small boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord
had given thanks.
John 11:41
Then they took the stone away. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that
You have heard Me.
ACTS
Acts 27:35
And when he had said these things and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all; and he
broke it and began to eat.
Acts 28:15
And from there the brothers, having heard about the things concerning us, came as far as the
Market of Appius and Three Inns to meet us; and when Paul saw them, he thanked God and took
courage.
D. ROMANS
Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your faith is proclaimed
throughout the whole world.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the
form of teaching into which you were delivered.
Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law
of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.
Romans 14:6
He who regards that day, regards it to the Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives
thanks to God; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
E. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 1:4
I thank my God always concerning you based upon the grace of God which was given to you in
Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 10:30
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I spoken evil of concerning that for which I give thanks?
1 Corinthians 11:24
And having given thanks, He broke it and said, This is My body, which is given for you; this do
16. Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned in
17. For you give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than all of you,
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
F. 2 CORINTHIANS
2 Corinthians 1:11
If you also help in this by petition on our behalf, that for the gift to us through many, thanks may
be given by many persons on our behalf.
2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ and manifests the savor of
the knowledge of Him through us in every place.
2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes that the grace which has abounded through the greater number
may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 8:16
But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus,
11. You in everything are being enriched unto all liberality, which works out through us thanksgiving
to God,
12. Because the ministry of this service is not only filling up the lack of the saints, but is also
abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
2 Corinthians 9:15
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
G. EPHESIANS
Ephesians 1:15-16
15. Therefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you and your love to
all the saints,
16. Do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
Ephesians 5:4
And obscenity and foolish talking or sly, filthy jesting, which are not becoming, but rather the
giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:20
Father,
H. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1:3
I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your
requests be made known to God;
I. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always concerning you,
Colossians 1:12
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints
in the light;
Colossians 2:7
Having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you
were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 4:2
Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
J. 1 THESSALONIANS
1 Thessalonians 1:2
We thank God always concerning all of you, making mention of you in our prayers,
And because of this we also thank God unceasingly that when you received the word of God,
which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but even as it truly is, the word
of God, which also operates in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
K. 2 THESSALONIANS
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought to thank God always concerning you, brothers, even as it is fitting, because your faith
grows exceedingly and the love of each one of you all to one another is increasing,
L. 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 1:12
I give thanks to Him who empowers me, Christ Jesus our Lord, that He has counted me faithful,
appointing me to the ministry,
1 Timothy 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made on
behalf of all men;
1 Timothy 4:3-4
3. Who forbid marriage and command abstaining from foods, which God has created to be partaken
of with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.
4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if received with thanksgiving;
M. 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, while unceasingly I have
remembrance concerning you in my petitions night and day,
N. PHILEMON
Philemon 4
I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
O. REVELATION
Revelation 4:9
And when the four living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits upon the
throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,
Revelation 7:12
Saying, Amen. The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the
power and the strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 11:17
Saying, We thank You, Lord God the Almighty, He who is and who was, because You have
taken Your great power and have reigned.

III.
RECEIVING REVELATION FROM THE LORD
I. RECEIVING REVELATION FROM THE LORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. MATTHEW
Matthew 11:25, 27
25. At that time Jesus answered and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because
You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.
27. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the
Father; neither does anyone fully know the Father except the Son and him to whom the Son wills
to reveal Him.
Matthew 16:16-17
17. And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in the heavens.
B. LUKE
Luke 10:21-24
21. In that hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to
babes. Yes, Father, for thus it has been well pleasing in Your sight.
22. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the
Father, and who the Father is except the Son and him to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
23. And turning to the disciples, He said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you
see.
24. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have wanted to perceive the things that you see, and
have not perceived them, and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.
Luke 24:31
And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and He disappeared from them.
Luke 24:35
And they related the things that occurred on the road, and how He was made known to them in
the breaking of the bread.
Luke 24:45
Then He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures;
C. ACTS
Acts 26:19
D. ROMANS
Romans 16:25
Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, that is, the proclamation of
times of the ages
E. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us God has revealed them through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the
depths of God.
1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, unless I speak to
you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in teaching?
1 Corinthians 14:26
1 Corinthians 14:30
But if something is revealed to another sitting by, the first should be silent.
F. 2 CORINTHIANS
1. To boast is necessary, though indeed not expedient; yet I will come to visions and revelations of
the Lord.
7. And because of the transcendence of the revelations, in order that I might not be exceedingly
lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet
me, in order that I might not be exceedingly lifted up.
G. GALATIANS
Galatians 1:12
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation by
Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:15-16
grace,
Galatians 2:2
And I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the gospel which I proclaim among
the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest perhaps I should be running, or had
run, in vain.
H. EPHESIANS
Ephesians 1:9
Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed
in Himself,
Ephesians 1:17-18
17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom
18. The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His
calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 3:3, 5
Ephesians 3:9
And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the
I. HEBREWS
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he persevered as one seeing the
unseen One.
J. 1 PETER
1 Peter 1:12
To them it was revealed that not to themselves but to you they ministered these things, which
have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy
Spirit sent from heaven, which things angels long to look into.
K. REVELATION
Revelation 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must
quickly take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John,
10. I was in spirit on the Lord’s Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
12. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden
lampstands,
13. And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment reaching to
the feet, and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle.
Revelation 4:2
Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the
Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of
Revelation 17:3
And he carried me away in spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 21:10
LOVING THE LORD
Exodus 20:6
Yet showing lovingkindness to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My
commandments. (cf. Deuteronomy 5:10)
Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that it is Jehovah your God who is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and
lovingkindness to the thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments, (cf.
Nehemiah 1:5; Daniel 9:4)
Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you fear Jehovah your God so
that you would walk in all His ways and love Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and
with all your soul;
Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and
His commandments always.
13. And if you are certain to listen to my commandments, which I am commanding you today, to love
Jehovah your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14. I will give rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your
grain and your new wine and your fresh oil.
15. And I will put grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
22. For if you are certain to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Jehovah
your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,
23. Jehovah will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and
mightier than you.
Deuteronomy 13:3
You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God is
testing you in order to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
Deuteronomy 30:6
And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, so that you will love
Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:20
In loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and holding fast to Him; for He is your life and the
length of your days, that you may dwell upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Joshua 22:5
However be very careful to perform the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah
commanded you, to love Jehovah your God and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments
and to cling to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 23:11
Be very careful therefore for yourselves, that you love Jehovah your God.
1 Kings 3:3
And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; however he sacrificed and
burned incense in the high places.
Psalm 18:1
I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.
Psalm 31:23
Love Jehovah, all you who are His faithful ones; Jehovah guards the trustworthy, And recompenses
abundantly Him who acts haughtily.
Psalm 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven but You? And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth.
Psalm 116:1
I love Jehovah because He hears My voice, my supplications,
Psalm 145:20
Jehovah preserves all who love Him, But He will destroy all the wicked.
Proverbs 8:17, 21
17. I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.
21. That I may cause those who love me to inherit substance And that I may fill their treasuries.
Song of Songs 1:2-4
3. Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; Your name is like ointment poured forth; Therefore the
virgins love you.
4. Draw me; we will run after you—The king has brought me into his chambers—We will be glad and
Life is a Person, and there is no other way to apply and enjoy this Person but by love. We need
to love Him. Some of the saints in past centuries used to pray, “Lord, show me your love that I
may love You.” We need to pray the same prayer. Once we see the love of Jesus, we will be so
constrained, so captured, and so attracted. We will spontaneously love Him. Then by loving Him,
we will enjoy Him. If we are going to deal with this Person, we must have a hot and loving heart, a
heart so full of affection that we would contact Him all the time. One book among the sixty-six
books of the Bible, the Song of Songs, illustrates how the Lord Jesus is altogether lovely. This book
shows how the Lord is so attractive, and how we are those who love Him. We just love Him! Could
you love some doctrine in this way? I do not believe that you could even love the gifts in this way.
Do you love the gifts? Could you say, “O dear gifts, you are altogether lovely! Oh, the healing! Oh,
the speaking in tongues! All the gifts are so sweet!”? Just try to speak this way. It simply does not
fit. But we can say a thousand times, “Lord Jesus, You are altogether lovely! O Lord Jesus, You
are altogether lovely!”
Life and Building in the Song of Songs, pp. 21-22, W.L.
Mark 12:30
And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your
(cf. Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27)
John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will
be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.
John 14:23
John 21:15
Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me
more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.
(cf. John 21:16-17)
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called
according to His purpose.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not come up in
man's heart; things which God has prepared for those who 3love Him.”
To realize and participate in the deep and hidden things God has ordained and prepared for us
requires us not only to believe in Him but also to love Him. To fear God, to worship God, and to
believe in God (that is, to receive God) are all inadequate; to love Him is the indispensable
requirement. To love God means to set our entire being—spirit, soul, and body, with the heart,
soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)—absolutely on Him, that is, to let our entire being be
occupied by Him and lost in Him, so that He becomes everything to us and we are one with Him
practically in our daily life. In this way we have the closest and most intimate fellowship with
God....
1 Corinthians 8:3
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
In verse 3 Paul seems to be telling the Corinthians that they do not need so much knowledge;
instead, they need to love God. Loving God is the base of our Christian life. If we do not have such
a love, we do not have the standing, the base, for the Christian life. As far as the Christian life is
concerned, knowledge is like a vapor; it can disappear quickly. Loving God, however, is solid and
substantial. Hence it is the base of the Christian life.
In verse 3 Paul says that if we love God, we are known by Him. It is more necessary for us to be
known by God than for us to know God. The expression “known by Him” is very meaningful. To
be known by God means to be owned and possessed by Him. The one who is known by God
becomes God's possession, joy, entertainment, and pleasure. Our knowledge does not please God.
But if we love God, we shall make Him happy. He will know us, enjoy us, and be happy with us.
He will even find in us His entertainment. All this is implied by the words “known by Him.”
Life-Study of 1 Corinthians, Message 44, pg.388, W.L.
1 Corinthians 16:22
Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures trial, because when he has become approved by testing, he will receive
the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.
James 2:5
1 Peter 1:8
1 John 4:21
And this commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God love his brother also.
Revelation 2:4
REJOICING
I. REJOICING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
A. MATTHEW
Matthew 2:10
And when they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets
who were before you.
Matthew 18:13
And if it so happens that he finds it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the
ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
B. LUKE
Luke 1:14
And you will have joy and exultation, and many will rejoice at his birth.
Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their
fathers did to the prophets.
Luke 10:20
However do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are
recorded in the heavens.
Luke 15:6, 9, 32
6. And when he comes into his house, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to
them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.
9. And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I
have found the coin which I lost.
32. But we had to be merry and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life,
and he was lost and has been found.
Luke 19:37
And as He was already drawing near to the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of
the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the works of power which
they had seen,
C. JOHN
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears
John 4:36
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, in order that he who sows and he
who reaps may rejoice together.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham exulted that he would see My day, and he saw it and rejoiced.
John 16:22
John 20:20
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples therefore
rejoiced at seeing the Lord.
D. ACTS
Acts 5:41
Acts 8:39
And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away; and the
eunuch did not see him anymore, for he went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 11:23
Acts 15:23
Writing to them and sending by their hand the following: The apostles and the elder brothers, to
the brothers throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia who are of the Gentiles, rejoice.
Acts 15:31
And when they read it, they rejoiced at the encouragement.
E. ROMANS
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope; endure in tribulation; persevere in prayer.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
Romans 15:10
And again he says, “Rejoice, Gentiles, with His people.”
F. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 12:26
And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is glorified, all
the members rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians 13:6
It does not rejoice because of unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
G. 2 CORINTHIANS
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very thing to you that when I come I would not have sorrow from those who
ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:10
2 Corinthians 7:7
And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted because of
you, declaring to us your longing, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to
repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to God, that in nothing you might suffer loss
from us.
2 Corinthians 7:13
2 Corinthians 7:16
I rejoice that in everything I have boldness because of you.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are powerful; this also we pray for, your
perfecting.
2 Corinthians 13:11
H. GALATIANS
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, “Rejoice, barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not
travailing, because many are the children of her who is desolate rather than of her who has her
husband.”
I. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1:18
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truthfulness, Christ is announced;
and in this I rejoice; yes, and I will rejoice;
Philippians 2:17
Philippians 2:18
And in like manner you also rejoice, and you rejoice together with me.
Philippians 2:28
I have sent him therefore the more eagerly, so that when you see him again, you may rejoice and
I may be less sorrowful.
Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, for me it is not
irksome, but for you it is safe.
Philippians 4:4
Philippians 4:10
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because now at length you have caused your thinking for me to
blossom anew; for which matter you had indeed taken thought, but lacked opportunity.
J. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1:24
I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the
afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His Body, which is the church;
K. 1 THESSALONIANS
1 Thessalonians 3:9
Always rejoice,
L. 1 PETER
1 Peter 4:13
M. 2 JOHN
2 John 4
I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received
commandment from the Father.
N. 3 JOHN
3 John 3
For I rejoiced greatly at the brothers’ coming and testifying to your steadfastness in the truth,
O. REVELATION
Revelation 19:7
Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,

III.
THANKING THE LORD
I. THANKING THE LORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. MATTHEW
Matthew 15:36
He took the seven loaves and the fish, and giving thanks, He broke them and gave them to the
disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.
Matthew 26:27
B. LUKE
Luke 2:38
And at that very hour she came up and returned thanks to God, and spoke concerning Him to all
those waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
Luke 17:15-16
15. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice;
16. And he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.
Luke 22:17, 19
17. And He received a cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves;
19. And He took a loaf and gave thanks, and He broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is My body
which is being given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.
C. JOHN
John 6:11, 23
23. But other small boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord
had given thanks.
John 11:41
Then they took the stone away. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that
You have heard Me.
ACTS
Acts 27:35
And when he had said these things and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all; and he
broke it and began to eat.
Acts 28:15
And from there the brothers, having heard about the things concerning us, came as far as the
Market of Appius and Three Inns to meet us; and when Paul saw them, he thanked God and took
courage.
D. ROMANS
Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your faith is proclaimed
throughout the whole world.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the
form of teaching into which you were delivered.
Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law
of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.
Romans 14:6
He who regards that day, regards it to the Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives
thanks to God; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
E. 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 1:4
I thank my God always concerning you based upon the grace of God which was given to you in
Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 10:30
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I spoken evil of concerning that for which I give thanks?
1 Corinthians 11:24
And having given thanks, He broke it and said, This is My body, which is given for you; this do
16. Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned in
17. For you give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than all of you,
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
F. 2 CORINTHIANS
2 Corinthians 1:11
If you also help in this by petition on our behalf, that for the gift to us through many, thanks may
be given by many persons on our behalf.
2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ and manifests the savor of
the knowledge of Him through us in every place.
2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes that the grace which has abounded through the greater number
may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 8:16
But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus,
11. You in everything are being enriched unto all liberality, which works out through us thanksgiving
to God,
12. Because the ministry of this service is not only filling up the lack of the saints, but is also
abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
2 Corinthians 9:15
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
G. EPHESIANS
Ephesians 1:15-16
15. Therefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you and your love to
all the saints,
16. Do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
Ephesians 5:4
And obscenity and foolish talking or sly, filthy jesting, which are not becoming, but rather the
giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:20
Father,
H. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1:3
I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your
requests be made known to God;
I. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always concerning you,
Colossians 1:12
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints
in the light;
Colossians 2:7
Having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you
were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 4:2
Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
J. 1 THESSALONIANS
1 Thessalonians 1:2
We thank God always concerning all of you, making mention of you in our prayers,
And because of this we also thank God unceasingly that when you received the word of God,
which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but even as it truly is, the word
of God, which also operates in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
K. 2 THESSALONIANS
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought to thank God always concerning you, brothers, even as it is fitting, because your faith
grows exceedingly and the love of each one of you all to one another is increasing,
L. 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 1:12
I give thanks to Him who empowers me, Christ Jesus our Lord, that He has counted me faithful,
appointing me to the ministry,
1 Timothy 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made on
behalf of all men;
1 Timothy 4:3-4
3. Who forbid marriage and command abstaining from foods, which God has created to be partaken
of with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.
4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if received with thanksgiving;
M. 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, while unceasingly I have
remembrance concerning you in my petitions night and day,
N. PHILEMON
Philemon 4
I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
O. REVELATION
Revelation 4:9
And when the four living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits upon the
throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,
Revelation 7:12
Saying, Amen. The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the
power and the strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 11:17
Saying, We thank You, Lord God the Almighty, He who is and who was, because You have
taken Your great power and have reigned.

III.
REFRESHING
Acts 3:19-20
19. Repent therefore and turn, that your sins may be wiped away,
20. So that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and that He may send the Christ,
who has been previously appointed for you, Jesus,
Romans 15:32
So that coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may refresh myself and rest with you.
1 Corinthians 16:18
For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Acknowledge therefore such ones.
2 Corinthians 7:13
Because of this we have been comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced more abundantly
over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed
of my chain;
Philemon 7
For I had much joy and encouragement over your love, because the inward parts of the saints have been
refreshed through you, brother.
Philemon 20
Yes, brother, may I have profit from you in the Lord; refresh my inward parts in Christ.
FILLED WITH GOD'S NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY
I. ITEMS OF FILLING
A. LUKE
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall by no means drink wine and liquor. And
he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb,
Luke 1:41
And when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was
filled with the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:53
The hungry He has filled with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.
Luke 1:67
And Zachariah his father was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
Luke 2:40
And the little child grew and became strong, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was
upon Him.
Luke 4:1
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the
wilderness, while being tempted for forty days by the devil.
B. JOHN
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the
only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
John 15:11
These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be made
full.
John 16:24
Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may
be made full.
John 17:13
But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world that they may have My joy
made full in themselves.
C. ACTS
Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, even as the
Spirit gave to them to speak forth.
Many Christians and even many Christian teachers confuse the outward baptism in the
Holy Spirit with the inward filling of the Holy Spirit. This is wrong. Two different Greek
words are used in the New Testament for these two aspects. One is “pleeroo” for the
inward filling; the other is “pleetho” for the outward filling. “Pleeroo” is used in Acts
13:52, and Ephesians 5:18. “Pleerees,” the adjective form of “pleeroo,” is found in Luke
4:1; Acts 6:3, 5; 7:55; and 11:24. These are all instances of the inward filling of the Holy
Spirit. “Pleetho” is used in Luke 1:15, 41, 67; Acts 2:4; 4:8, 31; 9:17; and 13:9. All these
instances are connected with the outward filling, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Both of
these words are used in Acts 2:2-4. The mighty wind filled (pleeroo) the house, but the
disciples were filled (pleetho) with the Holy Spirit. The house was filled inwardly, but the
disciples were filled or clothed outwardly. “Pleeroo” is always used for the inward filling,
and “pleetho” is always used for the outward filling. We should never confuse the inward
and outward aspects of the work of the Holy Spirit. The inward is for life; the outward is
for power.
The Baptism in The Holy Spirit, pp. 7-8, W.L.

Acts 2:28
You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with Your
presence.”
Acts 4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders,
Acts 4:31
And when they had so besought, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 6:3
But brothers, look for seven well-attested men from among you, full of the Spirit and of wisdom,
whom we will appoint over this need.
Acts 6:5
And the word pleased all the multitude; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the
Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a
proselyte of Antioch,
Acts 6:8
And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
Acts 7:55
But being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and
Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
Acts 9:17
And Ananias went away and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him, he said, Saul,
brother, the Lord has sent me—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were
coming—so that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9:36
Now in Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha (which, when translated, is Dorcas);
this woman was full of good works and alms which she did.
Acts 11:24
For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a considerable number was
added to the Lord.
Acts 13:9
But Saul, who is also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
D. ROMANS
Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope
in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:14
But I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of
goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
E. 2 CORINTHIANS
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with comfort, I
overflow with joy in all our affliction.
F. EPHESIANS
Ephesians 1:23
Which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.
Ephesians 3:19
And to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the
fullness of God.
Ephesians 4:10
He who descended, He is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens that He might fill
all things.)
Ephesians 5:18
G. PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1:11
Being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise
of God.
Philippians 2:2
Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking
the one thing,
H. COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1:9
Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease praying and asking on your behalf
that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and
understanding,
I. 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 1:4
Longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
J. 1 JOHN
1 John 1:4
And these things we write that our joy may be made full.
K. 2 JOHN
2 John 12
Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I am
hoping to be with you and to speak face to face that our joy may be made full.
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EATING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
I. EATING THE TREE OF LIFE
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for
food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil.
Genesis 2:16
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat freely,
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now,
lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live for ever.
II. JOSEPH—THE SUSTAINER OF LIFE
Genesis 41:45
And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of
Potipherah priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Joseph typified Christ in these three aspects, for these titles are all included in the name
Zaphnath-paaneah given to Joseph by Pharoah (41:45). This name firstly means the Savior of the
world; secondly, the Sustainer of life; and thirdly, the Revealer of secrets.
Life-Study of Genesis, Message 113, p. 1456, W.L.
Genesis 41:54-57
54. And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but
in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55. So when all the land of Egypt became hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh
said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.
56. And when the famine was over all the face of the earth, Joseph opened all the storehouses of grain and
sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.
57. And all the earth came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
III. HOLDING A FEAST UNTO GOD
Exodus 5:1
And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let
My people go that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.
IV. THE PASSOVER LAMB, THE UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND THE BITTER HERBS
Exodus 12:3, 8
3. Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a lamb
according to his fathers’ house, a lamb for a household.
8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread
with bitter herbs.
V. MANNA
Exodus 16:4
Then Jehovah said to Moses, I will now rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and
gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My law.
Exodus 16:14-15
14. And when the layer of dew lifted, there upon the surface of the wilderness were fine round flakes, fine as
the frost on the earth.
15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? For they did not know what it
was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.
Deuteronomy 8:3
And He humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you the manna, which you had never known nor
had your fathers ever known, so that He might make you know that man lives not by bread alone, but
that man lives by everything that proceeds out from the mouth of Jehovah.
Nehemiah 9:15
And You gave them bread from heaven For their hunger, And You made water come forth from a rock
for them For their thirst. And You told them to enter In order to possess the land, Which You swore To
give them.
Nehemiah 9:20
And You gave Your good Spirit To instruct them, And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And gave them water for their thirst.
Psalm 78:24-25
24. And He rained down upon them manna to eat And gave them the food of heaven.
25. Man ate the bread of the mighty; He sent them full provision.
Psalm 105:40
They asked, and He brought quails; And He satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
VI. THE HIDDEN MANNA
Exodus 16:33
And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before Jehovah, to
be kept throughout your generations.
VII. THE SHEW BREAD (BREAD OF THE PRESENCE)
Exodus 25:30
And you shall set the bread of the Presence upon the table before Me always.
Leviticus 24:5-6, 9
5. And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
6. And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure gold table before Jehovah.
9. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him of
Jehovah’s offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.
1 Samuel 21:3, 6
3. Now then what do you have on hand? Give five loaves of bread into my hand, or whatever there is to be
found.
6. So the priest gave him what was holy, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence,
which was taken from before Jehovah, to be replaced by hot bread at the time it was taken.
VIII. THE OFFERINGS
BBB. THE MEAL OFFERING
Leviticus 2:4-5, 9-10
4. And when you present an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be of fine flour,
unleavened cakes mingled with oil or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5. And if your offering is a meal offering baked on a flat plat, it shall be of fine flour mingled with
oil, unleavened.
9. And the priest shall take up from the meal offering its memorial portion and shall burn it on the
altar, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
10. And that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a thing most holy of
Jehovah’s offerings by fire.
CCC. THE SIN OFFERING
Leviticus 6:26
The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the
Tent of Meeting.
DDD. THE TRESPASS OFFERING

Leviticus 7:5-6
5. And the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering by fire to Jehovah; it is a trespass
offering.
6. Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
EEE. THE PEACE OFFERING
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of
his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
FFF. WAVE–BREAST AND HEAVE–SHOULDER
Leviticus 10:14
And the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean
place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your due and
your sons' due out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
II. THE GOOD LAND
Deuteronomy 8:7-10
7. For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains,
flowing forth in valleys and in mountains;
8. A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of
honey;
9. A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones
are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper.
10. And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has
given you.
Deuteronomy 12:5-7
5. But to the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes to put His name, to His
habitation, shall you seek, and there shall you go.
6. And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the heave offering
of your hand and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock;
7. And there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you and your households shall rejoice in all your
undertakings, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.
Joshua 5:11-12
11. And on the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes
and parched grain.
12. And the manna ceased on that day, when they ate of the produce of the land; and there was no longer
manna for the children of Israel, but they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan that year.
Nehemiah 9:25
And they took their fortified cities and a fertile land, And took possession of their houses, Full of every
good thing, Hewn cisterns, vineyards, and olive groves, And fruit trees in abundance; And they ate and
were satisfied and grew fat, And they delighted in Your great goodness.
II. THE FEASTS
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will
choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles. And
they shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed;
2 Chronicles 8:13
Even as required daily, offering them up according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths and
on the new moons and on the appointed feasts three times in a year, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread
and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Tabernacles.
III. EATING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS
A. JOB
Job 23:12
As for the commandment of His lips, I have not turned back from it; I have treasured the words of His
mouth more than my apportioned food.
B. PSALMS
Psalm 19:7-10
7. The law of Jehovah is perfect, Restoring the soul; The testimony of Jehovah is faithful, Making the
simple wise.
8. The precepts of Jehovah are right, Making the heart joyous; The commandment of Jehovah is clear,
Enlightening the eyes;
9. The fear of Jehovah is pure, Enduring forever; The judgments of Jehovah are truth And altogether
righteous.
10. More to be desired are they than gold, Even much refined gold; Sweeter also than honey And the
drippings of the honeycomb.
Psalm 22:26
The lowly will eat and be satisfied; Those who seek after Jehovah will praise Him—May your hearts
live forever!
Psalm 23:5
You spread a table before me In the presence of my adversaries; You anoint my head with oil; My cup
runs over.
Psalm 28:9
Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; And shepherd them and carry them forever.
Psalm 34:8
Taste and see that Jehovah is good; Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
Psalm 81:10
I am Jehovah your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I
will fill it.
Psalm 81:16
And He would have fed them with the finest of wheat; Indeed with honey from the rock I would have
satisfied you.
Psalm 119:103
How sweet are Your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Psalm 132:15
I will abundantly bless its provision; I will satisfy its poor with bread.
C. SONG OF SONGS
Song of Songs 2:3-5
3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shade I delighted
and sat down, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4. He brought me into the banqueting house, And his banner over me was love.
5. Sustain me with raisin cakes, Refresh me with apples, For I am sick with love.
Song of Songs 5:1

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten
my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, and drink
deeply, O beloved ones!
D. ISAIAH
Isaiah 25:6
And Jehovah of hosts will make on the mountains For all these peoples A feast of fat things, A feast of
wine matured on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, And of filtered wine matured on the lees.
Isaiah 40:10, 11
10. Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty One, And His arm will rule for Him. Behold, His reward
is with Him, And His recompense before Him.
11. He will feed His flock as a Shepherd; In His arm He will gather the lambs; In His bosom He will
carry them. He will lead those who are nursing the young.
Isaiah 55:1-2
1. Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, And you who have no money; Come, buy and eat; Yes,
come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
2. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And the result of your labor for what does not satisfy?
Hear Me attentively, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 58:14
Then you will have delight in Jehovah; And I will cause you to ride upon the heights of the earth, And I
will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father; For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
E. JEREMIAH
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found and I ate them, And Your word became to me The gladness and joy of my heart,
For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will raise up shepherds over them who will feed them, and they will no longer fear or be
dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:19
And I will bring Israel back to his habitation, And he will feed on Carmel and Bashan, And in the hill
country of Ephraim and in Gilead He will satisfy his soul.
F. EZEKIEL
Ezekiel 2:8, 3:1-3
8. But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your
mouth and eat what I give you
1. Then He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
2. So I opened my mouth, and He gave me that scroll to eat.
3. And He said to me, Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your inward parts with this scroll that I am
giving you. And I ate it; and it was like honey in my mouth in its sweetness.
Ezekiel 34:13-15
13. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their
own land, and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the streams and in all the inhabited places
of the land.
14. I will feed them with good pasture, and their dwelling place will be upon the mountains of the heights of
Israel; there they will lie down in a good dwelling place, and on rich pasture they will feed upon the
mountains of Israel.
15. I Myself will shepherd My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith declares the Lord Jehovah.
G. HOSEA
Hosea 4:16
For Israel is stubborn, Like a stubborn heifer; Will Jehovah now pasture them Like a lamb in a spacious
place?
H. MICAH
Micah 5:4
And He will stand and feed His flock in the strength of Jehovah, In the majesty of the name of Jehovah
His God; And they will abide, for now He will be great Unto the ends of the earth.
Micah 7:14
Shepherd Your people with Your rod, The flock of Your inheritance, Who dwell alone in the forest In
the midst of Carmel; Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, As in the days of old.
I. NAHUM
Nahum 1:15
See, upon the mountains The feet of him who bears the glad news, Who announces peace! Keep your
feasts, O Judah; Complete your vows; For the wicked one will never again Pass through you; He will be
completely cut off.
J. ZECHARIAH
Zechariah 11:4,7
4. Thus says Jehovah my God, Shepherd the flock of slaughter,
7. So I shepherded the flock of slaughter, and thereby the afflicted of the flock. And I took to myself two
staffs; one I called Favor, and the other I called Bonds; and I shepherded the flock.
I. EATING IN THE GOSPELS

A. EATING IN MATTHEW
Matthew 4:4
But He answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word
that proceeds out through the mouth of God.”
Matthew 15:25-28
25. But she came and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, help me!
26. But He answered and said, It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little
dogs.
27. And she said, Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’
table.
28. Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you as you wish.
And her daughter was healed from that hour.
The Canaanite woman, not offended by the Lord’s word but admitting that she was a
heathen dog, considered that at that time Christ, after being rejected by the children, the
Jews, became crumbs under the table as a portion to the Gentiles. The holy land of Israel
was the table on which Christ, the heavenly bread, had come as a portion to the children of
Israel. But they threw Him off the table to the ground, the Gentile land, so that He became
broken crumbs as a portion to the Gentiles. What a realization this Gentile woman had at
that time! No wonder the heavenly King admired her faith (v. 28).
Matthew 26:26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and He broke it and gave it to the
disciples and said, Take, eat; this is My body.
B. EATING IN MARK
Mark 2:18-19
18. And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting. And they came and said to Him, Why
do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?
19. And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot fast while the bridegroom is with
them, can they? For as long a time as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
C. EATING IN LUKE
Luke 1:53
The hungry He has filled with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.
Luke 15:21-23
21. And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer
worthy to be called your son.
22. But the father said to his slaves, Bring out quickly the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring
on his hand and sandals on his feet.
23. And bring the fattened calf; slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry,
D. EATING IN JOHN
John 6:9-13
9. There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many?
10. Jesus said, Have the people recline. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men reclined,
in number about five thousand.
12. And when they were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather the broken pieces left over that
nothing may be lost.
13. So they gathered them and filled twelve handbaskets with broken pieces from the five barley
loaves which were left over among those who had eaten.
...Barley loaves and fish are small items, signifying Christ’s smallness, through which He
can be the life supply to us. Those who sought miracles considered Him the promised
Prophet and would have forced Him to be King (vv. 14-15), but He would not seek to be a
giant in religion; rather, He preferred to be small loaves and little fish that people might
eat Him.
John 6:27
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the
Son of Man will give you; for Him has the Father, even God, sealed.
John 6:33-35, 48
33. For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
34. They said therefore to Him, Lord, give us this bread always.
35. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he
who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.
48. I am the bread of life.
John 6:51, 53-58
51. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live
forever; And the bread which I will give is My flesh, given for the life of the world.
53. Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink His blood, you do not have life within yourselves.
54. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.
57. As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall
live because of Me.
58. This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this
bread shall live forever.
To eat is to take food into us that it may be assimilated organically into our body. Hence,
to eat the Lord Jesus is to receive Him into us that He may be assimilated by the
regenerated new man in the way of life. Then we live by Him whom we have received. It is
by this that He, the resurrected One, lives in us (John 14:19-20).
John 21:15-17
My lambs.
II. EATING IN THE EPISTLES
A. EATING IN 1 CORINTHIANS
1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. But neither yet
now are you able,
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
7. Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our
Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed.
8. So then let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and evil, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The feast here refers to the Feast of Unleavened Bread as the continuation of the
Passover (Exo. 12:15-20). It lasted for seven days, a period of completion, signifying the
entire period of our Christian life, from the day of our conversion to the day of rapture.
This is a long feast, which we must keep not with the sin of our old nature, the old leaven,
but with unleavened bread, which is the Christ of our new nature as our nourishment and
enjoyment. Only He is the life supply of sincerity and truth, absolutely pure, without
mixture, and full of reality. The feast is a time for the enjoyment of the banquet. The entire
Christian life should be such a feast, such an enjoyment of Christ as our banquet, the rich
supply of life.

1 Corinthians 10:3
1 Corinthians 10:17
Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one
bread.
B. EATING IN EPHESIANS
Ephesians 5:29
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the
church,
C. EATING IN 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 4:6
If you lay these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, 2being
nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have closely followed.
Or, nourishing yourself. Being nourished is for growth in life, which is a matter of life; it
differs from being merely taught, which is a matter of knowledge. To minister Christ to
others requires that first we ourselves be nourished with the words of life concerning
Christ.
D. EATING IN HEBREWS
Hebrews 5:12-14
12. For when because of the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach
you what the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God are and have become those who
have need of milk and not of solid food.
13. For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an
infant;
14. But solid food is for the full-grown, who because of practice have their faculties exercised for
Though this verse mentions teachers and teach, it likens the word of God to milk and
solid food, which are for nourishment. This corresponds with the Lord’s word in Matt. 4:4
and the prophet’s word in Jer. 15:16. Paul and Peter held this same concept concerning the
divine word (1 Cor. 3:2; 1 Pet. 2:2).
Hebrews 6:5
And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
E. EATING IN 1 PETER
1 Peter 2:2-3
2. As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto
salvation,
3. If you have tasted that the Lord is good.
...The milk of the word is not milk for the body but milk for the soul, the inner being. It
is conveyed in the word of God to nourish our inner man through the understanding of our
rational mind and is assimilated by our mental faculties To grow is a matter of life and in
life. We received the divine life through regeneration, and we need to grow in this life and
with this life by being nourished with the milk conveyed in the word of God.
1 Peter 2:2, Footnotes 23, 24, W.L.
III. EATING IN REVELATION
Revelation 2:7
will give to 5eat of the 6tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
...God’s original intention was that man should eat of the tree of life (Gen. 2:9, 16). Because of
the fall, the way to the tree of life was closed to man (Gen. 3:22-24). Through the redemption of
Christ, the way by which man could touch the tree of life, which is God Himself in Christ as life to
man, was opened again (Heb. 10:19-20). But in the church’s degradation, religion crept in with its
knowledge to distract the believers in Christ from eating Him as the tree of life. Hence, the Lord
promised to grant the overcomers to eat of Himself as the tree of life in the Paradise of God, as a
reward. This is an incentive for them to leave religion with its knowledge and return to the
enjoyment of Himself. This promise of the Lord restores the church to God’s original intention
according to His economy. What the Lord wants the overcomers to do is what the whole church
should do in God’s economy....
...The eating of the tree of life not only was God’s original intention concerning man but also
will be the eternal issue of God’s redemption. All God’s redeemed people will enjoy the tree of life,
which is Christ with all the divine riches as the redeemed’s eternal portion for eternity (Rev. 22:2,
14, 19)....
...Eating the tree of life, that is, enjoying Christ as our life supply, should be the primary matter
in the church life…
Religion always teaches, but the Lord feeds (John 6:35). The apostle Paul did the same thing;
that is, he fed the believers (1 Cor. 3:2). For the proper church life and the recovery of the church
life, that is, for the proper growth in the Christian life, what we need is not merely the mental
apprehension of teachings but the eating of the Lord as our bread of life in our spirit (John 6:57).
Even the words of the Scripture should not be considered merely as doctrines to teach our mind
but as food to nourish our spirit (Matt. 4:4; Heb. 5:12-14). Here in this epistle the Lord promised
to give the overcomer to eat of the tree of life. This points back to Gen. 2:8-9, 16, which concerns
the matter of eating ordained by God. In the epistle to the church in Pergamos, the Lord promised
the overcomer that he would eat of the hidden manna (v. 17), which refers to the eating of manna
by the children of Israel in the wilderness (Exo. 16:14-16, 31). And in the epistle to the church in
Laodicea, the Lord promised to dine with the one who opens the door to Him. To dine is to eat not
merely one kind of food but the riches of a feast. This may refer to the eating of the rich produce
of the good land of Canaan by the children of Israel (Josh. 5:10-12). This indicates that the Lord
desires to recover the eating of the proper food by God’s people, the food ordained by God and
typified by the tree of life, the manna, and the produce of the good land, all of which are types of
the various aspects of Christ as food to us....
Revelation 2:17
will give of the hidden manna, and to him I will give a white stone, and upon the stone a new name
written, which no one knows except him who receives it.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, then I will come in
to him and dine with him and he with Me.
Revelation 10:8-10
8. And the voice which I heard out of heaven, I heard again speaking with me and saying, Go, take the
opened scroll in the hand of the Angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.
9. And I went to the Angel and told Him to give me the little scroll. And He said to me, Take it and devour
it, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.
10. And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the Angel and devoured it, and it was as sweet as honey in
my mouth; and when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
Revelation 12:6
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place there prepared by God so that they might
nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Revelation 12:14
And to the woman there were given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly into the
wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of
the serpent.
Revelation 19:9
And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the marriage dinner of the Lamb. And he
said to me, These are the true words of God.
Revelation 22:14
1
Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter by the
gates into the city.
This verse can be considered a promise of the enjoyment of the tree of life, which is Christ with
all the riches of life; and the second half of v. 17 can be considered a call to take the water of life,
which is the life-giving Spirit. Thus this book ends in a promise and a call, both of which are for
eating and drinking the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit.
Revelation 22:19
And if anyone takes away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God will take away his part
from the tree of life and out of the holy city, which are written in this scroll.
DRINKING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
I. THE RIVER IN EDEN
Genesis 2:10
And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four
branches.
II. ISAAC’S WELL
Genesis 26:18-19
18. And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father,
and which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by the same
names which his father had given them.
19. And Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water.
III. THE WATERS OF MARAH
Exodus 15:23-25
23. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter;
therefore its name was called Marah.
24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25. And he cried out to Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree; and he cast it into the waters, and the waters
became sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.
IV. THE ROCK IN THE WILDERNESS
Exodus 17:6
I will be standing before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shall strike the rock, and water will
come out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:8, 11
8. Take the rod, and gather the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their
eyes, so that it yields its water. Thus you shall bring forth water for them out of the rock and give the
assembly and their livestock a drink.
11. Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and abundant water came forth, and
the assembly and their livestock drank.
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through the great and awesome wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty
ground where there was no water; who brought forth water for you out of flint rock;
Nehemiah 9:15, 20
15. And You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and You made water come forth from a rock for
them for their thirst. And You told them to enter in order to possess the land, which You swore to give
them.
20. And you gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and
gave them water for their thirst.
Psalm 78:15-16, 35
15. He split rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink, as from the depths.
16. He also brought forth streams from the rock And made water run down like rivers.
35. And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God, their Redeemer.
Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; It ran in the dry places like a river.
Psalm 114:8
Who turns the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water.
Isaiah 48:21
And they did not thirst When He led them through the dry places; He caused water to flow From the
rock for them; And He split the rock, And the waters gushed out.
V. THE WELL AT BEER
Numbers 21:16-17
16. And from there they journeyed to Beer; that is the well where Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
17. Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well! Sing to it!
VI. EN–HAKKORE (THE SPRING OF HIM THAT CALLED)
Judges 15:18-19
18. And he was very thirsty, and he called on Jehovah, saying, You have granted this great victory by the
hand of Your servant. And will I now die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19. But God broke open the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came forth from it. And when he drank,
his spirit returned and he was revived; therefore he called the name of that place En-hakkore, which is in
Lehi to this day.
VII. ELISHA’S PROMISE OF WATER
2 Kings 3:16-17
16. And he said, Thus says Jehovah, Make this valley trenches, all trenches!
17. For thus says Jehovah, You will not see wind, nor will you see rain; but that valley will be filled with
water, and you will drink, as will your cattle and your animals.
VIII. DRINKING IN THE POETIC BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
R. DRINKING IN THE PSALMS
Psalm 16:5
Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; You maintain my lot.
Psalm 36:8-9
8. They are saturated with the fatness of Your house, And You cause them to drink of the river of
Your pleasures.
9. For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
Psalm 42:1-2
1. As the hart pants After the streams of water, So my soul pants For You, O God.
2. My soul thirsts for God, For the living God. When will I come and appear Before God?
Psalm 46:4
There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the
Most High.
Psalm 63:1
Psalm 65:9
You visit the earth and water it; You enrich it greatly: The river of God is full of water. You
provide men grain, for so You have prepared the earth.
Psalm 116:13
I will take up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of Jehovah.
Psalm 143:6
I spread out my hands to You; My soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
S. DRINKING IN THE SONG OF SONGS
Song of Songs 1:2

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.
Song of Songs 5:1

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I
have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends;
Drink, and drink deeply, O beloved ones!
II. DRINKING IN THE PROPHETS
R. DRINKING IN ISAIAH
Isaiah 12:3-6
3. Therefore you will draw water with rejoicing From the springs of salvation,
4. And you will say in that day, Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name! Make His deeds
known among the peoples; Remind them that His name is exalted.
5. Sing psalms to Jehovah, for He has done something majestic! Let it be made known in all the
earth!
6. Cry out and give a ringing shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of
Israel.
Isaiah 41:17-18
17. When the poor and needy seek for water, and there is none, And their tongue is dry from thirst, I,
Jehovah, will answer them; As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.
18. I will open up rivers on the bare heights, And in the midst of the valleys, springs. I will make the
wilderness into a pool of water, And the dry land into springs of water.
Isaiah 43:19-20
19. Indeed, I am doing a new thing; It will now spring forth; Do you not know it? I will even make a
way in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.
20. The animals of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I have
given them water in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert, To give a drink to My people, My
chosen ones.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water upon the thirsty land, And streams upon the dry ground; I will pour out My
Spirit upon your seed, And My blessing upon your offspring.
Isaiah 49:10
They will not hunger or thirst; Neither the scorching heat nor the sun will strike them; For He
who has compassion on them will lead them And will guide them beside the springs of water;
Isaiah 55:1
Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, And you who have no money; Come, buy and eat;
Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
S. DRINKING IN JEREMIAH
Jeremiah 2:13
For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters,
To hew out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, Which hold no water.
Jeremiah 17:13
You are the hope of Israel, O Jehovah; All who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who
turn away from Me will be written in the earth Because they forsook Jehovah, The fountain of
living waters.
Jeremiah 31:12
And they will come and sing in the height of Zion, And they will flow forth to the goodness of
Jehovah—To the grain and to the new wine and to the fresh oil And to the young of the flock and
of the herd; And their soul will be like a watered garden, And they will not languish any more.
T. DRINKING IN EZEKIEL
Ezekiel 47:1-2, 9
1. Then he brought me back to the entrance of the house, and there was water flowing out from
under the threshold of the house to the east (for the house faced east); and the water flowed down
below the south side of the house, on the south of the altar.
2. Then He brought me out by the way of the north gate and led me around on the way outside to the
outer gate, on the way to the gate that faces east; and there the water was running out on the south
side.
9. And every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes shall live, and there
will be very many fish, when this water comes there. And the water of the sea shall be healed,
and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
U. DRINKING IN JOEL
Joel 3:18
And in that day The mountains will drop down fresh wine, And the hills will flow with milk;
And all the waterways of Judah Will flow with water, And a fountain will go forth from the
house of Jehovah, And it will water the valley of Shittim.
V. DRINKING IN ZECHARIAH
Zechariah 14:8
And in that day living waters will go forth from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea
and half of them toward the western sea; it will be there in summer and in winter.
I. DRINKING IN THE GOSPELS
Matthew 26:27
John 4:10, 14-15
10. Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give Me a
drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.
14. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I
will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up into eternal life.
15. The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not thirst nor come here to draw.
John 6:35
John 6:53-56
53. Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His blood, you do not have life within yourselves.
54. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 7:37-38
37. Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him
come to Me and drink.
38. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living
water.
II. DRINKING IN THE EPISTLES
1 Corinthians 10:4
And all drank the same 1spiritual drink; for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them, and the
rock was Christ.
Referring to the living water that flowed out of the cleft rock (Exo. 17:6), typifying the Spirit,
who flowed out of the crucified and resurrected Christ, as our all-inclusive drink (John 7:37-39; 1
Cor. 12:13). For our running of the race we should all drink the same spiritual drink and should
not drink anything other than the all-inclusive Spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:21
You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the demons' cup; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the
demons' table.
25. Similarly also the cup after they had dined, saying, This cup is the new covenant established in My blood;
this do, as often as you drink it, unto the remembrance of Me.
26. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you declare the Lord's death until He comes.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or
free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.
Ephesians 5:18
III. DRINKING IN REVELATION
Revelation 7:17
Revelation 21:6
Revelation 22:17
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RICH TOWARD GOD
Luke 12:21
So is he who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
Romans 9:23
In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who
call upon Him;
2 Corinthians 6:10
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, for your sakes He became
poor in order that you, because of His poverty, might become rich.
Philippians 4:19
And my God will fill your every need according to His riches, in glory, in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 6:18-19
18. To do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to distribute, to be ones willing to share;
19. Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the future, that they may lay hold on that
which is really life.
Hebrews 11:26
Considering the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked away to
the reward.
James 2:5
Revelation 2:9
I know your tribulation and poverty (but you are rich) and the slander from those who call themselves
Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire that you may be rich, and white garments that you
may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be manifested, and eyesalve to anoint
your eyes that you may see.

PERSECUTED
I. PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME IN THE GOSPELS
Matthew 5:10-12
10. Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the
heavens.
11. Blessed are you when they reproach and persecute you, and while speaking lies, say every evil thing
against you because of Me.
12. Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were
before you.
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 10:21-23, 36
21. And brother will deliver up brother to death, and father his child; and children will rise up
against their parents and put them to death.
22. And you will be hated by all because of My name. But he who has endured to the end, this one shall be
saved.
23. And when they persecute you in this city, flee into another. For truly I say to you, You shall by no means
finish the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.
36. And a man's enemies will be those of his household.
Matthew 13:21
Yet he does not have root in himself but lasts only for a time, and when affliction or persecution occurs
because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.
Matthew 23:34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and
crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
Mark 4:17
Yet they have no root in themselves, but last only for a time; then when affliction or persecution occurs
because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.
Mark 10:30
But that he shall receive a hundred times as much now at this time, houses and brothers and sisters and
mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the coming age, eternal life.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you and when they separate you from them and reproach you and cast
out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
Luke 11:49
Therefore the wisdom of God also has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them
they will kill and persecute,
Luke 12:51-53
51. Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
52. For from now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three.
53. They will be divided: father against son and son against father; mother against her daughter and daughter
against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-
in-law.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the
synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for the sake of My name.
Luke 21:16-17
16. And you will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put
some of you to death.
17. And you will be hated by all because of My name,
John 15:20
Remember the word which I said to you, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted
Me, they will persecute you also; if they have kept My word, they will keep yours also.
II. PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME IN THE EPISTLES
Acts 5:41
Acts 8:1
And Saul approved of his killing. And there occurred in that day a great persecution against the church
which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the
apostles.
Acts 13:50
But the Jews incited the women of high standing who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city,
and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and cast them out from their borders.
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or
nakedness or peril or sword?
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
1 Corinthians 4:12
And we labor, working with our own hands. Reviled we bless; persecuted we endure;
2 Corinthians 4:9
Persecuted but not abandoned; cast down but not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I am well pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions and distresses, on
behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then the stumbling block
of the cross has been annulled.
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to make a good show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, but only that
they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves boast in you among the churches of God concerning your endurance and faith in all
your persecutions and the afflictions which you bear,
2 Timothy 3:11-12
11. Persecutions, sufferings, such as befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra. Such persecutions I bore,
and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12. And indeed all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Hebrews 10:32-34
32. But call to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of
sufferings;
33. On one hand, being made a spectacle both in reproaches and in afflictions, and on the other, having
become partakers with those who are treated the same.
34. For you both sympathized with those in bonds and accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions,
knowing that you yourselves have a better possession and one that abides.
Hebrews 13:13
Let us therefore go forth unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
1 Peter 2:19-20
19. For this is grace, if anyone, because of a consciousness of God, bears sorrows by suffering unjustly.
20. For what glory is it if, while sinning and being buffeted, you endure? But if, while doing good and
suffering, you endure, this is grace with God.
1 Peter 3:14, 16-17
14. But even if you suffer because of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not be afraid with fear from
them, nor be troubled,
16. Yet with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, so that in the matter in which you are spoken
against, those who revile your good manner of life in Christ may be put to shame.
17. For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
1 Peter 4:13-14
13. But inasmuch as you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of His glory
you may rejoice exultingly.
14. If you are reproached in the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests
upon you.
III. PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME IN REVELATION
Revelation 12:13, 17
13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the
man-child.
17. And the dragon became angry with the woman and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who
keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.
POURED OUT FOR CHRIST AND HIS BODY
I. THE PATTERN—CHRIST
Matthew 13:45-46
45. Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking fine pearls;
46. And finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
John 10:11
I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
Ephesians 5:25
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, for your sakes He became
poor in order that you, because of His poverty, might become rich.
II. THE BELIEVERS POURED OUT FOR CHRIST AND HIS BODY
SS. MARY
Mark 14:3-8
3. And while He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He reclined at table, a woman
came, having an alabaster flask of ointment, of very costly pure nard, and she broke the alabaster
flask and poured it over His head.
4. But there were some who were indignantly commenting among themselves: Why has this waste
of the ointment been made?
5. For this ointment could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And
they were infuriated with her.
6. But Jesus said, Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a noble deed on Me.
7. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But
you do not always have Me.
8. She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.
TT. BARNABAS AND PAUL
Acts 15:25-26
25. It seemed good to us, having become of one accord, to choose men to send to you together with
our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26. Men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
UU. PAUL
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not
only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 12:15
But I, I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent on behalf of your souls. If I love you more
abundantly, am I loved less?
Philippians 2:17
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Yearning in this way over you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God
but also our own souls, because you became beloved to us.
VV. TIMOTHY
Philippians 2:19-21
19. But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged by
knowing the things concerning you.
20. For I have no one like-souled who will genuinely care for what concerns you;
21. For all seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus.
WW. EPAPHRODITIS
Philippians 2:25, 29-30
25. But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and
fellow soldier, and your apostle and minister to my need,
29. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
30. Because for the work of Christ he drew near unto death, 1risking his life, that he might fill up your
lack of service toward me.
Venturing, recklessly exposing his life, like a gambler throwing down a stake
Philippians 2:30, Footnote 301, W.L.

XX. EPAPHRAS
Colossians 4:12-13
12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf
in his prayers that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
13. For I testify of him that he labors much for you and for those in Laodicea and for those in
Hierapolis.
YY. ONESIPHORUS
2 Timothy 1:16-18
16. May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not
ashamed of my chain;
17. But being in Rome, he sought me out diligently and found me.
18. May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day. And in how many things he
served me in Ephesus, you know best.
ZZ. PHILEMON
Philemon 1:4-7
4. I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

5. Hearing of your love and the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and to all the saints,
6. That the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the full knowledge of every good thing
which is in you for Christ.
7. For I had much joy and encouragement over your love, because the inward parts of the saints
have been refreshed through you, brother.
AAA. PHOEBE
Romans 16:1-2
1. I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is in Cenchrea,
2. That you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever
matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been the patroness of many, of myself
as well.
Or, protectress. It is a word of dignity, denoting one who helps, sustains, and supplies. It
indicates the high esteem with which Phoebe was regarded because of her service in the
church life in Cenchrea.
BBB. PRISCA AND AQUILA
Romans 16:3-5
3. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

4. Who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches
of the Gentiles;
5. And greet the church, which is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits
of Asia unto Christ.
Prisca and Aquila were absolute for the local churches. Their only interest was the
church, and they were willing to risk their necks, to be martyred, for the apostles.
CCC. GAIUS
Romans 16:23
Gaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you,
and Quartus the brother.
THE REWARD
I. THE REWARD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were
before you.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will repay each
man according to his doings.
Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to
the prophets.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be
great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his
own labor.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If anyone's work which he has built upon the foundation remains, he will receive a reward;
1 Corinthians 9:17
If I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a
stewardship.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that those who run on a racecourse all run, but one receives the prize? Run in this way,
that you may lay hold.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the
things done through the body according to what he has practiced, whether good or bad.
Philippians 3:14
I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called me upward.
Colossians 3:24
Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as recompense. You serve the Lord Christ.
Hebrews 10:35
Do not cast away therefore your boldness, which has great reward.
Hebrews 11:26
the reward.
Revelation 11:18
And the nations became angry, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged,
and the time to give the reward to Your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Your
name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.
Revelation 22:12
Behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me to render to each one as his work is.
MORNING WATCH
Psalm 130:6
My soul waits for the Lord More than watchmen for the morning, Yes, watchmen for the morning.
Many of God’s servants in the Bible had the habit of early rising. Manna has to be gathered
before the sun rises. Anyone who wishes to eat the food God has promised for him must rise up
early. As the sun gets hot the manna melts, and then there will be none. Every young believer
needs to know that to receive spiritual nourishment before God, to obtain spiritual food, to be
spiritually uplifted and to enjoy spiritual communion, he has to rise up a little earlier. If he rises
too late, he will lose his food....
It is as if in the early morning before or just as the day begins to dawn, God dispenses His
provision of spiritual food and holy communion to His children....
Whoever purposes before God to rise early will soon experience manifold spiritual profit. His
prayer at other times of the day cannot be compared with his early morning prayer. His Bible
study at other hours cannot equal that of the morning hour; and his communion with the Lord is
never as sweet at other moments as at daybreak. Remember well that the early morning is the best
time of the day. We ought to present our best time to God, not to men or to the affairs of the
world....
Let me quote the words of Miss Groves, a co-worker of Miss M.E. Barber, who has helped us
greatly. She stated that the first choice giving evidence of one’s love towards the Lord is the choice
between one’s bed and the Lord. If one chooses to love his bed more, he sleeps longer; but if he
chooses to love his Lord more, he will rise up a little earlier....
A Living Sacrifice, pp.100-102, W.N.

A. ABRAHAM
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham rose up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before
Jehovah.
Genesis 22:3
And Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men
with him and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to
the place of which God had told him.
B. JACOB
Genesis 28:18
And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head, and he
set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.
C. MOSES
Exodus 24:4-5
4. And Moses wrote down all the words of Jehovah, and he rose up early in the morning and built
an altar at the base of the mountain and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
5. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace
offerings of bulls to Jehovah.
Exodus 34:4-5
4. So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose up early in the morning
and went to mount Sinai, just as
5. Jehovah had commanded him; and he took two tablets of stone in his hand. And Jehovah
descended in the cloud and took His place there with him and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness That we may give a ringing shout and
rejoice all our days.
D. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
Exodus 16:15, 21
15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they did not
know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.
21. And they gathered it morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun
became hot, it melted.
Psalm 78:24
And He rained down upon them manna to eat And gave them the food of heaven.
E. HANNAH
1 Samuel 1:19
And they rose up early in the morning and worshipped before Jehovah; and they returned and
came to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and Jehovah remembered
her.
F. JOB
Job 1:5
And when the days of feasting ran their course, Job would send word and sanctify them; and he
would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for
Job said, Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their heart. Job did this
continually.
G. DAVID
Psalm 5:3
Jehovah, in the morning You will hear my voice; In the morning I will set forth my words in
order to You, And I will watch.
Psalm 57:8-9
8. Awake, my glory; Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
9. I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Lord; I will sing psalms to You among the
nations.
Psalm 63:1
Psalm 108:2-3
2. Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

3. I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Jehovah; And I will sing psalms to You among
the nations.
Psalm 119:147
I anticipated the dawn and cried out; I hoped in Your words.
H. SOLOMON
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
Song of Songs 7:12
Let us rise up early for the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, If the blossom is
open, If the pomegranates are in bloom; There I will give you my love.
I. ISAIAH
Isaiah 26:9
My soul desires You in the night; Indeed my spirit within me seeks You at the dawn; For when
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah has given me The tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to sustain
the weary with a word. He awakens me morning by morning; He awakens my ear To hear as an
instructed one.
J. JEREMIAH
Lamentations 3:22-23
22. It is Jehovah's lovingkindness that we are not consumed, For His compassions do not fail;
23. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
A. THE LORD JESUS
Mark 1:35
And rising very early in the morning while it was still night, He went out and went away to a
deserted place, and there He prayed.
B. MARY THE MAGDALENE
John 20:1, 15
1. Now on the first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene came early to the tomb while it was yet
dark and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
15. Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? She, supposing that He
was the gardener, said to Him, Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid
Him, and I will take Him away.
III. THE PURPOSE OF MORNING WATCH
A. TO COMMUNE WITH GOD
Song of Songs 7:12

Let us rise up early for the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, If the blossom is
open, If the pomegranates are in bloom; There I will give you my love.
Mark 1:35
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still night, He went out and went away to a
deserted place, and there He prayed.
B. TO SING AND PRAISE THE LORD

Psalm 57:8-9
8. Awake, my glory; Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
9. I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Lord; I will sing psalms to You among the
nations.
Psalm 108:2-3
2. Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

3. I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Jehovah; And I will sing psalms to You among
the nations.
C. TO SEEK BEFORE GOD FOR FOOD
4. GATHERING MANNA—(MORNING WATCH IN TYPE)
Exodus 16:15, 21
15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they did
not what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to
eat.
21. And they gathered it morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the
sun became hot, it melted.
What is our manna? (Of course, manna points to Christ, but this is not our
emphasis here.) It is the Word of God which we daily enjoy and through which we
receive strength to walk in the wilderness....
Indeed, early in the morning is the best time to gather manna. Learn to blend
prayer and praise and communion into the Word of God.... In so spending your
time each morning before God, you will be daily satisfied. You will have fed on the
Word of Christ, for Christ is the Word of God. You will also have allowed the Word
of Christ to dwell in you richly. This way of reading the Word of God, of feeding on
the manna, is indispensable.
A Living Sacrifice, pp. 108, 110, W.N.
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EATING THE WORD
I. EATING THE WORD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Deuteronomy 8:3
And He humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you the manna, which you had never known
nor your fathers had ever known, so that He might make you know that man lives not by bread
alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out from the mouth of Jehovah.
Job 23:12
As for the commandment of His lips, I have not turned back from it; I have treasured the words of
His mouth more than my apportioned food.
Psalm 119:103
Whenever we come to the Word, it would be good to pray, “Lord, grant me a sweet taste for
Your Word. Make it so precious to me.” When we come to the Word, we come not only with our
mind, with our eyes, but also with our heart. Taste is related to the heart. We need a heart which
loves and appreciates the Lord’s precious Word.
Life Message 10, pg. 92, W.L.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found and I ate them, And Your word became to me The gladness and joy of my heart,
For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
Ezekiel 2:8—3:3
8. But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your
mouth and eat what I give you.
9. And I looked, and there was a hand, put forth toward me; and in it there was a scroll book.
10. And He spread it before me. And it was written on the front and back, and on it were written
lamentations, mourning, and woe.
1. Then He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
2. So I opened my mouth, and He gave me that scroll to eat.
3. And He said to me, Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your inward parts with this scroll that I am
giving you. And I ate it, and it was like honey in my mouth in its sweetness.
II. EATING THE WORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 4:4
But He answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that
proceeds out through the mouth of God.”
1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. But neither yet now are
you able,
1 Timothy 4:6
If you lay these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, being nourished
with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have closely followed.
Hebrews 5:12-14
12. For when because of the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you
what the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God are and have become those who have need of
milk and not of solid food.
13. For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant;
Though this verse mentions teachers and teach, it likens the word of God to milk and solid food,
which are for nourishment. This corresponds with the Lord’s word in Matt. 4:4 and the prophet’s
word in Jer. 15:16. Paul and Peter held this same concept concerning the divine word (1 Cor. 3:2;
1 Pet. 2:2).
Hebrews 6:5
1 Peter 2:2-3
salvation,
...The milk of the word is not milk for the body but milk for the soul, the inner being. It is
conveyed in the word of God to nourish our inner man through the understanding of our rational
mind and is assimilated by our mental faculties.
To grow is a matter of life and in life. We received the divine life through regeneration, and we
need to grow in this life and with this life by being nourished with the milk conveyed in the word
of God.
1 Peter 2:2, Footnotes 23, 24, W.L.
Revelation 10:8-10
8. And the voice which I heard out of heaven, I heard again speaking with me and saying, Go, take the
opened scroll in the hand of the Angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.
9. And I went to the Angel and told Him to give me the little scroll. And He said to me, Take it and devour
it, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.
10. And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the Angel and devoured it, and it was as sweet as honey in
my mouth; and when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
H. EATING THE WORD BY PRAY–READING
Ephesians 6:17-18
17. And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God,
18. By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all
How should we take the Word? It is by means of prayer. How should we pray? It is by
praying in our spirit. Is this not the exercise of our spirit to pray-read the Word? This is
definite proof from the Bible that we must exercise our spirit to pray-read.
The Stream Vol. 5, No. 3, pg. 31, W.L.
When we come to the Word, we need to open four layers of our being. To begin with, we
must open our eyes. If they are shut, we cannot read! Then we must open our mind in
order to understand what we are reading. But reading and understanding are not enough.
We must thirdly open our heart to receive what we read. Lastly, we must open our spirit to
realize what we have received....
The way to open our spirit, the deepest layer, is by geniune prayer. Once our eyes see,
our mind understands, and our heart receives, we can pray the Word into us. Then the
Word will become our life supply, bringing to us God, Christ, theSpirit, and all the divine
virtues.
Life Message 45, pp. 392-393, W.L.
I. SAINTS WHO PRAY–READ THE WORD IN CHURCH HISTORY
17. Martin Luther (A.D. 1483-1546)
Using the Lord’s words in Matthew 6 as an example, he continued by showing his

way of “elaborating each portion in a way to kindle fire in his heart:”
Then repeat one part or as much as you wish, perhaps the first petition: “Hallowed be
Thy name,” and say: “Yes, Lord God, dear Father, hallowed be Thy name, both in us and
throughout the whole world.”
“With practice,” Luther concluded, “one can take the Ten Commandments on one day,
a psalm or chapter of Holy Scripture the next day, and use them as flint and steel to
kindle a flame in the heart.”
Lord Thou Saidst, pg. 40
18. George Whitefield (A.D. 1714-1770)
My mind being now more open and enlarged, I began to read the Holy Scriptures
upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line
and word. This proved meat indeed, and drink indeed, to my soul. I daily received
fresh life, light, and power from above....
19. Robert Murray McCheyne (A.D. 1813-1843)
Turn the Bible into prayer. Thus, if you were reading the First Psalm, spread the
Bible on the chair before you, and kneel, and pray, 'O Lord, give me the blessedness
of the man'; 'let me not stand in the counsel of the ungodly.' This is the best way of
knowing the meaning of the Bible, and of learning to pray.
20. C. H. Spurgeon (A.D. 1835-1892)

...new veins of precious ore will be revealed to your astonished gaze as you quarry
God’s Word and use diligently the hammer of prayer.
Use prayer as a boring rod, and wells of living water will leap up from the bowels
of the Word. Who will be content to thirst when living waters are so readily to be
obtained!
21. George Muller (A.D. 1805-1898)
I began therefore to meditate on the New Testament, from the beginning, early in
the morning.... When thus I have been for a while making confession or intercession
or supplication, or have given thanks, I go on to the next words or verse, turning all,
as I go on, into prayer for myself or others, as the Word may lead to it, but still
continually keeping before me that food for my own soul is the object of my
meditation.
Lord Thou Saidst, pp. 69-70
22. Hannah Whitall Smith (A.D. 1832-1911)
In The God of All Comfort she uses Psalm 23 as an example of praying the Word.
Then say the words over to yourself with all the will power you can muster, “The
Lord is my Shepherd. He is. He is. No matter what I feel, He says He is, and He is. I
am going to believe it, come what may.” Then repeat the words with a different
emphasis each time:
J. The Lord is my Shepherd.

The Lord is my Shepherd.
K. Lord Thou Saidst, pg. 68
CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD
I. THE PRACTICE OF CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD

A. MEN WHO CALLED ON THE NAME OF THE LORD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
1. Enosh
Genesis 4:26
And to Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began
to call upon the name of Jehovah.
2. Job
Job 12:4
I have become a laughingstock to my friends, I, who have called out to God and He
answers me. The righteous man, the perfect man, is a laughingstock.
3. Abraham
Genesis 12:8
And he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent,
with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah and
called upon the name of Jehovah.
4. Isaac
Genesis 26:25
And he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah and pitched his tent
there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
5. Moses and the children of Israel
Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as Jehovah our God is whenever
we call upon Him?
6. Jabez
1 Chronicles 4:10
And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that You would richly bless me and
enlarge my border, and that Your hand would be with me, and that You would so keep
me from evil that it would not grieve me! And God caused what he had requested to
come to pass.
7. Samson
Judges 15:18
And he was very thirsty, and he called on Jehovah, saying, You have granted this great
victory by the hand of Your servant. And will I now die of thirst and fall into the hand of
the uncircumcised?
8. Samuel
Psalm 99:6
Moses and Aaron among His priests, And Samuel among those who called on His name
—They called out to Jehovah, And He answered them.
9. David
2 Samuel 22:4
I called upon Jehovah, who is worthy of praise, And from my enemies I was saved.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And there David built an altar to Jehovah, and he offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings. And he called on Jehovah, and He answered him with fire from heaven upon
the altar of burnt offering.
Psalm 116:13
10. Psalmist Asaph
Psalm 80:18
Then we will not turn back from You. Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
11. Psalmist Herman
Psalm 88:9
My eye wastes away at the affliction; I have called out to You, O Jehovah, every day; I
have spread out my hands to You.
12. Elijah
1 Kings 18:24
Then call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Jehovah; and the God
who answers by fire, He will be God. And all the people answered and said, The
word seems good.
13. Elisha
2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman became furious and went away and said, I thought, He will surely come out
to me and stand and call on the name of Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the
place and cure the leper.
14. Isaiah
Isaiah 12:4
And you will say in that day, Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name! Make His
deeds known among the peoples; Remind them that His name is exalted.
15. Jeremiah
Lamentations 3:55, 57
55. I called upon Your name, O Jehovah, From the lowest pit.
57. You drew near in the day that I called upon You; You said, Do not fear.
16. Jonah
Jonah 1:6
So the ship captain approached him and said to him, How can you be fast asleep? Arise,
call on your God. Perhaps God will give thought to us, and we will not perish.
B. CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD PROPHESIED BY THE PROPHETS

1. Joel
Joel 2:32
And everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and
in Jerusalem will be an escape, As Jehovah has said, Even for the remnant Whom
Jehovah calls.
2. Zephaniah
Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will change the language of the peoples Into a pure language That they may all
call upon the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one accord.
3. Zechariah
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through fire And refine them as silver is refined And try
them as gold is tried. They will call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, They
are My people, And they will say, Jehovah is my God.
C. CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

1. Peter's first message to the Jews
Acts 2:21
And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
2. Stephen
Acts 7:59
And they stoned Stephen as he called upon the Lord and said, Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit!
3. The sign of Christ's believers toward the unbelievers
Acts 9:14, 21
14. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon Your name.
21. And all who heard him were amazed and said, Is this not the one who ravaged those who
call upon this name in Jerusalem and came here for this, that he might bring them bound
before the chief priests?
4. Paul
Acts 22:16
And now, why do you delay? Rise up and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling
on His name.
5. Paul's word concerning calling on the name of the Lord to the saints in the New
Testament
ccc. The saints in Rome
Romans 10:12-13
12. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of
all and rich to all who call upon Him;
13. For “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
ddd. The saints in Corinth
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in
Christ Jesus, the called saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ in every place, who is theirs and ours:
1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says,
Jesus is accursed; and no one can say, Jesus is Lord! except in the Holy Spirit.
eee. His Exhortation
2 Timothy 2:22
But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those
who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
II. THE PURPOSE OF CALLING ON THE LORD

A. TO BE SAVED
Romans 10:13
For “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
B. TO BE RESCUED FROM DISTRESS
Psalm 118:5
Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah; Jehovah answered me and set me in a place broad and
free.
C. TO BE RESCUED FROM TROUBLE
Psalm 81:7
You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you from the secret place of thunder; I
proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
D. TO BE RESCUED FROM TROUBLE AND PAIN
Psalm 116:3-4
3. The bonds of death encompassed me, And the distresses of Sheol fell upon me; I fell upon trouble
and sorrow.
4. But I called upon the name of Jehovah. O Jehovah, I pray, deliver my soul.
E. TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LORD’S MERCY
Psalm 86:5
For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call
upon You.
F. TO DELIGHT ONESELF IN GOD
Job 27:10
Does he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
G. TO PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SALVATION
Psalm 116:13
H. TO BREATHE THE LORD
Lamentations 3:55-56
56. You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
I. TO DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF GOD’S SALVATION
Isaiah 12:3-4
4. And you will say in that day, Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name! Make His deeds
known among the peoples; Remind them that His name is exalted.
J. TO DRINK SPIRITUAL WATER AND TO EAT SPRIRITUAL FOOD FOR
SATISFACTION
Isaiah 55:1, 6
1. Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, And you who have no money; Come, buy and eat;
Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
6. Seek Jehovah while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
K. TO ENJOY THE RICHES OF THE LORD
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all
who call upon Him;
L. TO ENJOY THE NEARNESS OF THE LORD
Psalm 145:18
Jehovah is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
M. TO STIR UP OURSELVES TO TAKE HOLD OF THE LORD

Isaiah 64:7
And there is no one who calls upon Your name, Who stirs himself up to lay hold of You; For
You have hidden Your face from us And have consumed us by our iniquities.
N. TO RECEIVE THE SPIRIT
Acts 2:17, 21
17. “And it shall be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old
men shall dream things in dreams;
21. And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
III. HOW TO CALL ON THE LORD
A. OUT OF A PURE HEART
2 Timothy 2:22
But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the
Lord out of a pure heart.
B. WITH A PURE LIP
Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will change the language of the peoples Into a pure language That they may all call
upon the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one accord.
C. WITH AN OPEN MOUTH
Psalm 81:7, 10
7. You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you from the secret place of thunder; I
proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
10. I am Jehovah your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide,
and I will fill it.
D. CORPORATELY
2 Timothy 2:22
But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the
Lord out of a pure heart.
E. DAILY
Psalm 88:9
My eye wastes away at the affliction; I have called out to You, O Jehovah, every day; I have
spread out my hands to You.
F. AS LONG AS WE LIVE
Psalm 116:2
Because He inclines His ear to me; Therefore I will call upon Him all my days.
IV. CRUCIAL MINISTRY

A. GENESIS LIFE–STUDY, MESSAGE 25
B. ROMANS LIFE–STUDY, MESSAGE 23
C. ACTS 2:21, FOOTNOTE 1
SIX ROPES TO DRAW WATER OUT OF THE WELLS OF SALVATION
Isaiah 12:2-6
2. God is now my salvation; I will trust and not dread; For Jah Jehovah is my strength and song, And He has
become my salvation.
4. And you will say in that day, Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name! Make His deeds known among
the peoples; Remind them that His name is exalted.
5. Sing psalms to Jehovah, for He has done something majestic! Let it be made known in all the earth!
6. Cry out and give a ringing shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
II. PRAISE THE LORD
Psalm 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise Jehovah. Hallelujah!
Acts 2:46-47
46. And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to
house, they partook of their food with exultation and simplicity of heart,
47. Praising God and having grace with all the people. And the Lord added together day by day those who
were being saved.
III. CALL UPON HIS NAME
Psalm 116:13
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who
call upon Him;
IV. DECLARE HIS DOINGS AMONG THE PEOPLE
Luke 24:33-36
33. And they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven and those with them
assembled together,
34. Saying, The Lord really has been raised and has appeared to Simon.
35. And they related the things that occurred on the road, and how He was made known to them in the
breaking of the bread.
36. And as they were speaking these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, Peace to you.
Acts 14:27
And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared the things that God had done
with them and that He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
V. MAKE MENTION THAT HIS NAME IS EXALTED
Psalm 8:1
Jehovah our Lord, How excellent is Your name In all the earth, You who have set Your glory over the
heavens!
Philippians 2:9-11
9. Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
10. That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the
earth,
11. And every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
VI. SING UNTO THE LORD
Acts 16:25
And about midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, sang hymns of praise to God; and the prisoners were
listening to them.
Ephesians 5:18-19
18. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in spirit,
19. Speaking to one another in psalms and hynms and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart
to the Lord,
Hebrews 2:12
Saying, “I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church 3I will sing hymns of praise
to You.”
This is the firstborn Son’s praising of the Father within the Father’s many sons in the church
meetings. When we, the many sons of God, meet as the church and praise the Father, the firstborn Son
praises the Father in our praising. It is not that He praises the Father apart from us and alone; rather, He
praises within us and with us through our praising. In our singing He sings hymns of praise to the
Father. If then we do not sing, how can He sing? The more we sing to the Father, the more we enjoy His
presence, His moving, His anointing, and His life-imparting within us. Thus we will grow in Him and be
brought into His glorification above all.
VII. CRY OUT AND SHOUT
Luke 18:37-39
37. And they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was passing by.
38. And he shouted, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!
39. And those going before rebuked him so that he would be silent, but he cried out much more, Son of
David, have mercy on me!
Revelation 7:9-10
9. After these things I saw, and behold, there was a great multitude which no one could number, out of
every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes and palm branches in their hands.
10. And they cry with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb.
THE GOD-ORDAINED WAY
I. BEGETTING
14. It is not to shame you that I write these things but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15. For though you have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I
have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 4:17
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will
remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
1 Timothy 1:2
To Timothy, genuine child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Titus 1:4
To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ
Jesus our Savior.
Philemon 10
I entreat you concerning my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
II. SHEPHERDING AND FEEDING
Matthew 24:45-46
45. Who then is the faithful and prudent slave, whom the master has set over his household to give them food
at the proper time?
46. Blessed is that slave whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
John 21:15-17
15. Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more
than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.
16. He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord,
You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep.
17. He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? Peter was grieved that He said to him
the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things; You know that I love
You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.
Acts 20:28
shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. But neither yet now are
you able,
1 Thessalonians 2:7, 11
7. But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children.
11. Just as you know how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, exhorting you and
consoling you and testifying,
1 Peter 5:2
Shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion but willingly, according to
God; not by seeking gain through base means but eagerly;
III. PERFECTING
Acts 18:26
And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they
took him to themselves and expounded the way of God to him more accurately.
9. For we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are powerful; this also we pray for, your perfecting.
11. Finally, brothers, rejoice, be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing, be at peace; and the God of
love and peace will be with you.
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ,
Colossians 1:28-29
28. Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present
every man full-grown in Christ;
29. For which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power.
Or, perfect, complete, mature. Perfect denotes full in quality, whereas complete denotes full in
quantity. The apostle’s ministry, whether in announcing Christ or in admonishing and teaching men in
all wisdom, was altogether to minister Christ to men that they might become perfect and complete by
maturing with Christ as the element of the divine life unto full growth.
Colossians 1:28, Footnote 281, W.L.
Night and day petitioning exceedingly so that we may see your face and complete the things that are
lacking in your faith?
2 Timothy 3:17
That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
IV. PROPHESYING
1 Corinthians 11:5
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and
the same as she who is shaved.
1 Corinthians 14:1, 3-5, 23-25, 31
1. Pursue love, and desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
3. But he who prophesies speaks building up and encouragement and consolation to men.
4. He who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but he who prophesies builds up the church.
5. I desire that you all speak in tongues, but especially that you would prophesy; and greater is he who
prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive building up.
23. If therefore the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak in tongues, and some
unlearned in tongues or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are insane?
24. But if all prophesy and some unbeliever or unlearned person enters, he is convicted by all, he is examined
by all;
25. The secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that
indeed God is among you.
31. For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
THE HOUSE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
I. THE HOUSE IN THE GOSPELS

A. THE MAGI COMING INTO THE HOUSE, SEEING THE CHILD AND WORSHIPPING
HIM
Matthew 2:11
And they came into the house and saw the child with Mary His mother. And falling down, they
worshipped Him; and opening their treasures, they offered gifts to Him, gold and frankincense
and myrrh.
B. JESUS COMING INTO PETER’S HOUSE AND HEALING HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
Matthew 8:14-15
14. And Jesus, coming into Peter’s house, saw his mother-in-law lying down and in a fever.
15. And He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served Him.
Mark 1:29-31
29. And immediately, going out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew
with James and John.
30. And Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down with a fever, and immediately they told Him about
her.
31. And He came to her and raised her up, holding her hand, and the fever left her, and she served
them.
Luke 4:38-39
38. And He rose up and went from the synagogue and entered into the house of Simon. And Simon’s
mother-in-law was suffering with a high fever, and they asked Him concerning her.
39. And standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she instantly rose up and served
them.
C. JESUS FEASTING WITH SINNERS IN MATTHEW’S HOUSE
Matthew 9:9-10
9. And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man sitting at the tax office, called Matthew, and He
said to him, Follow Me. And he rose and followed Him.
10. And as He was reclining at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and
reclined together with Jesus and His disciples.
Mark 2:14-15
14. And as He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and He said to
him, Follow Me. And he rose and followed Him.
15. And as He reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining together
with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many, and they were following Him.
Luke 5:27-30
27. And after these things He went out and beheld a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office,
and He said to him, Follow Me.
28. And leaving all, he rose up and followed Him.
29. And Levi gave a great reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax
collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.
30. And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured at His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink
with the tax collectors and sinners?
D. JESUS COMING TO JAIRUS’ HOUSE AND RAISING UP HIS DAUGHTER
Matthew 9:23-25
23. And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a
commotion,
24. He said, Depart, for the girl has not died but is sleeping. And they laughed scornfully at Him.
25. But when the crowd had been put out, He entered and took hold of her hand, and the girl rose up.
Mark 5:38-42
38. And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and He saw a commotion
and people weeping and wailing greatly.
39. And He entered in and said to them, Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child has not
died but is sleeping.
40. And they laughed scornfully at Him. But He, putting them all out, took the father of the child and
the mother and those with Him and went in to where the child was.
41. And He took hold of the child's hand and said to her, Talitha koum! which being interpreted is,
Little girl, to you I say, Arise!
42. And immediately the little girl rose up and walked about, for she was twelve years old. And
immediately, they were amazed with great amazement.
Luke 8:41, 51-55
41. And behold, a man came whose name was Jairus, and this man was a ruler of the synagogue. And
he fell at Jesus' feet and entreated Him to enter into his house,
51. And He came to the house and did not allow anyone to enter with Him, except Peter and John and
James and the father of the child and the mother.
52. And all were weeping and mourning for her; but He said, Do not weep, for she has not died but is
sleeping.
53. And they laughed scornfully at Him, knowing that she had died.
54. But He took hold of her hand and called out, saying, Child, arise!
55. And her spirit returned and she rose up instantly; and He directed that something be given to her
to eat.
E. JESUS HEALING TWO BLIND MEN IN THE HOUSE
Matthew 9:27-30
27. And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, Have
mercy on us, Son of David!
28. And when He came into the house, the blind men came to Him; and Jesus said to them, Do you
believe that I am able to do this? They said to Him, Yes, Lord.
29. Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, let it be done to you.
30. And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly charged them saying, See that no one knows!
F. THE DISCIPLES SENT OUT, ENTERING INTO THE HOUSE AND BRINGING THEIR
PEACE UPON IT
Matthew 10:11-13
11. And into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and there remain until
you depart.
12. And as you enter in the house, greet it.
13. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace
return to you.
Mark 6:10
And He said to them, Wherever you enter into a house, there remain until you depart from that
place.
Luke 9:4
And into whatever house you enter, remain there and from there go out.
Luke 10:5-7
5. And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace to this house.
6. And if a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not, it shall return upon you.
7. And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things from them, for the worker is worthy of
his wages. Do not move from house to house.
G. THE DISCIPLES COMING TO JESUS IN THE HOUSE TO HAVE THE PARABLE OF
THE TARES OF THE FIELD MADE CLEAR TO THEM
Matthew 13:36
Then, leaving the crowds, He went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Make
the parable of the tares of the field clear to us.
H. JESUS IN THE HOUSE AT CAPERNAUM CORRECTING AND TEACHING PETER

CONCERNING WHO SHOULD PAY THE TEMPLE TAX
Matthew 17:24-25
24. And when they came to Capernaum, those who take up the temple tax came to Peter and said,
Does not your Teacher pay the temple tax?
25. He said, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What do you
think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive custom or poll tax, from their sons or
from strangers?
I. JESUS IN SIMON THE LEPER’S HOUSE AT BETHANY
Matthew 26:6
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
Mark 14:3
And while He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He reclined at table, a woman
came, having an alabaster flask of ointment, of very costly pure nard, and she broke the alabaster
flask and poured it over His head.
John 12:1-3
1. Then Jesus, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had
raised from the dead.
2. Therefore they made Him a supper there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of the ones
reclining at table with Him.
3. Then Mary took a pound of ointment, of very valuable pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment
Bethany means house of affliction. At this point the Lord was outside Judaism. Through His
resurrection life He had gained a house in Bethany where He could feast and have rest and
satisfaction. This house of feasting was a miniature of the church life and depicted the situation
of the church: (1) produced by the resurrection life—Lazarus (11:43-44); (2) composed of
cleansed sinners—Simon the leper (Mark 14:3); (3) outwardly afflicted—Bethany; (4) inwardly
feasting in and with the presence of the Lord (v. 2); (5) having more sisters than brothers (vv. 2-
3); (6) having members with different functions: serving—Martha, testifying—Lazarus, and
loving—Mary (vv. 2-3); (7) spotted by the false one—Judas (v. 4); (8) persecuted by religion (v.
10); (9) being a test and exposing people (vv. 6, 10); and (10) bringing in many believers (v. 11).

J. JESUS KEEPING THE PASSOVER IN A HOUSE
Matthew 26:17-18
17. Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying,
Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the passover?
18. And He said, Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near.
I am keeping the passover at your house with My disciples.
Mark 14:14
And wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is My guest
room, where I may eat the passover with My disciples?
Luke 22:10-12
10. And He told them, Behold, as you are entering into the city, a man carrying an earthen jar of
water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.
11. And you shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room
where I may eat the passover with My disciples?
12. And that one will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare there.
K. JESUS IN THE HOUSE AT CAPERNAUM SPEAKING THE WORD AND HEALING
THE PARALYTIC
Mark 2:1-2
1. And He entered again into Capernaum after a few days, and it was heard that He was at home.
2. And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even at the door. And
He spoke to them the word.
Luke 5:17-20
17. And on one of the days He was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law
sitting there, who had come out of every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. And the
power of the Lord was with Him to heal.
18. And behold, some men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they sought a way to
carry him in and lay him before Him.
19. And since they could not find by what way they might carry him in because of the crowd, they
went up onto the housetop and let him down with the cot through the tiles into the midst, in front
of Jesus.
20. And seeing their faith, He said, Man, your sins are forgiven you.
L. A CROWD COMING TO JESUS IN THE HOUSE
Mark 3:20
And He came into a house, and again a crowd came together, so that they could not even eat
bread.
M. THE DISCIPLES QUESTIONING JESUS IN THE HOUSE CONCERNING THE

PARABLE OF DEFILEMENT
Mark 7:17
And when He entered into a house from the crowd, His disciples questioned Him concerning the
parable.
N. THE LORD ENTERING INTO A HOUSE IN THE DISTRICTS OF TYRE AND THE
SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN COMING TO ASK HIM TO CAST THE DEMON OUT
OF HER DAUGHTER
Mark 7:24-26
24. And He rose up from there and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into a
house, He wanted no one to know about it; yet He could not escape notice.
25. But a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and immediately she
came and fell at His feet.
26. Now the woman was a Greek, Syrophoenician by race. And she asked Him to cast the demon out
of her daughter.
O. THE DISCIPLES ASKING JESUS IN THE HOUSE WHY THEY COULD NOT CAST
OUT THE DUMB SPIRIT OUT OF THE MAN’S SON
Mark 9:28-29
28. And when He entered into the house, His disciples questioned Him privately, Why were we not
able to cast it out?
29. And He said to them, This kind cannot come out by any means except prayer.
P. THE LORD QUESTIONING HIS DISCIPLES IN THE HOUSE CONCERNING THEIR
REASONING ON THE ROAD
Mark 9:33-34
33. And they came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house, He questioned them, What were
you reasoning about on the way?
34. And they were silent, for they had argued with one another on the way about who was greater.
Q. THE DISCIPLES QUESTIONING THE LORD IN THE HOUSE CONCERNING HIS
TEACHING AGAINST DIVORCE
Mark 10:10-11
10. And in the house the disciples questioned Him again concerning this.
11. And He said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against
her.
R. THE LORD ENTERING INTO THE PHARISEE’S HOUSE AND EATING WITH HIM
Luke 7:36
Now a certain one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He entered into the
Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
S. THE LORD RECEIVED AS A GUEST INTO MARTHA’S HOUSE
Luke 10:38
Now as they went, He entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received
Him into her home.
T. THE LORD EATING BREAD IN THE HOUSE OF A LEADER OF THE PHARISEES

Luke 14:1
And as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread,
they were watching Him closely.
U. THE LORD COMING TO THE HOUSE OF ZACCHEUS
Luke 19:5-6, 9-10
5. And as He came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, Zaccheus, hurry and come down,
for today I must stay in your house.
6. And he hurried and came down, and received Him, rejoicing.
9. And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of
Abraham.
10. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.
V. THE RESURRECTED CHRIST COMING IN TO STAY WITH THE DISCIPLES AT
EMMAUS
Luke 24:28-31
28. And they drew near to the village where they were going, and He acted as though He would go
farther.
29. And they constrained Him, saying, Stay with us, because it is near evening and the day is already
gone by. And He went in to stay with them.
30. And as He reclined at table with them, He took the loaf and blessed it, and having broken it, He
began handing it to them.
31. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and He disappeared from them.
W. THE TWO DISCIPLES OF JOHN ABIDING WITH JESUS
John 1:37-39
37. And the two disciples heard him speak this, and they followed Jesus.
38. And Jesus, turning and beholding them following, said to them, What are you seeking? And they
said to Him, Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?
39. He said to them, Come, and you will see. They went therefore and saw where He was staying,
and they stayed with Him that day; it was about the tenth hour.
X. THE DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVED TAKING THE LORD'S MOTHER INTO HIS
HOME AFTER JESUS' DEATH
John 19:26-27
26. Then Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, said to His mother,
Woman, behold, your son.
27. Then He said to the disciple, Behold, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into
his own home.
II. THE HOUSE IN ACTS
A. THE DISCIPLES RESIDING IN THE UPPER ROOM
Acts 1:13
And when they entered, they went up to the upper room where they were residing, Peter and
John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of
Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the brother of James.
B. THE DISCIPLES GATHERED IN A HOUSE ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST
Acts 2:1-2
1. And as the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled, they were all together in the same place.
2. And suddenly there was a sound out of heaven, as of a rushing violent wind, and it filled the
whole house where they were sitting.
C. BREAKING BREAD FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN JERUSALEM
Acts 2:46
And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from
house to house, they partook of their food with exultation and simplicity of heart,
D. TEACHING AND BRINGING THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS AS THE CHRIST FROM
HOUSE TO HOUSE
Acts 5:42
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and
announcing the gospel of Jesus as the Christ.
E. SAUL DEVASTING THE CHURCH BY ENTERING HOUSE AFTER HOUSE
Acts 8:3
But Saul was devastating the church, entering house after house; and dragging off men and
women, he delivered them to prison.
F. ANANIAS GOING TO THE HOUSE OF JUDAS THAT SAUL MIGHT RECEIVE HIS
SIGHT AND BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
Acts 9:11, 17
11. And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go to the lane called Straight, and seek in the house of
Judas a man from Tarsus named Saul; for behold, he is praying;
17. And Ananias went away and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him, he said, Saul,
brother, the Lord has sent me—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were
coming—so that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
G. PETER HEALING DORCAS IN THE UPPER ROOM
Acts 9:39-40
39. And Peter rose up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him up into the upper room.
And all the widows stood by him, weeping and showing him tunics and garments, all of which
Dorcas had made while she was with them.
40. And Peter put them all outside; and kneeling down, he prayed; and he turned to the body and said,
Tabitha, rise up. And she opened her eyes; and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
H. PETER COMING TO THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS THAT THE GENTILES MIGHT
HEAR THE WORD AND RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
Acts 10:22, 24-27, 44
22. And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God and is well attested
to by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to
come to his house and hear words from you.
24. And on the next day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was awaiting them, having called
together his relatives and intimate friends.
25. And when Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and falling at his feet, worshipped him.
26. But Peter raised him up, saying, Rise up; I myself am also a man.
27. And as he talked with him, he entered and found many who had come together.
44. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word.
I. PETER RELATING HIS EXPERIENCE AT THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS
Acts 11:12-15
12. And the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers went with me
also; and we entered into the man’s house.
13. And he reported to us how he saw the angel standing in his house and saying, Send men to Joppa
and send for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
14. Who will speak words to you by which you shall be saved, you and all your house.
15. And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as also on us in the beginning.
J. PETER GOING TO THE HOUSE OF MARY AFTER BEING RESCUED OUT OF
PRISON BY THE ANGEL
Acts 12:11-12
11. And Peter came to himself and said, Now I know truly that the Lord has sent forth His angel and
rescued me out of Herod's hand and from all the expectation of the Jewish people.
12. And when he became aware of this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, who was
surnamed Mark, where there was a considerable number assembled together and praying.
K. PAUL AND HIS CO-WORKERS INVITED TO STAY AT THE HOUSE OF LYDIA
Acts 16:14-15
14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple-dyed goods from the city of Thyatira who
worshipped God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to give heed to the things being
spoken by Paul.
15. And when she was baptized, as well as her household, she entreated us, saying, If you have
judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide. And she constrained us.
L. PAUL AND SILAS BROUGHT INTO THE PHILIPPIAN JAILOR'S HOUSE
Acts 16:31-34
31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.
32. And they spoke the word of God to him together with all those in his house.
33. And he took them with him in that very hour of the night and washed their wounds. And he was
baptized immediately, he and all his household.
34. And he brought them up into his house and set a table before them; and he exulted because he had
believed in God with all his household.
M. PAUL AND SILAS ENTERING THE HOUSE OF LYDIA AFTER BEING RELEASED
FROM PRISON
Acts 16:40
And they went out from the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they saw the
brothers, they exhorted them and went forth.
N. THE HOUSE OF JASON
Acts 17:5-7
5. But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some evil men from among the loafers in the
marketplace, gathered a crowd and set the city in an uproar; and coming upon the house of Jason,
they sought to bring them to the populace.
6. But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials,
shouting, These men who have upset the world have come here also,
7. Whom Jason has welcomed; and these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there
is another king, Jesus.
O. PAUL ENTERING THE HOUSE OF TITIUS JUSTUS
Acts 18:7
And he left there and went into the house of one named Titius Justus, one who worshipped God,
whose house was next to the synagogue.
P. PAUL DISCOURSING IN THE UPPER ROOM ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
Acts 20:7-8
7. And on the first day of the week, when we gathered together to break bread, Paul conversed with
them since he was to go forth on the next day; and he extended his message until midnight.
8. And there were a considerable number of lamps in the upper room where we were gathered
together.
Q. PAUL TEACHING FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN EPHESUS
Acts 20:20
How I did not withhold any of those things that are profitable by not declaring them to you and
by not teaching you publicly and from house to house,
R. PAUL AND HIS CO-WORKERS ENTERING THE HOUSE OF PHILIP THE

EVANGELIST AND REMAINING WITH HIM
Acts 21:8
And on the next day we went forth and came to Caesarea; and entering into the house of Philip
the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we remained with him.
S. MANY COMING TO PAUL IN HIS LODGING AT ROME
Acts 28:23, 30-31
23. And once they had appointed a day for him, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he
expounded these matters, solemnly testifying of the kingdom of God and persuading them
concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning until evening.
30. And he remained two whole years in his own rented dwelling and welcomed all those who came
to him,
31. Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with
all boldness, unhindered.
III. THE HOUSE IN THE EPISTLES
A. THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE OF AQUILA AND PRISCA AT ROME
Romans 16:3-5
3. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

4. Who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches
of the Gentiles;
5. And greet the church, which is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits
of Asia unto Christ.
B. THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE OF AQUILA AND PRISCA AT EPHESUS
1 Corinthians 16:19
The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you much in the Lord, with the church,
which is in their house.
C. THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE OF NYMPHAS AT LAODICEA
Colossians 4:15
Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nymphas and the church, which is in his house.
D. THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE OF PHILEMON AT COLOSSAE
Philemon 1:1-2
1. Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow
worker
2. And to Apphia the sister and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church, which is in your
house:
ONE ACCORD
I. ONE ACCORD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Judges 20:1, 8, 11
1. Then all the children of Israel went out; and the assembly gathered as one man unto Jehovah at Mizpah,
from Dan as far as Beersheba, with the land of Gilead.
8. And all the people rose up as one man, saying, None of us will go to our tents, nor will any of us return to
our houses.
11. So all the men of Israel, knit together as one man, were gathered against the city.
1 Chronicles 12:38
All these, men of war who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king
over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel as well were of one heart to make David king.
2 Chronicles 30:12
Moreover the hand of God was on Judah, giving them one heart to perform the commandment of the king and the
officers by the word of Jehovah.
Ezra 3:1
And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as
one man to Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 8:1
And all the people gathered as one man in the open area that was before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the
scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.
Psalm 133:1-3
1. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell in unity!
2. It is like the fine oil upon the head That ran down upon the beard, Upon Aaron's beard, That ran down to
the hem of his garments;
3. Like the dew of Hermon That came down upon the mountains of Zion. For there Jehovah commanded the
blessing: Life forever.
II. ONE ACCORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Acts 1:14
These all continued steadfastly with one accord in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus,
and with His brothers.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house,
they partook of their food with exultation and simplicity of heart,
Acts 4:24
And when they heard this, they lifted up their voice with one accord to God and said, Sovereign Master, You are
the One who has made heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them,
Acts 5:12
And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders took place among the people; and they were all
with one accord in the portico of Solomon.
Acts 15:25
It seemed good to us, having become of one accord, to choose men to send to you together with our beloved
Barnabas and Paul,
Romans 15:6
That with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:27
Only, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether coming and seeing you or
being absent, I may hear of the things concerning you, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving
together along with the faith of the gospel,
Philippians 2:2
Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking the one thing,
COMPANIONS IN THE BIBLE
Proverbs 13:20
He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be troubled.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
9. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor;
10. For if they fall, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls and does not have another
to lift him up!
11. Again, if two lie together, they keep warm. But how can one be warm alone?
12. And while a man may prevail against the one, the two will withstand him; and a threefold cord is not
quickly broken.
II. COMPANIONS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
I. MOSES AND AARON
Exodus 4:14-16
14. And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and He said, Is there not Aaron your
brother the Levite? I know that he can certainly speak. And even now he is coming out to meet
you; and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15. And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and
with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
16. And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as
God to him
Exodus 4:27-30
27. And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and came upon
him at the mountain of God, and he kissed him.
28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah with which He had sent him and all the signs
which He had charged him.
29. And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
30. And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken unto Moses, and he performed the
signs in the sight of the people.
1 Samuel 12:8
When Jacob went to Egypt, and your fathers cried out to Jehovah, Jehovah sent Moses and
Aaron; and they brought your fathers out from Egypt and caused them to dwell in this place.
Psalm 77:20
You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 105:26
He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
J. JOSHUA AND CALEB
Numbers 14:6-7
6. And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who spied
out the land, tore their clothes;
7. And they spoke to the whoe assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land through which
we passed to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Numbers 32:12
Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have
fully followed Jehovah.
K. JONATHAN AND DAVID
1 Samuel 18:1, 3
1. Now when he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became knit with the soul of
David; and Jonathan loved him like his own soul.
3. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him like his own soul.
L. ELIJAH AND ELISHA
1 Kings 19:19-20
19. And he went from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat. And he was plowing with twelve
yokes before him, and he was with the twelfth. And Elijah went over to him and threw his mantle
upon him.
20. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, Let me kiss my father and my mother, and I
will follow you. And he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
2 Kings 2:1-2
1. And when Jehovah was about to take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with
Elisha from Gilgal.
2. And Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here, for Jehovah has sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, As
Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kings 2:4
And Elijah said to him, Elisha, stay here, for Jehovah has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As
Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And they came to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:6
And Elijah said to him, Stay here, for Jehovah has sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As
Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So the two of them went on.
2 Kings 2:8-9
8. And Elijah took his mantle and wrapped it together and struck the water; and it parted to this side
and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
9. And when they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I should do for you before I am
taken from you. And Elisha said, Let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.
M. DANIEL AND HIS COMPANIONS
Daniel 1:6-7
6. Now among those from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
7. And the leader of the eunuchs gave them names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar;
Hananiah, the name Shadrach; Mishael, the name Meshach; and Azariah, the name Abednego.
Daniel 1:17, 19-20
17. Now as for these four children, God gave them knowledge and insight in all learning and
wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
19. And the king spoke with them. And among them all none were found like Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they stood in the presence of the king.
20. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them
ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm.
Daniel 2:17-20
17. Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his
companions,
18. That they might request compassions from before the God of the heavens concerning this mystery
so that Daniel and his companions would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of
Babylon.
19. Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of the
heavens.
20. Daniel answered and said, Let the name of God Be blessed from eternity to eternity, For wisdom
and might are His
II. COMPANIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

I. DISCIPLES SENT OUT TWO BY TWO
Mark 6:7
And He called the twelve to Him and began to send them out two by two and gave them
authority over the unclean spirits;
Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them two by two before His
face into every city and place where He Himself was about to come.
Luke 19:29
And as He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, near the mount which is called Olivet, He sent
two of the disciples,
J. PETER AND JOHN AND JAMES
14. Raising up of a Dead Girl
Mark 5:37
And He did not allow anyone to accompany Him except Peter and James and John the
brother of James.
15. Mount of Transfiguration
Matthew 17:1
And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and
brought them up to a high mountain privately.
Mark 9:2
And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and brought them up
alone into a high mountain privately. And He was transfigured before them,
Luke 9:28
And about eight days after these words, He took with Him Peter and John and James, and
went up into the mountain to pray.
16. Garden of Gethsemane
Matthew 26:37
And taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee aside, He began to be sorrowful and
deeply distressed.
Mark 14:33
And He took Peter and James and John with Him and began to be awestruck and deeply
distressed.
17. Pillars in the Church
Galatians 2:9
And perceiving the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to
be pillars, gave to me and to Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to
the Gentiles, and they, to the circumcision.
K. MARY THE MAGDALENE, AND MARY, THE MOTHER OF JAMES, AND SALOME
Mark 16:1
And when the Sabbath was past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and
Salome bought spices so that they might come and anoint Him.
Luke 23:55-56; 24:1
55. And the women who had come together with Him out of Galilee followed after and beheld the
tomb and how His body was laid.
56. And they returned and prepared spices and ointment. And on the Sabbath they rested according to
the commandment.
1. Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which
they had prepared.
L. PETER AND JOHN
Luke 22:8
And He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the passover for us, so that we may eat it.
John 20:2-3
2. She ran therefore and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to
them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid
Him.
3. Peter therefore went forth, as well as the other disciple, and came to the tomb.
Acts 3:1
Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the ninth-hour prayer;
Acts 4:13
And as they beheld the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated men
and laymen, they marveled and they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to
you rather than to God, you judge;
M. BARNABAS AND SAUL
Acts 11:29-30
29. And the disciples, according to how one was prospered, determined, each one of them, to
send things for dispensing to the brothers dwelling in Judea,
30. Which also they did, sending it to the elders through the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 12:25
And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having completed the dispensing; and they
took along with them John, who was surnamed Mark.
Acts 13:2
And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for Me now
Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
N. PAUL AND BARNABAS
Acts 13:42-43
42. And as Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people begged that these words would be spoken
to them on the next Sabbath.
43. And when the synagogue gathering had been dismissed, many of the Jews and the devout
proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the
grace of God.
Acts 13:46
And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken
to you first. Since you thrust it away and do not judge yourselves worthy of eternal life, behold,
we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:12
And all the multitude became silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs
and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
Acts 15:22
It then seemed good to the apostles and the elders with the whole church to choose men from
among them to send to Antioch together with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, who is called Barsabbas,
and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
Acts 15:25
It seemed good to us, having become of one accord, to choose men to send to you together with
our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Galatians 2:9
And perceiving the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be
pillars, gave to me and to Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the
Gentiles, and they, to the circumcision.
O. JUDAS AND SILAS
Acts 15:27
Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will report the same things by word of
mouth.
Acts 15:32
And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers through much
speaking and confirmed them.
P. PAUL AND SILAS

Acts 15:40
But Paul chose Silas and went out, having been commended to the grace of the Lord by the
brothers.
Acts 16:25
And about midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, sang hymns of praise to God; and the
prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 17:4
And some of them were persuaded and were joined to Paul and Silas, as well as a great multitude
of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few.
Q. PAUL AND HIS COMPANIONS
Acts 13:13
And putting out to sea from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga of Pamphylia; and
John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
R. PAUL AND TIMOTHY
Acts 16:1-3
1. And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple named Timothy was
there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but of a Greek father;
2. He was well attested to by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.
3. Paul wanted this one to go forth with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the
Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church
of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi,
with the overseers and deacons:
Philippians 2:19-23
19. But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged by
knowing the things concerning you.
22. But you know his approvedness, that as a child with a father he has served with me unto the
gospel.
23. Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me.
Colossians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,
Philemon 1
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow
worker
S. PRISCILLA AND AQUILA
Acts 18:2
And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy, and
Priscilla his wife (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome), he went to
them.
Acts 18:18
And Paul, having remained there yet a considerable number of days, took leave of the brothers
and sailed away to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea,
for he had a vow.
Acts 18:26
And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila heard him,
they took him to themselves and expounded the way of God to him more accurately.
Romans 16:3
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 16:19
The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you much in the Lord, with the church,
which is in their house.
2 Timothy 4:19
Greet Prisca and Aquila and the house of Onesiphorus.
T. SILAS AND TIMOTHY
Acts 18:5
And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the
word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
U. TIMOTHY AND ERASTUS
Acts 19:22
And having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself
stayed in Asia for a time.
V. PAUL AND SOSTHENES
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
W. PAUL AND SILVANUS AND TIMOTHY
2 Corinthians 1:19
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us, through me and
Silvanus and Timothy, did not become yes and no, but our word has become yes in Him.
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
2 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ:
X. PAUL AND TITUS
2 Corinthians 8:23
Whether concerning Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you; or our brothers, they
are apostles of the churches, they are Christ's glory.
Y. PAUL AND LUKE
2 Timothy 4:11
Luke alone is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for the
ministry.
Z. THE TWO WITNESSES
Revelation 11:3-4
3. And I will cause My two witnesses to prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed
in sackcloth.
4. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.
THE STEWARDSHIP IN GOD'S ECONOMY
I. THE STEWARDSHIP IN GOD'S ECONOMY
It is important to understand accurately the meaning of stewardship. The Greek word rendered
stewardship here, (Col. 1:25) oikonomia, is the same word rendered dispensation in Ephesians 1:10 and
3:9. The word also appears in Ephesians 3:2, where Paul speaks of the stewardship of grace which had
been given to him. According to ancient usage, oikonomia denoted a stewardship, a dispensation, or an
administration. At the time of Paul, many rich families had stewards whose responsibility was to
distribute food and other supplies to members of the household. Our Father has a great family, a divine
household. Because our Father has such vast riches, there is the need in His household for many
stewards to dispense these riches to His children. This dispensing is the stewardship. Hence, a
stewardship is a dispensation....
This stewardship is the ministry in the New Testament. The New Testament ministry is the
dispensing of the unsearchable riches of the all-inclusive Christ into the members of God’s family. The
Apostle Paul dispensed the riches of Christ into the saints. This is what we are doing in the ministry
today.
Life-Study of Colossians, Message 11, pp. 89-90, W.L.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom the master will set over his
service to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
18. A man should account us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
19. Here, furthermore, it is sought in stewards that one be found faithful.
1 Corinthians 9:17
If I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a
stewardship.
Ephesians 3:2
If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
Colossians 1:25
Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God, which was given to me for you, to
complete the word of God,
Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be unreprovable as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick tempered, not an
excessive drinker, not a striker, not greedy for base gain;
1 Peter 4:10
Each one, as he has received a gift, ministering it among yourselves as good stewards of the varied grace
of God.
THE CHURCH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 16:18
The Greek word for church, ekklesia, denotes a gathering, an assembly, of called ones. For example,
when city officials in ancient times called the people of the city together for a meeting, that meeting was
known as an ekklesia. The church is such an assembly of God's called people.
Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 63, pg. 525, W.L.
I. IN THE GOSPELS
A. THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH
Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates
of Hades shall not prevail against it.
B. THE LOCAL CHURCH
Matthew 18:15-18
15. Moreover if your brother sins against you, go, reprove him between you and him alone. If he
hears you, you have gained your brother.
16. But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word may be established.
17. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the 2church; and if he refuses to hear the church also, let
him be to you just like the Gentile and the tax collector.
18. Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in heaven, and
The church revealed in 16:18 is the universal church, which is the unique Body of Christ,
whereas the church revealed here is the local church, the expression of the unique Body of Christ
in a certain locality. Chapter 16 concerns the building of the universal church, whereas this
chapter concerns the practice of the local church. In both of its aspects the church represents the
kingdom of the heavens, having authority to bind and to loose.
C. THE BRIDE - THE INCREASE OF CHRIST
John 3:29-30
29. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears
30. He must increase, but I must decrease.
The bride of Christ is the increase of Christ. All of the reborn people are the increase of
Christ, and this increase is the bride which becomes the counterpart of Christ. The bride is the
church, the composition of all the regenerated people. All those who are regenerated are
composed together as the corporate bride to match Christ.
Life-Study of John, Message 10, pg. 122, W.L.
D. THE ONE FLOCK
John 10:16
And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must lead them also, and they shall hear My
voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.
The one flock signifies the one church, the one Body of Christ (Eph. 2:14-16; 4:6), brought
forth by life, which the Lord imparted into His members through His death (John 10:10-18).
Before, the fold was Judaism; now, the flock is the church. The sheepfold was, and still is,
Judaism, but the flock is the church. The flock is the church which includes two peoples—the
believing Jews and Gentiles. The Lord brings both together into one flock and under one
shepherd. Now the flock and the one shepherd are the one Body and the one Head.
Life-Study of John, Message 22, pg. 266 W.L.
E. THE MANY GRAINS - THE LOAF
John 12:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone;
but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it will simply remain one grain and will
never produce anything. But, praise the Lord, after it dies and grows up, the one grain becomes
the many grains or the much fruit. These many grains or much fruit are the church.
Life-Study of John, Message 26, pg. 313, W.L.
F. THE FATHER'S HOUSE
John 14:2
In 1My Father's house are many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to
prepare a place for you.
According to the interpretation in 2:16, 21, My Father's house refers to the temple, the body of
Christ, as God's dwelling place. At first the body of Christ was only His individual body. But
through Christ's death and resurrection, the body of Christ has increased to be His corporate
Body, which is the church, including all His believers, who have been regenerated through His
resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3). In Christ's resurrection the church is the Body of Christ, which is the
house of God (1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Pet. 2:5; Heb. 3:6), God's habitation (Eph. 2:21-22), God's temple
(1 Cor. 3:16-17).
G. THE BRANCHES OF THE VINE
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for
II. IN THE ACTS

A. THE FLOCK
Acts 20:28
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as
overseers to shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood.

A. THE BODY
Romans 12:5
So we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
12. For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many,
are one body, so also is the Christ.
13. For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether
Ephesians 1:22-23
12. And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,
13. Which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.
B. GOD'S FARM
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's cultivated land, God's building.
C. GOD'S BUILDING
1 Corinthians 3:9
D. THE TEMPLE OF GOD
16. Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17. If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is
holy, and such are you.
1 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living
Ephesians 2:21
E. THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE FAITH
Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have the opportunity, let us do what is good toward all, but especially toward
those of the household of the faith.
F. THE ISRAEL OF GOD
Galatians 6:16
And as many as walk by this rule, peace be upon them and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.
G. THE SONSHIP
Ephesians 1:5
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of
His will,
Hebrews 2:11-12
11. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He
is not ashamed to call them brothers,
12. Saying, “I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church I will sing hymns of
praise to You.”
...This sonship is the church, or the church life. The sonship to which we, the chosen ones of
God, have been predestinated is a blessing in the divine life that we may enjoy the church. This
sonship came into being at the time of the Lord's resurrection. In His resurrection, the Lord
Jesus, the Only Begotten Son of God, was born to be the Firstborn Son of God.... This implies
that there are other sons! Hallelujah, we are the other sons! I am certain that I am included
among the many sons of God. The words “many sons” are found in Hebrews 2:10, which
indicates that the Father is “leading many sons into glory.” God the Father has many sons, and
God the Son has many brothers. The “many brothers” are mentioned in Romans 8:29, which
says, “Because whom He forknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He should be the first born among many brothers.” On the day of resurrection the Lord
Jesus brought us all into sonship. According to Hebrews 2:11 and 12, Christ's many brothers are
the church:.... The many brothers of Christ, who are the many sons of God in the divine sonship,
are the church.
Young People's Training, Message 9, pp. 118, 119, W.L.
H. THE FULLNESS OF THE ONE WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL
Ephesians 1:22-23
I. MASTERPIECE
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His 1masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand in order that we would walk in them.
The Greek word, poiema, means something that has been made, a handiwork, or something
that has been written or composed as a poem. Not only a poetic writing may be considered a
poem, but also any work of art that expresses the maker's wisdom and design. We, the church,
the masterpiece of God's work, are a poem expressing God's infinite wisdom and divine design.
The heavens, the earth, and man, created by God, are not God's masterpiece; but the church, the
Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all in all (1:23), the corporate and universal new
man (v. 15), is a masterpiece. We have been saved by grace to be God's masterpiece that we may
walk in the good works prepared beforehand by God.
Ephesians 2:10, Footnote 101, W.L.

J. THE NEW MAN
Ephesians 2:15
Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the
two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the 2new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of
the reality.
Colossians 3:10-11
10. And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the
image of Him who created him,
11. Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian,
slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.
...Thus, the church is not just an assembly of believers, a kingdom of heavenly citizens, a
household of God's children, or even a Body for Christ. It is in its ultimate, uttermost aspect a
new man to accomplish God's eternal purpose. As the Body of Christ, the church needs Christ as
its life, whereas as the new man, the church needs Christ as its person. This new corporate person
should live a life like that which Jesus lived on earth, that is, a life of reality that expresses God
and causes God to be realized as the reality by man. Hence, the new man is the focus of the
apostle's exhortation in this section (vv. 17-32).
K. THE KINGDOM
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are 3fellow citizens with the saints
and members of the household of God,
Fellow citizens with the saints indicates the kingdom of God. All the believers, Jewish and
Gentile, are citizens in God's kingdom. God's kingdom is a sphere in which He exercises His
authority.
L. THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints
M. A DWELLING PLACE
Ephesians 2:22
N. THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST
Ephesians 3:4, 6
4. By which, in reading it, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,
6. That in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the Body and fellow
partakers of the promise through the gospel,
In 3:4 Paul speaks of the mystery of Christ. The mystery of God in Colossians 2:2 (Gk.) is
Christ, whereas the mystery of Christ here is the church. God is a mystery, and Christ, as the
embodiment of God to express Him, is the mystery of God. Christ is also a mystery, and the
church, as the Body of Christ to express Him, is the mystery of Christ.
O. THE FULLNESS OF GOD
Ephesians 3:19
fullness of God.
P. THE BRIDE
Ephesians 5:25-27, 32
25. Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her
26. That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word,
27. That He might present the 2church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
things, but that she would be holy and without blemish.
32. This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.
In this section of exhortation the apostle presented another aspect of the church, that of the
bride. This aspect reveals that the church comes out of Christ, as Eve came out of Adam (Gen.
2:21-22), that it has the same life and nature as Christ, and that it becomes one with Him as His
counterpart, as Eve became one flesh with Adam (Gen. 2:24)....
Q. THE WARRIOR
Ephesians 6:11-13
11. Put on the 2whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,
12. For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities,
against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies.
13. Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
...The whole armor of God is for the entire Body of Christ, not for any individual member of
the Body. The church is a corporate warrior, and the believers are parts of this unique warrior.
Only the corporate warrior, not any individual believer, can wear the whole armor of God. We
must fight the spiritual warfare in the Body, not as individuals.
R. THE HOUSE OF GOD
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God,
which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ was faithful as a Son over His house, whose house we are if indeed we hold fast the
boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.
S. THE PILLAR AND BASE OF THE TRUTH
1 Timothy 3:15
T. GOD'S SABBATH
Hebrews 4:9
So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Let us now consider the reasons why the church today is the Sabbath rest. Firstly, according to
Genesis 1 and 2, in order for God to have His Sabbath rest, He must have His expression and
representation. In other words, God's Sabbath needs a man in His own image with His dominion.
Immediately after the creation of the first man, the old man, God had a Sabbath because God had
secured a man to express and represent Him. Should God not also have a rest after the creation of
the new man? The church is the new man (Eph 2:15; 4:24). If God enjoyed a Sabbath rest after
the creation of the old man, He must have a greater rest after the creation of the new man. God
has a new Sabbath because He has secured a new man to express and represent Him.
Life-Study of Hebrews, Message 19, pg. 205, W.L.
U. THE FLOCK OF GOD
1 Peter 5:2-3
2. Shepherd the 2flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion but willingly, according
to God; not by seeking gain through base means but eagerly;
3. Nor as lording it over your allotments but by becoming patterns of the flock.
Lit., little flock; i.e., the church of God (Acts 20:28), which is little in number (Luke 12:32)
compared with the world. The church as the little flock is a little herb for the supply of life, not a
big tree for birds to lodge in (Matt. 13:31-32 and notes), not a huge religion like Christendom.

IV. IN REVELATION
A. THE GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS
Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden
lampstands: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands
are the seven churches.
THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS
I. THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS ONE

A. THE SONSHIP
Ephesians 1:5
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of
His will,
...This sonship is the church, or the church life. The sonship to which we, the chosen ones of
God, have been predestinated is a blessing in the divine life that we may enjoy the church. This
sonship came into being at the time of the Lord's resurrection.
Young People's Training, Message 9, pg. 118, W.L.
B. THE BODY
Ephesians 1:22-23
C. THE FULLNESS OF THE ONE WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL
Ephesians 1:22-23
II. THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS TWO
A. MASTERPIECE
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His 1masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand in order that we would walk in them.
The Greek word, poiema, means something that has been made, a handiwork, or something
that has been written or composed as a poem. Not only a poetic writing may be considered a
poem, but also any work of art that expresses the maker's wisdom and design. We, the church,
the masterpiece of God's work, are a poem expressing God's infinite wisdom and divine design.
B. THE NEW MAN
Ephesians 2:15
Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the
two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,
C. THE KINGDOM
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are 3fellow citizens with the saints
Fellow citizens with the saints indicates the kingdom of God. All the believers, Jewish and
Gentile, are citizens in God's kingdom. God's kingdom is a sphere in which He exercises His
authority.
D. THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints
E. A HOLY TEMPLE
Ephesians 2:21
F. A DWELLING PLACE
Ephesians 2:22
III. THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS THREE

A. THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST
Ephesians 3:4, 6
In 3:4 Paul speaks of the mystery of Christ. The mystery of God in Colossians 2:2 (Gk.) is
Christ, whereas the mystery of Christ here is the church. God is a mystery, and Christ, as the
embodiment of God to express Him, is the mystery of God. Christ is also a mystery, and the
church, as the Body of Christ to express Him, is the mystery of Christ.
B. THE FULLNESS OF GOD
Ephesians 3:19
fullness of God.
IV. THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS FOUR

A. THE NEW MAN
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the 2new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of
the reality.
...Thus, the church is not just an assembly of believers, a kingdom of heavenly citizens, a
household of God's children, or even a Body for Christ. It is in its ultimate, uttermost aspect a
new man to accomplish God's eternal purpose. As the Body of Christ, the church needs Christ as
its life, whereas as the new man, the church needs Christ as its person. This new corporate person
should live a life like that which Jesus lived on earth, that is, a life of reality that expresses God
and causes God to be realized as the reality by man....
V. THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS FIVE

A. THE BRIDE
Ephesians 5:25-27, 32
27. That He might present the 2church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
In this section of exhortation the apostle presented another aspect of the church, that of the
bride. This aspect reveals that the church comes out of Christ, as Eve came out of Adam (Gen.
2:21-22), that it has the same life and nature as Christ, and that it becomes one with Him as His
counterpart, as Eve became one flesh with Adam (Gen. 2:24).
VI. THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS SIX

A. THE WARRIOR
Ephesians 6:11-13
11. Put on the 2whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,
12. For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities,
against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies.
13. Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
...The whole armor of God is for the entire Body of Christ, not for any individual member of
the Body. The church is a corporate warrior, and the believers are parts of this unique warrior.
Only the corporate warrior, not any individual believer, can wear the whole armor of God. We
must fight the spiritual warfare in the Body, not as individuals.
THE GROUND OF THE CHURCH

ONE CHURCH—ONE CITY
...What is the ground of the church? The ground of a certain thing is the very place where you put that
thing. That is the ground. In other words, the ground of the church is the very place where the church is.
If a vase rests on a table, the ground of the vase is the table. Then what is the ground upon which the
church stands? It is the city where the church is. The first church in the New Testament was in Jerusalem
(Acts 8:1). It is very clear that the city of Jerusalem became the ground of that church.
Then the church spread from Jerusalem to Antioch. Since there was now a church at Antioch (Acts
13:1), spontaneously the city of Antioch became the ground of the church there. Then the church spread
from Antioch to Ephesus, Corinth, and to many other cities. All the cities where the church spread
became the ground upon which the church stood. This is the unique ground of the genuine unity. This is
the local ground or the ground of locality.
The Practical Expression of the Church, pg. 54, W.L.
I. THE GROUND OF LOCALITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Acts 14:23
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church and had prayed with fastings, they
committed them to the Lord into whom they had believed.
Titus 1:5
For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things which I have begun that remain
and appoint elders in 1every city, as I directed you:
These words, compared with every church in Acts 14:23, indicates not only that the jurisdiction of a
local church is the city in which it is located but also that in one city there should be only one church.
The eldership of a local church should cover the entire city in which that church is located. Such a
unique presbytery in a city preserves the unique oneness of the Body of Christ from damage. One city
should have only one church with one presbytery. This practice is illustrated, beyond any question or
doubt, by the clear pattern in the New Testament (Acts 8:1; 13:1; Rom. 16:1; 1 Cor. 1:2; Rev. 1:11) and
is an absolute prerequisite for the maintaining of proper order in a local church. Because of this, the first
thing the apostle charged Titus to do in setting things in order was to appoint elders in every city.
Titus 1:5, Footnote 51, W.L.

A. JERUSALEM
Acts 8:1
And Saul approved of his killing. And there occurred in that day a great persecution against the
church which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and
Samaria, except the apostles.
B. ANTIOCH
Acts 13:1
Now there were in Antioch, in the local church, prophets and teachers: Barnabas and Simeon,
who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, the foster brother of Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul.
C. CENCHREA
Romans 16:1
I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is in Cenchrea,
D. CORINTH
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, the
called saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who
is theirs and ours:
2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church
of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
E. THE SEVEN CHURCHES IN SEVEN CITIES
Revelation 1:11
Saying, What you see write in a scroll and 1send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to
Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.
This book's being sent to the seven churches equals its being sent to the seven cities. This
shows clearly that the practice of the church life in the early days was the practice of having one
church for one city, one city with only one church. In no city was there more than one church.
This is the local church, with the city, not the street or the area, as the unit. The jurisdiction of a
local church should cover the whole city in which the church is located; it should not be greater
or lesser than the boundary of the city. All the believers within that boundary should constitute
the one unique local church within that city.
F. EPHESUS
Revelation 2:1
To the messenger of the church in Ephesus write: These things says He who holds the seven stars
in His right hand, He who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
G. SMYRNA
Revelation 2:8
And to the messenger of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last,
who became dead and lived again:
H. PERGAMOS
Revelation 2:12
And to the messenger of the church in Pergamos write: These things says He who has the sharp
two-edged sword:
I. THYATIRA
Revelation 2:18
And to the messenger of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, He who
has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like shining bronze:
J. SARDIS
Revelation 3:1
And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: These things says He who has the seven
Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you are living,
and yet you are dead.
K. PHILADELPHIA
Revelation 3:7
And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy One, the
true One, the One who has the key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, and shuts
and no one opens:
L. LAODICEA
Revelation 3:14
And to the messenger of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful
and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
THE GROUND OF ONENESS TYPIFIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BY

THE PLACE GOD HAS CHOSEN TO PUT HIS NAME—JERUSALEM
I. THE PLACE
Deuteronomy 12:5
But unto the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes to put His name, unto His
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, there you shall bring
all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave
offering of your hand and all your choice vows which you vow to Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 12:14
But in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer up your burnt
offerings and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
Deuteronomy 12:18
But you shall eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you,
your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all your undertakings.
Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place where Jehovah your God will choose to put His name is too far away from you, you may
slaughter from your herd and from your flock, which Jehovah has given to you, as I commanded you;
and you may eat within your gates all that your soul desires;
Deuteronomy 12:26
But you shall take your holy things which you have and your vows and go to the place which Jehovah
will choose;
Deuteronomy 14:23
And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place where He will choose to cause His name to
dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil and the firstborn of your herd and
flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:24
But if the way is so far away from you that you are not able to carry your tithe, because the place where
Jehovah your God will choose to set His name is too far away from you when Jehovah your God has
blessed you,
Deuteronomy 14:25
Then you shall exchange it for money and bind up the money in your hand, and you shall go to the place
which Jehovah your God will choose.
Deuteronomy 15:20
You and your household shall eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah
will choose.
Deuteronomy 16:2
And you shall sacrifice the passover to Jehovah your God, from the flock and from the herd, in the place
where Jehovah will choose to cause His name to dwell.
Deuteronomy 16:6
Rather, in the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, you shall sacrifice
the passover in the evening, as the sun sets, at the time that you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:7
And you shall cook and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, and you shall turn in the
morning and go to your tents.
Deuteronomy 16:11
And you and your son and daughter and your male servant and female servant and the Levite who is
within your gates and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst shall rejoice
before Jehovah your God in the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell.
Deuteronomy 16:15
You shall keep the feast to Jehovah your God for seven days in the place which Jehovah will choose, for
Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings; therefore you shall be
nothing but joyful.
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will
Deuteronomy 17:8
If a case is too complicated for you to judge between one kind of homicide and another, or between one
kind of civil suit and another, or between one kind of assault and another, being disputed cases within
your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God will choose;
Deuteronomy 17:10
And you shall do according to the word of the sentence that they declare to you from that place which
Jehovah will choose; and you shall be certain to do according to all that they instruct you.
Deuteronomy 18:6
And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and comes according
to all his soul's desire to the place which Jehovah will choose,
Deuteronomy 26:2
You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring from your land, which
Jehovah your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah
your God will choose to cause His name to dwell.
Deuteronomy 31:11
When all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose, you shall
read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
II. THE PLACE—JERUSALEM
1 Kings 11:36
And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in
Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put My name.
1 Kings 14:21
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Jehovah had chosen, out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put His name. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
2 Kings 21:4
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, concerning which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put
My name.
2 Kings 21:7
And he put the engraved image of the Asherah that he had made in that house concerning which Jehovah
had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
2 Kings 23:27
And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off
this city which I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name will be there.
2 Chronicles 6:6
But I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My
people Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:4
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, concerning which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will My
name be forever.
2 Chronicles 33:7
And he put the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, concerning which God
had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
Ezra 6:12
And may the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who put forth
their hand to alter this or to destroy this house of God, which is in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have made a
decree; let it be carried out with all diligence.
Jeremiah 3:17
At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the nations will be gathered to it
because the name of Jehovah is at Jerusalem; and they will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their
evil heart.
THE CHURCHES
(IN A PROVINCE OR DISTRICT)
We have just seen that the boundary of a church cannot be narrower than the locality to which it
belongs. On the other hand, its boundary cannot be wider than the locality. In the Word of God we never
read of “the church in Macedonia,” or “the church in Galatia,” or “the church in Judea,” or “the church
in Galilee.” Why? Because Macedonia and Galilee are provinces, and Judea and Galatia are districts. A
province is not a scriptural unit of locality, neither is a district. A provincial church or a district church is
not according to Scripture, since it does not divide on the ground of locality, but combines a number of
localities. It is because all scriptural churches are local churches that there is no mention of state
churches, provincial churches, or district churches in the Word of God.... Asia, Macedonia, Galatia and
Judea were all areas comprising more than one “locality unit”, therefore the Word of God refers to
“churches” in these areas.
The Normal Christian Church Life, pp. 50-51, W.N.
I. ASIA
1 Corinthians 16:19
The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you much in the Lord, with the church, which is
in their house.
Revelation 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was
and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
II. GALATIA
1 Corinthians 16:1
Now concerning the collection for the saints, just as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also do.
Galatians 1:2
And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:
III. JUDEA
Galatians 1:22
Yet I was still unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which are in Christ.
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, for you
also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they also from the Jews,
IV. MACEDONIA
2 Corinthians 8:1
Furthermore we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God which has been given in the churches of
Macedonia,
V. SYRIA AND CILICIA
Acts 15:41
And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
THE REVELATION OF BUILDING IN THE BIBLE

I. GOD'S BUILDING AND SATAN'S COUNTERFEITS
A. GOD'S BUILDING—MATERIALS IN THE RIVER AND THE BUILDING OF THE
BRIDE
Genesis 2:10-12, 22
10. And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four
branches.
11. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Havilah, where
there is gold.
12. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
22. And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman and brought her
to the man.
(SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT)—THE BUILDING OF ENOCH'S CITY
Genesis 4:16-24 (v. 17)

And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city and
called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
B. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF NOAH'S ARK
Genesis 6:11-21 (v. 14)

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark and shall cover it within
and without with pitch.
C. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF NOAH'S ALTAR AND TENT
Genesis 8:20a; 9:21b
20. And Noah built an altar to Jehovah...

21. ...And he uncovered himself inside his tent.
(SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT)—THE BUILDING OF THE TOWER AND CITY OF

BABEL
Genesis 11:1-9 (v. 4)

And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; and
let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the surface of the whole earth.
D. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF ABRAHAM'S ALTAR AND TENT
Genesis 12:8
And he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with
Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah and called upon the
name of Jehovah.
(SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT)—THE BUILDING OF SODOM
Genesis 13:12-13; 18:20; 19:1 (v. 13:12)

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as
far as Sodom.
E. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING IN JACOB'S DREAM—BETHEL
Genesis 28:10-22 (vv. 17-19a)
17. And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of
God, and this is the gate of heaven.
18. And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head, and he
set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.
19. And he called the name of that place Bethel,...
(SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT)—THE BUILDING OF PHAROAH'S TREASURE CITIES
Exodus 1:11-14 (v. 11)

So they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built storage cities
for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
F. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 25:1-9 (vv. 8-9)
8. And let them make a sanctuary for Me that I may dwell in their midst.
9. According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its utensils,
even so shall you make it.
G. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE
I Kings 6:1-10 (vv. 1, 9a)
1. Then in the four hundred eightieth year after the children of Israel had come forth out of the land
of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the month Ziv (this is the second month),
Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah.
9. So he built the house and finished it,...
(SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT)—THE BUILDING OF BABYLON
Daniel 4:28-30 (v. 30)

The king responded and said, Is this not Babylon the great, which I have built up as a royal house
by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
H. GOD'S BUILDING—THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM
Ezra 1:2-5 (vv. 2, 5)
2. Thus says Cyrus the king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Jehovah the God of heaven
given to me; and He has charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
5. Then the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose
up, even everyone whose spirit God had stirred up to go up to build the house of Jehovah, which
is in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:17-18 (v. 17)
Then said I to them, You see the bad state we are in, that Jerusalem lies in waste and its gates are
burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a
reproach.
I. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH
Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of
J. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF THE LOCAL CHURCHES
Acts 14:23a; Titus 1:5
23. And when they had appointed elders for them in every church...
5. For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things which I have begun that
remain and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you:
Ephesians 2:22
(SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT)—THE BUILDING OF RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL

BABYLON
Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead there was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
K. GOD'S BUILDING—THE BUILDING OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
STONES IN THE BIBLE FOR GOD'S BUILDING
I. STONES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FOR GOD'S BUILDING

A. MATERIALS IN THE RIVER
Genesis 2:11-12
there is gold.
B. THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 26:29-30
29. And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars;
and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
30. And you shall set up the tabernacle according its plan, which you were shown in the mountain.
C. THE SHOULDER PLATES
Exodus 28:9, 12
9. And you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,
12. And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance
for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders for a
memorial.
D. THE BREASTPLATE OF JUDGMENT
Exodus 28:15, 17-21
15. And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; like the work of
the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and of fine twined
linen you shall make it.
17. And you shall enclose in it enclosures of stones, four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row
of a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;
18. And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
19. And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20. And the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their
enclosures.
21. And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their
names; they shall be like the engravings of a signet, each according to its name, for the twelve
tribes.
E. THE TEMPLE
1 Kings 6:7, 21-22, 30, 36
7. And the house, when it was being built, was built of finished stone, cut at the quarry, so that
neither hammer nor ax nor any iron tool was heard in the house when it was being built.
21. And Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold; and he drew gold chains before the
innermost sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
22. So he overlaid all the house with gold, until all the house was complete; and the whole altar,
which belonged to the innermost sanctuary, he overlaid with gold.
30. And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, in both the inner chamber and the outer one.
36. And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and a course of cedar beams.
F. THE HEAD STONE OF THE CORNER
Psalm 118:22
The stone which the builders rejected Has become the head of the corner.
G. THE FOUNDATION STONE AND CORNER–STONE
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says The Lord Jehovah: Indeed I lay a stone in Zion as a foundation, A tested
stone, A precious cornerstone as a foundation firmly established; He who believes will not
hasten away.
H. THE STONE WITH SEVEN EYES
Zechariah 3:9
For here is the stone that I have set before Joshua—upon one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave
its engraving, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
I. THE TOP STONE
Zechariah 4:7
Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring
forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it.
II. STONES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT FOR GOD'S BUILDING

A. THE FOUNDATION
10. According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, and
another builds upon it. But let each man take heed how he builds upon it.
11. For another foundation no one is able to lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
B. CHRIST AS THE LIVING STONE
1 Peter 2:4
Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and precious,
C. THE CORNERSTONE
Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, “The stone which the builders
rejected, this has become the head of the corner. This was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in
our eyes”?
Acts 4:11
This is the stone which was considered as nothing by you, the builders, which has become the
head of the corner.
Ephesians 2:20
Being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the
cornerstone;
1 Peter 2:6-7
6. For it is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion a cornerstone, chosen and precious; and he
who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame.”
7. To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the unbelieving, “The stone which the
builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner,”
D. PETER CALLED A STONE
Matthew 16:18
John 1:42
He led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be
called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter).
E. THE BELIEVERS AS LIVING STONES
1 Peter 2:5
You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy
priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
F. BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION
1 Corinthians 3:12
But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble,
G. THE OVERCOMERS RECEIVING A WHITE STONE
Revelation 2:17
him I will give of the hidden manna, and to him I will give a white stone, and upon the stone a
new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it.
H. GOD HAVING THE APPEARANCE OF A JASPER STONE AND A SARDIUS
Revelation 4:3
And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and there was a
I. THE BUILDING MATERIAL OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
crystal.
18. And the building work of its wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
19. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone: the first
foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20. The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz;
the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was, respectively, of one pearl.
And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

BUILDING IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
I. BUILDING IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
John 1:14
John 1:42
He led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called
Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter).
John 1:51
And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God
John 2:19-21
19. Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20. Then the Jews said, This temple was built in forty-six years, and You will raise it up in three days?
21. But He spoke of the temple of His body.
John 3:29-30
29. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him,
John 14:2
In My Father's house are many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a
place for you.
John 14:23
John 17:11
And I am no longer in the world; yet they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep
them in Your name, which You have given to Me, that they may be one even as We are.
John 17:21-23
21. That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that
the world may believe that You have sent Me.
22. And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one;
23. I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have
sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
GOD'S BUILDING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
I. GOD'S BUILDING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. CHRIST AS THE TABERNACLE OF GOD
John 1:14
B. SIMON'S NAME CHANGED TO A STONE
John 1:42
C. THE FULFILLMENT OF JACOB'S DREAM - BETHEL
John 1:51
And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see 2heaven opened and the angels of
God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
This is the fulfillment of Jacob's dream (Gen. 28:11-22). Christ as the Son of Man, with His
humanity, is the ladder set up on the earth and leading to heaven, keeping heaven open to earth
and joining earth to heaven for the house of God, Bethel. Jacob poured oil (a symbol of the Holy
Spirit, the ultimate expression of the Triune God reaching man) upon the stone (a symbol of the
transformed man) that it might be the house of God. Here in this chapter are the Spirit (v. 32) and
the stone (v. 42) for the house of God with Christ in His humanity. Where this is, there is an
open heaven.
D. THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD'S BODY
John 2:19-21
20. Then the Jews said, This temple was built in forty-six years, and You will raise it up in three
days?
E. THE FATHER'S HOUSE–THE MUTUAL ABODE OF GOD AND MAN
John 14:2, 23
2. In 1My Father's house are 2many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to
23. Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will
love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.
(1 Cor. 3:16-17).
The many abodes are the many members of the Body of Christ (Rom. 12:5), which is God's
temple (1 Cor. 3:16-17). This is adequately proven by v. 23, which says that the Lord and the
Father will make an abode with the one who loves Him.
John 14:2, Footnote 21, 22, W.L.
F. CHRIST BUILDING THE CHURCH
Matthew 16:18
G. CHRIST—THE FOUNDATION
1 Corinthians 3:11
H. CHRIST—THE LIVING STONE
1 Peter 2:4
I. CHRIST—THE CORNERSTONE
Matthew 21:42
our eyes”?
Acts 4:11
head of the corner.
Ephesians 2:20
cornerstone;
1 Peter 2:6-7
J. BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION
12. But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble,
K. THE BELIEVERS AS LIVING STONES
1 Peter 2:5
L. THE CHURCH AS THE TEMPLE OF GOD
2 Corinthians 6:16
Ephesians 2:21-22
21. In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord;
22. In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.
M. THE CHURCH AS THE HOUSE OF GOD
1 Timothy 3:15
Hebrews 3:6
1 Peter 2:5
1 Peter 4:17
For it is time for the judgment to begin from the house of God; and if first from us, what will be
the end of those who disobey the gospel of God?
N. THE BUILDING UP OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of
Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint
of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth
of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
O. BUILDING THE CHURCH THROUGH LOVE
Romans 14:19
So then let us pursue the things of peace and the things for building up one another.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge
puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful, but not all things
build up.
P. BUILDING THE CHURCH THROUGH PROPHESYING
1 Corinthians 14:4-5, 12
5. I desire that you all speak in tongues, but especially that you would prophesy; and greater is he
who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive
building up.
12. So also you, since you are zealous of spirits, seek that you may excel for the building up of the
church.
Q. THE NEW JERUSALEM
Revelation 21:2, 18-19, 21
THE BIBLE—A ROMANCE OF A UNIVERSAL COUPLE
I. THIS ROMANCE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE
Genesis 2:21-24
21. And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his
ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.
to the man.
23. And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; This one shall be
called Woman because out of Man this one was taken.
24. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall
become one flesh.
B. GOD AS THE HUSBAND AND HIS PEOPLE AS HIS WIFE
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your Husband; Jehovah of hosts is His name. And the Holy One of Israel is
your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, Your sons will marry you; And with the joy of the
bridegroom over the bride Your God will rejoice over you.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah: I remember concerning you the
kindness of your youth, The love of your bridal days, When you followed after Me in the
wilderness, In a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 3:1
It is said, If a man divorces his wife And she goes from him And becomes another
man's wife, Will he return to her again? Will not that land be Utterly polluted? But you have
committed formication with many lovers. Yet return to Me, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:14
Return, O apostate children, declares Jehovah, for I am a Husband to you; and I will take you,
one from a city and two from a family, and will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah 31:32
Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by their hand to
bring them out from the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was their
Husband, declares Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:8
Then I passed by you and saw you; and then was your time a time of love. And I spread My skirt
over you and covered your nakedness; indeed I swore unto you and entered into a covenant with
you, declares the Lord Jehovah, and you became Mine.
Hosea 2:7, 19-20
7. And she will pursue her lovers But will not overtake them; And she will seek them but not
find them; And she will say, I will go And return to my first husband, For it was better for me
then than now.
19. And I will betroth you to Myself forever; Indeed I will betroth you to Myself In righteousness and
justice And in lovingkindness and compassions;
20. Indeed I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness, And you will know Jehovah.
C. THE FULL ROMANCE IN THE SONG OF SONGS
Song of Songs 1:2-4
3. Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; Your name is like ointment poured forth;
Therefore the virgins love you.
4. Draw me; we will run after you—The king has brought me into his chambers—We will be glad
and rejoice in you; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
Song of Songs 6:3

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; He pastures his flock among the lilies.
II. THIS ROMANCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. CHRIST AS THE BRIDEGROOM IN THE GOSPELS
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is
with them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,
and then they will fast.
Mark 2:19
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot fast while the bridegroom is with
Luke 5:34
And Jesus said to them, You cannot make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the
bridegroom is with them, can you?
John 3:29-30
B. THE MARRIAGE FEAST IN THE GOSPELS
Matthew 22:2
The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.
Matthew 25:1, 10
1. At that time the kingdom of the heavens will be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and
went forth to meet the bridegroom.
10. And as they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in
with him to the wedding feast. And the door was shut.
C. THE HUSBAND AND WIFE IN THE EPISTLES
Romans 7:4
So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that
you might be joined to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might bear
fruit to God.
Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to
present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 5:25-32
27. That He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
28. In the same way the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who
loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the
church,
30. Because we are members of His Body.
31. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two
shall be one flesh.
D. THE MARRIAGE OF CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE IN REVELATION
Revelation 19:7, 9
7. Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
9. And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the marriage dinner of the Lamb.
And he said to me, These are the true words of God.
Revelation 21:2
Revelation 21:9-10
9. And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and
spoke with me, saying, Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
STONES IN THE BIBLE FOR GOD'S BUILDING
I. STONES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FOR GOD'S BUILDING

A. MATERIALS IN THE RIVER
Genesis 2:11-12
there is gold.
B. THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 26:29-30
29. And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars;
and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
30. And you shall set up the tabernacle according its plan, which you were shown in the mountain.
C. THE SHOULDER PLATES
Exodus 28:9, 12
9. And you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,
12. And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance
for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders for a
memorial.
D. THE BREASTPLATE OF JUDGMENT
Exodus 28:15, 17-21
15. And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; like the work of
the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and of fine twined
linen you shall make it.
17. And you shall enclose in it enclosures of stones, four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row
of a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;
18. And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
19. And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20. And the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their
enclosures.
21. And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their
names; they shall be like the engravings of a signet, each according to its name, for the twelve
tribes.
E. THE TEMPLE
1 Kings 6:7, 21-22, 30, 36

7. And the house, when it was being built, was built of finished stone, cut at the quarry, so that
neither hammer nor ax nor any iron tool was heard in the house when it was being built.
21. And Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold; and he drew gold chains before the
innermost sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
22. So he overlaid all the house with gold, until all the house was complete; and the whole altar,
which belonged to the innermost sanctuary, he overlaid with gold.
30. And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, in both the inner chamber and the outer one.
36. And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and a course of cedar beams.
F. THE HEAD STONE OF THE CORNER
Psalm 118:22
The stone which the builders rejected Has become the head of the corner.
G. THE FOUNDATION STONE AND CORNER–STONE
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says The Lord Jehovah: Indeed I lay a stone in Zion as a foundation, A tested
stone, A precious cornerstone as a foundation firmly established; He who believes will not
hasten away.
H. THE STONE WITH SEVEN EYES
Zechariah 3:9
For here is the stone that I have set before Joshua—upon one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave
its engraving, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
I. THE TOP STONE
Zechariah 4:7
Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring
forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it.
II. STONES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT FOR GOD'S BUILDING

A. THE FOUNDATION
11. For another foundation no one is able to lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
B. CHRIST AS THE LIVING STONE
1 Peter 2:4
C. THE CORNERSTONE
Matthew 21:42
our eyes”?
Acts 4:11
head of the corner.
Ephesians 2:20
cornerstone;
1 Peter 2:6-7
D. PETER CALLED A STONE
Matthew 16:18
John 1:42
E. THE BELIEVERS AS LIVING STONES
1 Peter 2:5
F. BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION
1 Corinthians 3:12
But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble,
G. THE OVERCOMERS RECEIVING A WHITE STONE
Revelation 2:17
him I will give of the hidden manna, and to him I will give a white stone, and upon the stone a
new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it.
H. GOD HAVING THE APPEARANCE OF A JASPER STONE AND A SARDIUS
Revelation 4:3
And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and there was a
I. THE BUILDING MATERIAL OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
crystal.
BUILDING IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
I. BUILDING IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
John 1:14
John 1:42
John 1:51
John 2:19-21
20. Then the Jews said, This temple was built in forty-six years, and You will raise it up in three days?
John 3:29-30
29. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him,
John 14:2
In My Father's house are many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a
place for you.
John 14:23
John 17:11
And I am no longer in the world; yet they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep
them in Your name, which You have given to Me, that they may be one even as We are.
John 17:21-23
21. That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that
22. And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one;
23. I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have
GOD'S BUILDING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
I. GOD'S BUILDING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. CHRIST AS THE TABERNACLE OF GOD
John 1:14
B. SIMON'S NAME CHANGED TO A STONE
John 1:42
C. THE FULFILLMENT OF JACOB'S DREAM - BETHEL
John 1:51
And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see 2heaven opened and the angels of
God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
This is the fulfillment of Jacob's dream (Gen. 28:11-22). Christ as the Son of Man, with His
humanity, is the ladder set up on the earth and leading to heaven, keeping heaven open to earth
and joining earth to heaven for the house of God, Bethel. Jacob poured oil (a symbol of the Holy
Spirit, the ultimate expression of the Triune God reaching man) upon the stone (a symbol of the
transformed man) that it might be the house of God. Here in this chapter are the Spirit (v. 32) and
the stone (v. 42) for the house of God with Christ in His humanity. Where this is, there is an
open heaven.
D. THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD'S BODY
John 2:19-21
20. Then the Jews said, This temple was built in forty-six years, and You will raise it up in three
days?
E. THE FATHER'S HOUSE–THE MUTUAL ABODE OF GOD AND MAN
John 14:2, 23
2. In 1My Father's house are 2many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to
23. Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will
love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.
(1 Cor. 3:16-17).
The many abodes are the many members of the Body of Christ (Rom. 12:5), which is God's
temple (1 Cor. 3:16-17). This is adequately proven by v. 23, which says that the Lord and the
Father will make an abode with the one who loves Him.
John 14:2, Footnote 21, 22, W.L.
F. CHRIST BUILDING THE CHURCH
Matthew 16:18
G. CHRIST—THE FOUNDATION
1 Corinthians 3:11
H. CHRIST—THE LIVING STONE
1 Peter 2:4
I. CHRIST—THE CORNERSTONE
Matthew 21:42
our eyes”?
Acts 4:11
head of the corner.
Ephesians 2:20
cornerstone;
1 Peter 2:6-7
J. BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION
12. But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble,
K. THE BELIEVERS AS LIVING STONES
1 Peter 2:5
L. THE CHURCH AS THE TEMPLE OF GOD
2 Corinthians 6:16
Ephesians 2:21-22
21. In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord;
22. In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.
M. THE CHURCH AS THE HOUSE OF GOD
1 Timothy 3:15
Hebrews 3:6
1 Peter 2:5
1 Peter 4:17
For it is time for the judgment to begin from the house of God; and if first from us, what will be
the end of those who disobey the gospel of God?
N. THE BUILDING UP OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of
Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint
of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth
of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
O. BUILDING THE CHURCH THROUGH LOVE
Romans 14:19
So then let us pursue the things of peace and the things for building up one another.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge
puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful, but not all things
build up.
P. BUILDING THE CHURCH THROUGH PROPHESYING
1 Corinthians 14:4-5, 12
5. I desire that you all speak in tongues, but especially that you would prophesy; and greater is he
who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive
building up.
12. So also you, since you are zealous of spirits, seek that you may excel for the building up of the
church.
Q. THE NEW JERUSALEM
Revelation 21:2, 18-19, 21
THE BIBLE—A ROMANCE OF A UNIVERSAL COUPLE
I. THIS ROMANCE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

A. THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE
Genesis 2:21-24
21. And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his
ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.
to the man.
23. And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; This one shall be
called Woman because out of Man this one was taken.
24. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall
become one flesh.
B. GOD AS THE HUSBAND AND HIS PEOPLE AS HIS WIFE
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your Husband; Jehovah of hosts is His name. And the Holy One of Israel is
your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, Your sons will marry you; And with the joy of the
bridegroom over the bride Your God will rejoice over you.
Jeremiah 2:2
kindness of your youth, The love of your bridal days, When you followed after Me in the
wilderness, In a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 3:1
It is said, If a man divorces his wife And she goes from him And becomes another
man's wife, Will he return to her again? Will not that land be Utterly polluted? But you have
committed formication with many lovers. Yet return to Me, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:14
Return, O apostate children, declares Jehovah, for I am a Husband to you; and I will take you,
one from a city and two from a family, and will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah 31:32
Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by their hand to
bring them out from the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was their
Husband, declares Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:8
Then I passed by you and saw you; and then was your time a time of love. And I spread My skirt
over you and covered your nakedness; indeed I swore unto you and entered into a covenant with
you, declares the Lord Jehovah, and you became Mine.
Hosea 2:7, 19-20
7. And she will pursue her lovers But will not overtake them; And she will seek them but not
find them; And she will say, I will go And return to my first husband, For it was better for me
then than now.
19. And I will betroth you to Myself forever; Indeed I will betroth you to Myself In righteousness and
justice And in lovingkindness and compassions;
C. THE FULL ROMANCE IN THE SONG OF SONGS
Song of Songs 1:2-4
3. Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; Your name is like ointment poured forth;
Therefore the virgins love you.
4. Draw me; we will run after you—The king has brought me into his chambers—We will be glad
and rejoice in you; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
Song of Songs 6:3

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; He pastures his flock among the lilies.
II. THIS ROMANCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. CHRIST AS THE BRIDEGROOM IN THE GOSPELS
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is
with them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,
Mark 2:19
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot fast while the bridegroom is with
Luke 5:34
And Jesus said to them, You cannot make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the
bridegroom is with them, can you?
John 3:29-30
B. THE MARRIAGE FEAST IN THE GOSPELS
Matthew 22:2
The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.
Matthew 25:1, 10
1. At that time the kingdom of the heavens will be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and
went forth to meet the bridegroom.
10. And as they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in
with him to the wedding feast. And the door was shut.
C. THE HUSBAND AND WIFE IN THE EPISTLES
Romans 7:4
So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that
you might be joined to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might bear
fruit to God.
Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to
present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 5:25-32
27. That He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
28. In the same way the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who
loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the
church,
30. Because we are members of His Body.
31. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two
shall be one flesh.
D. THE MARRIAGE OF CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE IN REVELATION
Revelation 19:7, 9
7. Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
9. And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the marriage dinner of the Lamb.
And he said to me, These are the true words of God.
Revelation 21:2
Revelation 21:9-10
9. And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and
spoke with me, saying, Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
THE COMMON FAITH
Titus 1:4
To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ
Jesus our Savior.
I. CONCERNING THE BIBLE

A. THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD
1. Divinely Inspired by God
Peter 1:20-21
20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one's own interpretation;
21. For no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while
being borne by the Holy Spirit.
2. The Breath of God
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness,
II. CONCERNING GOD

A. GOD IS UNIQUELY ONE
Deuteronomy 4:35
You were shown these things that you might know that it is Jehovah who is God; there is no
other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today and bring it to heart that Jehovah is God in heaven above and upon
the earth below; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel, Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one.
Psalm 86:10
For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.
Isaiah 44:8
Do not tremble and do not be afraid. Have I not related to you from that time and
declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Or is there
any other Rock? I do not know of any.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is
nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.
1 Timothy 2:5
B. GOD IS TRIUNE: (DISTINCTIVELY THREE BUT NOT SEPARATE)

1. Distinctively Three
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over
the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the
earth.
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good
and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and
eat and live forever¯
Genesis 11:6-7
6. And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and
this is only the beginning of what they will do; and now nothing which they purpose
to do will be kept from them.
7. Come, let Us go down and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.
Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?
And I said, Here am I; send me.
Matthew 3:16-17
16. And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and behold,
the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a
dove and coming upon Him.
17. And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in
whom I have found My delight.
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
4. But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

5. And there are distinctions of ministries, yet the same Lord;
6. And there are distinctions of operations, but the same God, who operates all things
in all.
2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the
Holy Spirit be with you all.
Ephesians 2:18
Ephesians 3:14, 16-17
14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
16. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened
with power through His Spirit into the inner man,
17. That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being
rooted and grounded in love,
1 Peter 1:2
Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of
the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to
you and peace be multiplied.
Revelation 1:4-5
4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him
who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before
His throne,
5. And from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the
Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our
sins by His blood
2. Not Separate—The Son with the Father
John 8:29
And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things
that are pleasing to Him.
John 16:32
Behold, an hour is coming, and has come, that you will be scattered each to his own
place and will leave Me alone; yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
John 10:30
John 14:8-11
8. Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father and it is sufficient for us.
9. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me,
Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how is it that you say, Show us the
Father?
10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I
say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His
works.
11. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; but if not, believe
because of the works themselves.
3. Not Separate—The Son through the Spirit
Matthew 1:18, 20
18. Now the origin of Jesus Christ was in this way: His mother, Mary, after she had
been engaged to Joseph, before they came together, was found to be with child of the
Holy Spirit.
20. But while he pondered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in
a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for
that which has been begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 12:28
But if I, by the Spirit of God, cast out the demons, then the kingdom of God has
come upon you.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the
living God?
III. CONCERNING THE PERSON OF CHRIST

A. THE COMPLETE GOD
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us, A son is given to us; And the government is upon His shoulder;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of
Peace.
John 20:28
Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God!
Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the
Christ, who is God over all blessed forever. Amen.
Colossians 2:9
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of uprightness is
the scepter of Your kingdom.
B. THE PERFECT MAN
Luke 23:4
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find no fault in this man.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our
weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.
1 Peter 2:22
Who committed no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth;
IV. CONCERNING THE WORK OF CHRIST

A. INCARNATION
John 1:1, 14
14. And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of
the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
Philippians 2:5-8

6. Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be
grasped,
7. But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men;
8. And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto
death, and that the death of a cross.
B. REDEMPTION
John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes
away the sin of the world!
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you, first of all, that which also I received, that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures;
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to
the riches of His grace,
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time
to those who eagerly await Him, apart from sin, unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:12
But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on the right hand of
God,
1 Peter 2:24
Who Himself bore up our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to sins,
might live to righteousness; by whose bruise you were healed.
Revelation 5:9
And they sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals,
for You were slain and have purchased for God by Your blood men out of every tribe and
tongue and people and nation,
C. RESURRECTION
Acts 13:33
That God has fully fulfilled this promise to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is also
written in the second Psalm, “You are My Son; this day have I begotten You.”
1 Corinthians 15:4
And that He was buried, and that He has been raised on the third day according to the
Scriptures;
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy
has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead,
D. ASCENSION
Acts 1:9
And when He had said these things, while they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a
cloud took Him away from their sight.
Acts 2:33-36
33. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of
the Holy Spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you both see and hear.
34. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at My right hand
35. Until I set Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”
36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and
Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified.
E. COMING BACK
1 Corinthians 11:26
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you declare the Lord's death until He
comes.
And await His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers
us from the wrath which is coming.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at His coming? Are
not even you?
So that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at
the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who are left
remaining unto the coming of the Lord, shall by no means precede those who have fallen
asleep;
And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body
be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
James 5:7
Therefore be long-suffering, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer
eagerly awaits the precious fruit of the earth, exercising long-suffering over it until it
receives the early and late rain.
Revelation 2:25
Nevertheless what you have hold fast until I come.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore
you will not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall by no means know at what hour I
will come upon you.
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies these things says, Yes, I come quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
V. CONCERNING OUR SALVATION

A. A SINNER MUST REPENT TO GOD
Acts 2:38
And Peter said to them, Repent and each one of you be baptized upon the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 20:21
Solemnly testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance unto God and faith in our Lord
Jesus.
Acts 26:20
But declared both to those in Damascus first and in Jerusalem and throughout all the
country of Judea and to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God, doing works
worthy of repentance.
B. A SINNER MUST BELIEVE IN CHRIST
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes
into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life.
Acts 16:31
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.
VI. CONCERNING THE CHURCH

A. COMPOSED OF ALL GENUINE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST AS THE BODY OF CHRIST
Ephesians 1:22-23
22. And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the
church,
Colossians 1:24
I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up on my part that which is lacking of
the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His Body, which is the church;
B. UNIVERSALLY ONE
Ephesians 4:4
One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
C. LOCALLY ONE - (THE EXPRESSION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST IS LOCALLY ONE

—ONE CHURCH, ONE CITY)
Revelation 1:11
Saying, What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to
Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to
Laodicea.
VII. CRUCIAL MINISTRY
“THE SPECIALITY OF THE CHURCH LIFE”, CHAPTER 1, PAGES 7-11
THE MYSTERIES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

I. MYSTERIES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
MYSTERY – – (MUSTERION); a secret into which one must be initiated and instructed (from mueo as
in Phil. 4:12 where Paul says “I have learned the secret” or “I have been initiated”). The incarnation of
Christ is a mystery (1 Tim. 3:16). Christ Himself (Col. 2:2), the church (Eph. 3:4-6), the kingdom of the
heavens (Matt. 13:11), the gospel (Eph. 6:19), the indwelling of Christ (Col. 1:26-27), and the coming
resurrection and transfiguration of the saints (1 Cor. 15:51-52) are all mysteries which were hidden in
times of the ages (Rom. 16:25; Eph. 3:5; Col. 1:26).
A. THE MYSTERY OF INCARNATION
1 Timothy 3:16
And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified
in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in
glory.
B. THE MYSTERY OF GOD
Romans 16:25-26
25. Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, that is, the proclamation of
times of the ages
26. But has now been manifested, and through the prophetic writings, according to the command of
the eternal God, has been made known to all the Gentiles for the obedience of faith;
1 Corinthians 4:1
A man should account us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Colossians 2:2
That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the
full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,
Revelation 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he is about to trumpet, then the mystery of
God is finished, as He has announced the good news to His own slaves the prophets.
The mystery of God kept silent in the ages is mainly of two aspects: one is the mystery of God
(Col. 2:2) which is Christ, Who is in the believers (Col. 1:26-27) as their life and their
everything, that they may become the members of His Body; another is the mystery of Christ
(Eph. 3:4-6) which is the church as His Body to express His fullness (Eph. 1:22-23). Therefore,
Christ and the church are the great mystery (Eph. 5:32)
An Exposition of New Testament Words, pg.182, W.L.
C. GOD'S WISDOM IN A MYSTERY

1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God
predestined before the the ages for our glory,
D. THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S WILL
Ephesians 1:9
Making known to us the 2mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed
in Himself,
In eternity God planned a will. This will was hidden in Him; hence, it was a mystery. In His
wisdom and prudence He has made this hidden mystery known to us through His revelation in
Christ, that is, through Christ's incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.
E. THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST
Ephesians 3:3-6
In Ephesians 3:4 Paul speaks of the mystery of Christ. The mystery of God in Colossians 2:2
(Gk.) is Christ, whereas the mystery of Christ here is the church. God is a mystery, and Christ, as
the embodiment of God to express Him, is the mystery of God. Christ is also a mystery, and the
church, as the Body of Christ to express Him is the mystery of Christ.
Colossians 4:3
Praying at the same time for us also, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the
mystery of Christ (because of which also I am bound),
F. THE GREAT MYSTERY
Ephesians 5:32
This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.
G. THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM
Matthew 13:11
And He answered and said to them, Because to you it has been given to know the mysteries of
the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.
Mark 4:11
And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the 1mystery of the kingdom of God, but
to those outside, all things are in parables,
Luke 8:10
And He said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the
rest they are in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not
understand.
God's economy concerning His kingdom was a hidden mystery, which has been unveiled to
the Slave-Savior's disciples. Yet since the nature and character of the kingdom of God are wholly
divine, and the elements through which it is brought forth are the divine life and the divine light
(see notes 3(1), 26(1), and 21(1)), the kingdom of God, especially in its reality as the genuine
church in this age (Rom. 14:17), is still entirely a mystery to the natural man. Divine revelation is
required to understand it.
H. THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL
Ephesians 6:19
And for me, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known in
boldness the mystery of the gospel,
I. THE MYSTERY OF THE FAITH
1 Timothy 3:9
Holding the 1mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
The faith here, as in 1:19 and 2 Tim. 4:7, is objective, referring to the things we believe in, the
things that constitute the gospel. The mystery of the faith is mainly Christ as the mystery of God
(Col. 2:2) and the church as the mystery of Christ (Eph. 3:4). A deacon in a local church should
hold the mystery of the faith with full understanding in a pure conscience for the Lord's
testimony.
J. THE MYSTERY OF THE INDWELLING CHRIST
Colossians 1:26-27
26. The mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from the generations but now has been
manifested to His saints;
27. To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
K. THE MYSTERY OF THE COMING RESURRECTION AND TRANSFIGURATION OF
THE SAINTS
51. Behold, I tell you a 1mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the
dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
The transfiguration, including the resurrection, of our corruptible body into an incorruptible
one (Phil. 3:21). This is mysterious to human understanding.
L. THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For it is the mystery of lawlessness that is now operating, but only until the one now restraining
goes out of the way.
CRUCIAL VERSES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

CONCERNING GOD'S ECONOMY
GENESIS
Gen. 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen. 1:26-27
26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he
them.
Gen. 2:7-12
7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.
8. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for
food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four
heads.
11. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12. And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Gen. 2:22
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man.
Gen. 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Gen. 4:26
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon
the name of the LORD.
Gen. 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters:
Gen. 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Gen. 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Gen. 12:7-8
7. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he
an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel
on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name
of the LORD.
Gen. 13:14-15
14. And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look
from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Gen. 13:17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Gen. 14:18
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high
God.
Gen. 15:6
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Gen. 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him,
I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Gen. 18:1-2
16. And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the
day;
17. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to
meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Gen. 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall
have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Gen. 26:25
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and
there Isaac's servants digged a well.
Gen. 28:10-12
10. And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
11. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the
stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold
the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Gen. 32:24
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Gen. 32:26, 28
26. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God
and with men, and hast prevailed.
Gen. 35:1-3, 7
29. And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el , and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that
appeared unto the when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
30. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods
that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
31. And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the
day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
7. And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when
he fled from the face of his brother.
Gen. 37:5-8
5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
6. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
7. For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and,
behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
8. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over
us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Gen. 45:5
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me
before you to preserve life.
Gen. 49:9-11
9. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion,
and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and
unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine,
and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Gen. 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day,
to save much people alive.
EXODUS
Exo. 3:14
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exo. 12:13
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will
pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exo. 16:15
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what
it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Exo. 17:6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there
shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
Israel.
Exo. 19:5-6
5. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt
speak unto the children of Israel.
Exo. 20:3-12
3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate
me;
6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that
taketh his name in vain.
8. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within
thy gates:
11. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.
Exo. 21:5-6
5. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6. Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post;
and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
Exo. 25:22
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between
the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in
commandment unto the children of Israel.
Exo. 30:23-25
23. Take thou also unto thee principal spices of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half
so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
24. And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
25. And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it
shall be an holy anointing oil.
Exo. 33:14-15
14. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
Exo. 40:33-36
33. And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court
gate. So Moses finished the work.
34. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
35. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and
the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
36. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their
journeys:
LEVITICUS
Lev. 1:1
Then Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Lev. 2:4-5
4. When you bring a meal offering baked in an oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5. And if your offering is a meal offering on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour mingled with oil,
unleavened.
NUMBERS
Num. 11:29
But Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that all Jehovah's people were prophets, that
Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!
Num. 13:30
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well
able to prevail.
Num. 14:24
But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit with him and has followed Me fully, I will bring
into the land into which he went, and his seed shall possess it.
Num. 17:8
And on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the
house of Levi had budded and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.
Num. 20:8
Take the rod, and gather the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their
eyes that it may yield its water; and you shall bring water out of the rock for them; so you shall give the
assembly and their cattle water to drink.
Num. 21:8-9
8. And Jehovah said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when
he sees it, shall live.
9. And Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, when he looked at
the bronze serpent, he lived.
Num. 23:21
He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel. Jehovah their God is with them,
And the shout of a king is among them.
Num. 24:5
How fair are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwelling places, O Israel!
DEUTERONOMY
Deut. 6:4-5
4. Hear, O Israel, Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one.

5. And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deut. 8:3
And He humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you the manna, which you had never known nor
had your fathers ever known, so that He might make you know that man lives not by bread alone, but
that man lives by everything proceeding from Jehovah's mouth.
Deut. 8:7-10
7. For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains,
flowing forth in valleys and in mountains;
8. A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of
honey;
9. A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones
are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper.
10. And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has
given to you.
Deut. 11:24
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads will be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from
the river, the River Euphrates, even unto the farmost sea will be your border.
Deut. 12:5-7
5. But unto the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes to put His name, unto His
6. And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the heave offering
of your hand and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock;
7. And there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you and your households shall rejoice in all your
undertakings, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.
Deut. 12:11-14
11. Then to the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, there you shall bring
all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave offering
of your hand and all your choice vows which you vow to Jehovah.
12. And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your
female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
13. Be careful that you do not offer up your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
14. But in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer up your burnt
offerings and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
Deut. 16:15-16
15. You shall keep the feast to Jehovah your God for seven days in the place which Jehovah will choose, for
Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings; therefore you shall be
nothing but joyful
16. Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will
Deut. 18:15, 18
15. Jehovah your God will raise up for you a Prophet from your midst, from among your brothers, like me;
you shall listen to Him;
18. I will raise up a Prophet for them from the midst of their brothers like you; and I will put My words in His
mouth, and He will speak to them all that I command Him.
Deut. 30:19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I have set before you life and death, blessing and
curse; therefore choose life that you and your seed may live,
JOSHUA
Josh. 4:7-9
7. You shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah;
when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. Thus these stones will be for a
memorial to the children of Israel forever.
8. And the children of Israel did as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones from the middle of the
Jordan, as Jehovah told Joshua to do, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. And
they brought them over with them to the place where they were to lodge, and they laid them down there.
9. Then Joshua erected twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests
who carried the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.
Josh. 4:20
And those twelve stones, which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua erected in Gilgal.
Josh. 5:12
And the manna ceased on that day, when they ate of the produce of the land; and there was no longer
manna for the children of Israel, but they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan that year.
Josh. 24:15
And if it seems wrong in your sight to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve,
either the gods from across the River, whom your fathers served, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
JUDGES
Judg. 9:9
But the olive tree said to them, Shall I leave my fatness, because of which God and men are honored by
me, and go to wave over the trees?
Judg. 9:11
But the fig tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the
trees?
Judg. 9:13
But the vine said to them, Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over
the trees?
RUTH
Ruth 1:16-17
16. But Ruth said, Do not entreat me to leave you and turn away from following after you. For wherever you
go, I will go, and wherever you dwell, I will dwell; and your people will be my people, and your God will
be my God.
17. Where you die, I will die; and there will I be buried. Jehovah do so to me, and more as well, if anything
but death parts me from you.
1 SAMUEL
1 Sam. 13:14
But now your kingdom will not continue. Jehovah has sought a man after His heart for Himself, and
Jehovah has appointed him as leader over His people; for you have not kept that which Jehovah
commanded you.
1 Sam. 15:22-23
22. And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As much as in obeying the voice
of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed, than the fat of rams.
23. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, And insubordination is like idolatry and teraphim. Because you
have rejected the word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king.
2 SAMUEL
2 Sam. 7:11-13
11. Even since the time when I commanded that there be judges over My people Israel; and I will give you
rest from all your enemies. Moreover Jehovah declares to you that Jehovah will make you a house.
12. When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you, which
will come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
13. It is he who will build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1 KINGS
1 Kings 3:7-9
7. And now, O Jehovah my God, You have made Your servant king in the place of David my father, though
I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
8. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people, whom You have chosen, a vast people that cannot be
numbered or counted for multitude.
9. Give therefore to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good
and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?
1 Kings 12:26-29
26. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
27. If this people go up to make sacrifices in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will
return to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will slay me and return to Rehoboam king of
Judah.
28. And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go
up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
29. And he set one in Bethel, and he put the other one in Dan.
1 Kings 19:11-12
11. And He said, Go out, and stand upon the mountain before Jehovah. And suddenly Jehovah passed by, and
a great, strong wind rent the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before Jehovah—Jehovah was not in
the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake—Jehovah was not in the earthquake.
12. And after the earthquake, a fire—Jehovah was not in the fire. And after the fire, a gentle, quiet voice.
2 CHRONICLES
2 Chron. 6:6
But I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My
people Israel.
EZRA
Ezra 1:1
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah
might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia; and he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:3
Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him; and let him go up to Jerusalem
which is in Judah, and let him build the house of Jehovah the God of Israel, (He is God), who is in
Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:5-6
5. Then the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose up, even
everyone whose spirit God had stirred up to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem.
6. And all those around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with
cattle and with precious things, besides all that was offered willingly.
Ezra 1:11
There were five thousand four hundred vessels of gold and silver in all. Sheshbazzar brought up all of
them with those of the captivity who were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
NEHEMIAH
Neh. 4:17-18
17. Those who built the wall and those who carried burdens took the loads with one hand doing the work and
with the other holding a weapon.
18. And as for the builders, each had his sword strapped to his side, and so they built; and he who sounded
the trumpet was beside me.
Neh. 8:10
Then he said to them, Go your way; eat the fat, and drink the sweet wine, and send portions to him for
whom nothing has been prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of
Jehovah is your strength.
ESTHER
Esth. 4:16
Go; assemble all the Jews who are to be found in Susa, and fast for me; and do not eat or drink for three
days, night or day; I also and my maids will fast in the same way. And so will I go in to the king, which
is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.
JOB
Job 23:12
As for the commandment of His lips, I have not turned back from it; I have treasured the words of His
mouth more than my apportioned food.
Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Job 42:5-6
5. I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye has seen You;
6. Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent In dust and ashes.
PSALMS
Psa. 2:7-9
7. I will recount the decree of Jehovah; He said to Me: You are my Son; Today I have begotten You.
8. Ask of Me, And I will give the nations as Your inheritance And the limits of the earth as Your possession.
9. You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.
Psa. 2:12
Kiss the Son Lest He be angry and you perish from the way; For His anger may suddenly be kindled.
Blessed are all those who take refuge in Him.
Psa. 8
10. O Jehovah our Lord, How excellent is Your name In all the earth, You who have set Your splendor above
the heavens!
11. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To
stop the enemy and the avenger.
12. When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
13. What is man, that You remember him, And the son of man, that You visit him?
14. For You have made him somewhat lower than angels And have crowned him with glory and honor.
15. For You have caused him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
16. All sheep and oxen, As well as the beasts of the field,
17. The birds of heaven and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
18. O Jehovah our Lord, How excellent is Your name In all the earth!
Psa. 16:5
Jehovah is the portion of My inheritance and of My cup; You maintain my lot.
Psa. 16:10-11
10. For You will not abandon My soul to Sheol, Nor let Your Holy One see the pit.
11. You will make known to Me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand there
are pleasures forever.
Psa. 19:1-3
12. The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament proclaims the work of His hands.
13. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night tells out knowledge.
14. There is no speech and there are no words; Their voice is not heard.
Psa. 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, Even much refined gold; Sweeter also than honey And the
drippings of the honeycomb.
Psa. 22:16
For dogs surround me; A congregation of evildoers encloses me; They pierce my hands and feet.
Psa. 23
15. Jehovah is my Shepherd; I will lack nothing.

16. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me to waters of rest.
17. He restores my soul; He guides me on the paths of righteousness For His name's sake.
18. Even though I walk Through the valley of the shadow of death, I do not fear evil, For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, They comfort me.
19. You spread a table before me In the presence of my adversaries; You anoint my head with oil; My cup
runs over.
20. Surely goodness and kindness will follow me All the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of
Jehovah For the length of my days.
Psa. 27:4
One thing I have asked from Jehovah; That do I seek: To dwell in the house of Jehovah All the days of
my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
Psa. 32:5
I acknowledged my sin to You, And I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions
to Jehovah. Then You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Psa. 34:8
Taste and see that Jehovah is good; Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
Psa. 36:8-9
8. They are saturated with the fatness of Your house, And You cause them to drink of the river of Your
pleasures.
9. For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
Psa. 42:1
As the hart pants After the streams of water, So my soul pants For You, O God.
Psa. 45:1-2
10. My heart overflows with a good matter; I speak what I have composed concerning the King. My tongue is
the pen of a ready writer.
11. You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You
forever.
Psa. 45:13
The King's daughter is all glorious within the royal abode; Her garment is a woven work inwrought with
gold.
Psa. 51
12. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your
compassions blot out my transgressions.
13. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me.
14. For I do know my transgressions, And my sin is before me continually.
15. Against You and You alone have I sinned, And I have done what is evil in Your sight. Therefore You are
righteous when You speak; You are clear when You judge.
16. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin did my mother conceive me.
17. Behold, You delight in truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part You would make known wisdom
to me.
18. Purge my sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
19. Let me hear gladness and joy, That the bones which You have broken may exalt.
20. Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.
21. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
22. Do not cast me from Your presence, And do not take the Spirit of Your holiness away from me.
23. Restore to me the gladness of Your salvation, And sustain me with a willing spirit.
24. I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be turned back to You.
25. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation; And my tongue will ring forth
Your righteousness.
26. O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth will declare Your praise.
27. For You do not delight in sacrifice; Otherwise I would offer it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
28. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
29. Do good in Your good pleasure unto Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.
30. Then You will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
Then they will offer sacrifices of bullocks upon Your altar.
Psa. 68:1
Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered; And let those who hate Him flee before Him.
Psa. 73:25-26
25. Whom do I have in heaven but You? And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth.
26. My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
Psa. 84
27. How lovely are Your tabernacles, Jehovah of hosts!

28. My soul longs, indeed even faints, For the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out For the living
God.
29. Even the sparrow has found a home; And the swallow, a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young;
Your altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.
30. Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will yet be praising You. Selah.
31. Blessed is the man whose strength is in You; In whose heart are the highways to Zion.
32. Passing through the valley of Baca, They make it a spring; Indeed the early rain covers it with blessings.
33. They go from strength to strength; Each appears before God in Zion.
34. O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
35. Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed.
36. For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
37. For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield; Jehovah gives grace and glory; He does not withhold anything
good From those who walk uprightly.
38. O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man Who trusts in You.
Psa. 88:9
My eye wastes away at the affliction; I have called out to You, O Jehovah, every day; I have spread out
my hands to You.
Psa. 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go beforeYour
face.
Psa. 90:1
O Lord, You have been our dwelling place In all generations.
Psa. 92:12-14
12. The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree; He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13. Planted in the house of Jehovah, They will flourish in the courts of our God.
14. They will still bring forth fruit in old age; They will be full of sap and green;
Psa. 99:6
Moses and Aaron among His priests, And Samuel among those who called on His name— They called
upon Jehovah, And He answered them.
Psa. 103:6-7
6. Jehovah executes righteous acts, And judgments for all who are oppressed.
7. He made His ways known to Moses; His acts, to the children of Israel.
Psa. 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psa. 106:15
And He gave them their request, But He sent leanness into their soul.
Psa. 110:1
Jehovah declares to my Lord, Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies Your footstool.
Psa. 110:4
Jehovah has sworn, And He will not change: You are a Priest forever According to the order of
Melchizedek.
Psa. 116:2
Because He inclines His ear to me; Therefore I will call upon Him all my days.
Psa. 116:12-13
12. What shall I return to Jehovah For all His benefits toward me?
13. I will take up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of Jehovah.
Psa. 119:11
In my heart I have treasured up Your word That I might not sin against You.
Psa. 119:103
Psa. 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light for my path.
Psa. 119:130
The opening of Your words gives light, Imparting understanding to the simple.
Psa. 127:1
Unless Jehovah builds the house, Those who build it labor in vain. Unless Jehovah keeps the city, The
guard watches in vain.
Psa. 132:3-5
3. I shall not go into the tent of my house; I shall not go up onto the couch of my bed;
4. I shall not give sleep to my eyes, Slumber to my eyelids;
5. Until I find a place for Jehovah, A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.
Psa. 133
6. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell in unity!
7. It is like the fine oil upon the head That ran down upon the beard, Upon Aaron's beard, That ran down to
the hem of his garments;
8. Like the dew of Hermon That came down upon the mountains of Zion. For there Jehovah commanded the
blessing: Life forever.
PROVERBS
Prov. 3:5-6
5. Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, And do not rely on your own understanding;
6. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.
Prov. 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, Which shines brighter and brighter until the full
day.
Prov. 4:23
Keep your heart with all vigilance, For from it are the issues of life.
Prov. 8:17
I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.
Prov. 11:25
The blessing soul will prosper, And he who waters will also be watered himself.
Prov. 13:20
He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be troubled.
Prov. 15:4
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
Prov. 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a
city.
Prov. 20:27
The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the innermost parts of the inner being.
Prov. 23:23
Buy truth, and do not sell it; Buy wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Prov. 25:28
Like a city that is broken down, without walls, Is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Prov. 28:13
He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will obtain
mercy.
Prov. 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people cast of restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.
ECCLESIASTES
Eccl. 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its own time; also He has put eternity in their heart, yet so that man
does not find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Eccl. 4:9-12
9. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor;
10. For if they fall, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls and does not have another
to lift him up!
11. Again, if two lie together, they keep warm. But how can one be warm alone?
12. And while a man may prevail against the one, the two will withstand him; and a threefold cord is not
quickly broken.
Eccl. 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw
near when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
SONG OF SONGS
S.S. 1:2-4
3. Your anointing oils have a pleaseant fragrance; Your name is like ointment poured forth; Therefore the
virgins love you.
4. Draw me; we will run after you— The king has brought me into his chambers— We will be glad and
S.S. 1:6-8
6. Do not look at me, because I am black, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry
with me; They made me keeper of the vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept.
7. Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock? Where do you make it lie down at
noon? For why should I be like one who turns away From beside the flocks of your companions?
8. If you yourself do not know, You fairest among women, Go forth on the footsteps of the flocks, And
pasture your young goats By the shepherds' tents.
S.S. 2:14
My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, Let me see your countenance, Let me
hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your countenance is lovely.
S.S. 5:10-16
10. My beloved is dazzling white yet ruddy, Distinguished among ten thousand.
11. His head is the finest gold; His locks are wavy, As black as a raven.
12. His eyes are like doves Beside the streams of water, Bathed in milk, Fitly set.
13. His cheeks are like a bed of spices, Mounds of sweetly fragrant herbs; His lips are lilies, Dripping with
liquid myrrh.
14. His hands are tubes of gold Set with beryl; His belly is an ivory work, Overlaid with sapphires.
15. His legs are pillars of white marble, Set upon bases of gold; His appearance is like Lebanon, As excellent
as the cedars.
16. His mouth is sweetness itself, And he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
daughters of Jerusalem.
S.S. 6:4
You are as beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, As lovely as Jerusalem, As terrible as an army with banners.
S.S. 6:10
Who is this woman who looks forth like the dawn, As beautiful as the moon, As clear as the sun, As
terrible as an army with banners?
ISAIAH
Isa. 1:18
Come now and let us reason together, Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, They will be as
white as snow; Though they are as red as crimson, They will be like wool.
Isa. 2:5
House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
Isa. 4:2
In that day the Shoot of Jehovah will be beauty and glory, and the Fruit of the earth, excellence and
splendor, to those of Israel who have escaped.
Isa. 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son,
and she will call his name Immanuel.
Isa. 9:6
For a child is born to us, A son is given to us; And the government Is upon His shoulders; And His name
Isa. 11:1-2
17. Then a twig will come forth from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
18. And the Spirit of Jehovah will rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of
counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
Isa. 12
19. And you will say in that day, I will praise You, O Jehovah. You were angry with me; But Your anger has
turned and You have consoled me.
20. God is now my salvation; I will trust and not dread; For Jah Jehovah is my strength and song, And He has
become my salvation.
22. And you will say in that day, Praise Jehovah; call upon His name! Make His deeds known among the
peoples; Remind them that His name is exalted.
23. Sing to Jehovah, for He has done something majestic! Let it be made known in all the earth!
24. Cry out and give a ringing shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
Isa. 14:12-16
12. How you have fallen from heaven, Daystar, son of the dawn! How you have been hewn down to earth,
You who made nations fall prostrate!
13. But you, you said in your heart: I will ascend to heaven; Above the stars of God I will exalt my throne.
And I will sit upon the mount of assembly On the sides of the north.
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
15. But you will be brought down to Sheol, To the sides of the pit.
16. Those who see you will gaze at you; They will ponder concerning you, asking, Is this the man who made
the earth tremble, The one who shook kingdoms;
Isa. 26:3
You will keep the steadfast of mind In perfect peace Because he trusts in You.
Isa. 26:9
My soul desires You in the night; Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You at the dawn; For when Your
judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa. 28:9-10, 13
9. Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he instruct with the report? Those weaned from milk?
Those drawn from the breasts?
10. For his words are: Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; Line upon line, line upon line; Here a little, there a
little.
13. Therefore Jehovah's word to them will be: Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; Line upon line, line upon line;
Here a little, there a little; That they may go and stumble backwards, And be broken, snared, and taken.
Isa. 30:26
And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like
the light of seven days, On the day when Jehovah binds up the breach of His people And heals the
wound left from His stroke.
Isa. 40:31
Yet those who wait on Jehovah will renew their strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles;
They will run and will not faint; They will walk and will not become weary.
Isa. 45:11
Thus says Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel and the One who formed him, Ask Me about the things to
come concerning My sons, And concerning the work of My hands, command Me.
Isa. 45:18
For thus says Jehovah, Who created the heavens— He is the God Who formed the earth and made it; He
established it; He did not create it waste, But He formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah and there is no
one else;
Isa. 50:4
The Lord Jehovah has given me The tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to sustain the
weary with a word. He awakens me morning by morning; He awakens my ear To hear as an instructed
one.
Isa. 53:1-10
14. Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
15. For He grew up like a tender plant before Him, And like a root out of dry ground. He has
no attracting form nor majesty that we should look upon Him, Nor beautiful appearance that we should
desire Him.
16. He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from
whom men hide their faces, He was despised; and we did not esteem Him.
17. Surely He has borne our sicknesses, And carried our sorrows; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God and afflicted.
18. But He was pierced because of our transgressions; He was crushed because of our iniquities; The
chastening for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we have been healed.
19. We all like sheep have gone astray; Each of us has turned to his own way, And Jehovah has caused the
iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
20. He was oppressed, and it was He who was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is
led to the slaughter And like a sheep that is dumb before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
21. By oppression and by judgment He was taken away; And as for his generation, who among them had the
thought That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people to whom the
stroke was due?
22. And they assigned His grave with the wicked, But with a rich man in His death, Although He had done no
violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
23. But Jehovah was pleased to crush Him, to afflict Him with grief. If You make His soul a trespass
offering, He will see a seed, He will extend His days, And the pleasure of Jehovah will prosper in His
hand.
Isa. 54:5
For your Maker is your Husband; Jehovah of hosts is His name. And the Holy One of Israel is your
Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
Isa. 55:1
Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, And you who have no money; Come, buy and eat; Yes,
come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
Isa. 55:11
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me vainly, But it will
accomplish what I delight in, And it will prosper in the matter to which I have sent it.
Isa. 59:2
But your iniquities have become a separation Between you and your God, And your sins have
hidden His face From you so that He does not hear.
Isa. 61:1-2
24. The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me, Because Jehovah has anointed Me To bring good news to the
afflicted; He has sent Me to bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
25. To proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who
mourn;
Isa. 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, Your sons will marry you; And with the joy of the bridegroom
over the bride Your God will rejoice over you.
Isa. 64:6
For all of us became like him who is unclean, And all our righteousnesses are like a soiled garment; And
we all wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away.
Isa. 64:7
And there is no one who calls upon Your name, Who stirs himself up to lay hold of You; For You have
hidden Your face from us And have consumed us by our iniquities.
Isa. 66:1-2
26. Thus says Jehovah, Heaven is My throne, And the earth the footstool for My feet. Where then is the
house that you will build for Me, And where is the place of My rest?
27. For all these things My hand has made, And so all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah.
But to this kind of man will I look, to him who is poor And of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My
word.
JEREMIAH
Jer. 2:2
kindness of your youth, The love of your bridal days, When you followed after Me in the wilderness, In
a land that was not sown.
Jer. 2:13
For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To
hew out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, Which hold no water.
Jer. 13:23
Can a Cushite change his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Then you also may be able to do good, Who are
accustomed to do evil.
Jer. 15:16
Your words were found and I ate them, And Your word became to me The joy and rejoicing of my
heart, For I am called by Your name, Jehovah, God of hosts.
Jer. 17:13
You are the hope of Israel, O Jehovah; All who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who turn away
from Me will be written in the earth Because they forsook Jehovah, The fountain of living waters.
Jer. 23:5-6
5. Behold, days are coming, Declares Jehovah, When I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot; And He
will reign as King and act prudently And will execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
6. In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be
called, Jehovah our righteousness.
Jer. 23:29
Is not My word thus—like fire, declares Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Jer. 24:7
And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah; and they will be My people, and I will be
their God; for they will return to Me with their whole heart.
Jer. 31:2
Thus says Jehovah, The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Even Israel,
when I went to give him rest.
Jer. 31:12
And they will come and sing in the height of Zion, And they will flow forth to the goodness of Jehovah
— To the grain and to the new wine and to the fresh oil And to the young of the flock and of the herd;
And their soul will be like a watered garden, And they will not languish any more.
Jer. 31:31-34
31. Behold, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah,
32. Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by their hand to bring them
out from the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was their Husband, declares
Jehovah.
33. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Jehovah: I
will put My law within them and write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My
people.
34. And they will no longer teach, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah;
for all of them will know Me, from the little one among them even to the great one among them, declares
Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.
LAMENTATIONS
Lam. 3:22-24
22. It is Jehovah's lovingkindness that we are not consumed, For His compassions do not fail.
23. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.
24. Jehovah is my portion, says my soul; Therefore I hope in Him.
Lam. 3:55-56
56. You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lam. 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, Comparable to fine gold, How they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, The
work of the hands of a potter.
EZEKIEL
Ezek. 1:5-12
5. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance;
they had the likeness of a man.
6. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they
sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and
their wings.
9. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight
forward.
10. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side:
and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to
another, and two covered their bodies.
12. And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not
when they went.
Ezek. 3:1-4
13. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of
Israel.
14. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
15. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee.
Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
16. And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto
them.
Ezek. 6:8
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezek. 36:24-29
24. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into
your own land.
25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all
your idols, will I cleanse you.
26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my
judgments, and do them.
28. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your
God.
29. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay
no famine upon you.
Ezek. 37:1-10
30. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in
the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
31. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and,
lo, they were very dry.
32. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
33. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of
the LORD.
34. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall
live:
35. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath
in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
36. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and
the bones came together, bone to his bone.
37. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above:
but there was no breath in them.
38. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
39. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon
their feet, an exceeding great army.
Ezek. 43:7
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I
will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no
more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their
high places.
Ezek. 47:1-5
40. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the
threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came
down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
41. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the
utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
42. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and
he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
43. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again
he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
44. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
Ezek. 47:7-9
7. Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on
the other.
8. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go
into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
9. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for
they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
DANIEL
Dan. 1:12
Please test your servants for ten days, and let vegetables be given to us to eat and water to drink.
Dan. 1:17
Now as for these four children, God gave them knowledge and insight in all learning and wisdom; and
Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Dan. 2:36-45
36. This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
37. You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of the heavens has given kingship, power, and strength
and glory.
38. And wherever the children of men, the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky dwell, He has
given them into your hand and has made you ruler over all of them. You are the head of gold.
39. And after you another kingdom will arise, inferior to you; and there will be another kingdom, a third one,
of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
40. And there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters everything;
and like iron that smashes all these, it will crush and smash.
41. And in that you saw the feet and the toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom will be a
confused mass; but there will be some of the firmness of iron in it, for you saw the iron mixed with the
earthenware clay.
42. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so some of the kingdom will be strong
and part of it will be fragile.
43. And in that you saw the iron mixed with the earthenware clay, they will mix themselves with the seed of
men, but they will not cleave to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
44. And in the days of those kings the God of the heavens will raise up a kingdom which will never be
destroyed, and its reign will not be left to another people; it will crush and put an end to all these
kingdoms; and it will stand forever.
45. Inasmuch as you saw that out of the mountain a stone was cut without hands and that it crushed the iron,
the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will happen
afterwards; and the dream is certain, and its interpretation trustworthy.
Dan. 3:25
He answered and said, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not
harmed. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
Dan. 5:12
Because an excellent spirit and knowledge and insight, and the interpretation of dreams, and declaring
of riddles, and the resolving of problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.
Let Daniel now be called, and he will declare the interpretation.
Dan. 6:3
Then this Daniel distinguished himself among the chief ministers and satraps because in him there was
an excellent spirit, and the king considered setting him over the whole kingdom.
Dan. 9:24-27
24. Seventy weeks are apportioned for your people and for your holy city, to close the transgression, and to
make an end of sins, and to make propitiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages,
and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
25. Know therefore and comprehend: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the
time of Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with street and
trench, even in distressful times.
26. And after sixty-two weeks Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of the prince
who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it will be with a flood, and even to
the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
27. And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will
cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and will replace the sacrifice and the oblation with
abominations of the desolator, even until the complete destruction that has been determined is poured out
upon the desolator.
Dan. 11:32
And with his smooth words he will cause those who act wickedly toward the covenant to be profane; but
the people who know their God will show strength and take action.
Dan. 12:3
And those who have insight will shine like the shining of the heavenly expanse, and those who turn
many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
HOSEA
Hosea 2:19-20
19. And I will betroth you to Myself forever; Indeed I will betroth you to Myself In righteousness and justice
And in lovingkindness and compassions;
JOEL
Joel 2:12-13
12. Yet even now, declares Jehovah, Turn to Me with all your heart And with fasting and weeping and
mourning;
13. And rend your hearts, And not your garments, And turn to Jehovah your God, For He is gracious and
compassionate, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, And He repents of the evil.
Joel 2:28
And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, And your sons and your daughters will prophesy;
Your old men will dream dreams; Your young men will see visions.
Joel 2:32
And all who call on the name of Jehovah will be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem will be an
escape, As Jehovah has said, Even for the remnant whom Jehovah calls.
AMOS
Amos 6:1
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion And to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, The
distinguished among the chief of the nations, To whom the house of Israel comes!
JONAH
Jonah 1:17
And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah up, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for
three days and three nights.
MICAH
Micah 5:2
(But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, So little to be among the thousands of Judah, From you there will
come forth to Me He who is to be Ruler in Israel; And His goings forth are from ancient times, From the
days of eternity.)
HABAKKUK
Hab. 2:4
Behold, being puffed up, his soul is not upright within him, But the righteous one will live by his faith.
Hab. 2:14
For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah As water covers the sea.
ZEPHANIAH
Zeph. 3:9
For then I will change the language of the peoples Into a pure language That they may all call upon the
name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one accord.
HAGGAI
Hag. 1:7-9
7. Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Consider your ways.

8. Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it and will be
glorified, says Jehovah.
9. You looked for much, and behold, it amounted to little; and when you brought it home, I blew on it.
Why? declares Jehovah of hosts. Because of My house that lies waste, and you each run to your own
house.
Hag. 1:14
And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of
Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they
came and did work in the house of Jehovah of hosts their God,
Hag. 2:7
And I will shake all the nations, and what is desirable of all the nations will come; and I will fill this
house with glory, says Jehovah of hosts.
ZECHARIAH
Zech. 4:6
And he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by
might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of hosts
Zech. 4:9-10
9. The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it; and you will
know that Jehovah of hosts has sent Me to you.
10. For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice when they see the plummet in the
hand of Zerubbabel; they are the eyes of Jehovah running to and fro on the whole earth.
Zech. 8:21-23
21. And the inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, Let us go at once to entreat the favor of Jehovah and
to seek Jehovah of hosts; and the other: I will go, too.
22. Indeed, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat
the favor of Jehovah.
23. Thus says Jehovah of hosts, In those days, from all the languages of the nations, ten men will take hold,
indeed, they will take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that
God is with you.
Zech. 12:1
The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the
heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him,
Zech. 12:10
And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of
supplications; and they will look upon Me, whom they have pierced; and they will wail over Him with
wailing as for an only son and cry bitterly over Him with bitter crying as for a firstborn son.
Zech. 13:1
In that day there will be an opened fountain for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
for sin and for impurity.
MALACHI
Mal. 2:15-16
15. But did He not make them one? And the remnant of the Spirit was His. And why the one? He sought the
seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one be treacherous to the wife of his youth.
16. For I hate divorce, says Jehovah, the God of Israel; and he who does it behaves in violence, says Jehovah
of hosts. Take heed then to your spirit, and do not be treacherous.
Mal. 4:2
But unto you who fear My name will the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and you
will go forth and leap about like well-fed calves.
MATTHEW
Matt. 1:20
But while he pondered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for that which has been begotten in her is
of the Holy Spirit.
Matt. 1:23
Matt. 3:15
But Jesus answered and said to him, Permit it for now, for it is fitting for us in this way to fulfill all
righteousness. Then he permitted Him.
Matt. 3:16
And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were
opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.
Matt. 3:17
And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My
delight.
Matt. 4:4
But He answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that
proceeds out through the mouth of God.”
Matt. 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
Matt. 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matt. 5:20
For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by
no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Matt. 5:48
You therefore shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matt. 6:33
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matt. 7:14
Because narrow is the gate and constricted is the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it.
Matt. 9:12-13
12. Now when He heard this, He said, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those
who are ill.
13. But go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice,” for I did not come to call
the righteous, but sinners.
Matt. 9:15-17
15. And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bridechamber cannot mourn as long as the Bridegroom
is with them, can they? But days will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them,
16. No one puts a patch of unfulled cloth on an old garment, for that which fills it up pulls away
from the garment, and a worse tear is made.
17. Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wineskins burst, and the wine
pours out, and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are
preserved.
Matt. 11:28
Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matt. 12:28
But if I, by the Spirit of God, cast out the demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Matt. 13:3
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow.
Matt. 16:16
And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Matt. 16:18
Matt. 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow Me.
Matt. 18:20
For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst.
Matt. 18:17-18
17. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to hear the church also, let
him be to you just like the Gentile and the tax collector.
18. Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in heaven, and
Matt. 19:8
He said to them, Moses, because of your hardness of heart, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from
the beginning it has not been so.
Matt. 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the
nations, and then the end will come.
Matt. 28:19-20
19. Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the
days until the consummation of the age.
MARK
Mark 2:8
And immediately Jesus, knowing fully in His spirit that they were reasoning this way within themselves,
said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for
many.
Mark 12:30
“And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your
Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned.
LUKE
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:46-47
46. And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,

47. And my spirit has exulted in God my Savior;
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to announce the gospel to the poor; He
has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away in
release those who are oppressed,
Luke 10:39
And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and was listening to His word.
Luke 10:42
But there is need of one thing, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from
her.
Luke 17:21
Nor will they say, Behold, here it is! or, There! For behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.
Luke 24:26
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into His glory?
Luke 24:27
And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, He explained to them clearly in all the Scriptures
the things concerning Himself.
Luke 24:32
And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning within us while He was speaking to us on the
road, while He was opening to us the Scriptures?
Luke 24:44-45
44. And He said to them, These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that
all the things written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and Psalms concerning Me must be
fulfilled.
45. Then He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures;
Luke 24:49
And behold, I send forth the promise of My Father upon you; but as for you, stay in the city until you
put on power from on high.
JOHN
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:4
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 1:12
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who
John 1:13
Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has
declared Him.
John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of
the world!
John 1:42
John 1:51
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John 2:21
But He spoke of the temple of His body.
John 3:6
John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
John 3:29-30
John 4:14
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I
will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up into eternal life.
John 4:24
John 5:19
Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing from Himself
except what He sees the Father doing, for whatever that One does, these things the Son also does in like
manner.
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life, and
does not come into judgment but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:30
I can do nothing from Myself; as I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own
will but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 5:39-40
39. You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these
that testify concerning Me.
40. Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
John 6:35
John 6:48
John 6:57
As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live
because of Me.
John 6:63
and are life.
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life,
John 7:37-39
37. Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone
thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
38. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of
living water.
39. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive;
John 8:12
John 8:16
But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me.
John 8:29
And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to
Him.
John 8:32
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from
the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he
speaks it out of his own possessions; for he is a liar and the father of it.
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.
John 10:10b
I have come that they may have life and may have it abundantly.
John 10:30
John 11:25
live;
John 12:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if
it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.
John 14:6
Me.
John 14:9-10
9. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? He
who has seen Me has seen the Father; how is it that you say, Show us the Father?
10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I
do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works.
John 14:17-20
19. Yet a little while and the world beholds Me no longer, but you behold Me; because I live, you
also shall live. In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
John 14:26
But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things
and remind you of all the things which I have said to you.
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman.
John 15:4-5
4. Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so
neither can you unless you abide in Me.
5. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I set you that you should go forth and bear fruit
and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you.
John 16:8-10
8. And when He comes, He will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and
concerning judgment:
9. Concerning sin, because they do not believe into Me;
10. And concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer behold Me;
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Him whom You have sent,
Jesus Christ.
John 17:17
Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
John 17:21
That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that
John 17:23
I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have
John 19:34
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.
John 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 21:15-17
My lambs.
ACTS
Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both
in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 2:17a, 21
17. “And it shall be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh,…
21. And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Acts 2:36
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this
Jesus whom you have crucified.
Acts 2:42
And they continued steadfastly in the teaching and the fellowship of the apostles, in the breaking of
bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:46-47
46. And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from
house to house, they partook of their food with exultation and simplicity of heart,
47. Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added together day by day those
who were being saved.
Acts 7:55-56
55. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and
Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
56. And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand
of God.
Acts 8:1
And Saul approved of his killing. And there occurred in that day a great persecution against the church
which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the
apostles.
Acts 9:4-5
4. And he fell on the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting
Me?
5. And he said, Who are You, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute.
Acts 13:1
Now there were in Antioch, in the local church, prophets and teachers: Barnabas and Simeon, who was
called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 14:23
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church and had prayed with fastings, they
committed them to the Lord into whom they had believed.
Acts 16:31
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.
Acts 16:6-7
6. And they passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy
Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
7. And when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the Spirit of Jesus did not
allow them.
Acts 20:21
Solemnly testifying both to the Jews and to Greeks repentance unto God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 20:28
shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood.
Acts 20:32
And now I commit you to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to
give you the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.
Acts 22:16
And now, why do you delay? Rise up and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on His name.
Acts 23:1
And Paul, looking intently at the Sanhedrin, said, Men, brothers, I have conducted myself in all good
conscience before God until this day.
Acts 24:16
Because of this I also exercise myself to always have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
Acts 26:16-18
16. But rise up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as
a minister and a witness both of the things in which you have seen Me and of the things in which
I will appear to you;
17. Delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
18. To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God,
that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been
sanctified by faith in Me.
Acts 26:19
ROMANS
Rom. 1:3-4
3. Concerning His Son, who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh,
4. Who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the
resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;
Rom. 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make
mention of you always in my prayers,
Rom. 1:17
For the righteousness of God is revealed in it out of faith to faith, as it is written, “But the righteous shall
have life and live by faith.”
Rom. 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom. 4:17
(As it is written, “I have appointed you a father of many nations”) in the sight of God whom he believed,
who gives life to the dead and calls the things not being as being.
Rom. 5:10
For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be
Rom. 5:12
Therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin, death; and thus death
passed on to all men because all have sinned—
Rom. 5:14
But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of
Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him who was to come.
Rom. 5:17
For if by the offense of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Rom. 6:3-4
3. Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized
into His death?
4. We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as
newness of life.
Rom. 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be
annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;
Rom. 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members
as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to
righteousness unto sanctification.
Rom. 6:22
Rom. 6:23
Rom. 7:4
So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that you
might be joined to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.
Rom. 7:6
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we
serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
Rom. 7:21
I find then the law with me who wills to do the good, that is, the evil is present with me.
Rom. 8:2
Rom. 8:3
For that which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in
the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom. 8:4
That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the
flesh but according to the spirit.
Rom. 8:6
Rom. 8:10
But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom. 8:11
And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus
from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
Rom. 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you must die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of
the body, you will live.
Rom. 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Rom. 8:15
For you have not received a spirit of slavery bringing you into fear again, but you have received a spirit
of sonship in which we cry, Abba, Father!
Rom. 8:16
Rom. 8:26
Moreover, in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our weakness, for we do not know for
what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered.
Rom. 8:28-29
28. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are
called according to His purpose.
29. Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;
Rom. 9:21
Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel unto honor
and another unto dishonor?
Rom. 9:23
In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before
Rom. 10:12-13
12. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all
who call upon Him;
13. For “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Rom. 10:17
So faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Rom. 11:16
Now if the dough offered as the firstfruits is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches
are also.
Rom. 11:24
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into
the cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their
own olive tree!
Rom. 11:29
For the gracious gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Rom. 12:1
I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom. 12:2
And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you
may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
Rom. 12:11
Do not be slothful in zeal, but be burning in spirit, serving the Lord.
Rom. 14:1
Now him who is weak in faith receive, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his
considerations.
Rom. 14:3
He who eats, let him not despise him who does not eat; and he who does not eat, let him not judge him
who eats, for God has received him.
Rom. 14:8
For whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we
live or we die, we are the Lord's.
Rom. 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit.
Rom. 15:7
Therefore receive one another, as Christ also received you to the glory of God.
Rom. 15:16
That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order
that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
Rom. 16:1
I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is in Cenchrea,
1 CORINTHIANS
1 Cor. 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, the called
saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who is theirs and
ours:
1 Cor. 1:9
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Cor. 1:24
1 Cor. 1:30
1 Cor. 2:2
For I did not determine to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and this One crucified.
1 Cor. 2:7-8
7. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God
predestined before the ages for our glory,
8. Which none of the rulers of this age have known; for if they had known, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory;
1 Cor. 2:10
But to us God has revealed them through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of
God.
1 Cor. 2:11
For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? In the same
way, the things of God also no one has known except the Spirit of God.
1 Cor. 3:9
1 Cor. 3:11
1 Cor. 3:16
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Cor. 5:7
Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our Passover,
Christ, also has been sacrificed.
1 Cor. 6:17
1 Cor. 6:20
For you have been bought with a price. So then glorify God in your body.
1 Cor. 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the
world and that there is no God but one.
1 Cor. 10:2
And all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1 Cor. 10:3
1 Cor. 10:4
rock was Christ.
1 Cor. 10:13
No temptation has taken you except that which is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not
allow that you be tempted beyond what you are able, but will, with the temptation, also make the way
out, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Cor. 11:3
But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and
God is the head of Christ.
1 Cor. 12:3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed; and no
one can say, Jesus is Lord! except in the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor. 12:12
For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are
one body, so also is the Christ.
1 Cor. 12:13
For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or
free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.
1 Cor. 14:26
1 Cor. 14:31
For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
1 Cor. 15:45
Spirit.
2 CORINTHIANS
2 Cor. 1:21-22
21. But the One who firmly attaches us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God,
22. He who has also sealed us and given the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
2 Cor. 2:10
But whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for also what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven
anything, it is for your sake in the person of Christ;
2 Cor. 2:12-13
12. Furthermore, when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was open to me in the
Lord,
13. I had no rest in my spirit, for I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went
forth into Macedonia.
2 Cor. 3:6
Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the
Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Cor. 3:16
But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
2 Cor. 3:17
2 Cor. 3:18
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
2 Cor. 4:6
Because the God who said, Out of darkness light shall shine, is the One who shined in our hearts to
illuminate the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Cor. 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out
of us.
2 Cor. 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being
renewed day by day.
2 Cor. 5:10
For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the
things done through the body according to what he has practiced, whether good or bad.
2 Cor. 5:14-15
14. For the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore
all died;
15. And He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died
for them and has been raised.
2 Cor. 5:16
So then we, from now on, know no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ
according to the flesh, yet now we know Him so no longer.
2 Cor. 5:17
So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, they have
become new.
2 Cor. 5:21
Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in
Him.
2 Cor. 6:14
Do not become dissimilarly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and
lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Cor. 6:17
Therefore “come out from their midst and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean;
and I will welcome you”;
2 Cor. 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a
pure virgin to Christ.
2 Cor. 12:9
And He has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness. Most
gladly therefore I will rather boast in my weaknesses that the power of Christ might tabernacle over me.
2 Cor. 13:5
Test yourselves whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not realize about yourselves
that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disapproved?
2 Cor. 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
all.
GALATIANS
Gal. 1:4
Who gave Himself for our sins that He might rescue us out of the present evil age according to the will
of our God and Father,
Gal. 1:15-16
grace,
Gal. 2:20
the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave
Himself up for me.
Gal. 3:2
This only I wish to learn from you, Did you receive the Spirit out of the works of law or out of the
hearing of faith?
Gal. 3:5
He therefore who bountifully supplies to you the Spirit and does works of power among you, does He do
it out of the works of law or out of the hearing of faith?
Gal. 3:14
In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Gal. 3:24
So then the law has become our child-conductor unto Christ that we might be justified out of faith.
Gal. 3:27
For as many as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal. 4:4-6
4. But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under
law,
5. That He might redeem those under law that we might receive the sonship.
6. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba,
Father!
Gal. 4:19
My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you,
Gal. 5:16
But I say, Walk by the Spirit and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Gal. 5:24
But they who are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts.
Gal. 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Gal. 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has
been crucified to me and I to the world.
Gal. 6:15
For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation is what matters.
Gal. 6:18
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
EPHESIANS
Eph. 1:4
Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before
Him in love,
Eph. 1:5
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
will,
Eph. 1:9-10
9. Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed
in Himself,
10. Unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the
heavens and the things on the earth, in Him;
Eph. 1:13-14
13. In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also
believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
14. Who is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession, to the
praise of His glory.
Eph. 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the full knowledge of Him,
Eph. 1:22-23
22. And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the
church,
Eph. 2:1
And you, though dead in your offenses and sins,
Eph. 2:5
Even when we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
Eph. 2:15
Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in
Himself into one new man, so making peace,
Eph. 2:18
Eph. 2:22
Eph. 3:4
By which, in reading it, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,
Eph. 3:5
Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His
holy apostles and prophets in spirit,
Eph. 3:8
To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ as the gospel
Eph. 3:9-10
9. And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the
10. In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of
God might be made known through the church,
Eph. 3:11
According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Eph. 3:16
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through
His Spirit into the inner man,
Eph. 3:17
That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in
love,
Eph. 3:19
And to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of
God.
Eph. 4:4-6
4. One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6. One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Eph. 4:11-12
11. And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some
as shepherds and teachers,
12. For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of
Christ,
Eph. 4:23
Eph. 4:24
And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the
reality.
Eph. 5:18-19
18. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in spirit,
19. Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with
Eph. 5:25
Eph. 5:32
This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.
Eph. 6:17-18
17. And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God,
18. By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all
PHILIPPIANS
Phil. 1:19
For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of
the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Phil. 1:20
According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all
boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through
death.
Phil. 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Phil. 1:27
Only, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether coming and seeing
you or being absent, I may hear of the things concerning you, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one
soul striving together along with the faith of the gospel,
Phil. 2:1-2
19. If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of
spirit, if any tenderheartedness and compassions,
20. Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking
the one thing,
Phil. 2:8
And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death,
and that the death of a cross.
Phil. 2:17
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
rejoice, and I rejoice together with you all.
Phil. 2:20-21
Phil. 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, for me it is not irksome, but
for you it is safe.
Phil. 3:3
For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have
no confidence in the flesh,
Phil. 3:8
But moreover I also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I
may gain Christ
Phil. 3:9
And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is out of the law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is out of God and based on faith,
Phil. 3:10
To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed
to His death,
Phil. 3:12
Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for
which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Phil. 3:13
Brothers, I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which
are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Phil. 3:14-15
14. I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called me upward.
15. Let us therefore, as many as are full-grown, have this mind; and if in anything you are otherwise
minded, this also God will reveal to you.
Phil. 3:21
Phil. 4:4
Phil. 4:12-13
12. I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have
learned the secret both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to lack.
13. I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me.
Phil. 4:23
COLOSSIANS
Col. 1:12
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the
light;
Col. 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation,
Col. 1:18
And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He
Himself might have the first place in all things;
Col. 1:19
For in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell
Col. 1:25
Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God, which was given to me for you, to
complete the word of God,
Col. 1:27
Col. 2:2
That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full
assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,
Col. 2:6
As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,
Col. 2:9
Col. 2:17
Which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ.
Col. 3:10-11
10. And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the
image of Him who created him,
11. Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian,
slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.
Col. 3:15
And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which also you were called in one Body; and be
thankful.
Col. 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.
1 THESSALONIANS
1 Thes. 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of entrance we had toward you and how you turned
to God from the idols to serve a living and true God
1 Thes. 2:7-8
7. But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children.
8. Yearning in this way over you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God
but also our own souls, because you became beloved to us.
1 Thes. 2:11
Just as you know how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, exhorting you and
consoling you and testifying,
1 Thes. 2:19-20
19. For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at His coming? Are not
even you?
20. For you are our glory and joy.
1 Thes. 5:23
2 THESSALONIANS
2 Thes. 2:13
1 TIMOTHY
1 Tim. 1:4
Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God's
economy, which is in faith.
1 Tim. 1:19
Holding faith and a good conscience, concerning which some, thrusting these away, have become
shipwrecked regarding the faith;
1 Tim. 2:4
Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
1 Tim. 2:5
1 Tim. 3:9
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1 Tim. 3:15
But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God, which
is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.
1 Tim. 3:16
And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the
Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.
1 Tim. 4:6
If you lay these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, being nourished
with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have closely followed.
1 Tim. 4:7
But the profane and old-womanish myths refuse, and exercise yourself unto godliness.
1 Tim. 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have
confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
2 TIMOTHY
2 Tim. 1:6
For which cause I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of
my hands.
2 Tim. 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness.
2 Tim. 1:14
Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
2 Tim. 2:1
You therefore, my child, be empowered in the grace which is in Christ Jesus;
2 Tim. 2:22
But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out
of a pure heart.
2 Tim. 3:15
And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto
salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim. 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness,
2 Tim. 4:2
Proclaim the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering
and teaching.
2 Tim. 4:6-7
6. For I am already being poured out, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7. I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.
2 Tim. 4:8
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, with which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
will recompense me in that day, and not only me but also all those who have loved His appearing.
2 Tim. 4:22
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
TITUS
Titus 1:5
For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things which I have begun that remain
and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you:
Titus 2:11-12
11. For the grace of God, bringing salvation to all men, has appeared,
12. Training us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously
and godly in the present age,
Titus 2:14
Titus 3:5
Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the
washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
PHILEMON
Philem. 1:7
For I had much joy and encouragement over your love, because the inward parts of the saints have been
refreshed through you, brother.
Philem. 1:20
Yes, brother, may I have profit from you in the Lord; refresh my inward parts in Christ.
HEBREWS
Heb. 1:2
Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through
whom also He made the universe;
Heb. 1:3
Majesty on high;
Heb. 1:8
Your kingdom.
Heb. 1:9
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with
the oil of exultant joy above Your partners”;
Heb. 2:10
Heb. 2:11
Heb. 2:14
Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of
the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil,
Heb. 3:13
But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin.
Heb. 4:9
So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Heb. 4:11
Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest lest anyone fall after the same example of
disobedience.
Heb. 4:12
For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to
the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions
of the heart.
Heb. 4:14-15
14. Having therefore a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold fast the confession.
15. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, but
One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.
Heb. 4:16
Let us therefore come forward with boldness to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find
grace for timely help.
Heb. 5:13-14
13. For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an
infant;
Heb. 6:5
Heb. 6:19-20
19. Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both secure and firm and which enters within the veil,
20. Where the Forerunner, Jesus, has entered for us, having become forever a High Priest according
to the order of Melchisedec.
Heb. 7:15-16
15. And it is still more abundantly evident since it is according to the likeness of Melchisedec that a
different Priest arises,
16. Who has been appointed not according to the law of a fleshy commandment but according to the
power of an indestructible life.
Heb. 7:25
Hence also He is able to save to the uttermost those who come forward to God through Him, since He
lives always to intercede for them.
Heb. 8:10-12
10. For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the
Lord: I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them; and I will be
God to them, and they will be a people to Me.
11. And they shall by no means each teach his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the
Lord; for all will know Me from the little one to the great one among them.
12. For I will be propitious to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins I shall by no means remember
anymore.”
Heb. 9:14
Heb. 9:22
And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without shedding of blood there is
no forgiveness.
Heb. 10:19-20
20. Which entrance He initiated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, His flesh,
Heb. 10:22
Let us come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb. 10:25
Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another;
and so much the more as you see the day drawing near.
Heb. 11:1
Now faith is the substantiation of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Heb. 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to Him, for he who comes forward to God must
believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Heb. 11:26
the reward.
Heb. 12:1-2
21. Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, put away every
encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us and run with endurance the race which is
set before us,
22. Looking away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb. 12:28
Therefore receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may serve God well-
pleasingly with piety and fear;
Heb. 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes, even forever.
Heb. 13:13
Let us therefore go forth unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
JAMES
James 1:18
creatures.
James 1:21
Therefore putting away all filthiness and the abundance of malice, receive in meekness the implanted
word, which is able to save your souls.
James 2:5
James 4:4-5
4. Adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore
whoever determines to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.
5. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: “The Spirit, whom He has caused to dwell in us,
longs to envy”?
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and
purify your hearts, you double-souled!
1 PETER
1 Pet. 1:1-2
6. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
7. Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto
obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1 Pet. 1:7
So that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes though it is proved by
fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Pet. 1:8
1 Pet. 1:9
Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Pet. 1:11
Searching into what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them was making clear,
testifying beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glories after these.
1 Pet. 1:18-19
18. Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed
from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,
1 Pet. 1:23
word of God.
1 Pet. 2:2-3
salvation,
1 Pet. 2:5
You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to
offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Pet. 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired for a possession, so that
you may tell out the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
1 Pet. 2:24
Who Himself bore up our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to sins, might live to
righteousness; by whose bruise you were healed.
1 Pet. 2:25
For you were like sheep being led astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of
your souls.
1 Pet. 3:21
Which water, as the antitype, also now saves you, that is, baptism, not a putting away of the filth of the
flesh but the appeal of a good conscience unto God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Pet. 4:10-11
10. Each one, as he has received a gift, ministering it among yourselves as good stewards of the
varied grace of God.
11. If anyone speaks, as speaking oracles of God; if anyone ministers, as ministering out of the
strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to
whom is the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.
1 Pet. 5:2
Shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion but willingly, according to
God; not by seeking gain through base means but eagerly;
1 Pet. 5:4
And when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
1 Pet. 5:7
Casting all your anxiety on Him because it matters to Him concerning you.
1 Pet. 5:10
But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have
suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground you.
2 PETER
2 Pet. 1:1
Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted faith equally precious
as ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2 Pet. 1:3
Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the
full knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and virtue,
2 Pet. 1:4
Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you
might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by
lust.
2 Pet. 1:11
For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be
richly and bountifully supplied to you.
2 Pet. 1:19
And we have the prophetic word made more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a lamp
shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
2 Pet. 1:21
For no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while being borne by the
Holy Spirit.
2 Pet. 3:12
Expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, on account of which the heavens, being on fire,
will be dissolved, and the elements, burning with intense heat, are to be melted away?
2 Pet. 3:13
But according to His promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness
dwells.
2 Pet. 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both
now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
1 JOHN
1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we
beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life
1 John 1:2-3
2. (And the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and report to you the eternal life,
which was with the Father and was manifested to us);
3. That which we have seen and heard we report also to you that you also may have fellowship with
us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
1 John 2:1
My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an
Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous;
1 John 2:12-14
12. I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you because of His name.
13. I write to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young
men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, young children, because you know
the Father.
14. I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written
to you, young men, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you and you have
overcome the evil one.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in
him;
1 John 2:20
And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.
1 John 2:27
And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need
that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie,
and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that
if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.
1 John 3:8
He who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers. He who does not love
abides in death.
1 John 3:20-21
20. Because if our heart blames us, it is because God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
21. Beloved, if our heart does not blame us, we have boldness toward God;
1 John 4:8
He who does not love has not known God, because God is love.
1 John 4:15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.
1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved us.
1 John 5:1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God, and everyone who loves Him
who has begotten loves him also who has been begotten of Him.
1 John 5:11-12
11. And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son.
12. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might know Him
who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
2 JOHN
2 John 9
Everyone who goes beyond and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God; he who
abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
3 JOHN
3 John 3-4
3. For I rejoiced greatly at the brothers' coming and testifying to your steadfastness in the truth,
4. I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear that my children are walking in the truth.
3 John 7
For on behalf of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
JUDE
Jude 3
Beloved, while using all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary
to write to you and exhort you to earnestly contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
REVELATION
Rev. 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must quickly
take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John,
Rev. 1:4-5
4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who
was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
5. And from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings
of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood
Rev. 1:6
And made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father, to Him be the glory and the might forever and
ever. Amen.
Rev. 1:9
I John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, was on
the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Rev. 1:10
I was in spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Rev. 1:11
Saying, What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and
to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.
Rev. 2:4
Rev. 2:7
will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
Rev. 2:17
will give of the hidden manna, and to him I will give a white stone, and upon the stone a new name
written, which no one knows except he who receives it.
Rev. 3:8
I know your works; behold, I have put before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you
have a little power and have kept My word and have not denied My name.
Rev. 3:12
He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out
anymore, and I will write upon him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New
Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.
Rev. 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, then I will come in
to him and dine with him and he with Me.
Rev. 4:2
Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne there
was One sitting;
Rev. 5:5-6
5. And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of
6. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders
a Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the
seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Rev. 7:17
Rev. 10:8-10
8. And the voice which I heard out of heaven, I heard again speaking with me and saying, Go, take
the opened scroll in the hand of the Angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.
9. And I went to the Angel and told Him to give me the little scroll. And He said to me, Take it and
devour it, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.
10. And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the Angel and devoured it, and it was as sweet as
honey in my mouth; and when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
Rev. 12:11
And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony,
and they loved not their soul-life even unto death.
Rev. 14:4
These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are they who follow
the Lamb wherever He may go. These were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the
Lamb.
Rev. 15:2
And I saw as it were a glassy sea mingled with fire and those who come away victorious from the beast
and from his image and from the number of his name standing on the glassy sea, having harps of God.
Rev. 17:3
And he carried me away in spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full
of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev. 18:4
And I heard another voice out of heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you do not
participate in her sins and that you do not receive her plagues;
Rev. 19:7
Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and
His wife has made herself ready.
Rev. 19:9
And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the marriage dinner of the Lamb. And he
said to me, These are the true words of God.
Rev. 19:10
And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he said to me, Do not do this. I am your fellow slave and
a fellow slave of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of the prophesy.
Rev. 19:13
And He is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and His name is called the Word of God.
Rev. 19:16
LORDS.
Rev. 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of
those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and
of those who had not worshipped the beast nor his image, and had not received the mark on their
forehead and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev. 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no
authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Rev. 21:2
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
Rev. 21:6
Rev. 21:7
He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him, and he will be a son to Me.
Rev. 21:10
Rev. 21:12
It had a great and high wall and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:
Rev. 21:14
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of
the Lamb.
Rev. 21:18-21
Rev. 21:23
Rev. 22:1
Rev. 22:2
And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its
fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Rev. 22:4
And they will see His face, and His name will be on their forehead.
Rev. 22:14
Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter by the
gates into the city.
Rev. 22:16
Rev. 22:17

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VI. THE BELIEVERS

THE PURE REVELATION OF THE TRIUNE GOD

I. ONE UNIQUE GOD

24. Jehovah bless you and keep you;

III. ALL THREE BEING GOD

III. THE CO–EXISTENCE OF THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT

4. But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

Ephesians 3:14, 16-17a

14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

P. THE SON BEING CALLED THE FATHER

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THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS

I. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER ONE

III. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER THREE

IV. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER FOUR

V. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS FIVE

2 Corinthians 13:14, Footnote 14 1, W. L.

VI. THE TRIUNE GOD IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER SIX

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I. GOD REVEALED IN THE BIBLE

B. THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB

C. THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS

D. THE GOD OF THE HEBREWS

E. THE GOD OF ISRAEL

F. THE GOD OF THE LIVING

G. THE GOD OF THE SPIRITS

H. THE GOD OF JUSTICE

I. THE GOD OF TRUTH

J. THE GOD OF SALVATION

K. THE GOD OF MY SALVATION

L. THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION

M. THE GOD OF HEAVEN

N. THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

O. THE GOD OF BETHEL

P. THE GOD OF JERUSALEM

R. THE GOD OF PEACE

S. THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT

T. THE GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE

U. THE GOD OF ALL GRACE

V. THE GOD OF GLORY

W. THE GOD OF JACOB

X. THE GOD OF ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT

Y. THE GOD OF HOPE

Z. THE GOD OF MEASURE

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GOD’S DELIGHT AND GOOD PLEASURE

II. GOD’S GOOD PLEASURE

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II. PLEASING TO GOD

III. PLEASING GOD

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GOD IS ABLE, THE WORD IS ABLE

II. THE WORD IS ABLE

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I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

II. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Acts 20:28, Footnote 285, W.L.

1 Peter 2:9, Footnote 91, W.L.

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GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE

The Vision of God’s Building, pg. 13, W.L.

Life-Study of Genesis, Message 6, pp. 65-66, W.L.

I. GOD’S PURPOSE REVEALED IN HIS CREATION OF MAN