F. W. Grant
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Exodus, chaps. 8: 25; 10: 8-11, 24-26.)
Moses is now commissioned and authenticated as Israel's
deliverer. Still he hesitates. "O my Lord," he says, "I am not eloquent neither
heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of speech,
and of a slow tongue."
How hard it is, amid what we call "second causes,"
to trust simply in God alone! All God's power, for a Moses even, is not
sufficient without an eloquent tongue! Paul was wiser when he came to the...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Exodus, chap. 4.)
In our previous address we have seen God declaring Himself
to Moses as a prelude to the deliverance of His people. In that deliverance He
is coming forward accord-ing to the significance of His memorial iiame, to
exhibit what He is Himself for His creatures. In salvation God reveals Himself
and is glorified; not only in the redeemed of earth, but to the principalities
and powers in heavenly places, who learn in us His manifold wisdom and His
marvellous g...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Exodus,
chap. 3.)
We have looked at Israel's deliverer from Egyptian
bondage. We have seen him given over to death and brought up out of it. We have
seen him put himself forward as the saviour of his people, and rejected by
them. Then, as rejected by his own, making affinity for himself in the land of
his exile. Now we come to look at the call of the deliverer, in the next two
chapters. I only take up one of these tonight, as we shall find abundance in it
for meditati...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Exodus, chap. 2.)
The historical books of the Old Testament present to us a
regular series of types, each book having a set of its own, connected with a
special line of truth, upon which in perfect order the separate gems are
strung. To read them aright, therefore, we must see first what is the truth
which characterizes each, and then each individual type will find its place.
For instance, in the book of Genesis, a series of seven lives is given
exemplifying the ...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Rev. ii. I-II).
We are going, beloved friends, if the Lord enable us, to
look at the addresses to the Seven Churches--not indeed in detail, but more
especially certain parts of of them--as representative of the state of
Christendom as a whole from the time almost when the Lord left the earth until
the time in which He comes again. Now, in the first place, it is only right
that I should show you briefly what is my warrant for taking these addresses as
applying in this way....
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Rev. II. 12-17).
We are now going to look carefully at that fifteenth
verse: "So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which
thing I hate."
This next stage of the Church’s journey in its
departure, alas, from truth may easily be recognized historically. It applies
to the time when, after having passed through the heathen persecution, (and the
faithfulness of many an Antipas was brought out by it,) it got publicly
recognized and established...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Rev. ii. 8 - il.)
The decline of the Church opens the way for the power of
the enemy to display itself; and the assault is a double one - from without and
within at the same moment. The result is, however, very different in the two
cases. The outside assault is failure, for it is impossible that the Lord
should leave His saints to be subdued by power beyond their own; while the
defeat of Satan’s wiles is another matter. Here they must put on the whole
armour of God, th...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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THE ADDRESSES TO THE
CHURCHES
(Chapters 3-11)
(Rev.
ii. 1 - 7.)
It is not in any wise as being the metropolitan church of
Asia that we find Ephesus first addressed. This, which has been the thought of
many, has assuredly no countenance from the Word. The Church of God, which is
Christ’s body, is not composed of churches, but of members, united
together by that blessed Spirit which unites all to Christ the Head. Hence, the
"churches," or "assemblies," are only local...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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(Rev. i. 9-50.)
We come now to the vision which introduces the messages to
the seven assemblies which with it constitute the first part of the book. The
second part is similarly introduced by the vision of the fourth and fifth
chapters. There is a very evident and characteristic difference between the
standpoints of the two. In the one case it is John, companion with the saints
in tribulation and endurance, and the scene is on earth; in the other case he
is called up to h...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 06:00
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Book 1 PRESENT THINGSAs FORESHOWN IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION(Chapters 1-11)
The Book and Its Subjcct. (Chap. i. 1 - 5)The
book of Revelation is the one only book of New Testament prophecy. As
the completion of the whole prophetic Scriptures, it gathers up the
threads of all the former books, and weaves them into one chain of many
links which binds all history to the throne of God. As New-Testament
prophecy, it adds the heavenly to the earthly sphere, passes the bounds
of time, and explore...
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