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The Messianic Psalms

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:04:31 -0600

Gospel Folio Press
Grand Rapids MI
Copyright 1997

To the memory of the intrepid pioneer evangelists and Bible teachers of the last generation, who left home, comfort, and safety to bear the Light to dark places of the world for love of Christ, this volume is respectfully dedicated.

Introduction

On the resurrection day, the risen Christ met two disciples on the way to Emmaus, and from Moses and all the prophets He expounded to them the things concerning Himself. As a result, their whole outlook was changed. Later they declared: “Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?”

At eventide, in the Upper Room, He appeared to the gathered disciples and said: “These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me.” He then opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

There are a number of psalms which speak of the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are called Messianic psalms obviously because they speak of the Messiah. The question may be asked: “How can we recognize a Messianic psalm?” The answer would be: where there is a reference to the Messiah in a psalm, and it is applied to Christ and expounded in the New Testament. Sometimes a whole psalm applies to Christ, e.g., Psalm 22. Sometimes a paragraph, e.g., Psalm 40:6-10. Sometimes several verses, e.g., Psalm 69:4, 9, 21. Sometimes a single verse, e.g., Psalm 41:9.

Part III

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:15:31 -0600

Language Study

The primary task of a foreign missionary is to learn the language of the people. Traders and tourists may “pick up the lingo,” but the man or woman who wants to reach the hearts of the people with the Word of life must have a thorough, accurate knowledge of their language. It takes years of hard work, and even at the end of a lifetime, the expert is always learning something new.

Babel may have commenced in ancient Assyria but it has reached its greatest chaos in modern Africa. Years ago a linguistic survey revealed 843 languages and dialects in Africa. The figure is probably an understatement. An ethnographic survey has given the names and location of about 3,000 tribes and subtribes. Many of these never had their languages or dialects investigated by capable linguists. About one third of the population probably has become so used to some of the great languages, such as Arabic, Hausa, Swahili, as to feel as much at home in them as with their original speech.

Of the 250 African languages already reduced to writing, about 200 are the product of Protestant missionaries. The missionary translator reverses the curse of Babel and invokes the blessing of Pentecost.

Africans as a rule are splendid linguists. Even children are taught to speak properly and seldom slip up on a verb tense. Most of the men are bilingual and many are trilingual. We often meet Bantu tribesmen who cannot read a line but can speak five or six African dialects fluently. It is a common mistake of the white man to imagine that savage folk use crude elementary forms of speech. Many African languages are far more precise and more beautifully formed than English. It is a mystery how they have been developed and systematized over the centuries.

Part II

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:13:51 -0600

Ireland and Portugal

Ever since I was a boy, I wanted to be a missionary in Africa, This desire had been awakened and stimulated by reading the life stories of Livingstone, Arnot, and Mary Slessor, and by hearing men home on furlough from the mission field. Frankly I was a hero worshipper. I thought that these were the greatest men of modern times, and longed to follow in their footsteps and see the places where they worked.

I had the inestimable privilege of having Christian parents. The 1859 revival has left permanent marks on the manner of life of the people of Northern Ireland. The people are mostly of Scotch Covenanting stock, God-fearing and Bible-conscious. After the Huguenot massacres in France, many of these persecuted people came to Ulster, bringing their skills with them. Northern Ireland has always been a stronghold of Reformation principles and a fruitful field for gospel preaching. Many of the early Brethren were Irishmen. J. N. Darby, William Kelly, Lord Congleton, James G. Bellett, Dr. Edward Cronin, George F. Trench, all had an Irish background. There are now about one hundred and fifty New Testament assemblies in the six counties of Ulster, with a very practical missionary interest in every part of the world. It was into this atmosphere that the writer was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1902.

Part I

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:12:21 -0600

Africa’s Mystic Spell

Africa has always been a land of mystery; its very shape suggests a huge question mark. For centuries it was called “The Dark Continent.” Its geography and the sources of its river systems were matters for speculation. Early maps had a chain of mountains running across its center, named, for want of a better term, “The Mountains of the Moon.” The first Europeans who penetrated some distance into the interior brought back exaggerated and horrendous tales of the land and its barbarous inhabitants. But the country has always had a mysterious drawing power and fascination for those who have spent any time within its borders. There is a nostalgic pull to come back.

Africa is a country of cruelty. Consider the centuries of the slave trade when millions of human beings were sold like cattle or sheep; when little children who could not survive the long journey to the coast were knocked on the head against a tree; when cannibalism was common practice and ritual murder was the order of the day.

It is a country of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of evil spirits, fear of death, fear of wild animals and insects, and above all, fear of ruthless men who have no compassion or conscience.

It is also a country of darkness. At night when the sun goes in, the darkness takes over. Twilight lasts but a few minutes and then night, black and sinister, comes down. The black man barricades himself in his hut and nature, red in tooth and claw, goes on the prowl. No human being travels alone at night if he can help it.

Foreword & Introduction

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:08:36 -0600

Foreword

In the fall of 1923, the world was gradually coming together after the horror and destruction of World War I but there was still great instability in many parts of Europe. The governments of Bulgaria and Spain were both overthrown in military coups. Vladimir Lenin suffered a third stroke and stepped down from the Soviet government. A young thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler led an unsuccessful revolt against the German government and in the United States, President Harding died in office and was replaced by Calvin Coolidge.

But in Belfast, Northern Ireland, there was only one thing on the mind of twenty-one year old T. Ernest Wilson and that was the millions of lost souls in Africa who had never heard the gospel. When only eighteen years old, he had listened to missionaries tell of the great spiritual need in Angola and made a commitment in his heart to serve the Lord among those people. That heart-felt commitment became a reality when he was commended to the work of the Lord in Africa several years later by a small working-class assembly in Belfast. He not only had a desire to be obedient but had also been deeply impressed by the faith and testimony of men like George Mueller, who had put their confidence entirely in the Lord, never asking for money. Believing this to be the way God intended us to live, he made it a practice to never mention his material needs to anyone but the Lord.

Men of the Mountains & Valleys

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:57:02 -0600

Gospel Folio Press
Grand Rapids MI
Copyright 1992

Part One: Introduction

The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, a peak of the Himalayas, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. The expedition which first reached its summit in 1953 was the eighth to make the attempt. The leader was Col. John Hunt of Great Britain. After careful planning and incredible hardships and dangers, two gallant members of the expedition, Edmund P. Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, and Tenzing Norway, a Sherpa guide and veteran mountaineer, stood on the summit of the world. It was 11:30 am on May 29, 1953. Hillary described his feelings:

“My initial feelings were of relief—relief that there were no more steps to cut, no more ridges, and no more humps to tantalize us with hopes of success. I looked at Tenzing and in spite of his balaclava, goggles, and oxygen mask all encrusted with long icicles that concealed his face, there was no disguising his infectious grin of pure delight as he looked all around him. The ridge had taken us two and a half hours, but it seemed like a lifetime. I turned off the oxygen and removed my set I had carried my camera loaded with color film inside my shirt to keep it warm, so I now produced it and got Tenzing to pose on top for me, waving his axe on which was a string of flags—United Nations, British, Nepalese and Indian. Then I turned my attention to the great stretch of country lying below me in every direction.

God's Sacred Secrets

T Ernest Wilson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:59:21 -0600

Mystery Doctrines of the New Testament

Gospel Folio Press
Colborne, On

Originally published in 1975 by Loizeaux Brothers, Inc. as Mystery Doctrines of the New Testament

To the memory of the great spiritual giants of the Nineteenth Century, who, under the guidance and illumination of the Holy Spirit, and rightly dividing the Word of Truth by observing dispensational distinctions, opened up the treasure house of God’s Word to succeeding generations, this volume is respectfully dedicated.

Introduction

Each generation of Christians, it has been stated, must discover the Word of God for itself. The truth is the same in every age, but it has to be applied to the varied circumstances and needs of each period of time. Isaac re-dug the wells which his father Abraham had excavated and called them by their old names (Gen. 26). The Philistines had filled them in. They needed to be cleaned out so that the refreshing water could spring up again. The modern Philistines are still busy choking the wells of truth. Luther, Calvin, Wesley, and John Nelson Darby were well-diggers. They rediscovered and applied the truth in the Word of God to the people of God in their day. We must do so in ours.

The object of these studies is to restate the great doctrines of the New Testament which are called “mysteries.” Other men have done this in the past. But there is a need to apply them to the special circumstances of these difficult and dangerous times which the New Testament calls “the last days.”

The Farewell Ministry of Christ

T Ernest Wilson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:53:59 -0500

Gospel Folio Press
Port Colborne, ON
Available in the UK from JOHN RITCHIE LTD.

Originally published in 1981 by Loizeaux Brothers, Inc.
Copyright 2001

Author’s Preface

The following pages are the substance of a series of addresses given at the All-India Assembly Workers’ Conference, held in Madras December 26-31, 1973. Over two hundred ministers of the Word and pioneer evangelists from every part of India were gathered for the study of the Word, and for mutual encouragement. It was a time of rich blessing and refreshment from the presence of the Lord.

The messages were taken down stenographically as they were spoken and without alteration or editing were published by the Gospel Literature Service in Pant Nagar, Bombay.

The author wishes to thank Justus Samuel, joint editor of The Gospel Steward, and T. G. Samuel, of The Gospel Fellowship Trust of India, for their kindness, courtesy and labor of love in undertaking the task of the original publication.

Quite a large circle of friends have suggested that the addresses be edited and extended and republished under the title, The Farewell Ministry of Christ. As the years have gone by, the author has been impressed more and more with the tremendous importance of these chapters of John’s Gospel. They are the heart and core of the teaching of Christ and of Christianity itself.

T. Ernest Wilson
Sea Girt, New Jersey
August 1980

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T Ernest Wilson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The Mystery Of Christ

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:36:18 -0500

The Scholar In God's School

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:36:18 -0500

The Scholar In God’s School

T. E. Wilson

The Scriptural reading: Isaiah 50.

In this chapter Isaiah pictures the Lord Jesus as the Scholar with the opened ear, and then he discusses the four lessons the Lord had learned. The Man Christ Jesus was awakened every morning by His Teacher to receive the instruction of His Father God.

The subject at the beginning of the chapter is the nation of Israel, Israel that as the wife of Jehovah had drifted away from God into spiritual adultery. Because of their dreadful national declension, when the Lord Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and when later as an adult He appeared among His own people, they received Him not. Prophetically the Lord says concerning this, “Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?” (to receive Him) “When I called, was there none to answer?” “Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.” Here is Deity; God incarnate in perfect manhood!

The Winding Sheet of Time

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:36:18 -0500

Moses in God’s School

T Ernest Wilson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:36:18 -0500

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