"And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it" (Col. 2:15). This is a picture of Christ in combat with the hosts of darkness! A marginal note in my King James Version reads, "He put off from Himself the...
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory,...
"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds" (2 Cor. 10:4). Although we have been made new creatures - created by God in Christ Jesus; and although we are transferred out from under Satan's authority,...
"It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of...
"...These curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.... If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law.... Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law..." (Deut. 28:15,58,61). "Christ hath redeemed us from the...
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). Years ago, a woman was carried into one of my services. She had not walked in four years, and...
"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Rom. 10:10). It is always with the heart that man believes - and with the mouth that confession is "made unto salvation." When you believe something with...
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Rom. 12:1). "You" are to do something with your body. For if you don't, nothing will ever be...
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.... For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" (1 Cor. 3:1-3). With...
"But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway" (1 Cor. 9:27). As a Christian, learn to let the new man on the inside dominate your outward man. The outward man is not a...
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