Category: The Deeper Life

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us” (Romans 8:37). He has recapitulated all the things that can assail the believer, and He has made the believer more than a conqueror. Few of us have realized that our combat is with the eternally defeated one. How few folks… Continue reading We Are More than Conquerors

Christ’s great substitutionary work and His work in the new creation would be of no value if He didn’t take care of and protect this new creation by means of His present ministry. JESUS’S RESURRECTIONMatthew 28:5–6 gives us the story of His resurrection, of the women coming to the sepulcher and seeing the angel who… Continue reading Christ’s Present Ministry for the Church

We spend a great deal of money in building gymnasiums and in training our youth and young manhood in physical exercises. Our schools, colleges, and technical institutions are for the exercising of the mind. How little we know about exercising our spirits. The church has never realized that the spirit of man is the foundation… Continue reading Exercising Ourselves in the Word

This phase of teaching has never has never been majored by our theological thinkers. It is the crux of the whole Pauline Revelation, the ultimate toward which all of God’s plans move. Man, the failure, the sin-ruled, the Satan-dominated, held in bondage by the unseen forces of spiritual darkness, is to be recreated, made a… Continue reading The Reality of the Reclaimed Human Spirit

“I know him whom I have believed” (2 Timothy 1:12). This is one of the challenging statements in the Pauline Revelation. Paul knew Jesus. 2Corinthians 5:16: “Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.” Paul didn’t know… Continue reading Knowing the Master

There are three great words that describe the condition of the believer who is taking advantage of his privileges in Christ—rest, peace and joy. These three words are the fruit of the full-grown faith. RESTJohn 14:27: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto… Continue reading Faith’s Real Test

There are two views of healing held by different bodies of believers. HEALING: A PART OF REDEMPTIONFirst, there are those who believe that healing is a part of the plan of redemption: that in the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, God actually laid our diseases on Jesus and that He bore them with our sins, that… Continue reading Jesus the Healer

This is another of the lost teachings of the Word. For years I wondered why the largest percentage of those who have accepted Christ and have joined the church were failures. I used to ask myself, “Has Satan more ability than God? Has he outwitted God in the fight?” I didn’t believe it. Then one… Continue reading Fellowship and Relationship

A KEY TO THE PAULINE REVELATIONHow few of us appreciate the vast field of new material that we find in the Pauline Epistles. John, Peter, and James give practically no new material. They all grew out of the teachings of Jesus in His earth walk. You can feel that John leaned on the breast of… Continue reading Paul’s Natural Man

No body of believers since the Reformation has majored the Father fact, and yet it is one of the most outstanding features of Jesus’s teaching. It was always a sort of undercurrent of desire on the part of Jesus to go back and be with His Father. John 16:28 illustrates this: “I came out from… Continue reading The Father Fact

There are so many who refuse to take their place in the family of God. This family may be like a family that I once knew. There was one girl and one boy in it who never did their share of the work or bore their share of the responsibility. Others had to deny themselves… Continue reading How Long Can Others Carry You?

‘BELIEVERS’ BEFORE AND AFTER THE DAY OF PENTECOSTI always believed that the disciples were Christians before the day of Pentecost; but one day this question came: Did anyone believe before the day of Pentecost that Jesus was going to die for their sins and rise again after God had justified them? I turned to Matthew… Continue reading The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts, Part 2

There are three great personalities standing out in the book of Acts: The Holy Spirit, the living Word, and the name of Jesus. You remember that the Word and Jesus are often identical. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). You cannot separate… Continue reading The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts, Part 1

Acts was written by Luke between 63 and 65 A.D. It is a history of the first thirty-three years of Christ at the right hand of the Father. It is a sample of the supernatural life of the sons of God carrying out the will of their seated Lord. It is the only unfinished book… Continue reading The Word in the Book of Acts

POWER OF ATTORNEYJesus gave to the church the power of attorney to use His name. In the gospel of John, we have the record of this legal act on the part of the Master. John 15:16: “Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit,… Continue reading The Name of Jesus in the Book of Acts

Acts was written by Luke between 63 and 65 A.D. It is a history of the first thirty-three years of Christ at the right hand of God. It is a revelation of the hidden drama of redemption through the Holy Spirit. It is not man. No men but Stephen or Barnabas received a word of… Continue reading Studies in the Book of Acts

Man was created in the image and likeness of God. He is in the same class with God. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24). Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over… Continue reading The Hidden Man of the Heart

The Father has no pleasure in weak and feeble children. He loves them, will care for them, shield and protect them, but He has no joy in it. (See Ephesians 6:10.) He never made anyone sick. He never has made one of His children sick or hurt him. He never oppresses them. Every believer owes… Continue reading Established

Man had an abundance of spiritual death. It reigned over him. It was his despotic master. All the sins and crimes and wars have grown out of that awful thing called spiritual death. It was the very nature of Satan. Romans 5:12–21 is God’s commentary on it. It is called a law of sin and… Continue reading Abundance of Love

The expression, “Sat down,” occurs about twenty times in the New Testament. Hebrews 8:1–2 is a good example: “Now in the things which we are saying 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, a minister… Continue reading Jesus Does Not Need to Suffer Again

Jesus vanquished Satan, not for Himself, but for man. His victory over Satan was purely a substitutionary act. So, Christ’s victory is our victory, for all that He did in substitution, He did for us. The Supreme Court of the universe looks upon the substitutionary work of Jesus as though it were actually ours. God… Continue reading Satan, the Defeated

As we study the life of the Man in the four Gospels, we are continually reminded of God. He walked and talked and acted as though He and God were one.He acted righteousness. He practiced it. He was utterly unconscious of the need of anything. Whenever He needed faith, no matter what the circumstances were,… Continue reading The Confession of Jesus

The whole world has been expecting a superman. The first superman came as a root out of dry ground. No one recognized Him. No one knew that God was manifested in the flesh. They didn’t know that the Logos of God, who had been with God, and who was God, was with them. They didn’t… Continue reading The Superman

It is of vital importance that after we have prayed, we never go back on our prayers. Many repudiate the Word by the confession of a doubt or admission of a doubt into their consciousness. Isaiah 55:11: “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me… Continue reading Holding Fast to Our Confession

No one knew the Father until Jesus introduced Him; no one knew Jesus until the Father had introduced Him. This introduction is given to us in Paul’s revelation. The Father is unveiling to the church what they really are in Christ. He is unveiling what He did for us in His Son. I once wondered… Continue reading God’s Revelation of Jesus According to Paul

What have the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In Romans 2:16, the Spirit, through Paul, says this: “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.” From anyone but Paul this would be almost blasphemy. But the spirit-ruled heart has a consciousness that… Continue reading The Revelation According to Paul

A prayer for faith would be a prayer of unbelief, and a prayer of unbelief has no ground for an answer. The people who pray for faith always live in the realm of unbelief.If I asked you to give me faith in yourself and I had known you for years, you would think it an… Continue reading Why We Don’t Pray for Faith

The finished work of Christ has been little understood by the church. It is like the undeveloped resources of China and India.We have not realized what it means to be a partaker of the divine nature. SOURCE OF OUR ABILITY2Peter 1:3–4 Seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto… Continue reading Unused Abilities

The law of Moses is called the law of death. The reason it is called the law of death is because it was God’s law that ruled spiritually dead men. Romans 8:2: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.” Paul… Continue reading The Law of Life Versus the Law of Death

We are combating demons and disease with the Word. The Word is the sword of the recreated spirit. That Word can slay disease, and that Word can heal the sick. The man who walks by faith in the Word requires no evidence of the senses. He has proof that the thing he is praying for… Continue reading The Prayer of Faith

Satan was the reason for redemption. There could be no redemption without defeating Satan. Satan’s eternal defeat was a part of the redemptive plan.Hebrews 9:11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with… Continue reading Jesus’s Threefold Victory over Satan

The unrenewed mind is always waging war against unbelief, ever praying for faith but never arriving; always talking unbelief yet struggling to get faith; ever confessing failure, but at the same time confessing faith in the Word and denying it in actions; trying to believe, yet never acting on the Word. James 1:5 If any of… Continue reading The Physical Sense-Ruled Mind

God never planned that we should live in poverty, either physical, mental, or spiritual. He made Israel the head of the nations financially.When we go into partnership with Him, and we learn His way of doing business, we cannot be failures. Failures are not God-made. God never made a weakling or an inefficient man. He… Continue reading The Law of Prosperity

Most of us have never realized the vital place that our testimony or confession holds in our daily life. Colossians 2:5 (WEYMOUTH): “For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented… Continue reading Our Solid Front

Redemption has been a theological word in the minds of most believers. We knew the Greek word. We knew its literal meaning, but we did not know the new meaning that the Father has put into it. So many of the Greek words used in the classical Greek have now a new and richer meaning… Continue reading The Reality of Redemption

ENTERING INTO THE FAMILY OF GODOne comes into the family of God by confessing the Lordship of Jesus over his life. Romans 10:9–10 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart… Continue reading The Word Living in Us

God knew what He must do to redeem man. He knew the hopelessness of man under Satan’s dominion.Ephesians 2:12: “That ye were at the time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” First, the Gentile world was separated… Continue reading What the Church Has Failed to See

Believing demands action, creates action. Mental assent admires, admits, but does not act. Acting on the Word is letting Christ act through you. Acting on the Word, then, gives God an opportunity. Giving the Word its place is giving Christ His position of Lordship.The problem of believing is made simple when we know that it… Continue reading Acting on the Word

The Word takes the place of the unseen Christ. Meditation in the Word is a visit with Him. The Word becomes a part of one by meditation. The Word living in us gets into our blood.Acts 19:20 (KJV): “So mightily grew the Word of the Lord and prevailed.”A revival in Ephesus was shaking the nation.… Continue reading The Prevailing Word

The Word is God speaking to you. “Thus saith Jehovah” is repeated over two thousand times from Exodus to Deuteronomy. God and His Word are one. The Word is always now. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and… Continue reading The Integrity of the Word