Summary: One of the reasons we do not go on in the Deeper life is that we do not pray, or we pray amiss. Promises are given in the Bible for the hope of such a working within our lives.
Summary: We must understand the distinction between these three terms and that they are complete in the work they do. But they lead to a consummation of working sanctification in both its crisis and its process for the Christian life.
Summary: The “self” of two individuals may have its own unique problems that become difficulties among others. Only the Christ within can resolve the “self” first, and then the problem between one another.
Scripture: Hebrews 12:18–29; Ephesians 4:17–32; Matthew 9:14, 15
Summary: One of the great weapons that the Devil is using among the saints is trying to bring discord between them. We must do all we can to recover from any fallout of fellowship between God’s true people.
Summary: When we are born again we enter the family of God. We are now brothers and sisters. We must do all we come to maintain our relationship in the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Summary: This message takes the growth of the papacy through Church history and the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Romanism has not changed from its apostasy but is only increasing.
Summary: We must never get tired of God’s manna. It is not the constancy of the Word of God that becomes old and stale but the wavering of our soul in its love for God’s Word.
Summary: What does it mean that the Word became flesh? He dwelt or tabernacled among us. The Son came for only a brief period of time to this earth; what was to come from this visit?
Summary: This is the introduction to the month of December messages concerning the Incarnation. The theme for the month is “The Prophecy, Principles, and False Presuppositions of the Incarnation.” But this first message deals with the concept of prophecy and how God uses it in revelation.
Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:9–16; Jeremiah 15:16; Matthew 1:19, 20a; Luke 2:46–51
Summary: Meditations must be influenced by the Word of God for communion and fellowship with God. There is also the need of meditation to overcome the thoughts of the Devil or to resist the Devil.
Summary: We must never be ashamed of the field from whence we glean the truth. When our children grow up and become what God intends for them to be, we dare not take as parents the full credit for it but remember the school and the church that contributed to their lives as well.
Summary: This message takes us to the beginnings of the early church and the first-time deception that came into the church that brought a judgment from God. We must live what we profess; we must live what we say we believe.
Summary: An unfolding of the Reformation in the 1500s, yet what is the state of Christianity today? The failures of present reformations, as we wait for the Son from Heaven.
Scripture: Matthew 13:1–9, 18–23; Genesis 2:4–17; 3:14–19; 4:1–5
Summary: Our ground is cursed and we will need a tiller, but not the tillers of this world. Such tillers know not the “curse” that is upon the ground of humanity. Christ is the appointed tiller for us.
Summary: The Man of sorrows, Who was acquainted with grief, carried our sorrows on the cross. What are sorrows and what is their purpose as an integral part of the Christian life?
Summary: The creation of the mind: its purpose, how the Fall affected it, and how the mutation of sin deepens its “insanity.” We often form the weapon against us, our thought life.
Summary: The surrender of Paul on the road to Damascus. He immediately cried out, What wilt thou have me to do? Coming to know God’s will for the life.
Summary: The two great truths of Foundations since the beginning: the needed teachings and training to prepare children for Christian living and a calling from God.
