DEPARTMENT OF BIBLE AND SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS

 

Declarations and Dealings of Deity

from His Word and to the World

 Vol. III

Including various matters of Spiritual Digest

 

 

 

Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson

 

 

 

PREFACE

 

Published January, 2014

World  Wide Web Witness Inc.

ISBN 978-0-9875948-8-4

 

As with the first two volumes of this present series, the intention does not vary in this one.

In this volume, the content is not so much a project, as a repository for things arising for the saving action, teaching and blessed work of the Lord, and for His kingdom biblically defined. And how is it defined ? this is in terms of the Lord Jesus Christ who is its Head, and only entry, its Lord and not its icon but its saviour, for whom and by whose work His salvation has come to be freely available to repentance and the reception of His gift of redemption, through His death, and empowerment through His death-vanquishing life. Attention to these matters may vary from literally world-shattering items, to the smallest of widow's mites.

In the constitution of this Department, you find words such as those of Romans 10:9, I Corinthians 15:42ff., 57ff., Philippians 2:7-11, Ephesians 1:19-23, 2:1-16, 3:14-21, Colossians 1:16-19, Hebrews 1:1-3, 2:1-3, 9:12-28, 11:1-3, I Timothy 4:1-6, Acts 4:11-12, 20:25-32, Matthew 28:19-20.

However, Volume Three is more than an extension. In common with the other are its episodic and varied features in its field; but different is this, that the intention is to seek to cover more in shorter form, more like a Digest, so that advantage may be taken perhaps more briefly of earlier extended  expositions,  allowing pith to be presented more often.

While this is by no means the exclusive or inclusive feature of this volume (cf. Ch. 2 which is an extension of an earlier Chapter with a slightly different mode of approach), it is one which it is hoped will proved both useful and a diversity for the mind. There will be longer and shorter Chapters, and perhaps DV in our next, the contrast may be greater.

 

 

 

 

 

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

 

CULTURE, CHURCH AND TRUTH

THE ISSUE and the TISSUE

Issues of Christian Organisations, the Christian Church

and Christian-Carnal Culture containers misnamed churches

 

CHAPTER TWO

 

THE FAITH OF A CHILD

AND THE CORRECTION

BY THE RESURRECTION

BOOKS, LIFE and LEARNING ABOUT LEARNING

 

 

CHAPTER THREE

The SPIRITUAL SANDWICH

 

TWELVE  EARLY INTIMATIONS OF THE IDENTITY OF CHRIST

ON EARTH,  BEFORE HE WAS 30,

AND THE SETTING BEFORE AND AFTER

 

CHAPTER FOUR

The ESSENCE of PREDESTINATION

 

CHAPTER FIVE

ART, ARTISTRY AND ACTUALITY

 

CHAPTER SIX

 

DEFINITION OF CREATION

Discernment of Creation

Reasoning and Rationalising

 

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

 

THE BABE

Matthew 2

DIRECTION, DYNAMICS AND DESIRE

 

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE LIMITED ATONEMENT

 

CHAPTER NINE

TIME THAT DOES NOT

AND TIME THAT DOES INTERTWINE

 Ecclesiastes 3, 7 and

 

CHAPTER TEN

 

THE EPICS AND THE EPOCHS IN THE DIVINE WAY

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Favour of Freedom Courtesy of God Only

and the resolution of freedom, law and responsibility

on HIS grounds ONLY

 

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Fantasy of Lordliness

and the Actuality of the Lord

Matthew 20:25-28

 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

THOUGHT AND LIFE RELATE AS LEFT AND RIGHT HAND

IN THE WORK OF GOD

 

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

FROM TYRE TO TRIUMPH

 

CHAPTER 15

NOT THE DUST OF A CITY BUT THE DEVASTATION OF MULTITUDES

 

CHAPTER 16

Take Musicians

A Dialogue