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THE ACTS.
THE TWO MINISTRIES, PETER and PAUL.
Peter.
Paul.
Jerusalem. Holy Spirit (1: 15 - 2: 13).
Antioch. Holy Spirit (12: 24 - 13: 3).
Israel in the land (2: 14 - 8: 1).
Dispersed outside the land (13: 4 - 14: 28).
Cornelius, the Gentile (8: 1 - 11: 30).
Epistles to Gentiles (15: 1 - 19: 20).
Prison and close of ministry (12: 1-19).
Prison, close of one ministry (19: 21) and
commencement of another (28: 31).
The reader is asked to remember, that in the effort to reduce the four subdivisions of
Acts, into four lines of print, the unavoidable exclusion of detail may give a false
impression. If however, each section is taken and examined, the balance of parts will
become so evident that the purpose of Luke, in vindicating Paul from the charges laid
against him by the Jews, will be clear. In the series of articles on the Acts, which
commenced in Volume XXIV, this analysis is taken to a considerable length and the
interested reader may acquaint himself with what has there been presented.
The first epistle of the Mystery is the Epistle to the Ephesians, and whether our
exposition has been of Genesis on the one hand or of the Apocalypse on the other, every
article in The Berean Expositor has been written with Ephesians as the basic epistle of
our calling constantly in mind. We have set out the structure of this Epistle in its literary
form, in Volume XXXV, p.123, and in XVIII, p.167; as a chart in the form of a tree in
Volume XXIV, p.4, and as a pair balances in Number 10 of the Berean Messages.
The last example of this particular aspect of the subject "Truth in the balance" is the
presentation of the epistle to the Hebrews.
HEBREWS.
On to Perfection
Back to Perdition
The Word Spoken
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Him that speaketh
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Thou art the same
} 1: and 2:
Jesus Christ the same
} 12: 25 - 13:
How escape if neglect
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No escape if refuse
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Let us come boldly
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Let us draw near
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Examples of unbelief
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Examples of faith
\ 10: 19
Perfect 5: Babes
} 3: to 6:
Sons 5: Firstborn
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to.
No renewal unto repentance /
No place for repentance
/ 12: 25
Senses exercised.
/
Discipline exercised.
/
Perfection. Where?
But this Man. 7: 24.
No perfection in priesthood.
No perfection in law.
No perfection in ordinances.
No perfection in sacrifices.
But this man. 10: 12
Hebrews is addressed to believers, "Holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling".
The exhortation is "let us go unto perfection", the warning is the alternative of "drawing
back unto perdition". Examples of unbelief are taken from Israel in the wilderness who
did not mingle faith with the things they heard, while examples of belief are taken from