ARI'EL INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL STUDIES Issue 17 (PDF download)

ARI'EL INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL STUDIES

ISSUE 17

This nearly 250-page issue is a Special Edition containing messages and discussions and various subjects, including:

• The Truth about the Spiritual "Threshing Floor"
• Restoration will be the Result of Greater Productivity and Not just More Activity
• If We are Going to Restore the Church We Must Be Ruthlessly Biblical in Examining Our Rote Beliefs and Our Rote Behaviors
• Are We Rebuilding the Original Body of Christ or Building a New Body? - and Will We Restore the Church by Building with Materials and Methods that were Never Part of the Church We are Striving to Restore?
• Missing, Misplaced, and Broken "Gears" in the Machinery of the Body of Christ that Must Be Restored, Replaced, or Rebuilt part 1: Truth and Order
• Missing, Misplaced, and Broken "Gears" in the Machinery of the Body of Christ that Must Be Restored, Replaced, or Rebuilt part 2: The Members and Ministry of the Church
• Why I No Longer Use the Term "Threshing Floor" for Part of Our Present Labor to Restore the Church
• What Truths have been Produced by the "Threshing Floor" After the Time of Bro. William Sowders that are Agreed Upon by a Strong Majority of Our Body of Churches?
• Paul's Pressing for the Mark that He had Not Yet Attained
• Full Salvation: From Opening the Door to Overcoming
• Two Crosses that are Necessary to Complete Full Salvation: His Cross and Our Cross
• Salvation May Be a Gift, but It Is Too Big a Gift to Fit In an Already Furnished House - and - Full Salvation May Be Beyond Our Ability to Purchase But No One Who Does Not Sell All to Receive It Ever Will
• Do We Need to Cease From Works to Enter Into Our Spiritual Rest, Do We Need to Labor to Enter Into Our Spiritual Rest, or Both?
• A Claim to Faith in Christ That is Not a Faith That Compels You to Draw Closer to Him in Your Thoughts and Actions is Completely Impotent - but - True Faith is Potent, Never Impotent
• A Faith that Follows All the Way to Its Full Completion Will Be a Faith that Finishes Its Course by Compelling Us to Run Our Race to the End
• It is Better to Die Seeking God than to Live Serving Man - and - It is Better to Die Striving for a Deeper Relationship with God than to Live in a Stagnant Place of Stunted Spiritual Growth
• Can You "Lose Your Salt" and be Saved Regardless?
• Can Dead Faith Fully Save a Person?
• Will a Loveless Faith Fully Save?
• Disobedience is the Product of Disbelief
• God's Methods May Change Dispensationally but His Moral Requirements Never Change
• Is Repentance a "Work" that We Must Do or Does God Make Us Repent by Taking Control of Our Hearts and Our Lips, Against Our Will, and "Force" Us to Repent?
• Full Salvation as Pictured in the Story of Israel's Exodus From Egypt and Eventual Inheritance of Canaan
• Does Knowing the Truth Guarantee that You Will Be Made Free?
• Faith and/or Faithfulness
• To Be Like Adam or To Be Like Jesus? - That is the Question
• Relational Faith versus Rote Faith
• Two Competing Fallacies Regarding the Nature of Saving Faith
• What is the Biblical Definition and the Measure of the Spiritual Perfection Required of New Covenant Believers?
• Full Perfection: 10k Gold or 24k Gold?
• Jesus as Both Savior and Lord: What We Can Never Be Worthy Of and What We Must Be Worthy Of
• The Marriage of Mercy and Grace
• True Love Lacks Tolerance
• All Sin is Evil, but Not All Sin is Equally Evil - and - All Sin Will Result in Future Destruction and Death but Not All Sin Has the Same Present Destructive Results
• Calling Our Ministerial Brothers by the Title "Brother"
• The Work of the Laity
• To "Type" or Not to "Type", That is the Question
• Israel's Restoration Prophesied in Hosea 6
• Who Are the Jews Who Have Endured for Millennia Despite Massive and Persistent Persecution that Can Only Be the Result of Divine Intervention?
• Is God Still the Hope of Natural Israel or is Natural Israel Without Hope?
• Every Genetic Jew is Not Presently a Spiritual Jew but One Day There Will Be No Genetic Jews Who are Not Also Spiritual Jews
• Indisputable Evidence that Israel Will Be Restored and The Inarguable Biblical Inconsistency of the Opposite View
• Dogs and Swine
• AND MORE