Index of Subjects
Accountability
age of, 181
believers’, 52
Adoption, divine, 68
Adultery, divorce and, 166
Affliction, demonic, 75
Afterlife, pagan views about, 326
Ambition
selfish, 95
worldly, 236
Angels, guardian, 118
Anger, power of, 152
Apostolic authority, 29
Arrogance of unbelief, 273
Atonement, necessity of, 66
Authority
apostolic, 29
false spiritual, 357
Barrenness, spiritual, 278
Believers
weakness in selves, 76
reign with Christ, 204
rejection by world, 72
uniqueness of, 132
Blindness, spiritual, 2, 252
Booths, feast of, 66
Callousness, spiritual, 153
Celibacy, gift of, 175
Chastening, divine, 155
Chauvinism, male, 161
Childlikeness
necessity for, 114
spiritual, 93, 99, 181
Children
exasperation of, 106
Jewish blessing of, 179
God’s adopted, 68
principles for evangelizing, 182
teaching, 182
Church
authority of, 33
built by Christ, 30
divine characteristics of, 28
fellowship of, 31
foundation of, 28
identity of, 32
invincibility of, 32
security of, 30
spiritual reality of, 34
Citizenship, heavenly, 96
Commitment, marital, 174
Confession, salvation and, 149, 193
Conscience
obeying, 107
resisting, 107
Contamination, spiritual, 386
Contrition, repentance and, 149
Conversion
false, 186
genuine, 49, 189
repentance and, 30, 98
Converts, false, 30
Conviction, salvation and, 193
Coronation of Christ, 259
Correction, resentment of, 117
Cross, Satan’s opposition to, 41
Cross-bearing
genuine, 237
obedience and, 234
self-giving and, 234
Cults, confronting, 379
Danger, forsaking spiritual, 110
Deathbed testimony, 10, 16
Deity, Jesus’ claim of, 23
Demons, affliction by, 75
Depression, spiritual, 63
Disciples, pride of the twelve, 232
Discipleship
cost of, 46, 49, 51, 56, 194, 205
divine imperative of, 135
obedience and, 47
paradox of, 51
true, 46
Discipline, church
divine authority for, 136, 138
God’s love and, 147
God’s participation in, 138
initiation of, 128
local church and, 134
loving, 129
ostracism and, 134
place of, 133
process of, 133
purity and, 131
purpose of, 132
recipients of, 126
restoration and, 136
self-righteousness and, 136
zeal and, 131
Discipling, 12
Divorce
adultery and, 166
Jewish views of, 164
remarriage and, 167, 170, 171
scriptural grounds for, 171
Doctrine, false, 14
Doubt, in believers, 21, 39
Earth, restoration of, 204
Eclecticism, 374
Election, divine, 181
Elijah
forerunner of Christ, 67, 71
foreshadow of John the Baptist, 71
Essenes, 328
Evangelism
biblical, 189
false motives for, 114
Evangelizing children, 182
Example
godly, 183
sinful, 105, 106
Exclusion, false spiritual, 376
Extortion, 385
Faith
divine healing and, 252
false, 281
genuine, 281
God’s response to, 250
healers, 251
humility and, 97
persistent, 80, 97
power of, 73
prayerful, 81
prompted by God, 203
repentance and, 96
saving, and love, 340
subversion of, 379
weak, 79
Faithfulness, cost of, 51
Faithlessness, danger of, 77
False teachers, confronting, 373
Family, stabilizing force of, 160
Feminism, 161
Flattery, evil of, 318, 320
Flesh
self-deceptive, 152
unable to do good, 359
Forfeiting Christ, 198
Forgiveness
divinely empowered, 157
extent of, 145
godliness and, 142
kinds of, 156
lack of, 152
spiritual unity and, 143
trust and, 157
unlimited, 145
unnatural to man, 142
virtue of, 143
Fruitfulness, salvation and, 278
Gifts, uniqueness of, 132
Glory, seeking eternal, 240
God
covenant name of. See Yahweh, 137
evidence of, 2
faithfulness of, 217
impartiality of, 208
peace with, 262
rejection of the proud, 290
response to faith, 250
sovereign plan of, 220
sovereignty of and man’s faith, 282
terror of, 68
Godliness, forgiveness and, 142
Good works
divinely provided, 57
evidence of salvation, 57, 278, 299, 312
Goodness, human, 58
Gospel
biblical, 192
false, 45, 100, 354
law and, 193
perversion of, 192
social evils and, 267
Government, human
Christian and, 83
divine authority of, 90
limits of, 90
Grace, growing in, 48
Greatness
principles of spiritual, 240
standards of worldly, 235
Greed, 152
Grieving the Lord, 154
Harming others spiritually, 121
Healers, faith, 251
Healing, divine, and faith, 252
Heart, hardened, 390
Heaven
equality in, 215
personal relationships in, 332
Help, withholding, 116
Helpless, God’s compassion for, 216
Holiness
love and, 129
necessity of, 123, 129
Hostility to God, man’s natural, 46
Human reason, reliance on, 42
Human religion, works righteousness and, 284
Humanism, 25
Humility
examples of, 231
faith and, 97
lack of, 365
necessity of, 48
spiritual, 95
supremacy of, 98
Hypocrisy, 126
Idols, 106
Illumination, divine, 15, 22, 36
Image, God’s in man, 26
Immaturity, spiritual, 12
Imparted righteousness, 312
Impartiality of God, 208
Imputed righteousness, 312
Indifference, spiritual, 128, 132
Indignation, divine, 154
Influence
harmful, 105
leaven as symbol of, 13
selfish use of, 235
Injustice, 373
Integrity
lack of, 358
spiritual, 126
Israel
future redemption of, 403
God’s plan for, 400
preserved but unblessed, 280
unfaithfulness of, 402
unique privilege of, 401
Jealousy, danger of, 212
Jehovah. See also Yahweh, 305
Jerusalem
destruction of, 308, 395
history of, 38
Jesus Christ
claim of deity, 23
claim of messiahship, 23
compassion of, 271
confirmations of deity, 63
coronation, 259
Creator, 27
destiny, control of own, 220, 258, 269, 273
divinity of, 344
false praise of, 20, 344
human religious authority and, 286
humanly unordained, 285
humanness, 276, 349
humiliation of, 244
Jewish views of, 19
lineage, 347
lordship over believers, 194
omnipotence, 349
omnipresence, 349
physical suffering, 225
return in glory, 64
servanthood, 244
sovereignty, 194
submission to human government, 87
suffering and death ordained by God, 223
temptation to avoid cross, 41
unity with, 103
Jews, persecution of, 395
Judaism, self-righteous, 37
Judaizers, 361
Judging by God’s Word, 34, 138
Judgment, God’s
according to deeds, 34, 57
day of, 52
inevitability of, 391
Kingdom, millennial, 204
Last days, Pentecost and, 59
Law, God’s
gospel and, 193
purpose of, 191
Leaders
Christian, servanthood of, 368
spiritual, characteristics of, 366
spiritual, honor of, 372
Levirate marriage, 330
Liberty, flaunting, 107, 115
Lordship, Christ’s, 194
Love
false, 132, 160
fulfillment of law, 342
holiness and, 129
loss of first, 47
marital, true, 174
obedience and, 340
parental, 75, 102, 184
saving faith and, 340
Manipulation, dangers of, 239
Marital commitment, 174
Marital love, true, 174
Marriage
adultery and, 166
keys for successful, 162
levirate, 330
Maturity, spiritual, 12
Meekness, faith and, 97
Melchizedek, 38
Messiah, misconceptions of, 21, 27, 53, 276, 261, 274, 304, 345
Messiahship, Jesus’ claim to, 23
Millennium, 204
Moses, a foreshadow of Christ, 67
Mysticism, 307
Natural man, spiritual bankruptcy of, 149
Need, concern for other’s, 120
Obedience
Christian, 47, 50, 193
cross-bearing and, 234
love and, 341
Ordination, rabbinical, 285
Ostentation, 366
Ostracism, discipline and, 134
Pain, refinement by, 43
Palm Sunday, 257
Papacy, false claims of, 28
Parents
example of, 183
teaching of children, 182
Partiality, evil of, 115
Passion Week, chronology of, 257, 266, 275, 284
Patience, product of faith, 79
Paul, persecution of, 391
Pax Romana, 319
Peace with God, 262
Pentecost, last days and, 59
Persecution
of Jews, 395
of Paul, 391
promised to believers, 232
Persistence, faith and, 97
Perversion, spiritual, 77
Pharisees, 3
description of, 327
kinds of, 356
origin of, 356
Philosophy, 25, 307
Piety, counterfeit, 130
Plan, God’s sovereign, 37, 220
Possessions, trust in, 198
Presence, God’s, with believers, 139
Presumption, religious, 39
Pretension, religious, 387
Pride
religious, 6, 94, 119, 273
the supreme sin, 230
Priesthood, Jewish, 224
Priorities, inverted, 383
Prophecy
fulfillment of, 221
near and distant aspects of, 60
Proselytism, Jewish, 379, 380
Proud, God’s rejection of the, 290
Purity
church discipline and, 131, 147
spiritual, 124
Purpose, man’s, 26
Rabbinic tradition, 3
Rabbis, ordination of, 285
Reason, reliance on human, 42
Rebuke of sinning believers, 127
Redemption, principles of, 222
Redemptive history, theme of, 26
Reign, believers with Christ, 204
Religion
basis of human, 192, 201
false, 46, 201, 284, 307
Remarriage, divorce and, 167, 170, 171
Repentance
contrition and, 149
conversion and, 98
faith and, 96
necessity of, 189
salvation and, 193
true, 48
Restoration
of disciplined believers, 136
of the earth, 204
Resurrection, Jewish views on, 328
Revelation, men’s rejection of, 392
Revolt, Jews against Rome, 395
Rewards, heavenly, 57
Ridicule of others, 116
Righteousness
encouragement in, 108
imparted, 312
imputed, 312
Rome, Jewish revolt against, 395
Sabbath, Christians and, 24
Sadducees
description of, 3, 327
reaction to Christ, 327
Salvation
barriers to, 198
confession and, 193
conviction and, 193
divinely initiated, 216
earning, 202
equality of, 213, 310
evidence of, 278, 299, 312
false evidence of, 190
God’s desire for man’s, 282
God’s terms for, 262, 311
repentance and, 193
self-effort and, 201
Satan
influence of, 41
temptation by, 41
Scientism, 307
Scribes, origin of, 355
Second coming, modern signs of, 6
Security, false, 376
Self, flaunting, 363
Self-acceptance, 130
Self-concern, 341
Self-denial, 47, 56, 97, 162
Self-esteem, 130, 230
Self-exaltation, 368
Self-fulfillment, 230
Self-giving, 162, 234
Self-glory, 230, 366
Self-indulgence, 126, 385
Self-interest, 152, 201
Self-love, danger of, 233
Self-promotion, 230
Self-reliance, 48
Self-righteousness, 136
Self-sacrifice, virtue of, 245
Self-satisfaction, 114, 192, 273, 288, 361
Self-trust, dangers of, 199, 237
Self-will, 152,311
Selfishness, self-deception of, 213
Selfism, 46, 230
Selflessness, 369
Servanthood
Jesus’, 244
Christian leaders and, 368
virtue of, 240
Shema, 338
Sin
accountability for, 311
acknowledgement of, 149
awareness of, 69
contentment in, 4
divine hatred of, 270
enslaving nature of, 245
incalculable debt of, 148
tolerance of, 106
Singleness, successful, 175
Social evils, gospel and, 267, 373
Son of Man, O.T. predictions of, 54
Sovereignty
Christ’s, 194
God’s, man’s faith and, 282
Spiritual authority, false, 357
Spiritual bankruptcy of natural man, 149
Spiritual blindness, 3, 252
Spiritual danger, avoiding, 110
Spiritual harm to others, 121
Spirituality, lack of, 363
Submission
Christ’s demand of, 194
key to witnessing, 91
Suffering
for Christ, 50, 226, 241
kinds of Jesus’, 226
refinement by, 43
Superficiality, spiritual, 126
Sympathy, lack of, 361
Tabernacles, feast of, 66
Tax, Temple, 86
Taxes, duty to pay, 86, 321
Teachableness, 15
Teachers, false, confronting, 373
Teaching, parental, 182
Temple, true purpose of, 270
Temptation
Christ’s, 41
resisting, 110
Testimony, deathbed, 10, 16
Testing, divine, 42
Tithing, Christians and, 384
Tolerance, false, 374
Tradition, rabbinic, 3, 337
Transfiguration
date of, 66
Mount of, 62
Triumphal entry, day of, 257
Trust
forgiveness and, 157
parental, 184
Truth
perversion of, 381
rejecting evidence of, 5
Unbelief
arrogance of, 273
blindness of, 273
hardness of, 264, 286, 288, 300, 349, 378, 390
willful, 5, 77
Unity
forgiveness and, 143
with Christ, 103
Universalism, 130
Unrepentance, 135
Vengeance, 152
Wealth, spiritual, 200
Wisdom
limitations of human, 42
worldly, 6
Works, good
divinely provided, 57
evidence of salvation, 57
Works righteousness
basis of human religion, 201
futility of, 192, 202
Worship, God’s presence in, 139
Yahweh. See also Jehovah, 96, 137, 198, 305, 347, 348
Zeal, discipline and, 131
Zealots, description of, 328
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