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Author Archives: P. C. Johnson

HANDEL’S MESSIAH

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MOST of us will have heard excerpts or whole performances of Handel’s Messiah at some time in our lives. Using text from the Authorized Version of the Bible, Handel set to work in 1741 to compose this magnificent oratorio obviously subject to intense divine inspiration. He completed the whole work in twenty-two days and remarked…

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‘THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD’ (I CORINTHIANS 3:19)

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THIS foolishness of man is nowhere more apparent today than in the widespread disbelief and misbelief by the majority of mankind, in the teachings of the Bible. Paul also states in I Corinthians 2:14: “The natural (unredeemed) man receiveth not the things of the (holy) Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither…

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I AM GOD AND NOT MAN

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This title is a quotation from Hosea 11:9… “I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; (the ten tribe House of Israel) for I am God and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee” SCRIPTURE gives us a wealth of information about our heavenly…

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COME AND LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD

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THOSE of us who recognise the present day identities of the Children of Israel would do well to consider the many very important prophecies in the Holy Bible which directly relate to Israel at this present time. The words of Hosea 6:1 “COME AND LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” were written in the eighth…

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