Category: Occasional Papers by W T Turpin
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13 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. This Side Jordan and Beyond
It is solemn to reflect on the various ways in which the enemy of the truth of God and of His people is at work to set aside His purpose in their blessing. The variety of means resorted to, in order to discredit the prime thought of God for the…
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12 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. “My thoughts are not your thoughts.”
2 Corinthians 12:1-10. It is an interesting fact that there are three instances in scripture, two in the Old Testament and one in the New, of saints making requests to God earnestly, which God did not answer; three distinct instances of unanswered prayers; and these too, as I say, offered…
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11 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. The Power of Weakness
Genesis 32. It is well for us that the blessed God never abandons His purpose to bless His people, and well for us too that He blesses after the thoughts of His own heart; this being so, what limit can we put to the blessing? It is both instructive and…
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10 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 41:51-52. The names of Joseph’s sons, born to him in the land of his exile, are full of the deepest interest and significance; his own history, remarkable and chequered as it was, I do not here refer to further than to notice, how it sets forth in figure and…
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9 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. The Artificial and the Spiritual
2 Corinthians 3:18. It is very clear and distinct, feeble though the measure be in which the soul apprehends it, that it is only as we are occupied with Christ where He is that we are like Him in our ways. “But we all, with open face beholding as in…
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8 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. Surpassing Glory and Surpassing Power
Publisher: G. Morrish 2 Corinthians 3:7 — 4:9. There is a great contrast introduced, in this third chapter, between the ministry which had its day on this earth and that ministry which is now in progress, and, I may say, very near its close. It is of importance to understand…
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7 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. The Ensnaring Effects of the Visible
It is solemn to reflect, in this day, on how the visible and the human are being used to supplant the invisible and the spiritual. Every art of the enemy, his profound skill and dexterity, his many-sided and deeply laid plots, are all in requisition at this moment to destroy, if it were possible, and in any case,…
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6 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. Divine Affections and Their Object
There are many true and earnest souls at the present time sorely perplexed and tried because of the absence in them of those qualities which they really long for, as suitable to Christ dwelling in the heart by faith. In proportion to their reality, and uprightness of conscience, is their…
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5 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. “My earnest expectation.”
Philippians 1. 23-25; 3:17-21. May I say just one word about this question of the body, in reference to the place that it was intended of God to fill, as the vessel for the display of Christ’s power at this present moment. I would inquire, How far are we intelligently with God…
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4 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. “Delivered unto death.”
Genesis 32:24-31; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. There appear to me to be in the history of Jacob remarkable instances of the two distinct times that the blessed God consciously conducts a soul into the solitude of His presence. The first is in chapter 18, when, as a poor wanderer from his father’s…
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3 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. The Servant of the Lord
We are passing through a period which is very distinctly delineated in Scripture as “perilous times” of “the last days,” and for which special instruction is vouchsafed. The rocks and shoals, with which the troubled waters of our time abound, are all divinely marked out for us in that epistle…
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2 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. “His heart and his hand.”
Numbers 13; Joshua. 14. It is most important to understand the moral condition of Israel at this time; otherwise great difficulty must be experienced in seeking to apprehend why Jehovah permitted Moses to send out spies to search the land of Canaan. A careful study of Deuteronomy will very clearly demonstrate…
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1 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Occasional Paper. “One thing.”
Mark 10:17-27; Psalm 27:4-6. Publisher: G. Morrish The connection of these two scriptures is exceedingly interesting, because of the occurrence of the same words in them: “One thing.” Whilst in the young man in Mark 10 there was one thing that was lacking, with the saint, as in the Psalmist, there was, on…
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