Category: Writings of F G Patterson
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Chapter 5, Lessons for the Wilderness. Thoughts on some typical incidents of Israel’s deliverance and pilgrimage. by F G Patterson
The Threefold Chord of Praise Exodus 15 is the first song ever sung — which we hear of in the Word of God! Never had souls stood in the consciousness of God’s salvation before this time. We search in vain in the Book of Genesis for a record of redemption. We…
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Chapter 4, Lessons for the Wilderness. Thoughts on some typical incidents of Israel’s deliverance and pilgrimage. by F G Patterson
Preparation for the Journey However, Israel must not only be sheltered in the place of judgment; but he must be redeemed out of the place of death. Without this last all was incomplete; until this was done they still stood in the old place of bondage, and there was no…
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Chapter 3, Lessons for the Wilderness. Thoughts on some typical incidents of Israel’s deliverance and pilgrimage. by F G Patterson
Preparation for the Journey I pass over the “signs and wonders, in the land of Ham” and the varied compromises of the enemy. I come now to the moment when all was approaching that solemn night of judgment: that crisis when all was brought to the final test; and every…
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Chapter 2, Lessons for the Wilderness. Thoughts on some typical incidents of Israel’s deliverance and pilgrimage. by F G Patterson
Initiatory Lessons When we come, further on in this book, to examine the details from the night of the Passover until the morning of praise (Exodus 12-15), we find that all are based upon these opening thoughts of Exodus. The details give us the varied features of the great facts…
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Chapter 1, Lessons for the Wilderness. Thoughts on some typical incidents of Israel’s deliverance and pilgrimage. by F G Patterson
“In the desert God will teach thee What the God that thou hast found:Patient, gracious, powerful, holy, All His grace shall there abound.” Preface The thoughts in these papers were written during a long sea voyage from Great Britain to Melbourne, in 1882. The writer trusts that the Lord may use them…
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Chapter 9, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
Conclusion. We have now passed along the chain of the great dispensational dealings of God in their larger features, as through grace we have been enabled: from the fall of man in the garden of Eden to the eternal state. We read in Psalm 25, “The meek will he guide in…
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Chapter 8, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
Satan Loosed for a Little Season, the Great White Throne, and the Eternal State. After the close of the kingdom, before Christ delivers up the kingdom to the Father, and God is “all in all,” we find another testimony of man’s ruin. Having beheld Christ, and having been set in…
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Chapter 7, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The Glory, or Kingdom. The short period of universal judgment which we have been considering cleanses the sphere of the kingdom from everything which offends, and them which do iniquity: and ends in the coming of the Son of man Himself with power and great glory, to execute the last…
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Chapter 6, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The Judgment of Israel and the Nations Introductive of the Kingdom. In the opening subject of our considerations of the ways of God, we mentioned that the prophetic scriptures are occupied with earthly events, and embrace five great leading and distinct subjects, some of which, if not all, are often…
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Chapter 5, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The Corruption of Christendom. We have seen, in some measure, the nature and unity of the Church of God, and her heavenly calling — the Church to which Christ has imparted the glory given to Him, as man, by God the Father. The glory was His by right as the…
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Chapter 4, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The Calling of the Church, and Her Glory. We turn to Psalm 2 and we read, “Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed (or, Christ), saying, Let us…
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Chapter 3, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The Times of the Gentiles, and Their Judgment. We have shortly traced the past history of the people of Israel to the Babylonish captivity, when the sentence “Lo Ammi” (not my people) was passed upon them, the presence of Jehovah, or the glory, departed from their midst, and the government…
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Chapter 2, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The Past History of the People of Israel. After our short survey of the general dealings of God, we now come to consider His ways, as exhibited more in detail; and in doing so we turn to that people, or nation, which was peculiarly the platform for their display, in…
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Chapter 1, The Ways of God. Government, Grace, and Glory. by F G Patterson
The General Scope of the Dealings of God. At a time like the present, so full of events crowding themselves together in the history of this present age — an age which ends with consequences so deep and solemn to the world, and so full of blessing to the Christian,…
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Chapter 22, The Lord’s Host. A few thoughts on Christian Position, Conflict, Hope. by F G Patterson
“The Last Trump:” Conclusion. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). There is but one command more for which the Host of the Lord now waits — a precious, glorious word!…
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Chapter 21, The Lord’s Host. A few thoughts on Christian Position, Conflict, Hope. by F G Patterson
Unity of Action; Diversity of Operation: Joshua’s Spear. Before we close, perhaps some practical thoughts on the living activities of the Lord’s Host may be helpful to some. May the Lord direct us in our thoughts. There is a sentence in the sixth Chapter of Joshua which has much power…
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Chapter 20, Part 3, The Lord’s Host. A few thoughts on Christian Position, Conflict, Hope. by F G Patterson
Realization: the Seven Trumpets of Rams’ Horns. We have now reached the closing part of our meditations. We turned aside at the end of Joshua 5 to examine the condition of soul unfolded in the “Whole armour of God,” and needed by the Lord’s people in order successfully to face the foe…
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Chapter 19, The Lord’s Host. A few thoughts on Christian Position, Conflict, Hope. by F G Patterson
“Good Success” in our Spiritual Warfare. “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto…
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Chapter 18, The Lord’s Host. A few thoughts on Christian Position, Conflict, Hope. by F G Patterson
Condition of Soul: Prayer. We now come to the last mighty weapon in this “whole armour of God.” The breathing of His people’s hearts to God by prayer, when they have been formed by His word — His breath to us! It is the characteristic feature of Christian life; obedience…
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Chapter 17, The Lord’s Host. A few thoughts on Christian Position, Conflict, Hope. by F G Patterson
Condition of Soul: the Helmet of Salvation: and the Sword of the Spirit. If the Shield of Faith conveys to us the soul’s perfect confidence in what God is, in His own unchangeable nature: the Helmet of Salvation teaches us what God has done for us, known and enjoyed in the soul; and with…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 