Author: Bill Pierce

At forty one years of age I was "born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever" (1Peter 1:23). After teaching for three years in a Christian school, for the next three years I attended and graduated from Pensacola Bible Institute. After this I ministered the gospel to the inmates in a California state prison for almost 32 years. During this time I also taught, for about thirty years, through several books of the Holy Bible at the Lighthouse Bible Institute, a ministry of the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California where I was a member. Physical infirmities recently caused me to discontinue the prison ministry, leave California, and move to Tennessee. Now, at 82 years of age, I am hoping to continue to study and teach the wonderful word of God through this website. My prayer is that the saints of God will be edified, and that the Lord will call the lost by his Spirit through the word of God unto salvation.

THE VALUE OF A SOUL

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THE LAMB OF GOD

According to the word of God, the “man Christ Jesus” (1Timothy 2:5) is “without controversy…God…manifest in flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” (1Timothy 3:16; John 1:14) As the two of them went up the mountain, Isaac asked his father Abraham, “…where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering...” (Genesis 22:7-8) This prophecy was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ. John the Baptist declared Jesus to be “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29, 36).

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

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Text: John 8:12-19

The circumstance—Early one morning as Jesus taught the people in the temple, the scribes and Pharisees interrupted him by setting a woman taken in adultery in the midst of them. After seeing and hearing the response of Jesus they, “being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last” (John 8:9) When no man condemned the woman, Jesus said unto her, “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” (John 8:10-11) After his masterful and merciful response to this interruption Jesus continued to teach many things to the people in the temple.

ABRAHAM AND ISAAC

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Text: Genesis 22:1-18

HISTORICAL SIMILITUDE

The LORD said, “I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets” (Hosea 12:10). The event recorded in this passage is not only historically true and faithful, but it is also a wonderful similitude [likeness] of “Jesus Christ the Son of God” (Mark 1:1) being offered by God the Father on the cross “for the sins of the whole world” (1John 2:2), by far the greatest of all historical events!

ABIDING IN THE VINE

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Text: John 15:1-17

SETTING AND CONTEXT

            This passage contains only a of part of the words of Jesus to his apostles in the upper room on the evening of his arrest in the garden, the night before his death on the cross. These words were spoken to the eleven apostles after Judas Iscariot went out into the night to betray him (John 13:11-30). In this text the Lord uses the vine and branches to illustrate how believers are enabled to bear good fruit to the glory of the Father during their lives in this world.

SERVANTS OF THE LORD

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Text: Colossians 3:22-25 [See also Ephesians 6:5-8]

Definitions—A servant is, ‘A person, male or female, that attends another for the purpose of performing menial offices for him, or who is employed by another for such offices or for other labor, and is subject to his command. The word is correlative to master. Servant differs from slave, as the servant's subjection to a master is voluntary, the slave's is not. Every slave is a servant, but every servant is not a slave…A person who voluntarily serves another or acts as his minister…One who [voluntarily] yields obedience to another.’ A slave is, ‘A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no will of his own, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.’ A bondman is, ‘A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.’ (Noah Webster, 1828)

ELECTION

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INTRODUCTION

Definitions—When used as a verb ELECT means to CHOOSE. When used as an adjective ELECT means CHOSEN (Noah Webster, 1828). In the New Testament the words ELECT, ELECTION, and CHOSEN are translated from the same Greek word, eklegoma (Strongs Concordance #1586). And in the Old Testament ELECT and CHOSEN are both translated from the same Hebrew word, bachar (Strongs Concordance #0977). 

FAITHFUL AND TRUE

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INTRODUCTION

Holy borders—The written word of God and the incarnate Word of God are like holy borders for all the paths of God (Psalm 16:11; 17:4; 23:3; 25:10; 119:35; Proverbs 2:8, 20). These borders are inseparable (John 3:34), “For he [the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God] whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.” (John 3:34)

LET US GO ON

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Text: Hebrews 6:1-12

Private interpretations—Some of the many confusing false teachings from this passage are: 1) This is a Christian who lost his salvation. 2) These are only professing believers who never really got saved. 3) The passage only applies to Jews in the tribulation period. 4) The verses are only hypothetical and purely conjectural. Each of these false interpretations ignores the context of the passage, which is addressed to believers concerning their going on unto perfection, that they all may be presented “perfect in Christ Jesus” (Colossians 1:28). Many have been misled and confused by the false teaching that salvation is the subject of this passage.

TWO DAYS IN PROPHECY

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INTRODUCTION

This topic is established upon scripture: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:4). These scriptures declare that a thousand years to men on earth is as one day with the Lord. This truth will be demonstrated with several amazing examples.

ALL THINGS NEW

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WONDERFUL DECLARATIONS OF GOD

God’s foreknowledge—“Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” (Acts 15:18) Therefore God the LORD says: “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” (Isaiah 42:9), and “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:9-10), and“there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” (Isaiah 45:21-22) Sitting upon his throne “the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13) said unto John: “Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful” (Revelation 21:5).