EXTRACTS

1 Corinthians develops wisdom, but it is called “hidden wisdom”, and I believe that is available in the temple, and it is wisdom that was predetermined before the ages for our glory. So we have resources that existed before the world; all will remember the well-known allusion to Hebron—that it was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. “His princes were at Zoan”. It would appear to be the place of worldly wisdom, and I believe that many of us are there in dealing with assembly matters, bringing in the ordinary methods of the world in grouping together locally, one against another, instead of resorting to inquiry together as the temple. Then you get at the resources that were before the world, and so you are sure to undo what Satan is doing. They are the only methods, the only resources capable of undoing what Satan has built up in this world.

J. Taylor (Vol. 25, pp.191, 192)

They stood up (Nehemiah 8: 5, 6) and assented by the words, “Amen, Amen!” We cannot always take examples in the Old Testament literally, but I think it is good for brethren to say,

‘Amen’; it shows that we are listening and are moving in the current of the Spirit.

J. Taylor (Vol. 81, p.120)

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