A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians

by George Campbell Morgan

Publisher:

Fleming H. Revell

, 1902

Overview

The letters to the seven churches in Asia, contained in the book of Revelation, were written by the apostle John. Morgan dissects the messages they contain, helping his readers understand the relevance and importance today in studying the last book of the Bible.

Key Features

• Biblical insight from one of the greatest theologians from the turn of the 20th century
• Exegetical analysis of the book of Revelation

Contents

Top Highlights

“This description is surely most remarkable. The church at work, labouring at the work, patiently persistent in the labour that produced the work. The church refusing to have fellowship with evil men, observing the false philosophy of certain teaching and rejecting it. The church, persistent in its faithfulness and unwearying in its service. If the Master, visiting the church to which we belong uttered such words as these, should we not feel that they constituted the highest commendation that could possibly be passed?” (Page 38)

“My personal conviction is that the Nicolaitans were persons who excused certain forms of impurity, and made the grace of God a cloak for lasciviousness. I believe the heresy was that known in latter days as Antinomianism, which declares that grace is sufficient for salvation, and that life is of little moment. This heresy will be dealt with more fully in considering the letter to Pergamum.” (Page 39)

“God is revealed as supreme in the government of the universe, the Spirit as the light and activity of that government, and Jesus as the faithful Witness, and as ruling the kings of the earth.” (Page 9)

“and suffering there is no voice, it may be that the silence of the Lord is His highest commendation” (Page 65)

“from such an apparently hurried commencement there came eventually a strong and remarkable church.” (Page 31)

Product Details

• Title: A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians
• Author: G. Campbell Morgan
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revel
• Publication Date: 1902
• Pages: 217

About George Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan (1863–1945) was a pastor and leading Bible scholar. He was a contemporary of Rodney “Gipsy” Smith and preached his first sermon at age 13. A few years after Morgan was ordained to the Congregational ministry, D. L. Moody invited him to teach at the Moody Bible Institute. Morgan became the director of Northfield Bible Conference after Moody.

He was the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London from 1904 to 1919 and then from 1933 to 1943, pausing for a brief period to work at Biola in Los Angeles. In 1939, Morgan began to mentor Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who would eventually become his successor at Westminster Chapel.

Morgan’s essay entitled The Purposes of the Incarnation is included in a collection called The Fundamentals, a set of 90 essays that is widely considered to be the foundation of the modern Fundamentalist movement. Several of Morgan’s writings are in G. Campbell Morgan Collection (30 vols.), including The Analyzed Bible, Discipleship, The True Estimate of Life and How to Live, and many more. He is also the author of God’s Perfect Will and The Crises of the Christ.