Rightly Dividing The Word

RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD

By

CLARENCE LARKIN

Author of the Great Book on

"DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH"

And Other Biblical Works

Copyrighted by

Clarence Larkin

All Rights Reserved

THIS BOOK IS

DEDICATED

TO THE "DIVINE INTERPRETER"

THE HOLY SPIRIT

WHO THROUGH THE YEARS HAS BEEN MY TEACHER AND HELPER

IN

"RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD."

Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1 - Rightly Dividing the Word

Chapter 2 - Ages and Dispensations

Chapter 3 - Jew and Gentile

Chapter 4 - Church and Kingdom

Chapter 5 - The Four Gospels

Chapter 6 - The Two Advents

Chapter 7 - The Spirit World

Chapter 8 - Satan

Chapter 9 - The Satanic Trinity

Chapter 10 - The "Mystery of Godliness" and the ''Mystery of Iniquity"

Chapter 11 - Resurrection of Jesus

Chapter 12 - The Resurrections

Chapter 13 - The Judgments

Chapter 14 - The Two Adams

Chapter 15 - Atonement and Redemption

Chapter 16 - Sin and Salvation

Chapter 17 - Law and Grace

Chapter 18 - Faith and Works

Chapter 19 - The Two Natures

Chapter 20 - Standing and State

Chapter 21 - Regeneration and Baptism

Chapter 22 - Election and Free-will

Chapter 23 - The Reciprocal Indwelling of Christ and the Believer

Chapter 24 - The Threefold Work of Christ

Chapter 25 - Christ Our Passover

Chapter 26 - Heaven and Hell

Chapter 27 - Judasim and Christianity

Chapter 28 - The Circles of the Christian Life

Chapter 29 - Palace Beautiful, or the Christian Life Under the Similitude of a Palace

FOREWORD

The Author started to prepare an "A," "B," "C," book to introduce his larger Work on

"DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH,"

but after writing and condensing several times he felt led to abandon that idea and to prepare a book on "Rightly

Dividing the Word," in which the "Fundamental Doctrines" should be "Rightly Divided" in a series of contrasts. The

"Fundamental Doctrines" of the Christian Faith are clearly outlined in numerous books on Theology, but they are not

available to the average reader and were mainly written for students. The Author has made it the work of his ministry to

preach the "Fundamental Doctrines." To this end he has aimed to express them in the simplest and clearest manner

possible. This book contains the cream and meat of his sermons for over thirty-five years, condensed and arranged in a

form that will grip and interest the reader, because of the manner of their presentation. The Charts are clear and simple

and add much to the value of the book, and will be suggestive to Preachers and Bible Teachers in presenting the

"Fundamentals."

The book does not contain the opinions of the Author, nor quotations from other writers, but is based solely on the

Scriptures, chapter and verse being given for every statement. The book is "Timely" in these days of Apostasy and

denial of THE FAITH. The purpose of the book is to confirm in the Faith those who are wavering, and to instruct those

who have not been clearly taught the great cardinal Doctrines of the Christian Faith.

THE AUTHOR.

"SUNNYSIDE,"

Foxchase, Phila., Pa.

December, 1920.

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Rightly Dividing the Word

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING

THE WORD OF TRUTH." 2Ti 2:15.

The Holy Scriptures are not a systematic treatise on Theology, History, Science or any other topic. They are a

REVELATION from God of His Plan and Purpose in the Ages as to the earth and the human race. They were given to

us piecemeal "at sundry times and in divers manners." Heb 1:1. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the

Holy Spirit during a period of 1600 years, extending from B. C. 1492 to A. D. 100. The Bible consists of 66 separate

books; 39 in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New. These books were written by about 40 different authors. By kings,

such as David and Solomon; statesmen, as Daniel and Nehemiah; priests, as Ezra; men learned in the wisdom of Egypt

as Moses; men learned in Jewish law, as Paul. By a herdsman, Amos; a tax-gatherer, Matthew; fishermen, as Peter,

James and John, who were "unlearned and ignorant" men; a physician, Luke; and such mighty "seers" as Isaiah, Ezekiel

and Zechariah.

It is not an Asiatic book though it was written in that part of the world. Its pages were penned in the Wilderness of

Sinai, the cliffs of Arabia, the hills and towns of Palestine, the courts of the Temple, the schools of the prophets at

Bethel and Jericho, in the palace of Shushan in Persia, on the banks of the river Chebar in Babylonia, in the dungeons of

Rome, and on the lonely Isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea.

While the Bible has been compiled in the manner described, it is not a "heterogeneous jumble" of ancient history,

myths, legends, religious speculations and apocalyptic literature. There is a progress of revelation and doctrine in it.

The Judges knew more than the Patriarchs, the Prophets than the Judges, the Apostles than

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