Writings from: ELDER CHET DIRKES

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    Questions and Answers

  • Born Anew   A question that was sparked from reading Elder Smoot’s “The Contest” (Added: 8/25/11)
  • Brethren   A reply to a question on this word from John 20:17 from a brother. (Added: 1/23/09)
  • Conditional Salvation   Thoughts on this subject. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Cremation   Thoughts on this topic. (Added: 8/25/11)
  • Divorce & Remarriage   Very brief but good thoughts on this subject. (Added: 5/23/12)
  • Ephesians 1:3-12   A reply to a question on this section of scripture. (Added: 8/25/11)
  • Faith to Faith   A question on this saying in Scripture. (Added: 9/4/12)
  • Freedom from sin?   A letter that Elder Dirkes wrote in response to this question?
  • Inner Man, The   A question on "The Banner of Hope" Volume 7, No. 1 (Added: 2/26/13)
  • Jeremiah 7:31   A question on the last part of the vese. (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Permit or Allow   A question on these words in Scripture. (Added: 8/18/12)
  • 2 Peter 2:1   False teachers? (Added: 8/25/11)
  • 2 Peter 2:1   A continuation of the first reply. (Added: 8/25/11)
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 & Voting   A question on these two topics. (Added: 12/5/11)
  • 1 Chronicles 13 & 15   A comparison of the two chapters. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Chronicles 13 & 15   Part Two. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Chronicles 16   The conduct of David. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Chronciles 29:10   “Wherefore David blessed Jehovah...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • 1 Corinthians 5:7   “Now Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Corinthians 6:11   “and such were some of you but ye are washed,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Corinthians 10:12   “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Corinthians 15   How Messiah MUST be crucified (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Corinthians 15:1   “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • II Chronicles 19:7   “Wherefore now let the fear of Jehovah be upon you,...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • 2 Corinthians 10:4   “For though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh:” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Corinthians 12:1-11   (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Deuteronomy 19:15   “the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ecclesiastes 1:4   One generation passeth away , and another generation cometh;
  • Ecclesiastes 3:11   “He maketh everything beautiful in its time; ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ephesians 3:16   “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ephesians 4:1; Colossians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:12   ...walking worthy... (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ephesians 6:10   “Finally brethren...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ephesians 6:11   The armour of God. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Exodus 20:1   “And God spake all these words saying, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Exodus 25:22   “And there I will meet with thee and I will commune with thee...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ezra 3:1   “And when the seventh month was come,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Ezra 3:12   “But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers...” (Added: 5/23/12)
  • Galatians 4:27-29   “Stand fast therefore in the liberty ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Galatians 5:1   “For it is written, Rejoice, barren that bearest not; ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Genesis 1   (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Genesis 6   Dealings of the Lord with Noah. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Genesis 30:31   “...And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything: ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Haggai 2:3   “Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory...” (Added: 5/23/12)
  • Hebrews 8   A comparison between the first covenant at Sinai and the new covenant. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Hebrews 8:1   “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Hebrews 10:19   “Having, therefore, brethren boldness to enter into the holiest...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Hebrews 13:5   “Let you conversation be without covetousness and be content...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Hosea 11:1   “When Israel was a child I loved him and called my son out of Egypt.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Hebrews 12:18 & 22   “For ye are not come unto the mount...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • Hosea 14:1   “O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 35:3f   “Strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 35:10   “The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come unto Zion with songs ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 39   (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 40   “to whom will you liken God and who is My equal.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 40:1   “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 40:1   “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • Isaiah 40:9   “O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up to the high mountain;...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 40:11-19   “God's testimony to His people of His greatness.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 41:10   Comfort ye my people. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 51:1   “Hearken unto Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah.” (Added: 3/7/12)
  • Isaiah 51:1-8   “Fear thou not for I am with thee; ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 56:2   “Blessed is the man that doeth this and the son of man that layeth hold...” (Added: 3/7/12)
  • Isaiah 56:3   “Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord...” (Added: 3/7/12)
  • Isaiah 59:19   “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Isaiah 62:1   “For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace...” (Added: 3/7/12)
  • Jeremiah 7:30   “Tophet, the place of fire,...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Jeremiah 10:13   “He hath made the earth by His power...” (Added: 4/10/12)
  • Jeremiah 25:15   “For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Job 2:10   “...Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • John 6:27   “Labour not for the meat which perisheth...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • Job 7:17   “What is man that thou shouldest magnify him and set thine heart upon him?” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Job 9:2   “I know it is of a truth but how should man be just before God?” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Job 10:1   “My soul is weary of my life...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Job 11:1ff   “Then answered Zophar the Naanathite and said,...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Job 13:23   “How many are mine iniquities and sins? ...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Job 16:11 & 17   “God hath delivered me to the ungodly...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Job 16:19   “Also now, Behold, my witness is in heaven and my record is on high.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Job 19:6   “Know now that God hath overthrown me...” (Added: 9/4/12)
  • Job 21:22   “Shall any teach God knowledge...” (Added: 9/4/12)
  • Job 23:10   “But He knoweth the way that I take...” (Added: 9/4/12)
  • Job 27:2f   “The living God has taken my judgment away...” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • Job 28:12   “But where shall wisdom be found...?” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • Job 29:14   “I put on righteousness and it clothed me:...” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • Job 40:7   “Gird up thy loins now like a man,...” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • John 4:1   - Thoughts on the woman at the well. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 4:31-35   “In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 4:35   “Lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 6:1-4   “After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee which is of Tiberias, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 6:14   “Then those men, when they saw the miracle that Jesus did, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 10:5   “And a stranger will they not follow, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 10:11   “The good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 10:14   “I am the good shepherd and know my sheep...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 16:1   “These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 16:33   “These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 17:1   “These words spake Jesus and lifting up his eyes to heaven...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • John 18:4   “These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 John 4:19   “We love Him because He first loved us.” (Added: 1/24/12)
  • 1 John 5:20   “And we know that the Son of God is come...” (Added: 1/24/12)
  • Jonah 1:17   “Now Jehovah had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah...” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • 1 Kings 6:37   “In the fourth year was the foundation...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • 1 Kings 11:1   “Now king Solomon loved many strange women, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Leviticus 23:24   The Feasts of the Lord of 'Trumpets' and 'Yom Kippor'. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 1:5   “There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 1:24   “And after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 5:27   The calling of Matthew. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 9:62   “...No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back...” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • Luke 11   “Hallowed by thy name.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 11:1   “And it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 12:22   “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Luke 15:1   “Then drew near unto Him all the pubilcans and sinners for to hear Him.” (Added: 1/24/12)
  • Luke 16:22   “And it came to pass that the beggar died...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • Luke 22:16   “For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Malachi 3:16   “Then spake together the fearers of Jehovah...” (Added: 5/23/12)
  • Mark 10:17   “Good Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Matthew 2   With particular reference to King Herod. (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Matthew 6:5   “And when you pray...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Matthew 11:19   “Wisdom is justified of her children.” (Added: 4/10/12)
  • Matthew 15:12   “Then came His disciples and said unto Him...” (Added: 4/10/12)
  • Matthew 16:1   “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came tempting Him, ....” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Matthew 16:6   “Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Matthew 20:20   “Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Micah 4:1   “all people shall flow unto it” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Numbers 9:23   “At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Peter 1:7   “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 1 Peter 5:8   “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Peter 1:12   “Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Peter 1:15   “Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Peter 1:23   “being born anew, not of corruptible see but of incorruptible ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Peter 2:8   “For that righteous man, dwelling among them...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • Philippians 1:27   “Only let you conversation be as becometh the gospel of Christ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Philippians 2:1-7   “Since there is a standing in Christ,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Philippians 3:3   “For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit...;”. (Added: 5/29/12)
  • Philippians 4:11   “Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 1:1   “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 16:5   “The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and my cup; ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 19:1-9   “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 19:10   “More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold:...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 19:12f   “Who can understand his error?...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 23   (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 48:12   “Walk about Zion and go about her, tell the towers thereof...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 62   “My soul waits only upon Elohim.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 62   “To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 103   “Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me bless His Holy name...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 106:4   “Remember me, O Lord, with the favour of thy people: ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 119:32-40   “I will run the way of thy commandments, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 119:57   “Jehovah is my portion.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 119:129   “Thy testimonies are wondrous; therefore doth my soul keep them.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Psalm 132   (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 5:9   “And they sang a new song, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 12:17   “And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 14:1   “...a Lamb stood on Mount Zion and with Him ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 14:1   “...a Lamb stood on Mount Zion and with Him ...” (Added: 10/30/12)
  • Revelation 15:1-4   “and I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 15:5   “And after that I looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 21:9   “And there came unto me one of the seven angels...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Revelation 21:22   “And I saw no temple in it...” (Added: 12/25/12)
  • Revelation 22:1-3   “And he shewed me a pure river of life, clear as crystal...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Romans 8:20   “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Romans 8:28   “And we know that all things work together for good...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Romans 8:37-39   “Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Romans 9:14   “What shall we say then, is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Romans 12:1 & 2   “I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • Romans 12:3   “For I say,... not to think more highly than he ought to think...” (Added: 8/18/12)
  • Romans 13:12ff   “The night is far spent, the day is at hand.” (Added: 1/24/12)
  • Ruth 4:1-8   “The custom of the time that pointed to the feet ...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Samuel 7:1-17   “It came to pass” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Samuel 9:13   “So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalmen...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Samuel 22:4   “I will call on the Lord, worthy to be praised...” (Added: 5/23/12)
  • 2 Samuel 23:1ff   “Now these be the last words of David...” (Added: 5/23/12)
  • Song of Solomon 5:9   “What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved...” (Added: 4/10/12)
  • 2 Timothy 1:7-9   “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear,...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Timothy 1:11   “Where unto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle...” (Added: 1/1/12)
  • 2 Timothy 1:12   “For which cause I also suffer these things,...” (Added: 1/1/12)