| | Baptism of Suffering by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: Suffering
Scripture(s): John 1:6, Luke 3:16 | | Description: Parkyns explains how the baptism of “fire” really means the baptism of suffering. Christ’s followers are not only baptized with the Spirit, but also with the fire of suffering. It is a privilege to suffer for his name’s sake, and we can even rejoice in trials.
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| | Church History - Session 1 (The Book of Acts 1) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Acts 1-8 | | Description: Edgar Parkyns presents a concise, panoramic view of God's dealing with Jew and Gentile through the Book of Acts. He draws wonderful insight of fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies as they pertain to the first 8 chapters. Parkyn's keys on the gospel advance to the Jew first (chapters 1 - 7), Jewish prejudices of the apostolic church that hindered outreach to Samaria and beyond, and into the transition period for the Gentiles (chapters 8 - 10).
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| | Church History - Session 1 (The Book of Acts 2) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Acts 813, Galatians 1:152:13 | | Description: Parkyns wraps up his insightful commentary on the conversion of the Ethiopian in Acts 8 and digs out nuggets of truth from the salvation experience of Paul (Acts 9) and then Cornelius, the first Gentile Christian (Acts 10). Parkyns shows both triumph and tragedy of the apostolic church, and how even Jesus best apostles can get put on the shelf through prejudice and delayed obedience. He shows how God began to use insignificant men and the apostle Paul at Antioch to bring His promised blessing to the Gentile world.
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| | Church History - Session 10 (Modern Times) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Revelation 14-22 | | Description: Parkyns highlights the developments of the Church in the 19th and 20th centuries, citing the unprecedented missionary expansion and great revivals, including the Pentecostal restoration and charismatic movement. 'Springtime and harvest,' he observes, 'are all in one.' He then concludes the book of Revelation with a bit of review of chapter 14, historical fulfillment of the vials in chapter 15, and a panoramic sweep to the end of the book.
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| | Church History - Session 2 (Growth from Antioch) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Acts 20,28;2 Timothy 3;Matthew 13 | | Description: Parkyns shares four reasons that caused the explosive growth of Christianity in the late 1st century and 2nd century. He identified the growing seeds of failure, such as the tendency to 'bind the gospel with legal restrictions.' Both Paul and Jesus warned of corruption in the Church; the reality of the grace of God and the gifts of the Spirit were lost. Increasing differences between laity and clergy developed into an 'obey us' mentality and the growing corruption gave birth to hermit movements.
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| | Church History - Session 2 (Persecution From Rome) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: Church History
Scripture(s): 1 Thessalonians 3, Luke 21:12-24, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-7 | | Description: Parkyns keys upon God's agents of purifying the Church: the lordship of the Holy Spirit and persecution. Ten major persecutions in the 1st and 2nd centuries, along with some key martyrs, are outlined. Parkyns highlights major heresies that arose during that timeframe and how the 'official church' began branding Bible believing Christians as heretics.
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| | Church History - Session 3 (After Augustus) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: Church History
Scripture(s): Daniel 2, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 | | Description: Parkyns commences a new era in the Church from the 4th through 6th centuries. Persecution of the 1st and 2nd centuries phased out as Christianity became universally accepted starting with Constantine (313 AD). New creeds formed to combat new heresies, but even the biblically based creeds turned into dead orthodoxy, which gave rise to counter movements. Parkyns outlines gospel developments, monastic orders, and adoption of paganism by the 'official church' in Europe (particularly the British Isles), the rise to preeminence of the bishop of Rome, and a renewed interest in the Church about the coming of the Antichrist.
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| | Church History - Session 3 (Prophecy in the Church Age) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: Church History
Scripture(s): Revelation 1,Daniel 12:4 | | Description: Parkyns refutes the idea that Scripture is silent about the Church age between Christ's first and second coming. He introduces the book of Revelation as a love letter from the Bridegroom to the Bride about what to expect, though written in code, to be understood by His Word. Parkyns sees God behind the scenes of Chuch history, not this net of jumbled doctrines, personalities and heresies as many have portrayed it.
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| | Church History - Session 4 (Fullfillment (cont'd)) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Revelation 4-5 | | Description: 'Prophecy's main service,' says Parkyns, 'is to demonstrate God's hand in history. He demonstrates how prophecy how people can miss fulfillment by always looking to the future, case in point being the Jews still looking for their Messiah. Parkyns wonderfully shows the old testament to new testament "mapping" in Revelation chapter 4 and chapter 5, expounding on three exciting shifts that have taken place in heaven.
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| | Church History - Session 4 (Prophecy Fulfilled in History) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: | | Description: Edwin Parkyns delivers a good synopsis of all the teachings up to this point, and then launches out into the fall of Rome and the rise of the papacy. He shows how official Christendom degenerated from the 4th - 10th centuries as the Roman church became apostate, just as Jesus and Paul predicted would happen. Although the gospel was largely obscure, Parkyns points out that God has always had His remnant according to grace, preaching the pure gospel in spite of persecution.
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| | Church History - Session 5 (A New Roman Empire) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: | | Description: Parkyns continues his fascinating unfolding of Church history as we wends his way through the growing supremacy of the papacy, the mushrooming of monasteries, clashes with Islam in the Crusades and against Jews and finally Bible adhering believers in Europe. Parkyns demonstrates how the pope fulfilled prophesy of the pope taking the place of God in the church, changing times and laws, subduing kingdoms, and persecuting the remnant of true believers.
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| | Church History - Session 5 (History and Old Testament Prophecy) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: Church History
Scripture(s): Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Revelation 17 | | Description: Did prophecy foresee the significant events in the Church age, or did it overlook them? Is the book of Revelation speaking of things totally in the future, or are there legitimate evidence from the historical record that indeed show that prophecy has been completed? Join Edgar Parkyns as he sheds light upon the often mysterious apocalyptic language of prophecy--"the ten horns", "the man of sin"--and presents these alongside the obvious events of the history of the Church. You be the judge!
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| | Church History - Session 7 (The Book of Revelation) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: | | Description: Edgar Parkyns begins with a review from Session 6 on into the suffering saints like the Waldensians, Wycliffe and John Huss. He then masterfully compares the first six trumpet judgments with the historical events of the 5th through 15th centuries to which they correlate.
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| | Church History - Session 7 (The Suffering Church in the Middle Ages) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: | | Description: Parkyns describes the sad story of the corruptions of the papacy leading up to the time of the Reformation. He then describes the story of Martin Luther and his discovery of justification by faith, the bittersweet times that followed, other reformers whom God raised up, such as Zwingle and Calvin, and the break in Britain with the Roman Church.
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| | Church History - Session 8 (The Book of Revelation) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Revelation 12-13 | | Description: Continuing from Session 8 (Historical Sequence), Parkyns finishes up with Revelation chapter 12 and its historical fulfillments, on into chapter 13 of authority and warfare of the beast and how terribly the Church suffered under its relentless warfare. Parkyns offers an explanation of what the mark of the beast was from the 10th through 17th centuries. The latter half is the session is left for various questions about the theme.
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| | Church History - Session 8 (The Book of Revelation: a historic sequence) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Revelation 11-12 | | Description: Parkyns briefly reviews Session 7 and then explains the meaning of the 1260 days and how it was fulfilled by events of the Reformation. He methodically dissects chapter 11, explaining the symbology of the two witnesses and their resurrection, citing different martyrs who stood for Christ and testified against the Roman Antichrist. He concludes with chapter 12 by unfolding the meaning of the woman clothed with the sun and other symbols.
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| | Church History - Session 9 (The Book of Revelation) by Edgar F. Parkyns
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Scripture(s): Revelation 14, Revelation 17 | | Description: Parkyns continues from Session 9 (The Reformation) to describe the declining influence of the papacy as European nations broke away one by one. He shows how there is a designed pattern and contrast between the false church and the true church between Revelation 17 and 21. Parkyns describes the exciting historical fulfillment of the first six angels of Revelation 14 and how the final one has yet to call out for a final harvest of judgment.
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| | Church History - Session 9 (The Reformation) by Edgar F. Parkyns
Topic: | | Description: Parkyns wades through the 'difficulties which met the flood of new light' of the Reformation. The opposition came from the Roman Catholic Church, the new Jesuit societies and within the ranks of the reformers themselves. The reformed churches slid into the same corruptions as the Roman Church from which they left, but God raised up new men--George Fox, Count Zinzendorf, the Wesleys, George Whitfield and many others to reverse the tide.
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