An Exposition of Deuteronomy

In 1978, Tim James sold his butcher shop in Ogburn Station, a village in the north of Winston-Salem, NC and moved with his wife, Debbie, to Cherokee, North Carolina. A small group on the reservation had invited him to pastor their church. Over 42 years later, Tim continues to pastor at Sequoyah Sovereign Grace Baptist Church.

For all of those years, Tim has preached expositorily through books of the Bible, having preserved his handwritten notes bound in large, three-ring binders in his bookcase. He has made no attempt to have them published, and although visitors to his house have seen them, none had read them.

However, in 2018, Drew Dietz, Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church in Jackson, Missouri, asked Tim if he could use his notes for reference in preaching expositions through a Bible book at his church. The end of the story is this: Drew, being astounded at the narrative style in which he had written them and their simplicity, could not keep them secret. As a result, Tim graciously gave his permission for his entire library of notes to be scanned and published.

No matter the book or text on which you read Tim’s expositions, Old Testament or New Testament, you will rejoice as you read of the glorious faithfulness and work of the Lord Jesus Christ for God’s elect. In simple but profound everyday language you will be comforted in reading of Christ’s fulfillment of God’s law on behalf of the elect. Whether you read his expositions of the Old Testament or New Testament, you will see the revelation of Christ, the justification of his elect through his imputed righteousness and the glorious liberty and freedom he has obtained for them.

In speaking of the true Christian experience of grace from his own experience of gospel freedom in Christ, he may well cause you to pump your fist and declare, “That is me!” God’s revelation of his electing grace in Christ has enabled Tim to write a commentary that captures the spirit and meaning of both the Old Testament and New Testament—Christ is all!