John Newton’s Letters Difficulties and snares April 15, 1776.My dear Sir,I often rejoice on your behalf. Your call out of the world was a singular, comfortable instance of the power of grace. And when I consider the difficulties and snares of your situation, and that you have been kept in the middle path, preserved from undue compliances […]
THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE PROMISESBy Spurgeon The promises of God are to the believer an ‘inexhaustiblemine of wealth’. Happy is it for him if he knows how tosearch out their secret veins and enrich himself withtheir hidden treasures. They are an ‘armoury’, containing all manner of offensive anddefensive weapons. Blessed is he who has learned to […]
What flowers of mercy! Spurgeon, “David’s Holy Wonder at the Lord’s Great Goodness”What flowers of mercy havebloomed in our pathway! Let us thank God for the mercies we donot see- the innumerable dangers fromwhich we are preserved; the great needswhich are supplied before we know themto be needs; the needs which the Lordour God is pleased to […]
Precious!Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord. A shepherd would not lose one sheep,nor a jeweller one diamond,nor a mother one child,nor a man one limb of his body. Neither will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people.However little we may be, if we are the Lord’s, wemay rejoice that we are […]
Simply Preach Him The message of the Gospel is a very narrow message that encompasses the breadth or the span of God himself. It is narrow in the sense that Christ is its only object. There is nothing that I can preach from the Scriptures that will not find its beginning and end all redounding […]
Afflictions and trials give birth to SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING. We can weep with those who weep only if we have wept alone. We can more readily forgive the fallen from their fallen position if we have fallen and have experienced forgiveness. It is difficult to criticise a fellow cell-mate and impossible to cry “unclean” of […]
In respect to God, the death of Christ was justice and mercy. In respect to this world, the death of Christ was murder and cruelty. In respect to Himself, the death of Christ was obedience and humility. In respect to His elect, the death of Christ was wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. John Flavel Afflictions […]
Building Upon The Foundation 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 It takes no more than a casual reading of 1 Corinthians 3 to realise that the message of this chapter is primarily directed to gospel preachers. Paul is not addressing himself to false prophets, but to men who preach the gospel. God the Holy Spirit inspired the apostle […]
“Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.” 1 Peter 1:5 This salvation takes in all the circumstances of a child of God. It is not only a salvation from wrath to come—that were an immeasurable act of grace—but it is a present salvation, anticipating and providing for every exigency of […]
“He shall sit as a Refiner.”–Malachi 3:3. Simple is the process of refining. Its purpose is clear. It purifies from dross the ore submitted to its test. A furnace is prepared. The metal is placed within. Fire is strongly applied. The action of the overpowering heat produces liquefaction. The worthless parts, which before were intermixed, are […]