My beloved (Octavius Winslow, “None Like Christ” 1866) “How is your beloved better than others?” Song of Solomon 5:9 Does the world challenge– “How is your beloved better than others?” Your answer is at hand– “My beloved bore my sins, and opened in His heart a fountain in which I am washed whiter than snow! […]
Justice Satisfied “When I see the blood, l will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13). My own sight of the precious blood is for my comfort; but it is the LORD’s sight of it which secures my safety. Even when I am unable to behold it, the LORD looks at it and passes over me because […]
WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED? Holy Scriptures teach an effectual atonement based upon the fact of Who He was who died to atone. Such a blood shedding could never be in vain in any sense when we consider the infinite value of the person who shed His blood. Paul, to show the […]
True mourning for sin has a distinct and constant reference to the Lord Jesus. If I hate sin because I am exposed, I have not repented; I merely regret that I have been found out. If I hate sin because of judgment and hell, I have not repented; I merely regret that God is just. […]
Christ and Him Crucified. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified (I Corinthians 2:2) The apostle Paul declared to a heathen world, and a church being led astray by foolish pride and worldly wisdom, that he preached Christ and Him crucified. The gospel is a person. […]
Of Time and Eternity Today, men talk about salvation only as something done in the experience of time with eternal consequences. But in the Bible salvation is described as something done by God in eternity past, revealed and experienced in time, and enjoyed in eternity future. Read the Word of God, marking the verb tenses […]
Sovereign Grace Is The Gospel Let us state clearly our understanding of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is the message of God’s love and saving grace to particular sinners by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the God-man. Where there is no preaching of substitutionary atonement, covenant guarantor and representation of […]
FUTURE UNFOLDINGS -John MacDuff. “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose”— “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” John 13:7 A gracious ‘whisper’ into the ear of an ardent and loving but impetuous apostle, from Him who was Himself […]
Sovereign Grace Is The Gospel Let us state clearly our understanding of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is the message of God’s love and saving grace to particular sinners by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the God-man. Where there is no preaching of substitutionary atonement, covenant guarantor and representation of […]
“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.” Song of Solomon 5:13 Lo, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on your holiday attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. […]