REST! Exodus 34: 21 There were eight sabbaths in the law. Each were given to typify Christ, the believer’s rest (Colossians 2: 16-17; Romans 10: 4.) Creation Work and Rest The LORD points us back to creation when God rested the seventh day, blessing and hallowing that day (Exodus 20:11.) God did not rest for […]
GOD’S CLOSING CALL “Now is the time of God’s favor; behold! now is the day of salvation.” 2 Cor. 6:2 Reader! How does it stand with you? Is the question of your soul’s salvation finally and forever settled? Are you at peace with God? Can you say with Paul, in the prospect of death, “I […]
Consider Jesus– in His Second Appearing “Looking for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.” –Titus 2:13 A Savior ‘to come’ has been the hope of the Church of God in every age and dispensation. The Old Testament saints looked for His coming to save; the saints […]
Good news, for sinners only The gospel is good news because it is the truth of how notably guilty sinners go free because a Substitute died in their place. If you ever find yourself to be the sinner on God’s death row then you will no longer kick against God’s free grace but go out […]
Good news, for sinners only The gospel is good news because it is the truth of how notably guilty sinners go free because a Substitute died in their place. If you ever find yourself to be the sinner on God’s death row then you will no longer kick against God’s free grace but go out […]
Happy, happy, happy day! by Spurgeon “Your eyes shall see him.” I have heard of him, and though I have not seen his face, unceasingly I have adored him. But I shall SEE him! Yes, we shall actually gaze upon the exalted Redeemer! Realize the thought! Is there not a ‘young heaven’ within it? You […]
(Henry Law, “Psalms”) “O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked, and make the righteous secure.” Psalm 7:9 Sights and sounds of evil are anguish to a pious heart. They pain him, because they are abhorrent to his new nature. He turns from them as images […]
He comes! -Spurgeon, “The Beatific Vision” With clouds of angels, cherubim, seraphim, and all the armies of heaven, He comes! With all the forces of nature– thundercloud, and blackness of tempest, the Lord of all makes his triumphant entrance to judge the world! The clouds are the dust of his feet in that terrible day […]
Salvation (J. C. Philpot, “The Accuser of the Brethren) And they were shouting with a mighty shout, “Salvation comes from our God on the throne and from the Lamb!” Revelation 7:10 The sweetest song that heaven ever proclaimed, the most blessed note that ever melted the soul, is salvation. Saved FROM . . . death […]
Oh! The sweet thought to my soul: under all the condemnation of the law, and the curses due to the breaches of it; Jesus is the Mediator, and the Fulfiller of the law, and the complete righteousness of his people. Be thou, my honored Lord, the glorious Head, and Husband, of thy whole family. Thou […]