The Man Jesus Christ “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5) This Man is no ordinary man. This Man is himself God. He is the God-man. He became a man that he might redeem men. He lived in this world as the Representative […]

Sir, We Would See Jesus Our brother Patrick recently stepped behind our pulpit, directed our attention to John 12:21, and announced he would preach to us on “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” He certainly and immediately had my attention – for “Sir, I wish to see Jesus!” Jesus is the only subject I desire […]

EVERLASTING LOVE “How precious also are Your thoughts unto me, O God!” I have loved you, My people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to Myself. Jeremiah 31:3 Here we have an everlasting thought of God, “in the beginning, before ever the earth was.” Believer, travel back in imagination to […]

The Mighty Magnet “And I, if l be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32). Come, ye workers, be encouraged. You fear that you cannot draw a congregation. Try the preaching of a crucified, risen, and ascended Savior; for this is the greatest “draw” that was ever yet manifested […]

The Mighty Magnet “And I, if l be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32). Come, ye workers, be encouraged. You fear that you cannot draw a congregation. Try the preaching of a crucified, risen, and ascended Savior; for this is the greatest “draw” that was ever yet manifested […]

Friend, can you understand my riddle? (J. C. Philpot, “Letters & Memoirs”) I find that sin has such power over me, that though I call on the Lord again and again for deliverance, I seem to be as weak as ever when temptation comes. If a window were placed in my bosom, what filth and […]

THE GREAT COMPROMISE Acts 5: 17, 18 The Pharisee claimed to worship Jehovah but they differed from the Sadducee in that they believed that there would be a resurrection from the dead. The Sadducees claimed to believe Jehovah but they differed from the Pharisee in that they believed there was no resurrection. Yet, these differences […]

Sign Seeking Hypocrites Mark 8: 10-13 Nothing is more contemptuous than religious infidelity and hypocrisy. The scriptures tell us here that “He sighed deeply in his Spirit.” Here is the God of glory sighing, sighing deeply in his spirit, groaning as one in painful vexation of soul. Then he said, “Why doth this generation seek […]

– An undressing from his sins and infirmities (Charles Spurgeon) “They will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25:46 There is an essential difference between the death of the godly—and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man—as a penal infliction; but to the righteous— as […]

The Parable Of The Wicked Husbandmen Matt. 21:33-46 It is a serious mistake for anyone to read this parable and say, “That applies to the Jews. It has no reference to me.” This parable addresses us just as fully as it did the priests and Pharisees to whom it was originally spoken. The message of […]