Judas and Simon Peter What was the difference between the sin of Judas and the sin of Simon Peter? What they did to our Lord seemed similar yet Simon was forgiven and converted, while Judas hanged himself and was damned. Every believer has worried at some point that they could turn out to be a […]
Betraying Christ with a kiss Judas betrayed his Master with a KISS! He came to the Lord with evil in his heart, the price of a compromise in his hand, religious devils at his side, and said, “Hail Master”, as he planted a KISS on the Lord’s cheek! This is how most apostates and compromisers […]
The Agony in Gethsemane The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Agony in Gethsemane” #1199. Luke 22:44 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” Matthew 26:38 “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Luke […]
Your filth will be washed away! (J. C. Philpot, “The Clean Water Sprinkled” 1866) O, what loathsome monsters of iniquity—how polluted, filthy, and vile do we feel ourselves to be—when the guilt of our sin is charged home upon our conscience! Have you not sometimes loathed yourselves on account of your abominations? Has not the […]
Smite the Shepherd “And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and […]
The sword of Divine justice buried in His sinless heart! (Henry Law, “Family Prayers”) Holy Father, We blush to lift up our eyes unto You, O God of all grace and love. Shame and confusion of face humble us to the very dust. Wherever You have been boundless in mercy–we have been abundant in sin! […]
IT IS THE BLOOD THAT SAVES “And He said unto them, This is My blood of the new testament, shed for many.”–Mark 14:24 Never did those lips, upon which grace shed its divinest, sweetest fragrance, utter words so precious as these. The language is figurative, but the truth is literal. “This is My blood,” or, […]
DIVINE TREASURES “How precious also are Your thoughts unto me, O God!” And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. Malachi 3:17 The preceding context tells us of “a […]
Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas (J. C. Philpot) “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.” 2 Cor. 7:10 These two kinds of repentance are to be carefully distinguished from each other; though they are often sadly confounded. Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas, all repented. But […]
He is full—infinitely full! “The only begotten of the Father—full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 Ah! He is full of grace. Had He not been—I would never have been saved. He drew me when I struggled to escape from His grace; and when at last I came all trembling like a condemned culprit to […]