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 […]
THE BLESSED HOPE “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose”— “That blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13 This is rest under God’s Palm-trees of promise, with a glorious vista seen through their branches. Their fronds […]
Now out of this eternal union with Christ flows every blessing. Only so far as we have an eternal union with Jesus have we any living union, or any spiritual communion with him. Only so far as we have a standing in Christ from before all worlds have we any saving interest in, or any […]
WHERE DO YOU STAND? Isaiah 28: 14-18 The LORD God Laid the Foundation (v16.) Christ Jesus the Son of God is the foundation (Genesis 49: 24: I Cor 3: 11.) In his eternal purpose God the Father chose his Son to manifest the triune God in a body. He was chosen of God to manifest […]
There are many times when it seems as if this present world could satisfy us—when we build up our earthly paradises, and seek as it were ease and rest here below. But the voice soon comes, “Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted.” Micah 2:10 How continually in the […]