The essential difference between false and true religion is this: All false religion makes salvation to be ultimately dependent upon and determined by the worth, work, or will of the sinner; whereas true religion declares, with Jonah, “Salvation is of the Lord!” In its planning, in its purchase, in its performance, in its preservation, and […]
David said, “I have been young, and now am old: yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). God will never forsake a righteous man. This gives us some glimpse of what was going on while Christ hung on the cross. He was certainly the righteous man. He […]
Then Moses said to him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here…..” Exodus 33:15 What a needed and solemn petition! God’s presence, going with us! Such is the response of every true God fearing, Christ loving heart. The believer has learned to understand the nature of God’s favour, […]
A strange college! “Salvation is of the Lord.” -Jonah 2:9. JONAH learned this sentence of good theology in a strange college. He learned it in the whale’s belly, at the bottom of the mountains, with the weeds wrapped about his head, when he supposed that the earth with her bars was about him forever. Most […]
A strange college! “Salvation is of the Lord.” -Jonah 2:9. JONAH learned this sentence of good theology in a strange college. He learned it in the whale’s belly, at the bottom of the mountains, with the weeds wrapped about his head, when he supposed that the earth with her bars was about him forever. Most […]
Covenant Broken, Covenant Fulfilled Ezekiel 17: 1-24 The everlasting covenant of God is the covenant God the Father and God the Son made with each other before the world began. It was the terms of his covenant oath to which Christ referred on the cross when he said, “It is finished!” When God writes his […]
Covenant Mercies Tom Harding Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my […]
THE EVERLASTING COVENANT OF GRACE Before the world was, when God dwelt alone in the bliss of his own ineffable glory, the three Persons of the blessed Trinity held a counsel of peace and established an everlasting covenant of grace, by which the everlasting salvation of God’s elect and the glory of God in their […]
THE FAREWELL GIFT “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose”— “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.” John 14:27 No shadow of the figurative grove of Elim is more grateful to the children of […]
Because He loves you… From Spurgeon’s sermon, “CHASTISEMENT” When God afflicts his child, the chastisement is applied in love, and his strokes are, all of them, put there by the hand of love. The rod has been baptized in deep affection before it is laid on the believer’s back. God does not afflict willingly, nor […]