Nothing can tame savage hearts! (John MacDuff) Oh, the human heart is deep in its corruptions, deep in its self-deceptions. “The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9 Nothing can tame savage hearts, but the regenerating power of the blessed Gospel. “I will cleanse you from […]
THE LORD’S JEWELS by Spurgeon- Goldsmiths make exquisite forms from ‘precious materials’. They fashion the bracelet and the ring from gold. But God makes His precious things out of ‘base materials’. From the black pebbles of the defiling brooks He has taken up stones which He has set in the golden ring of His immutable […]
One continued dream and delusion (Thomas Boston, “Human Nature in its Fourfold State“) “There is no one who understands.” Romans 3:11 “They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” Ephes. 4:18 The natural man’s apprehension of divine […]
The “illuminated” Bible? You may read the Bible continuously and yet never learn anything by it, unless it is illuminated by the Spirit. Then the words shine forth like stars. Then the book seems made of gold leaf; every single letter glitters like a diamond. Oh! it is a blessed thing to read an “illuminated Bible” […]
“The Gospel of God’s grace in Christ Jesus is not a thing to be proved, but truth to be believed. It is not submitted to our reasoning powers as a subject for critical examination. The gospel is a MESSAGE FROM GOD, addressed to the conscience, feelings, and affections. For this reason, men fond of argument […]
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don’t have to play defensive games anymore. We don’t have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore […]
God takes care of poor weak Christians that are struggling with temptations and corruptions; Christ carries them in His arms. All Christ’s sheep are diseased, and therefore He will have a tender care of them (Isaiah 40:11). Richard Sibbes
In affliction look to Jesus (Octavius Winslow) God’s family is a sorrowing family. “I have chosen you,” He says, “in the furnace of affliction.” The history of the church finds its fittest emblem in the burning, yet unconsumed bush, which Moses saw. Man is “born to sorrow;” but the believer is “appointed thereunto.” If he is a “chosen […]
Come To God Hebrews 7:25 The Bible alone, the Book of Holy Scripture, tells us what salvation is and how it may be obtained. The Scriptures alone are able to make us wise unto salvation. Only in the Bible do we read of God’s mercy, love, and grace toward fallen man. The Word of God […]
To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their […]