“WALKING IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD” Acts 9:31 Believers are men and women who walk in the fear of the Lord. God’s people do not have a slavish dread of God. We are not afraid to speak to him and about him. We are not afraid that he will become angry with us, disinherit […]
From the end of the earth will I cry unto you. When my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2 There is something in this expression in our text, “rock,” which seems, to my mind, to throw a sweet and blessed light upon what Jesus is to the […]
The Lord Jesus Christ Christ Jesus the Son of God, is the Seed of Woman, the Promised Seed (Genesis 3: 15;Galatians 3: 16). He is the Man who took and sowed the seed (Hebrews 2: 16; John 12: 24). Those who think themselves something when they are nothing are called “cedars of Lebanon” “oaks of Bashan”. But he […]
The Kingdom of Heaven The Lord declares his kingdom, his church, is like a grain of mustard seed. The church began from very small beginnings; so small that it came without observation (Luke 17: 20-21). The King and his children born of his Spirit is the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God has been […]
Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God… It is the business of all false religion to patch up a righteousness in which the sinner is to stand before God. But it is the business of the glorious gospel to bring near to us, by the hand […]
The Individual Believer Eternal life is by the Seed being sown within us–Christ in you the hope of glory. We begin as babes. And children grow up. The Lord compared faith to a grain of mustard seed, we grow in faith. Believers are complete in Christ–it is not the measure of our faith that makes […]
CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL “The Lord is my portion, says my soul.” “Christ is all, and in all.”–Col. 3:11 We close these devout meditations with a magnificent Doxology–Christ all, and Christ in all! It is an epitome, the substance, the consummation and crown of the whole. Each theme has been a wider opening […]
“For we who have believed enter into rest.” Hebrews 4:3 To rest is to ‘lean’ upon something. Is it not so spiritually? We need to lean upon something. The Lord himself has given us this figure. “Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved?” The figure of “a rock” on which […]
You might as soon yoke a gnat with an archangel as think of your going in to help Christ save you. To join a filthy rag from off a dunghill with the golden garments of a king or a queen cannot be permitted. Christ will be everything, or else he will be nothing. You must […]
I believe that Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a saved state. Not to put them where they could save themselves, but to do the work in them and for them, from first to last. If I did not believe that there was might going forth […]