THE PROMISES OF GOD “For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in him.” 2 Cor. 1:20 God has made a Will, or Testament, in behalf of His people! It is signed and sealed. It cannot be altered- nothing can divest us of our inheritance. The bequest is His own “exceeding great and precious promises.” What a […]
Your way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be, Lead me by Your own hand Choose out the path for me. “Smooth let it be, or rough, It will be still the best; Winding or straight, it leads Right onward to Your rest. “I dare not choose my lot I would not, if I […]
A question for streetlights. Isaiah 13: 10: For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. When I was a teenager growing up in the country I almost always had a million-candlepower […]
“Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto those who are outside, all these things are said in parables.” Mark 4:11 By “the kingdom of God” is meant the same thing as “the kingdom of heaven,” that is, the internal kingdom set up in the heart by the […]
“BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT FORTH TO SOW.” Matthew 13:1 The man who preaches the gospel is compared to a farmer who sows his fields with seed. As a farmer broadcasts the seed, some falls upon the hard, beaten path, some falls upon stony ground, and some falls among thorns. Of course, seed falling in such […]
THE GREAT CALM “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” Mark 6:50 “It is I” (or as our old version has it, more in accordance with the original), “I AM! do not be afraid!” Jesus lives! His people may dispel their misgivings—Omnipotence treads the waves! To sense it may seem at times to be otherwise—wayward […]
Beware of religion without Christ! Mark 4:1-20 – The Parable of the Sower You may think, “All is well with my soul. No one could ever feel what I feel and experience what I have experienced and yet be lost.” You ought to think again! False faith is a strong delusion, a delusion by which, […]
The BROTHERLY Spirit of the Lord’s Prayer (extract) “Our Father.” Matthew 6:6 But the Lord Jesus came to gather together His people of all nations and tongues around one mercy-seat, teaching them to say–”OUR Father;” thus uniting in the one “household of faith” Jew and Gentile, male and female, bond and free–all one in Christ, and […]
“Through the preaching of the Gospel God gathers and unites His people together as One Body in Christ , as a pool of light separated from, divided from, the darkness of the world around them. The Adversary, however, constantly seeks to do the opposite. He loves to keep God’s people united with the world, and […]
Atonement defined Atonement is the result of Christ’s work of making his people holy and without sin so that we are made one with God. Some have hyphenated the word to show the meaning in the spelling of the word itself: “At-one-ment.” God is holy. God’s elect are sinners. Before God will accept a sinner […]