Living Commentary! Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. – Psalm 119:117 We are poor, weak, inconsistent creatures if left but a little to ourselves. When I think how cold, dull and heartless I have been; how often I have wandered, how often trifled […]
The religious professor receives doctrines because he sees them in the Bible. The believer not only sees them in the Book, but he feels them in his heart, put there by the Holy Spirit. The believer gets at truth through trouble. He arrives at the banquet of mercy through sharp pangs of hunger. He lays […]
He cannot see, nor know, nor feel If we take the Scriptures as our authority, in what a fearful state is mankind at large! O, how awfully fallen—O, how deeply sunk, man is! And yet one feature of man’s ruined state is his complete ignorance of the depths of the fall. Though the sinful child of a […]
Absolutes of the Gospel Norm Day and I were discussing the character of God and His salvation and Norm used a word which so clearly expresses the gospel we preach and believe and love – “absolute.” Let’s look at some absolutes of God. The scriptures are absolutely the holy, inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God. […]
The cross has not become obsolete! (Horatius Bonar, “The Surety’s Cross”) “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 The whole world looked with contempt-indignant at the audacity of a few humble Christians, thus . . . affronting and defying […]
Conversion Jeremiah 31:18-20 Conversion is the turning of God’s elect to Christ by the power of his grace. It is a willing turn of rebels to Christ as their King, surrendering to his dominion. Yet, it is a turning that is caused by God’s free grace. We turn to him, because he has turned us […]
The divine hammer!Spurgeon, “Preach, Preach, Preach Everywhere” You do not know who the elect are. You do not know whose heart will be broken by the divine hammer of truth.But it is your responsibility to use the divine hammer on the hard heart. And as the gospel is preached it will attract to itself, by […]
The importance and truth of the Gospel salvation is witnessed to in heaven, by “the Father, the Word, and the Spirit.” It is witnessed to on earth, by “the Spirit, the water, and the blood,” 1Jo. 26 5:7-8. The spirit, in 1Jo. 26 5:8, (I apprehend) denotes a Divine light in the understanding, communicated by the […]
“The Wrath Of God Is Revealed” Romans 1:18 Yes the God of heaven is a God of wrath. In a generation which has given itself unashamedly to the gods of greed, ambition, sex, pride, and self-will, the church mumbles on about the love, tenderness, goodness, kindness, and grace of God. We rejoice that “God is love”, and […]
“Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the other apostles, Men and brethren what shall we do?” Acts 2:37 A cut to the heart is very painful. To be cut anywhere is not a thing to be desired, but a cut to the heart would not merely be […]