Have you ever noticed how believers who have been severely tried under the hand of God become more cautious and humble?  They do not speak quite so fast as they used to speak; they do not have a ready solution for every problem; they do not boast of what they have done, will do, or […]

SICKNESS John 11:3 Our Lord’s friend, Lazarus, was very sick. When his sisters saw their brother in grave danger, they sent this message to the Lord Jesus, “He whom thou lovest is sick.” Martha and Mary knew that Lazarus’ sickness was not an indication of the Lord’s anger or displeasure. And they knew that the […]

Every sinner that God saves has to come out of his hiding place and become real before God. You just can’t run the aisle, dedicate your life, and think you will get to Heaven on that. God doesn’t do business that way with a sinner. There are many covers a sinner will run to and […]

Houses built on the sands of self-righteousness, works, and law will soon develop many faults. They are usually out-of-plumb or unbalanced.  They lean one way or the other: big on prophecy and little on grace—heavy on healing and silent on substitution—strong on sanctification and weak on justification! They develop cracks in their structure which make the dwellers uncomfortable […]

*Believers in the Lord Jesus are now looked upon as having died with Christ; laid in the grave with Christ; been raised with Christ; perfectly accepted in Him; their sins, their iniquities, their transgressions, and their enmity having been entirely paid for and put away by the cross. I close with this question. Is this […]

A man is never so fit for believing as when he is most unfit. It is unfitness, not fitness, that is really required. What is fitness for being washed? Filth! What is fitness for receiving pardon? Guilt! If you are filthy, if you are guilty, you have all the fitness that is required. So, come […]

“It shall be well with the righteous”  – Isaiah 3:10 In spiritual things all your temptation, all your darkness, all your wandering God will overrule.  It shall be well with you.  There shall never be a night, but that morning shall come; there shall never be a day of trouble, but a day of prosperity […]

When we have the mind of Christ, we see God in everything, we see Christ as Everything, we see ourselves as nothing.        ~John Chapman Pride and Grace  David said, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes” (Psalm 119:71).  Strong people are apt to be […]

“Now I See”           John 9:25 David Brainard described his experience of God’s saving grace by declaring that five powerful truths dawned upon his soul, by which all his carnal hopes were slain, by which he was at last brought to faith in Christ. My own experience of grace is an echo of his. I saw […]

IS JESUS CHRIST YOUR SUBSTITUTE? A certain man was drafted into the French army in the early-1800s. A friend volunteered to serve in his place. The substitution was accepted. The substitute was killed in a battle. Later, the first man was drafted again. He went to the draft board and told them that they could […]