Your burden is on his shoulder! (adapted from Octavius Winslow’s, “The Believers Triumph”) Rom. 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Jesus, amid the honours and splendours to which God […]
Hitherto! (Charles Spurgeon) “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying: “Hitherto has the Lord helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12 The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord has […]
All the devil’s tricks! J.C.Philpot 2Cor. 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. Satan is so wily—his agents so surround us—their designs are so masked—their language so plausible—their manners so insinuating—their appearance often so imposing—their arguments so subtle—their activity so unwearied—their insight into our weaknesses […]
… and were by nature children of wrath, even as others. Eph.2:3 Are you a believer? Are you what is called a saved person, a child of God? If so, how did that come about? Why did God save you? If your answer is, “because I believed in Jesus,” then you are over-qualified to be […]
… and were by nature children of wrath, even as others. Eph.2:3 Are you a believer? Are you what is called a saved person, a child of God? If so, how did that come about? Why did God save you? If your answer is, “because I believed in Jesus,” then you are over-qualified to be […]
THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE by Don Fortner “And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.” — Jeremiah 24:7 There are some men and women in […]
If I wash myself with snow J.C.Philpot By nature, man knows nothing of the purity and perfection of God—or the deep sinfulness and corruption of the creature. There is a veil over man’s heart—a veil of ignorance—of delusion—of unbelief—of self-deception as regards the nature of sin. No man is vitally and experimentally acquainted with—its hideous […]
The greatest religious deception this world has ever known! (by Don Fortner) We are living in perilous times! We are living in the midst of the greatest religious apostasy ever known. Freewill, works religion is the greatest religious deception this world has ever known. This man centered, man exalting, man pleasing; God debasing, God hating […]
“It is God who justifies.” Romans 8:33. Octavius Winslow Behold the eternal security of the weakest believer in Jesus. The act of justification, once passed under the great seal of the resurrection of Christ, God can never revoke without denying Himself. Here is our safety. Here is the ground of our dauntless challenge, “Who shall […]
As many heads as a Hydra, and as many lives as a cat! (John Newton) Beware of SELF! This is the worst enemy we have to deal with! Self-will, self-wisdom, self-righteousness, self-seeking, self-dependence, and self-boasting. It is a large family — and I cannot count up all the branches! They are all nearly related to […]