“Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” Ephesians 2:19 If grace has touched your heart; if the love of God has come into your soul, it has placed you among the saints of the Most High, and given you every privilege which […]
“Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.”Psalm 107:6 Oh what a mercy it is that there is a God to go lo! a God who hears and answers prayer! And what a blessing it is to be able to unbosom before him the burdened spirit! […]
The Law of Moses (Excerpted from Philpot’s sermon, “Not Our Own”) Imagine that you are ignorant of the gospel and of God’s way of preventing evil and of bringing about good– and were called upon to design some plan whereby a man might be most effectually restrained from the commission of sin, and made obedient […]
The flesh (J. C. Philpot) “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.” John 3:6 There is no promise made that in this life, we shall be set free from the indwelling and the in-working of sin. Many think that their flesh is to become “progressively holier and holier”–that sin after sin is to be removed […]
The kingship of Christ (J. C. Philpot, “Meditations on the Blessed Redeemer”) “King of kings and Lord of lords!” Revelation 19:16 The kingship of Christ is full of sweet consolation to the tried family of God. As Zion’s enthroned King, He supplies His people out of His own inexhaustible fullness! To Him, as our enthroned King, […]
Personal, spiritual, experimental knowledge of Jesus It is our dim, scanty, and imperfect knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in His eternal love—and in His grace and glory—which leaves us so often cold, lifeless, and dead in our affections towards Him. If there were more blessed revelations to our soul of the Person and work, grace […]
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty!” Isaiah 33:17 Where in heaven or on earth can there be found such a lovely Object as the Son of God? If you have never seen any beauty in Jesus . . . you have never seen Jesus, He has never revealed Himself to you, you […]
“Your life will I give unto you for a prey in all places where you go.” Jeremiah 45:5 There is a life given to the elect when the blessed Spirit quickens their souls–a life eternal, communicated to them out of the fullness of the Son of God. This life is a personal, individual life; and […]
“O send forth Your light and Your truth, let them guide me.” Psalm 43:3 The Christian is often dissatisfied with his state. He is well aware of the shallowness of his attainments in the divine life, as well as of the ignorance and the blindness that are in him. He cannot perceive the path of life. […]
The wilderness (J. C. Philpot, “The Valley of Achor” 1861) “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.” Hosea 2:14 The children of God would not voluntarily go into the wilderness–it is a place too barren for them to enter, except as allured […]