Idling life away like an idiot or a madman (Joseph Philpot, “The Soul’s Growth in Grace” 1837) When one is spiritually reborn, he sees at one and the same moment . . . God and self, justice and guilt, power and helplessness, a holy law and a broken commandment, eternity and time, the purity of […]
“The church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.” Acts 20:28J.C.PhilpotAtonement for sin stands or falls with the Deity of Christ. If we denyhis Deity, we must deny the atonement, for what value or merit can therebe in the blood of a mere man that God, for its sake, should pardonmillions of […]
How can they escape?J.C.PhilpotWhy, the Lord ‘keeps their feet’. He carries themthrough every rough place—as a tender parentcarries a little child. When about to fall—Hegraciously lays His everlasting arms underneaththem. And when tottering and stumbling, andtheir feet ready to slip—He mercifully upholdsthem from falling altogether. But do you think that He has not different waysfor […]
Preserving grace before regeneration (J.C. Philpot, “Daily Words for Zion’s Wayfarers”) “To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ.” Jude 1 What a mercy it is for God’s people, that before they have a ‘vital union’ with Christ, before they are grafted into Him experimentally […]
When we are reduced to poverty and beggary How often we seem not to have any real religion,or enjoy any solid comfort! How often are our mindscovered with deep darkness! How often does theLord hide Himself, so that we cannot behold Him,nor get near to Him! What a painful path is thisto walk in, but […]
When we are reduced to poverty and beggary How often we seem not to have any real religion,or enjoy any solid comfort! How often are our mindscovered with deep darkness! How often does theLord hide Himself, so that we cannot behold Him,nor get near to Him! What a painful path is thisto walk in, but […]
The religion which I want (Letters of J. C. Philpot) I am quite sick of modern religion–it is such a mixture, such a medley, such a compromise. I find much, indeed, of this religion in my own heart, for it suits the flesh well–but I would not have it so, and grieve it should be […]
Sanctification By J. C. Philpot As from the cross flows all salvation, so from the cross flows all sanctification. What have not men done, to make themselves holy; and by this means render themselves, as they have thought, acceptable to God! What tortures of body, what fastings, scourgings, self-imposed penances to sanctify their sinful nature, […]
Even your own relatives think you are almost insane (J. C. Philpot, “The Abiding Comforter” 1858) “The Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him,because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.”John 14:17 The world—that is, the world dead in sin, and theworld dead in profession—men destitute of the lifeand power of God—must have something […]
The religionists of the day (J. C. Philpot, “Faith’s Standing-Ground” 1862) “And everyone will hate you because of yourallegiance to Me.” Luke 21:17 Professors of religion have always been thedeadliest enemies of the children of God. Who were so opposed to the blessed Lord as theScribes and Pharisees? It was the religious teachersand leaders who […]