REVERENCE FOR GOD’S WORD Octavius Winslow “And Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, even what my God says, that will I speak.” –2 Chron. 18:13 Micaiah was a God-fearing prophet. His fidelity to the Lord stands in striking and instructive contrast with the worldly policy of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, who joined affinity with Ahab, […]
Consider Jesus– Our Paymaster “He was oppressed.” –Isa. 53:7 The Hebrew word here rendered “oppressed,” signifies to exact, or, to demand payment. It is so rendered in the following passage–”The creditor shall not EXACT of his neighbor, nor of his brother, in the year of release.” The word taskmaster comes from the same root; and […]
“For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to support those who are tempted.” Hebrews 2:18 DO YOU THINK, my reader, was it no humiliation for the Son of God to be thus assailed by the prince of darkness? Was it no degradation, that His dignity should be questioned, His authority […]
Consider Jesus– in the Exercise of Praise “I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises.” –Hebrews 2:12 These are the words of Jesus quoted by the apostle from a prophetical psalm concerning Him. We have considered Him as teaching us by His example to pray; […]
THE BELIEVER’S SUFFICIENCY OF GOD “Then I said, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak–for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child–for you shall go to all that I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Be not afraid of their faces–for […]
JEHOVAH’S JEWELS “They shall be Mine, says the Lord, in that day when I make up my jewels.”–Mal. 3:17 That which the merchant regards as most costly, and the bride as most ornamental, Jehovah condescends to employ to illustrate the character and relation of His saints–“My Jewels.” My soul, if, through sovereign grace, you have […]
WHAT IS THE NEW BIRTH? In conversion the soul is ushered into a new, spiritual world—emphatically born again. The first birth introduces us into the natural world; the second introduces us into a spiritual world. The first birth ushers us into a world of sin, and woe, and death; the second birth, into a world […]
An experimental Christian? (Winslow, “This God is Our God”) The religion of the true believer is experimental; it is the religion of the heart. He has no dealings with an unknown, imaginary God. He does not know God from the hearing of the ear, or from the reading of books, or from the religious conversation of […]
Everlasting Love Isaiah 54: 10: The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you. [Believer] consider the love of God for you, as everlasting love. It never did, it never […]
It is utterly impossible! (Octavius Winslow, 1852) It has been the distinctive aim, and the sincere desire of my ministry — to make known and to endear the Savior to your hearts. Oh, how worthy is He . . . of your most exalted conceptions, of your most implicit confidence, of your most self-denying service, […]