The Robe! From Spurgeon’s, “The Treasure of Grace” God’s children are wrapped around with a robe, a seamless robe, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of it, were it once lost. For texture it excels the fine linen of the merchants; for whiteness it is purer than the driven snow; no looms on earth […]
God Sees No Sin In His People “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel.” Numbers 23:21 These words do not suggest that there was no sin or perverseness in Israel. There was an abundance of perverseness among them; but the Lord God did not mark the sins of […]
You might as soon yoke a gnat with an archangel as think of your going in to help Christ save you. To join a filthy rag from off a dunghill with the golden garments of a king or a queen cannot be permitted. Christ will be everything, or else he will be nothing. You must […]
“You are absolutely beautiful, My beloved! There is no spot in you!” Song of Solomon 4:7Having pronounced His Church positively full of beauty—our Lord confirms His praise by a precious negative, “There is no spot in you!” As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the carping world would insinuate that He had only mentioned her […]
“Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God… It is the business of all false religion to patch up a righteousness in which the sinner is to stand before God. But it is the business of the glorious gospel to bring near to us, by the hand […]
You will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if you had trusted to your sins. There is a ‘clean’ path to hell as well as a ‘dirty’ one. There is as sure a road to perdition along the ‘highway of morality’, as sure as down the slough of vice. […]