The ocean of Divine love!(by Octavius Winslow) The love of God to His people was as eternalas the eternity of His being, as everlasting asHis uncreated nature. “I have loved you withan everlasting love.” It panted, it yearned foran outlet. It sought and found it in Christ. Nowhere in the heavens above, or in theearth […]
Eternal love!-Spurgeon’s sermon, “Good Cheer for Christmas” Every child of God is the object of eternal love–love without beginning and without end.This is one of the fat things full of marrow. Is it so, that I, a believer in Jesus, unworthy as I am,am the object of the eternal love of God? What transport lies in […]
WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US I John 4:19 We may differ on many points. But in this one thing every true child of God is like every other child of God-“We love him”. We do not love him as we desire. We do not love him as we know we should. We do […]
“Herein is Our Love made Perfect” 1 John 4:17 “Herein is our love made perfect.” Those words, as suggested by our translators in the margin of our Bible, might be better translated, “Herein is his love with us made perfect.” John is not talking about us loving God perfectly or loving one another perfectly. […]
John 14:16-28 “The Comforter’s Love” John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever […]
That wonderful medicine!(Letters of J. C. Philpot) “who forgiveth all thine iniquities;who healeth all thy diseases” Psalm 103:3 What a mass of . . . filth and folly, blindness and ignorance, deceit and hypocrisy, carnality, sensuality, and devilism are we! Prone to all that is bad, utterly averse to allthat is good–bent upon sin–hating holiness,heavenly-mindedness, and spirituality–whatearthly […]
His heart is a fountain of mercy, and its streams are perpetually flowing! (“Heavenly Aspirations!” John MacDuff, 1818-1895) Luke 7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city […]
Adam, the First and the Second We fell in the first Adam through no fault of our own, we rise in the second Adam through no merit of our own, so we rise in the same manner as we fell, only in a different person. It is the Free Grace of God that we are […]
Sanctifying grace, as well as pardoning mercy! (“Every Day!” Author unknown, 1872) “You shall call His name Jesus — for He shall save His people from their sins!” Matthew 1:21 Jesus! Precious name, how sweet it is! How well it befits Him who bears it — and how glorious is the salvation which He accomplishes! […]
“Smile, God Loves You” Those who endorse and promote the above statement are ignorant of two basic biblical truths. They are ignorant of the holy character and nature of God, and of the fallen sinful nature of man. By their natures God and fallen man are enemies. They naturally hate one another. God is holy […]