The Agony in Gethsemane The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Agony in Gethsemane” #1199. Luke 22:44 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” Matthew 26:38 “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Luke […]
Your filth will be washed away! (J. C. Philpot, “The Clean Water Sprinkled” 1866) O, what loathsome monsters of iniquity—how polluted, filthy, and vile do we feel ourselves to be—when the guilt of our sin is charged home upon our conscience! Have you not sometimes loathed yourselves on account of your abominations? Has not the […]
Smite the Shepherd “And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and […]
The sword of Divine justice buried in His sinless heart! (Henry Law, “Family Prayers”) Holy Father, We blush to lift up our eyes unto You, O God of all grace and love. Shame and confusion of face humble us to the very dust. Wherever You have been boundless in mercy–we have been abundant in sin! […]
IT IS THE BLOOD THAT SAVES “And He said unto them, This is My blood of the new testament, shed for many.”–Mark 14:24 Never did those lips, upon which grace shed its divinest, sweetest fragrance, utter words so precious as these. The language is figurative, but the truth is literal. “This is My blood,” or, […]
“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priest and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him (Jesus) unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.” (Matthew 26:14-15) Ever since he “betrayed innocent blood” (Matthew 27:3-4), selling the Lord Jesus to […]
Oh! the glory! From Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Best Beloved” Do you say that Christ is altogether lovely? It is not enough. It is not a thousandth part enough! No tongue of man, no tongue of angel, can ever set forth his unutterable beauties! But the day shall presently dawn and usher in the everlasting age […]
A union which will last forever! (John MacDuff, “The Christian’s Pathway” 1858″) “My Beloved is mine — and I am His!” Song of Songs 2:14 This is the language of the Christian in the book of Canticles. How great is the blessedness involved in such an assurance! My beloved Jesus is mine . . . […]
Good news, for sinners only The gospel is good news because it is the truth of how notably guilty sinners go free because a Substitute died in their place. If you ever find yourself to be the sinner on God’s death row then you will no longer kick against God’s free grace but go out […]
Now out of this eternal union with Christ flows every blessing. Only so far as we have an eternal union with Jesus have we any living union, or any spiritual communion with him. Only so far as we have a standing in Christ from before all worlds have we any saving interest in, or any […]