Sign Seeking Hypocrites Mark 8: 10-13 Nothing is more contemptuous than religious infidelity and hypocrisy. The scriptures tell us here that “He sighed deeply in his Spirit.” Here is the God of glory sighing, sighing deeply in his spirit, groaning as one in painful vexation of soul. Then he said, “Why doth this generation seek […]
– An undressing from his sins and infirmities (Charles Spurgeon) “They will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25:46 There is an essential difference between the death of the godly—and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man—as a penal infliction; but to the righteous— as […]
The Parable Of The Wicked Husbandmen Matt. 21:33-46 It is a serious mistake for anyone to read this parable and say, “That applies to the Jews. It has no reference to me.” This parable addresses us just as fully as it did the priests and Pharisees to whom it was originally spoken. The message of […]
MARK 11:27-33 ¶ And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, (28) And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things? (29) And Jesus […]
“This is the First Resurrection” “This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:5-6). The first resurrection is a […]
Forgiveness Works Clay Curtis If a man has ever truly heard the spirit of the law speak and beheld a glimpse of the depth of his sin, if he’s had fear strike his soul at the law’s condemning sentence, “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!” then heard the Lord Jesus Christ whisper, “Lo, this hath touched thy lips; […]
The tower of Babel and God’s temple The Tower of Babel was a temple, probably in the style of the stepped pyramids or “ziggurats”. It was a monument to man’s rebellion against God in trying to make his own way into God’s favor. We can learn something of the difference between the religions of man […]
“Faith in Christ is not to work but to cease from our labour and to rest in Him for all things. Faith in Christ is not to do anything, but to believe and own that all is done in Him, by Him, and is imputed to us so fully that we are rewarded as if […]
Through Faith Alone A man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law (Romans 3:28). ”By faith alone” was the motto of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. It was radical then. It is just as radical now. It does not mean quietism, that is, “Let Christ live the victorious life in […]
“The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him; and he will show them his covenant.” Psalm 25:14 There is no truth more offensive to the carnal mind, nor one more sweet to those taught of God than this—that true religion is of a spiritual and supernatural character. That God should dwell in […]