Jesus sustains no association to His Church more expressive than that of the marriage relationship. From all eternity He forever betrothed her to Himself. He asked her at the hands of her Father—and the Father gave her to Him. He entered into a covenant that she would be His. The conditions of that covenant were […]
THE SALT ROOM “Every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. Leviticus 2:13 Every minute detail, both in substance and service in the ceremonial law ordained […]
“The LORD is my shepherd; I have everything I need!” Psalm 23:1 The shepherd is a favorite Scriptural picture of the divine love and care. In the Old Testament, the twenty-third Psalm gathers the whole wonderful truth in exquisite lines, which are dear to young and old wherever the Bible is known. Then in the New Testament, when […]
The great fish college! The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Perseverance of the Saints” #872. Phil.1:6. Along the road from sin to heaven, from the first leaving of the swine trough of sin, right up to the joyful entrance into the eternal banquet, and the music and dancing of glorified spirits, every step we take […]
Salvation is of the Lord. When the Lord Jesus Christ met that young-rich ruler, who sought salvation by his good works, He quickly showed this man that he actually had no good works that would justify his soul. Although this man had claimed he had kept the law, “All these have I observed from my […]
The essential difference between false and true religion is this: All false religion makes salvation to be ultimately dependent upon and determined by the worth, work, or will of the sinner; whereas true religion declares, with Jonah, “Salvation is of the Lord!” In its planning, in its purchase, in its performance, in its preservation, and […]
A strange college! “Salvation is of the Lord.” -Jonah 2:9. JONAH learned this sentence of good theology in a strange college. He learned it in the whale’s belly, at the bottom of the mountains, with the weeds wrapped about his head, when he supposed that the earth with her bars was about him forever. Most […]
THE FAREWELL GIFT “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose”— “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.” John 14:27 No shadow of the figurative grove of Elim is more grateful to the children of […]
Oh! what a pillow on which to rest your aching head! (John MacDuff) “If need be!” 1 Peter 1:6 Three gracious words! Not one of all my tears has been shed for nothing! Not one stroke of the rod has been unneeded — or might have been spared! Your heavenly Father loves you too much, […]
Christ is our Jonah! (William Dyer, “Christ’s Famous Titles”) “Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea–and the sea stopped its raging!”Jonah 1:15 Christ is our Jonah, who threw Himself into the sea of His Father’s wrath–to save us from everlasting perdition.