"The everlasting gospel." Revelation 14:6. The gospel is properly called “glad tidings,” for these reasons: We are polluted with the filth of sin; in it is opened a fountain for sin and uncleanness. The way to heaven is blocked up by our sins; it reveals “a new and...
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1. "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand." John 10:10, 28....
"The Lord preserveth the simple; I was brought low, and he helped me." Psalm 116:6. He who walks in godly simplicity and humility, accounting his own infirmities always the greatest, will best be preserved from being puffed up and sifted by the enemy of souls; and...
As simple as it may sound, I love the Lord’s Day because I love the Lord. It is, and has been, for centuries, the day of celebration of the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ. As our heavenly Father rested after His work of creation, and set aside the seventh day...
Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 2 Corinthians. 5:16. What is it to know Christ after the flesh? It is to content ourselves with carnal views of his person, character, and kingdom. This was the case with all those...
Which is the right way to heaven? How do we find this path whereby we share in God’s glory? It isn’t at all where or what we think it might be. It is the same path our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, took, the way that was laid out for Him. And if we are to “come”...
"Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart...
"God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." 2 Corinthians 5:19, 21 It highly concerns believers who...
"I find a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me." Romans 7:21. "O my soul, thou art always striving, yet sin is always stirring; thou fearest the truth of grace, because thou findest the working of sin. But it will be always thus; thou canst not...