And thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21. Sin is the deadliest foe we have; it cast our first parents out of paradise; it defaced God’s image in man; it brought pain, sickness, and death into the world, and a...
Tell his disciples and Peter. Mark 16:7. If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John 2:1,2. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. Hebrews 12:12 Hast thou been slack, unfaithful, and fallen...
Prayer shall be made for him continually, and daily shall he be praised. Psa. 7:15 O what a condescending King we have, who may always be approached. Who would not pray? You say, O that my coldness and indifference would permit me to do it. But are you not...
The fashion of this world passeth away. 1 Cor. 7:31. As long as we feed on the husks of the world, and are in love with it, we are neither willing nor able to taste the comforts of the love of God; but when sin and the world are become an abomination to us, and we...
18. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Rom. 10:4. The law calls for a perfect righteousness, which, in ourselves, never will be found; but all its demands were fulfilled by our Surety. Every true believer finds that...
2. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. Hos. 13:14. Christ having spoiled principalities and power, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in...