Christian Watch “Your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3 There is nothing so deep, nothing so hidden, as the life of God in the soul. It seems to be enshrined in the lowest depths of a man’s heart. It does not float upon the surface, like a cork upon the water, but sinks deep, … Read more
“My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.” Deuteronomy 32:2 We have in our text a regular scale: the dew, the small rain, the rain, and the showers. And this graduated scale of heavenly … Read more
“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.” Philippians 3:9 Here are the two righteousnesses clearly laid down, in one or other of which we must all stand before God—the righteousness … Read more
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.” John 14:26 If the Lord has given to any of you eyes to see and hearts to receive this divine Comforter, praise, bless, and adore your God and Father, and most merciful Benefactor, … Read more
“With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.” Psalm 91:16 It is not in the number of our years that we shall find preparedness for death. It is not the longer a man lives the more will he be satisfied. No such thing. Then what can the promise mean? Why, that … Read more
“The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 What heart can conceive, what tongue express what the holy soul of Christ endured when “the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all?” In the garden of Gethsemane, what a load of guilt, what a weight of sin, what an … Read more
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5 How the Scriptures speak of “a good hope through grace;” and call it “an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within … Read more
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9 The sin of our fallen nature is a very mysterious thing. We read of the mystery of iniquity as well as of the mystery of godliness; and the former has lengths, depths, and breadths as well as the latter; … Read more
“Until the redemption of the purchased possession.” Ephesians 1:14 The Church has been redeemed by price, but is not as yet fully redeemed by power. Christ has bought with his precious blood both the souls and bodies of his people, but he has not yet redeemed them openly. This redemption is still future, and will … Read more
“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” Matthew 11:25 Whatever religious knowledge, whatever carnal wisdom, or whatever worldly prudence a man may be possessed of, if he is … Read more
“Persecuted, but not forsaken.” 2 Corinthians 4:9 Whatever injury persecutors may do or attempt to do to a Christian, they cannot rob him of his God. They may destroy his body; they cannot destroy his soul. They may wound his reputation; but they cannot wound his conscience. They may strip him of all his earthly … Read more
“Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?” Lamentations 3:39 We must not understand by the word “punishment,” anything of a vindictive nature. God never punishes the sins of his elect penally; that is, not as he punishes the sins of the reprobate. The eternal covenant forbids this. “Fury … Read more