Christian Watch “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 “He is faithful and just.” Oh, what a word is that! There is scarcely to my mind such a word in the Bible as that; so great, so glorious, so … Read more
“That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” Romans 3:26 Every created thing, every finite intelligence, must sooner be annihilated, than Jehovah can sacrifice, or suffer the slightest tarnish to come over any one of his eternal attributes. Yet God can be just, infinitely just, scrupulously just, unchangeably just,—and … Read more
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” Ephesians 1:4, 5 It is a very solemn … Read more
“I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.” Ezekiel 21:27 There is one then to come, “whose right it is;” there is a King who has a right to the throne, and to the allegiance of his subjects; … Read more
“This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.” 1 Timothy 1:18, 19 This “good warfare” is carried on against three principal … Read more
“But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.” Psalm 3:3 If your soul has ever been favoured with a taste of mercy, with a sip of the brook by the way; if ever your conscience has felt the application of atoning blood, or the love … Read more
“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” Romans 8:10 We want two things in lively operation; a spiritual death and a spiritual life. We want death put upon the flesh, upon sin, upon everything which is ungodly, that it may not … Read more
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11 We are very eager to put our hands to work. Like Uzzah, we must needs prop up the ark when we see it stumbling; when faith totters, we must come to bear a helping hand. But this … Read more
“There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen.” Job 28:7 Growth in grace is not progressive sanctification and fleshly holiness on the one hand, nor a false and delusive establishment on the other. The narrow path lies between these two extremes. On the one side is Seneh, … Read more
“But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” Hebrews 10:39 The Scriptures have brought certain marks not only to test, but also to comfort God’s people. But in order to keep them tremblingly alive to the fear of being deceived; in … Read more
“Who against hope believed in hope.” Romans 4:18 Hope is a fruit of the Spirit; and the absence of hope, the thorough, complete absence of hope, stamps death upon that nominal branch, in which the absence of all hope is found. But some will say, “Are not the children of God often plunged into despair?” … Read more
“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel.” Luke 24:21 What a trial to their faith must the death of Jesus have been to his disciples and believing followers! When their Lord and Master died, their hopes, for the time at least, seem almost to have died with him. And … Read more