“Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.” Romans 3:24, 25 Before we can have faith in Christ’s atoning blood, we must see the glory of the Person of the Lord of life. “We beheld … Read more
“No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11 There are those who walk uprightly, very uprightly, in the fear of God, and yet have little comfortable or abiding evidence that they are at present partakers of God’s grace, or will be hereafter sharers of Christ’s glory. But this one evidence … Read more
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:11 How many poor souls are struggling against the power of sin, and yet never get any victory over it! How many are daily led captive by the lusts of the flesh, the love … Read more
“His going forth is prepared as the morning.” Hosea 6:3 It is to the living soul walking in darkness, and unable to find God, that this text speaks: “His going forth is prepared as the morning.” There is an appointed time for the Lord to go forth and this is sweetly compared to the rising … Read more
“That he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” Deuteronomy 8:3 This is the grand lesson which we have to learn in our wilderness journey— “that man doth not live by bread only,” that … Read more
“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.” John 17:24 How great, how elevated above all utterance or all conception of men or angels, must … Read more
“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you.” 1 John 2:27 All the powers of earth and hell are combined against this holy anointing, wherewith the children of God are so highly favoured. But if God has locked up in the bosom of a saint one drop of this divine unction, … Read more
“That ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 The will of God is “good, perfect, and acceptable.” How are we to prove personally and experimentally that it is all this? That good and perfect will runs counter, over and over again, to my natural inclinations, sets … Read more
“But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2 As worldly conformity is subdued and departed from, there is the transforming process of which the Apostle here speaks, whereby we become renewed in the spirit of our mind. In other words, the Holy Spirit, by his work upon the soul, renews the … Read more
“And be not conformed to this world.” Romans 12:2 In proportion as we are conformed to the spirit of this world our understanding becomes dull in the things of God, our affections cold and torpid, and our consciences less tender and sensitive. There is an eternal opposition between God and the world lying in wickedness. … Read more
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1 If the Son of God has redeemed us by his blood, all that we are and have belongs to him; our body, soul, and spirit are … Read more
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” … Read more