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Concerning this blog and God's governing of my life
As many of you know my wife of 32 plus years passed away nearly a year ago. Not only was I suddenly alone for the first time in my life since my teenage years, but this one event was soon to transform my entire life. On the way to the hospital, after finding out that my wife had passed, I looked to the heavens and said to God, “wherever you lead me, I will follow.” Little did I know that God…
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The weapons of the Religious Reformer - the strongholds he is called to demolish, Ignorance
I. THE STRONGHOLDS WHICH THE RELIGIOUS REFORMER IS CALLED ON TO DEMOLISH. 1. Ignorance. — All religious error is the offspring of ignorance and mistake. God is true, and His Word is true. No religious error can find any support there. Yet we know that error does exist to a vast extent. How mighty, then, is this fortress! and how strong! Look at the ignorance of heathen nations. See the ignorance…
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PRAYER 21: BOLDNESS AT THE THRONE OF GRACE
O GOD! We would not speak to Thee as from a distance, nor stand like trembling Israel under the law at a distance from the burning mount, for we have not come unto Mount Sinai, but unto Mount Sion, and that is a place for holy joy and thankfulness, and not for terror and bondage. Blessed be Thy name, O Lord! We have learnt to call Thee “Our Father, which art in heaven”; so there is reverence, for…
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Men that seek revenge put themselves upon the brink of ruin
A Christian! and of a troublesome spirit; for-shame, forbear; show, out of a good conversation, thy works, with meekness of wisdom; and here let me present thee with three or four things. Consider 6. Men that are unquiet and discontented, and that seek revenge upon them that persecute them for their profession, do, by so doing, also put themselves upon the brink of those ruins that others are…
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It is repudiated by Scripture itself
The vital importance of what we sought to present in the last chapter will appear still more evident when it be pointed out that believers in Christ have a joint heritage with Abraham, as well as a common standing before God. But many will at once object to this, That cannot be; why, the inheritance of Abraham and his seed was an earthly one—it was the land of Canaan which God promised them! 3.…
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“I will give thee showers of blessing”
We have one thought more, and then we have done. Here is a varied blessing. “I will give thee showers of blessing.” The word is in the plural. All kinds of blessings God will send. The rain is all of one kind when it comes; but grace is not all of one kind, or it does not produce the same effect. When God sends rain upon the church, he “sends showers of blessing.” There are some ministers who…
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The Weapons of the Religious Reformer
LECTURE III THE WEAPONS OF THE RELIGIOUS REFORMER “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.“ — 2 Corinthians 10:4. Ever since the introduction of sin into the world, there has been an unremitting conflict between truth and error. The earth has become a vast battle-ground; the theatre of a mighty moral warfare. Truth and error are…
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PRAYER 20: THE GREAT SACRIFICE
O GOD our Father, we do remember well when we were called to Thee; with many sweet and wooing voices we were bidden to return. Thou didst Thyself hang out the lights of mercy that we might know the way home, and Thy dear Son himself came down to seek us. But we wandered still. It brings the tears to our eyes to think that we should have been so foolish and so wicked, for we often extinguished the…
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The Wednesday Word: ONCE Part 1
The book of Hebrews demonstrates the superiority of the Lord Jesus over the Old Covenant. In fact, Hebrews makes it very clear that the Old Covenant has been done away. Because of the sufficiency and finality of Christ’s sacrifice, the Old Testament priesthood has been abolished. When we comprehend the teachings of Hebrews, we realize, among other things, that there can be no priesthood in…
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He keepeth not the commandments of God
A Christian! and of a troublesome spirit; for-shame, forbear; show, out of a good conversation, thy works, with meekness of wisdom; and here let me present thee with three or four things. Consider 5. A professor, unquiet and turbulent under sufferings, and seeking his own revenge, cannot be a victor over what he should, nor a keeper of God’s commandments. (2.) The same may be said upon the second…
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Not fulfilled in his natural posterity
We are not now concerned with considering the immediate ends which were served by the natural descendants of Abraham occupying the earthly Canaan —a consideration parallel with the temporal advantages enjoyed by those who lived under the literal exercise of the Aaronic priesthood. Whatever be or be not the future of Palestine in relation to the Jews, even though they again occupy it for a…
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Again, it is seasonable grace
II. The second point is, that God’s people are not only to be a blessing but THEY ARE TO BE BLESSED. For read the second part of the verse. “And I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.” It is somewhat singular, as a prognostication of the showers of blessings we hope to receive here, that God sent us showers on the first day of opening. If I were a…
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The test by which they tried the teaching of the Apostles
III. THE TEST BY WHICH THEY TRIED THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES. — “They searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.” This is the divine standard of appeal. God gave it as our guide, and we are commanded to search it. It is to be the test of all religious teaching; and the conduct of the Bereans in making it the test of Paul’s preaching is honored by its divine Author; for let it…
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PRAYER 19: GOD’S UNSPEAKABLE GIFT
O LORD, many of us feel like the lame man at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. Come by this way and make the lame ones perfectly sound. O Lord, Thou canst do by Thy servants today what Thou didst by them in the olden time. Work miracles of mercy even upon outer court worshippers who are too lame to get into the holy place. But there are many who feel like that man when he was restored. We would…
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The Wednesday Word: Jesus the Least
“Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”  (Matthew 11:11). In my early years as a Christian, I was taught that this verse demonstrated that the weakest believer in the New Covenant was greater than John the Baptist. In other words, I was told, for…
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How can he be a victor over himself that is led up and down by the nose by his own passions?
A Christian! and of a troublesome spirit; for-shame, forbear; show, out of a good conversation, thy works, with meekness of wisdom; and here let me present thee with three or four things. Consider 5. A professor, unquiet and turbulent under sufferings, and seeking his own revenge, cannot be a victor over what he should, nor a keeper of God’s commandments. (1.) How can he be a victor over himself…
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Believers in Christ are Abraham’s children
Why not, then, apply this same principle to God’s promise to give the land of Canaan to Abraham and his seed? Since believers in Christ are Abraham’s children and “heirs according to the promise,” then it clearly follows that they are interested in all that was said or promised to him. It is a great mistake to regard certain of the Abrahamic promises as being simply of a temporal kind and…
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