GOD NEITHER SHARES NOR GIVES HIS GLORY TO MAN I AM THE LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images” (Isaiah 42:8). We live in a day when there seems to be more human pride than ever...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THEY KNOW NOT WHAT! When man made his fatal choice in the garden he lost all. He lost his happy estate and became a miserable sinner. He no longer enjoyed spiritual communion with his maker. His understanding became darkened and obstructed...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
RELIGION WITHOUT CHRIST “He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed (worshipped) an...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
OUR TABLE IS CHRIST I Corinthians 11:23-26 reads, “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you. That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: and when He had given thanks, He broke it and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
IS IT WORTH IT? I was talking to one about the danger and detriment of the bad doctrine of false prophets. He tried to assure me that though the possibility of deception is there and many gain a carnal confidence in a false profession, yet “If...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
GOD’S HOLY WORD William Tyndale (English Reformer 1500-1536), in his burning zeal for the Holy Scriptures, reasoned with an ancient Roman Divine, “I defy the pope, and all his laws,” adding, “If God spare my life ere many years I will cause the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
NEGATIVES HAVE POSITIVES I think we could read Psalm 1:1 without injury to the text as follows, “Happy is the man who walks NOT in the counsel of the ungodly, who stands NOT in the way of sinners, who sits NOT in the seat of the scornful.”...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL” Isaiah 9:6 The Hebrew word for wonderful is interpreted ‘miracle’, marvelous’, and ‘miraculous’. Christ is the miracle of miracles, the marvel of marvels. His name shall be called ‘Miraculous’, for he is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“BEHOLD YOUR KING!” “And she brought forth her first born Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the field,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“COME, YE CHILDREN” One of the greatest object lessons in the Bible on the subject of despising authority is in II Kings 2:23-25, “Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
