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A Christian- Who and What is He Now and Hereafter?
A CHRISTIAN- WHO AND WHAT IS HE NOW AND HEREAFTER?
It is rather a solemn thing to say what a Christian is, especially when we think of what it is that made him one. God is acting so as to glorify Himself. It is a solemn thing to be a revelation of that o ... read more
A Letter on Separation
I write rather because of the importance of the point than for any immediate occasion of circumstances: I mean leaving an assembly, or setting up, as it is called, another table. I am not so afraid of it as some other brethren, but I must explain my rea ... read more
Adam and Christ
ADAM AND CHRIST
ROMANS 5: 14-21
In the latter part of this chapter is exhibited strikingly the sin, and the consequences of that sin, wrought and incurred by Adam; and the grace that is manifested in Jesus Christ, as contrasted the one with the other. ... read more
Balaam- Hired of Balak and Used of God
BALAAM, HIRED OF BALAK, AND USED OF GOD
NUMBERS 22-24
It is a wonderful thing to see the way in which, through the overruling power of God, the efforts of Satan against the people of God only bring them out the more distinctly in thei ... read more
Cain- His World and His Worship
CAIN, HIS WORLD, AND HIS WORSHIP
Genesis 4
It is a terrible history of man's hopelessness, the history God has given us in His word (I say history, because we have a setting forth of his sins and failures from the beginning) ; but th ... read more
Carnal Confidence and Confidence of Faith
CARNAL CONFIDENCE, AND THE CONFIDENCE OF FAITH
NUMBERS 17; and 18: 1
" Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. Whosoever cometh anything near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying ? " When the ... read more
Christ as the Searcher of Hearts
CHRIST AS THE SEARCHER OF HEARTS
MARK 10 : 1-46
IT is a wonderful thing that the Lord came into this world and took all our sorrows and trials, but was entirely above them all. He was thus able to take up everything that was of God, a ... read more
Christ or Antichrist?
CHRIST, OR ANTICHRIST
JOHN 5 : 17-47
There are three very important characters in which the Lord Jesus is presented to us in these verses: -
First, as THE SUBJECT OF TESTIMONY;
Second, as THE GIVER OF LIFE;
Third, as TH ... read more
Christ's Cross and God's Due Time
CHRIST'S CROSS, AND GOD'S " DUE TIME "
ROMANS 5 : 6-8
In the last verse of this chapter we have, in fact, the summing up of the great principles and ways of God's dealings with man in this principle of the gospel, " grace reigni ... read more
Considerations on the Nature & Unity of the Church of Christ
John 17:21; Luke 12:36.
Individuals of the children of God are to be found in all the different denominations, who profess the same pure faith; but where is their bond of union? The point is not that unbelieving professors are mixed with the people of ... read more
Events- Christ
However high the waves may rise, there is no drowning of His love and thoughts towards us. The test is to our faith. The question is, Have we that faith which so realizes Christ's presence as to keep us as calm and composed in the rough sea as the smooth ... read more
Faith and Its Footsteps
FAITH AND ITS FOOTSTEPS
HEBREWS 11
It is impossible to deny that there is some principle livingly working in the world which has signally called out the hatred and opposition of man. It has been so from Abel downwards to the present d ... read more
God For Us
GOD FOR US
ROMANS 8 : 31
There is much to weary us, dear brethren, much to draw out our anxiety as to present circumstances here ; and there is much as regards the natural mind which shrinks at meeting God. The natural conscience of a ... read more
God Speaking From Heaven
GOD SPEAKING FROM HEAVEN
HEBREWS 12 : 25
The apostle, in addressing this exhortation to the Hebrews, acted upon the ground of the character is which Christ spoke, and the consequences resulting therefrom. Observe: His character is spe ... read more
God's Grace and Man's Need
Here we have the wonderful contrast between the ways and actings of man's heart towards God, and the ways and actings of God's heart towards poor guilty man. These two things must be brought close the one to the other, and be shewn as they rightly are. ... read more
Grace, the Power of Unity and Gathering
Grace the Power of Unity and Gathering
I have had the desire on my mind to make a few remarks on a point I believe to have importance at the present moment; and in doing so, I carry in my mind a tract to which the circumstances drew attention, and prac ... read more
Grace, The Power of Unity and of Gathering
What I think important to be understood is, that the active power that gathers is always grace – love. Separation from evil may be called for. In particular states of the church, when evil is come in, it may characterise very much the path of the saints ... read more
Growth Through the Truth
GROWTH THROUGH THE TRUTH
I PETER 2: 1-6
In one sense, as here taught us by the Spirit of God through the apostle, the healthful position of the saint is ever that of the " new-born babe " ; whilst in another sense we are, of course, ... read more
Has the Church Continued in God's Goodness?
Matthew 13.
Has the church continued in God's goodness? Is that which we now see in Christendom what God set up in His church in the beginning, or anything like it? Has not the professing church turned to ceremonies and sacraments, and all kinds of ... read more
Jerusalem – Center of Worship and Government
Romans 11.
Of the two great subjects, besides our individual salvation, of which the Scriptures treat, as already stated (namely, the church and the government of the world), the latter leads us at once to the Jewish as its centre, as the church is of ... read more
Jesus the Resurrection and Life
JESUS, THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE
JOHN I I : 25
THIS chapter presents in the most striking manner the perfect sympathy of the Lord Jesus Christ in all the trials and vicissitudes of His people, even in the sufferings which death br ... read more
Life in Resurrection
LIFE IN RESURRECTION
COLOSSIANS 3 : 1-4
THE great principle upon which a Christian stands is as to what is his life, and from whence it flows. The Christian is said to be raised from the dead-to have risen with Christ and whatever is ... read more
Living Water
THE LIVING WATER
JOHN 7 : 37-39
In order fully to understand the meaning of this scripture, and the circumstance for which this feast, to which Jesus went up, is a type, we must, in the first place, see the way in which He is presente ... read more
Man's Responsibility and God's Promises
MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY AND GOD'S PROMISES
GALATIANS 3
THERE are two great points in this chapter: -
First, the effect of the law, when any one is under it
Second, the contrast between law and promise, and whether it be by ... read more
Matthew 1
The object of the Spirit of God, in this Gospel, being to present Jehovah as fulfilling the promises made to Israel, and the prophecies that relate to the Messiah (and no one can fail to be struck with the number of references to their fulfilment), He com ... read more
Matthew 10
So long as God gives Him access to the people, He continues His labour of love. Nevertheless, He was conscious of the iniquity that governed the people, although He did not seek His own glory. Having exhorted His disciples to pray that labourers might be ... read more
Matthew 11
From that hour we find the definitive judgment of the nation, not indeed as yet openly declared (that is in chapter 12), nor by the cessation of Christ's ministry, which wrought, notwithstanding the opposition of the nation, in gathering out the remnant, ... read more
Matthew 12
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's part an entirely different system, that is to say, the ... read more
Matthew 13
The Lord was no longer seeking fruit in His vine. It had been requisite according to God's relations with Israel that He should seek this fruit; but His true service, He well knew, was to bring that which could produce fruit, and not to find any in men. ... read more
Matthew 14
Our Gospel resumes the historical course of these revelations, but in such a manner as to exhibit the spirit by which the people were animated. Herod (loving his earthly power and his own glory more than submission to the testimony of God, and more bound ... read more
Matthew 15
Chapter 15 displays man and God, the moral contrast between the doctrine of Christ and that of the Jews; and thus the Jewish system is rejected morally by God. When I speak of the system, I speak of their whole moral condition, systematised by the hypocri ... read more
Matthew 16
Chapter 16 goes farther than the revelation of the simple grace of God. Jesus reveals what was about to be formed in the counsels of that grace, where He was owned, shewing the rejection of the proud among His people, that He abhors them as they abhor Him ... read more
Matthew 17
Jesus leads them up into a high mountain, and there is transfigured before them: "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Moses and Elias appeared also, talking with Him. I leave the subject of their discourse, which is d ... read more
Matthew 18
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these sweet and precious instructions of the Lord.
They may be looked at in two ways. They reveal the ways of God with re ... read more
Matthew 19
Chapter 19 carries on the subject of the spirit that is suited to the kingdom of heaven, and goes deep into the principles which govern human nature, and of what was now divinely introduced. A question asked by the Pharisees-for the Lord had drawn nigh to ... read more
Matthew 2
Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the will of God acting on the hearts of their wise men. [See ... read more
Matthew 20
We may remark that, when the Lord answers Peter, it was the consequence of having left all for Christ upon His call. The motive was Christ Himself: therefore He says, "Ye which have followed me." He speaks also of those who had done it for His name's s ... read more
Matthew 21
Afterwards (chap. 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as King-the last testimony to the beloved city, which (to their ... read more
Matthew 22
In chapter 22, their conduct with respect to the invitations of grace is presented in its turn. The parable is therefore a similitude of the kingdom of heaven. The purpose of God is to honour His Son by celebrating His marriage. First of all the Jews, alr ... read more
Matthew 23
Chapter 23 clearly shews how far the disciples are viewed in connection with the nation, inasmuch as they were Jews, although the Lord judges the leaders, who beguiled the people and dishonoured God by their hypocrisy. He speaks to the multitude and to Hi ... read more
Matthew 24
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of this testimony in the midst of the people; the conditio ... read more
Matthew 25
Professors, during the Lord's absence, are here presented as virgins, who went out to meet the Bridegroom, and light Him to the house. In this passage He is not the Bridegroom of the church. No others go to meet Him for His marriage with the church in he ... read more
Matthew 26
The Lord had finished His discourses. He prepares (chap. 26) to suffer, and to make His last and touching adieus to His disciples, at the table of His last passover on earth, at which He instituted, the simple and precious memorial which recalls His suffe ... read more
Matthew 27
After this (chap. 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, having cast the reward of his iniquity at the feet of the chi ... read more
Matthew 3
We now begin His actual history. John the Baptist comes to prepare the way of Jehovah before Him, according to the prophecy of Isaiah; proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and calling on the people to repent. It is by these three things tha ... read more
Matthew 4
Having thus in grace taken up His position as man on earth, He commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the Son of God, enjoying the privileges proper to such a one, ... read more
Matthew 5-7
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside.
The strong man was bound, so that Jesus could spoil his goo ... read more
Matthew 8
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessing.
He had proclaimed the kingdom, displayed His po ... read more
Matthew 9
In the following chapter (9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases"; it is the actual grace in itself towards and for them, in w ... read more
Moses Veiled
MOSES VEILED, AND THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST
2 CORINTHIANS 3 ; 4 : 6
The apostle has been led to speak of himself (as he says, afterwards, chapter 12, " I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me," etc.) ... read more
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