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The Gospel

Our heavenly Father created Adam and Eve to be spiritually alive, which means that their soul was in union with Him. They had a very good relationship with God walking in righteousness and were to exercise dominion over the earth. But because of disobedience they were separated from God. Their failure to obey God led them in to sin causing them to be thrown out of the garden Because of sin all of their descendants are born…

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” - 1 Thessalonians 1:4

Many persons want to know their election before they look to Christ, but they cannot learn it thus, it is only to be discovered by “looking unto Jesus.” If you desire to ascertain your own election;-after the following manner, shall you assure your heart before God.

Do you feel yourself to be a lost, guilty sinner? go straightway to the…

Mark 16:9

Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom He had cast seven devils.” - 

Jesus “appeared first to Mary Magdalene,” probably not only on account of her great love and persevering seeking, but because, as the context intimates, she had been a special trophy of Christ’s delivering power. Learn from this, that the greatness of our sin before conversion…

Exodus 20:25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build of hewn stone: If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.” - 

God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead,…

Deuteronomy Chapter  28 

 

¹And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 

²And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. …

Deuteronomy Chapter  27:1-26(KJV)

¹And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 

²And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: …

Genesis 1:5 

And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” - 

 The evening was “darkness” and the morning was “light,” and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience. In every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not…

Bless the Lord O, my soul and forget not all His benefits.” - Psalm 103:2

It is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints, and to observe his goodness in delivering them, his mercy in pardoning them, and his faithfulness in keeping his covenant with them. But would it not be even more interesting and profitable for us to remark the hand of God in our own…

Judges 16:6

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Where lies the secret strength of faith? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is-an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God; and faith says, “My God could not have given this promise, except…

^{(1 Corinthians 3:9-23)}

⁹For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

 ¹⁰According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth…

Brethren, pray for us.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:25

This one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader’s memory upon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every Christian household to grant the fervent request of the text first uttered by an apostle and now repeated by us. Brethren, our work is solemnly momentous,…

Isaiah 26:4“Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.”  

Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust.

A loving parent would…

Persistent Prayer is Powerful

(Isaiah 2:2) In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Isaiah looked with hopeful eyes to the day when faith would flourish and there would be times of real praying. Times in which our prayers would…

^{Call to be Saints}

^{Romans 1:7}

⁷To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified…

John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

 Sanctification begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creature” in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways-mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under; and vivification, by which the life…

Psalm 103 (Good News Translation)

God’s Word Goes Forth: Tell of God’s Mercy and Forgiveness

Introduction

Psalm 103: Today’s psalm offers thanksgiving for God’s many gifts: forgiveness, healing, mercy, love, justice, kindness, patience and more. God’s expansive love is greater than the distance between heaven and earth. God relates to people like a loving parent,…

Discerning the Voice of God.

Discern means to separate mentally or distinguish: to know, perceive, have intelligence or understanding.

 How do we know when God is speaking to us? The more time that we spend time in prayer and reading is the easier it becomes to know when God is speaking.  We will become confused, if we fail to read our bibles, and go to church. Through personal…

Ephesians 6:1-24 (Good News Translation)

God’s Word Goes Forth: Be Filled with the Holy Spirit

Introduction

Ephesians 6:1-24: Paul offers encouragement to help the Ephesians remain strong against what he calls “wicked spiritual forces” (6:12). He describes the armor of God that…

Thy Great Power:

Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.” - Jeremiah 32:17

At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword, famine and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to purchase a field, and have the deed of transfer legally sealed…

Exodus 7:12

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. 

 

This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as sure as ever God is in the work, it will swallow up all its…