At that moment the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. (Luke 22:61) There was a deep meaning in that look. It was a sermon which Peter never forgot. The love of Christ toward His people is a deep well which has no bottom! Let us never measure it by comparison with any kind of love of man or woman. It exceeds all other love—as far as the sun exceeds the…
“Any of you who does not give up everything he has, cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:33 I grant freely that it costs little to be a mere outward Christian. A man has only got to attend a place of worship twice on Sunday, and to be tolerably moral during the week — and he has gone as far as thousands around him ever…
In our religious age, many men tell us that it does not matter where you go to church as long as you go somewhere. But this is wrong on many different levels. The first reason that comes to mind is that not everyone that is a preacher is sent of God. Many men have gone out with a message but not with…
The LORD is absolutely Sovereign in all things. He is Sovereign in creation, in providence and especially the Salvation of sinners (Isaiah 46:10-13; Psalm 115:3). The scripture says God, in sovereign election, loved Jacob and hated Esau — and this before they were ever born having done neither good nor evil (Romans 9:11-13). This is the doctrine of election that the self-righteous…
It has been the distinctive aim, and the sincere desire of my ministry — to make known and to endear the Savior to your hearts. Oh, how worthy is He of your most exalted conceptions, of your most implicit confidence, of your most self-denying service, of your most fervent love! When He could give you no more — and the fathomless depths…
An evil is in the ‘professed’ camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted Christian can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years, this evil has developed at an alarming rate. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments! The devil has seldom done a more clever thing, than hinting to the…
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. (Numbers 23:20) When Satan comes before God to-day with the remembrance of your sins, and he desires that he may curse Israel, but he has found a hundred times that there is no enchantment against Jacob nor divination against Israel. He took David into the sin of lust,…
“Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer.” Isaiah 53:10 Not all the vials of judgment that have or shall be poured out upon the wicked world, nor the flaming furnace of a sinner’s conscience, nor the irreversible sentence pronounced against the rebellious demons, nor the groans of the damned creatures—give such a demonstration of God’s hatred of…
Where is our love and compassion for the lost sinners in our generation? The apostle said, “I could wish myself accursed from Christ for my brethren in the flesh.” Moses said, ” Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written” (Exodus 32:32). I find too much…
Those who believe the doctrines of sovereign grace often act inconsistently with their own principles–when they are angry at the defects of others. A company of travelers fall into a pit; one of them gets a passerby to draw him out. Now he should not be angry with the rest for falling in; nor because they are not yet out, as he…