Things New and Old 12 (1944)

recovered for the people, and as a result we have had an open Bible for just four centuries. But Protestantism lapsed into a state of spiritual death - with a name to live, yet dead, having works but not as are esteemed before God. The call to remember what had been re­ ceived refers among

The Truth of the Assembly. Notes of Meetings in Australia, 1938

whose heart prompted him was to bring gold, silver, etc., but the women, the sisters, and the principal men, the princes, were also to contribute. Then there is what the Lord gives sovereignly in the way of gift. One would desire that we might all accept the prin­ ciple of responsibility

The Revelation: An Analysis and Exposition of the Last Book of the Bible

, lifeless thing. They have a name to live but are dead. This is the verdict of our Lord upon the churches which sprung out of the reformation: "Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead." 6. Philadelphia^ the Faithful Remnant. Verses 7-13. Philadelphia means "Jjggtjig^kyve."

The Great Servant-Prophet; Addresses on the Gospel of Mark. Part 1

all live too far away from human misery to know much of what it is. We do not know what the desolations of this world are. What do we know about the heart-breaks, the sorrows , the griefs, the blighted hopes and blasted prospects found in it ? We could not endure it ; it is agreat mercy ofGod

The Sunday School Workers' Magazine 8 (1893)

their reach. As to its manifestation, this life is in the believer; and he is to manifest the life of Jesus in his mortal body (2 Cor. iv. 10), and no longer the "old man.'' No more I that live, "but Christ liveth in me " (Gal. ii. 20), ought to be practically, as it is judicially

The Son of God (1895 Edition)

eternal, ineffable delights, and which would tell our God, that He knew not a Father ’s joy in that bosom, as He opened it, and which would tell our Lord, that He knew not a Son’s joy in that bosom, as He lay there from all eternity. I cannot join in this. If there be Persons in the Godhead, as we

Leah Wolfe: The Converted Jewess

ancestors, who had confessed their sins on the live goat, and by virtue of the sin-offering the anin1al had been sent into the wilderness, a land of forgetfulness. Benjan1in had riot only through believing had one year's sins forgiven, like the ancient Israel of God ; but all his sins were gone ; "

Collectanea: Being Some of the Subjects Considered at Leamington on 3rd June and Four Following Days in the Year 1839

. Jesus did not come for that, He did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and therefore said, '' Man lives by the word; by every 1oord that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man live.'' Did the Word come when man was in a state of innocence? No, it came in grace, when he

Gospel Gleanings 22 (1922)

are raised —to the same place of awful, eternal punishment prepared for the devil and his angels. What are a thousand years, more or less, compared with ETERNITY? Reader, if without Christ, your eye shall see Him on His throne, either in time or eternity; your knee shall bow to Him: your ear shall hear his

What Baptism is, and Who Should be Baptised

of the epistle. Next, baptism is “ putting on Christ.” Galatians iii., verse 27, states this definitely. It is not by faith, but by baptism that Christ is put on. The previous verse puts faith in its proper connection, “Ye are all,” etc. ; and these two verses must not be confounded together, as though

The Seeking Saviour and Other Bible Themes

-..._ '­ N .• N a. 36 Servi"ng and Followi"ng. serve. Hew much Christless work there is r How much this following Jesus, this learning of Him, this bearing His yoke, strips us of all that is . of self t T.Jive only for others-live as Christ lived-walk behind Him

The Union of Believers

its way out of this condition ? How is it to begin its course ? Scripture is plain—Mortify by the spirit the deeds of the old man, and ye shall live. The cross by faith un­ ceasingly applied, till evil yields its place, and eating the flesh of the Son of Man and drinking His blood, we be­

Select Addresses to Believers

of this world meddles with God and divine things, he is a fool ; and when he deals with eternity, and the soul ’s relation to God, heJsLthc mere-dupe and tool of Satan ; hence, the words, “ Vain deceit.” Turn to i Cor. ii. y-ro. “ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. ” The word “mystery ” is used here

How they Kept the Faith in Bohemia

it, with blue fittings. Greta seemed pleased with my present-­ the basket and its contents-saying that no one else had even thought of giving her 48 HOW THEY KEPT THE FAITH IN BOHEMIA. a live pet. As we wanted to amuse our­ selves tbe chicken was given into Julie's care, with many

Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: Ultra-Dispensationalism Examined in the Light of Holy Scripture

of this book as covering a transitional period. Personally, I have no objection to the term "transitional period," if it be under­ stood that the transition was in the minds of men and not in the mind of God. According to God, the new dispensa­ tion, that in which we now live

The Prophet Daniel

, the times of the Gentiles, the present age in which we live, its course and end, the coming glories in a future age, all this and much more God has been3 THE PROPHET DANIEL pleased to reveal to us in His Word. By far the greater part of the Bible is Prophecy. In view of such a marvellous Book

All Truth, or, That Which God Would Make Known to His Saints

are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge " may well be esteemed to have known no limitations. The Lord, however, reveals that He had been limited in the things which He had spoken-not of Himself, but by reason of the state of His hearers and the time during which they lived. Some things

The Silence of God

to-day. Atheism is the recoil from Christianity rejected. But the unbelief of earnest men who are willing to believe, but cannot, is not to be confounded with the blind and bitter atheism of apostates. Nor will it avail to plead that the miracles by which Christianity was accredited at first still live

Baptism: Its Scripture Place and Use

the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life'' The sentence upon us in nature has been executed; death and judgment are passed over, and we live in a new 37 condition, in Christ raised from the dead, “ old things passed away, and all things become new

Seven Tracts on Worship

can have no fellowship. But again, What is this God whom we are called to worship ? “ God is love, ” and “in this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not 16 WHOM DO YOU WORSHIP ? that we