So, you have a taste of Christ's behaviour to his friends, to his enemies, to Satan. And as for hypocrites he says, 'Woe to them' (Matt. 23:13). He hated them above all the proud Pharisees. I might s...  Read More

How did he behave toward his enemies? Did he call for fire from heaven when they wronged him? He shed tears for those who would shed his blood: 'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem' (Matt. 23:37), who afterward c...  Read More

He would not ‘quench the smoking flax, nor break the bruised reed' (Matt. 12:20), so gentle and sweet a Saviour have we. He loved and responded to those who sought him out, as when the rich young man...  Read More

If it is so that we are changed into the image of the second Adam, Jesus Christ, then let us labour every day more and more to study Christ, so that by beholding him we may be transformed into his li...  Read More

In Moses’ time, he went alone onto the mount and saw God. But now it is ‘we all' (2 Cor. 3:18), that is Jews and Gentiles, wherever the gospel is preached. You see that the church is enlarged by the ...  Read More

How can we make the eye of our souls fit to behold the glory of God? We must fix the eye of the soul; fix our meditation upon the glory of God and the excellency of Christ. A moving, roving eye sees ...  Read More

Knowledge and faith are compared to seeing and beholding, for these reasons: (1) Sight is the noblest and most glorious sense. It is also the quickest, for in a moment sight apprehends its object in ...  Read More

God puts a spiritual eye by his Spirit into all true believers, by which they behold his excellent glory. This glorious gift was given so that God may have the glory, and we the comfort. There must b...  Read More

While we live on this earth our sight of God is imperfect, as in a mirror. It is nothing compared with seeing him face to face in heaven. We will know this sight better when we are there; we cannot n...  Read More

It is vain for some to think, 'Oh, we must not look to our own salvation so much; this is self-love.' That is true if we sever the consideration of the glory of God's mercy and goodness from it. We h...  Read More

Do consider what a loving God we have, who would not be so much in love with his only Son as to keep him to himself; a God that accounts himself most glorious in those attributes that are most for ou...  Read More

Adam had the image of God upon him and had communion with God. But there is greater glory now shining in the gospel, in Jesus Christ, to poor sinners. For when man stood in innocence, God did good to...  Read More

Oh beloved, what a blessed condition it is to have spiritual liberty! Do we see the blessed use and comfort of it in all conditions? In temptations, we have the Spirit of God to free us from temptati...  Read More

If we have all these blessed liberties in this world and in that to come by the Spirit, then we should labour to have the Spirit of Christ, or else we have no liberty at all; and labour every day mor...  Read More

When we find the Holy Spirit is touching our souls, oh, give him entrance to come into his own chamber, as it were, to provide a room for him when he knocks. We that live in the church, the heart of ...  Read More

A man who is on the way to heaven may be in any of three states: (1) The state of nature, when he cares about neither heaven nor hell, so he may please the sensual nature and go on without fear or wi...  Read More

(5) Where this Spirit of liberty is, there is a freedom from the prevailing errors and the slavish courses of the times. There are two sorts of wicked persons in the world: one sort counts it their h...  Read More

(4) The Spirit of liberty gives boldness with God himself, who otherwise is a 'consuming fire’ (Heb. 12:29). It is in the time of temptation, affliction, and opposition, that a man may best judge who...  Read More

(3) With the freedom of the Spirit, there is courage and strength of faith against opposition. When the Spirit reveals with conviction the excellence of the state we are in, and the vileness of the s...  Read More

(2) Where this liberty from the Spirit is, there is a blessed freedom to do all duties with a full heart. Those under grace are anointed by the Spirit (Psa. 89:20), and that spiritual anointing makes...  Read More

But how will we know whether or not we are set at liberty? (1) Wherever the Spirit of God is, there is a liberty of holiness, to free us from the dominion of any one sin. We are freed ‘to serve him i...  Read More

Some might object that the work of the Spirit distracts from and overthrows the freedom of the will! By no means! This is not to diminish the liberty of the will, for the Spirit of God is so wise an ...  Read More

By freedom, I mean the ability and strength to do what is good. Any liberty and ability to that which is good is only from the Spirit. The defence of Martin Luther and others who wrote of this freedo...  Read More

Now, where the Spirit of Christ is, there is liberty and freedom from that bondage that we are in by nature and which is strengthened by a wicked course of life. For though we are all born slaves by ...  Read More