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The Ministry of Angels
July 8th, 2024
As Mary wept at the tomb of Jesus, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and there saw two angels in white: a colour of glory, purity, and joy, because it was a time of joy. They were one a... Read More
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Start Now to Die Well
July 7th, 2024
In this moment let us provide for eternity. Out of eternity before, and eternity after, issues this little spot of time to do good in. Let us sow to the Spirit, count all time lost which we either do... Read More
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Life is Sacrifice
July 6th, 2024
A Christian is a consecrated person and he is not his own. He is a sacrifice as soon as he is a Christian. He belongs to Christ (2 Cor. 8:5). (1) Beloved, that we had the spirit of Paul, and the Spir... Read More
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Worthy Leaders
July 5th, 2024
The lives of worthy leaders, especially officials and ministers, are very needful for the church of God. The reason is because God often conveys good to people by the means of worthy leaders. If we c... Read More
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Paul's Strait
July 4th, 2024
Will a man leave the prison when he knows he will be carried to execution? Oh, no; he had rather be in the dungeon still. So for those with guilt on the soul and no assurance of salvation; they would... Read More
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A Good Conscience
July 3rd, 2024
Paul laboured to keep a good conscience in all things. 'Herein I exercise myself, to have a good conscience towards God and men' (Acts 24:16). It is easy for a man to desire to depart, who has his co... Read More
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The Best for Last
July 2nd, 2024
We see that God reserves the best for the last. God's last works are his best works. The new heaven and the new earth are the best; the second wine that Christ created himself was the best; spiritual... Read More
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The Fear of Death
July 1st, 2024
May a good Christian fear death? I answer, 'No,’ so far as a Christian is led with the Spirit of God and is truly spiritual; for the Spirit carries us upward. But as far as we are earthly and carnal,... Read More
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Death Is the Suburbs of Heaven
June 30th, 2024
Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. Paul loved to see Christ, to embrace him, and enjoy him that had done so much... Read More
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Paul's Desire to Depart
June 29th, 2024
I desire to depart. There must be a parting and a departing; there must be a parting in this world with all outward excellencies, from the sweet enjoyment of the creatures; there must be a departing ... Read More
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Choices and Desires
June 28th, 2024
Paul's soul was as a ship, between two winds, tossed up and down, and as iron between two loadstones, drawn first one way, then another; the one loadstone was his own good, to be in heaven; the other... Read More
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The Death of the Righteous
June 27th, 2024
The soul continues after death. In Numbers 23:10, Balaam wishes to die the death of the righteous, not for anything excellent in their deaths, but regarding the existence and continuance of their sou... Read More
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All Die
June 26th, 2024
The righteous die in the same manner outwardly as the wicked do. For Christ, in his first coming, came not to redeem our bodies from death, but our souls from damnation. His second coming will be to ... Read More
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Where to Place Our Love
June 25th, 2024
Like the fire of the sanctuary that never went out, so is the affection of love for God, that if it be once kindled in the heart it will never go out. It is a kind of miracle in reverse when we love ... Read More
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Simple Yet Growing Love for God
June 24th, 2024
It may be asked again, as indeed we see it is true, what is the reason that sometimes lowly, simple Christians have more loving souls than great scholars? One would think that knowledge should increa... Read More
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How to Know if You Love God (5)
June 23rd, 2024
Oh, let us labour to have this affection of love planted in our hearts; that God by his Spirit would teach us to love him. It is not a matter of the brain to teach. God only is the great schoolmaster... Read More
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How to Know if You Love God (4)
June 22nd, 2024
(4) Where the true affection of love to God is, it stirs up the soul to do all things that may please him. Isaac's sons saw that their father loved venison, therefore they provided venison for him (G... Read More
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How to Know if You Love God (3)
June 21st, 2024
(3) It is in the nature of love to place contentment in the thing we desire. Now we may know if God is our contentment by the inward quiet and peace of the soul in all conditions. He is able to satis... Read More
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How to Know if You Love God (2)
June 20th, 2024
(2) Where there is true love and affection, there is a desire of union. Love is that kind of affection; it draws the soul all it can to the thing loved. If there be the love of God, there will be a d... Read More
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How to Know if You Love God (1)
June 19th, 2024
(1) There must be an esteem of God and Christ. A high esteeming and prizing of God and his love above all things in the world. a. This valuing is known by choice. What a man esteems and values highly... Read More
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Wrong Hope for a Wrong Heaven
June 18th, 2024
It is impossible for a man, if he be not truly renewed, to desire heaven. He may wish for it under the notion of a kingdom, a pleasure, or the like; but as heaven containing a state of perfect holine... Read More
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Pity and Wonderment
June 17th, 2024
Let us comfort ourselves in all the slightings of the world. A man that has great hopes in his own country, if he be slighted abroad, he thinks to himself, I will have a different manner of respect w... Read More
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Humility and Thankfulness because of the Hope of Heaven
June 16th, 2024
We must humble ourselves and say with the psalmist, 'Lord, what is man, that you are mindful of him?' (Psa. 84). We who lost our first condition and betrayed you; yet you have advanced us to the stat... Read More
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Why Only a Glimpse of Heaven?
June 15th, 2024
Reasons why God hides from us the glory that will be. We must be modest when we speak of God's counsels and courses. (1) God will have a difference between the warring church and the triumphing churc... Read More
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January
One Thing (1)One Thing (2)Our Thoughts and Desires Reveal Who We AreThe Christian's Desire for God's House (1)The Christian's Desire for God's House (2)What the Soul Was Made ForGod Makes the Heart TenderMaintaining a Tender Heart (1)Maintaining a Tender Heart (2)Maintaining a Tender Heart (3)Maintaining a Tender Heart (4)Test to See if Your Heart is TenderHow to Recover a Tender HeartBenefits of a Tender HeartKings Must Humble Themselves Before GodHow to Humble Ourselves (1)How to Humble Ourselves (2)How to Humble Ourselves (3)Proneness to PrideHumilityTrue versus False Humility (1)True versus False Humility (2)True versus False Humility (3)Both Outward Devotion and Inward AffectionWeeping for the ChurchWeeping and Rejoicing Mixed (1)Weeping and Rejoicing Mixed (2)God Hears Our Prayers--His PartWhen It Seems God Doesn't HearThe Privilege of PrayerGod Hears Our Prayers--Our Part
February
Death Is a Gathering (1)Death Is a Gathering (2)The Righteous Preserve their NationGod's Righteous JudgmentThe Importance of Knowing God Loves Me (1)The Importance of Knowing God Loves Me (2)Abundance Is Not an Accurate Sign of God's LoveRun to GodChristian UnityChrist In Us (1)Christ In Us (2)Christ In Us (3)Christ In Us (4)Christ In Us (5)Christ the Servant: the MediatorThe Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (1)The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (2)The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (3)The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (4)God Knows Our FrameLittle at First (1)Little at First (2)Sometimes Tender, Sometimes Tough (1)Sometimes Tender, Sometimes Tough (2)Avoiding Unnecessary RulesThe Weaker BrotherExtend Grace to One AnotherThe Covenant of GraceThe Light of God Compared to Fire (1)
March
The Light of God Compared to Fire (2)The Light of God Compared to Fire (3)Temptation (1)Temptation (2)The Source of DiscouragementsResponding to Christ's KindnessVictory in Spiritual BattlesHis Power Not OursCourage Until the End (1)Courage Until the End (2)Our Hearts—God's TempleSin in God's PeopleSigns of God's Impending Judgment (1)Signs of God's Impending Judgment (2)Signs of God's Impending Judgment (3)Preventing God's Judgment on Our Nation (1)Preventing God's Judgment on Our Nation (2)The Ugliness of Sin (1)The Ugliness of Sin (2)Far but NearChrist's Dying Words of ComfortThe Wrong of Excessive SorrowSteps to Bring Comfort to our Hearts (1)Steps to Bring Comfort to our Hearts (2)Steps to Bring Comfort to our Hearts (3)When We Feel Our Faith Is Weak (1)When We Feel Our Faith Is Weak (2)When We Feel Our Faith Is Weak (3)Christ and the Holy SpiritChrist Is the Heart and Power of the Scriptures (1)Christ Is the Heart and Power of the Scriptures (2)