“What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.” Song of Solomon 6:13 Are you not often a mystery to yourself? Warm one moment, cold the next; abasing yourself one hour, exalting yourself the following; loving the world, full of it, steeped up to your lips in it today; […]
The Two Natures in a Believer By J. C. Philpot Among those branches of divine truth which, without special teaching, we cannot enter into, is, that of the two natures in a believer. And yet, though every child of God must in all ages have been experimentally acquainted with the inward conflict between flesh and […]
J. C. Philpot’s Daily Portions “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Romans 8:32 I have thought sometimes of the sweet figure of Solomon, as a type of Christ, in his royal liberality to the […]
Our refuge! (Joseph Philpot, “An Immutable God and a Strong Consolation” 1866) “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Psalm 18:2 On every side are hosts of enemies ever invading […]
Union with Christ- J.C.Philpot (extract from A spiritual death and a hidden life.) How Christ is “our life.” Union with Christ is the grand truth revealed in the Scripture, and the fountain head out of which every blessing springs. But to understand this we must carry our thoughts upward and backward, to look at the […]
How vast, how numerous, how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend the Church of God here below, as she travels onward to her heavenly home! But if all things as well as all persons are put under Jesus’ feet, there cannot be a single circumstance over which he has not supreme control. […]
One point in the sin offering demands a few moments’ attention, After the fat had been burnt on the brazen altar (Lev. 4:9, 10)—significant emblem of the acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus as a sweet-smelling savor, the skin, head, legs, inwards, etc., of the bullock were to be carried outside the camp, into a […]
“Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon–for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions? If you know not, O fairest among women, go your way by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your […]
“Draw me; we will run after you! Let the king bring me into his chambers.” Song of Solomon 1:4 How many of us can take the words of the bride into our lips, or have ever been able at any one time of our life to use such an expression? We must have had some […]
The whole apparatus of religion (J. C. Philpot, “Reviews”) “I see that you are very religious in every way.” Acts 17:22 Religion, in some shape or other, is indispensable to the very existence of civilized society. There is a natural religion–as well as a spiritual religion. Natural conscience is the seat of the former; a […]