The ocean of Divine love! (by Octavius Winslow) The love of God to His people was as eternal as the eternity of His being, as everlasting as His uncreated nature. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” It panted, it yearned for an outlet. It sought and found it in Christ. Nowhere in the […]
Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh – by Spurgeon “You are all fair, My love; there is no spot in you.” Solomon’s Song 4:7 How marvelous are these words! “You are all fair, My love; there is no spot in you.” The glorious Bridegroom is charmed with His spouse, and sings soft canticles of […]
THE GOOD SHEPHERD “Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said,” “I am the Good Shepherd. I know My sheep — and My sheep know Me.” — John 10:14 “The Good Shepherd” — well can the sheep who know His voice, attest the truthfulness and faithfulness of this endearing name and word. Where […]
(Charles Spurgeon, “The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant!” 1859) “The blood of the everlasting covenant!” Hebrews 13:20 Long before the day-star knew its place, long before God had spoken existence out of nothing, long before angel’s wing had stirred the unnavigated ether, long before a solitary song had disturbed the solemnity of the silence in […]
EVERLASTING LOVE “How precious also are Your thoughts unto me, O God!” I have loved you, My people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to Myself. Jeremiah 31:3 Here we have an everlasting thought of God, “in the beginning, before ever the earth was.” Believer, travel back in imagination to […]
“The king hath brought me into his chambers.”—Song 1: 4. Yes, he who is King of nations, King of saints, is my God and King also; for he hath an universal empire, being one with the Father over all, blessed for ever. Amen. To him I bow the knee, and humbly and gratefully desire to […]
THE WILLING SERVANT (extract) Henry Law written in 1855 originally called the Gospel in Exodus. “But the slave may plainly declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.’ If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the […]
“A Ransom For Many” Mark 10:45 Those who teach that Christ died for all, for the damned as well as the saved, belittle our Lord’s sacrifice upon the cross, blaspheme the name of our God, and preach a gospel that offers no hope to helpless sinners. Universal atonement is not the doctrine of Holy Scripture. […]
Jesus sustains no association to His Church more expressive than that of the marriage relationship. From all eternity He forever betrothed her to Himself. He asked her at the hands of her Father—and the Father gave her to Him. He entered into a covenant that she would be His. The conditions of that covenant were […]
The children of the Promise Chris Cunningham Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, […]