Go and lay your icy heart upon His flaming heart of love! (From Octavius Winslow’s, “Christ, the Everlasting Father”) The everlasting love of Christ never veers, never chills, and knows not the shadow of a change. Measuring Christ’s love to us by our love to Him, we often imagine that it must necessarily be […]
Unto you who believe — He is precious! (“Every Day!” Author unknown, 1872) “Unto you who believe — He is precious!” 1 Peter 2:7 It is to unbelievers only, that Christ is “as a root out of a dry ground” — having no form nor loveliness. To those who know Him, and put their trust […]
The Brazen Serpent “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness (Num. 21:4-9), even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). Preachers are like the pole to which Moses fastened the brazen serpent. Our only function, our only usefulness is to hold up Christ crucified before sinners. The Gospel we […]
It is the blood of Jesus, applied by the Spirit (Octavius Winslow) There is a perpetual proneness to seek our fruitfulness from anything but a close, spiritual, and constant dealing with the cross of Jesus. But as well might we expect the earth to clothe itself with verdure, or the tree to blossom, and the […]
To believe that Jesus is the Christ is to believe that the man, Jesus of Nazareth, is the woman’s promised Seed, the incarnate God, and that by his obedience unto death he actually accomplished all that the Old Testament Scriptures prophesied he would accomplish, He saved his people from their sins! Pastor Don Fortner A Self Made […]
“If my salvation was so difficult to accomplish that it necessitated the death of Christ, then all my works, all my righteousness of the Law, is good for nothing. How can I buy for a penny what cost a million dollars?” Martin Luther Why must we be born again? “Jesus answered and said unto him, […]
“Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14 There is no victory over the indwelling power of sin, and there is no pardon for the guilt of sin, but as the soul deals with the blood of […]
Consider Jesus– as Without Deceit Octavius Winslow “He did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.” 1 Peter 2:22 Purer than the purest crystal, more transparent than the brightest sun, was the character of Jesus. It needed but the visual organ purged from the blinding and distorting effects of sin to have looked […]
Christ takes the garbage! Jewellers can only prepare and polish the choicest diamonds. But Jesus Christ polishes a common pebble, and makes a jewel of it! Jewellers make their precious treasures, out of precious materials. Christ makes His precious things, out of dross! He always begins with bad material. Christ takes . . . […]
The desires of the righteous! (John MacDuff, “Brief Thoughts for the Followers of Jesus” 1855) “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.” Galatians 5:17 How true is this! How exactly does it […]