BORN KING Matthew 2: 2: Where is he that is born King of the Jews? Christ Jesus was born King. No sinner makes him Lord. He was born King of the Jews, whom he redeemed out of every kindred, tongue, people and nation. (Rom 2: 28-29; 9: 6-8; Php 3: 3;Rev 5: 9; Is 9: 6-7) The government […]
CHRIST CRUCIFIED The preaching of Christ Jesus and Him crucified is hated by this religious world. But those who believe, and are saved, love it with a perfect love. It is our only hope, our Salvation. If we compromise on this to please the people of our day, we compromise the Gospel, and make the […]
Bitter and Sweet! James Smith Real religion is a personal thing. Every man’s religion must be his own — produced in his own heart by the Spirit of God, and nourished by the word and prayer. In every man’s religion, there is something distinguishing, and something only known to himself. To every believer the proverb […]
(The following is an excerpt from the diary of James Smith) March 27, 1861. Jesus is precious — very precious, to my soul. I love Him, rest in Him, preach Him, and wish that I could exalt Him a thousand times higher than I do! The sum total of my experience is: I am nothing — but Christ is all! […]
CHRIST THE BELIEVER’S LIFE by Archibald Alexander Jesus is the believer’s life, because he has redeemed him from death. The sentence of death, eternal death, has gone forth against every sinner. “The wages of sin is death.” “Cursed is everyone that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.” […]
THE GREAT I AM Exodus 3: 13-15 Christ revealed himself in the burning bush as God, saying, “I AM”. During his earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus declared himself to be God by saying, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.” (Jn 8: 58; 10: 33; 36; 6: 35) It means he is God in […]
All Spiritual Blessings “Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN CHRIST.” Eph. 1:3 The Holy Spirit uses this phrase over and over again – IN CHRIST. The whole of the word of God is to reveal to us the […]
This baffles all our comprehension! (John MacDuff, “Clefts of the Rock” 1874) “So the Word became human and lived here on earth among us.” John 1:14 What a transition! What a stoop for that Infinite Being who proclaimed Himself the Alpha and the Omega; for “The Ancient of days” to assume the nature and take […]
It is utterly impossible! (Octavius Winslow, 1852) It has been the distinctive aim, and the sincere desire of my ministry — to make known and to endear the Savior to your hearts. Oh, how worthy is He . . . of your most exalted conceptions, of your most implicit confidence, of your most self-denying service, […]
LOOKING UNTO JESUS Octavius Winslow “Looking unto Jesus” —Hebrews 12:2. It was no little kindness in our God that as one saving object, and one alone, was to engage the attention and fix the eye of the soul, through time and through eternity, that object should be of surpassing excellence and of peerless beauty. That […]