JUSTICE SATISIFED, LOVE CHASTENING When a child of God looks at the hand of God, he does not see the sword of divine justice. He sees that sword buried to the hilt in the bosom of Christ his Substitute on the cross and justice completely...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
ALWAYS SOME MYSTERY The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is said to be the revelation of a "mystery." Paul said, "pray for me that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel." It is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"THE DEATH OF THE CROSS" When the apostle Paul speaks of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ in Philippians 2:8, he distinguishes that death from all others by referring to it as "the... [ abbreviated | read entire ]
WISDOM FOR FOOLS The apostle Paul tells us that God has made foolish the wisdom of this world. All the world's wisdom is but foolishness if it doesn't answer the question or resolve the problem of how an infinitely holy and just God can justify...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE CONSCIENCE PURGED When the Holy Spirit shows us the necessity, the beauty and the sufficiency of the death of Christ, we repent of our own foolish works of self-righteousness, we forsake every other way of seeking to please God, we look to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE WORTHY CHRIST We are, in ourselves, “worthy of death” as the scriptures say. Death is our natural portion as the earned and deserved “wages” of our sin. This is not so of the Lord Jesus Christ! He alone is worthy...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HAVE YOUR EYES SEEN "THE GLORY?" Men often sing a patriotic song that begins, "Mine eyes have seen the glory..." But singing it and seeing it are two different things. This is especially true concerning the glory of the gospel of Christ...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
FRIENDS OR ENEMIES? The prophet Nahum said that the Lord "reserveth wrath for His enemies." (Nah. 1:2) Many make the unchanging God to be a fickle, vacillating God when it comes to those He saves. They imagine that some who are His enemies...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A PERSON OR A DOCTRINE? Sometimes I hear people emphatically state, "Salvation is in a person, not a doctrine." The illustration they use often is Simeon when he saw Jesus as a child in the temple. "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"I WAS BEFORE" Saul of Tarsus was a moral man, a man with an excellent public record, a Pharisee and more. He was also a religious man, highly esteemed among his peers and a religious teacher taught by the greatest teacher of his day, Gamaliel....[ abbreviated | read entire ]