The Bible

The Savior Resting in His Love

Zephaniah 3:17

… When he is going to explain a passage of Scripture, he says, "It does not mean this, it does not mean that, and it does not mean the …

Everywhere And Yet Forgotten

Job 12:9

… Think for a moment, and you will find that there are many promises of Scripture giving the sweetest consolation in trivial matters. "He shall give His angels charge …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… For those things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, a bone of Him shall not be broken." And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… Most fitly does the Scripture compare them to grasshoppers, for both in number and in destructive force they were like those terrible devourers. God had brought them upon …

Christian Diligence

We find in the Scripture that most of the great appearances which were made to eminent saints were made when they were busy. Moses kept his father’s …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… We, therefore, assert, believing that Scripture fully warrants us, that the life of Christ constitutes the righteousness in which his people are to be clothed. His death washed …

The Duty of Remembering the Poor

Galatians 2:10

… We cannot dispute a fact which Scripture teaches, and which our own observation supports, that the Lord’s people are, to a very large extent, the poor of …

On Conversion as Our Aim

… We may say of any and every doctrine of Scripture “To give it then a tongue is wise in man.” If any one note is dropped from the …

The Redeemer's Prayer

John 17:24

… Sometimes in Scripture they are called the elect, because when the Father gave them to Christ he chose them out from among men. At other times they are …

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

… Paxton's Illustrations of Scripture. Verse 4. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God. What is the river that makes glad …

Preface

… The Ethiopian eunuch might have received divine illumination, and doubtless did receive it, but still, when asked whether he understood the Scripture which he read, he replied, "How …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… Wherever you see it hung out in Scripture, it is like an ancient signboard, signifying that there are rich wares within, or like the hands which solid readers …

The Enemies of the Cross of Christ

Philippians 3:18

… Blessed is he who rejoices in that Doctrine of the Cross of Christ! But by the Cross is sometimes meant, in Scripture, the Gospel which is the outflow …

Recruits for the King

1 Samuel 22:1-2

… Do not stumble at that! I think if there is anything plain in Scripture—I will only speak for myself, I cannot speak for anybody else—it is …

Growth in Grace

2 Peter 3:18

… No doubt we are in danger, but let me remind you that there is not an instance in Sacred Scripture of a young man disgracing his profession—but …

Psalm 28

Psalm 28

… If therefore, the verbs, in all such passages, were uniformly rendered in the "future, "every objection against the Scripture imprecations would vanish at once, and they would appear …

Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice

Nahum 1:3

… In reading holy Scripture, you can say of Paul, that he was noted for his zeal—of Peter, that he will ever be memorable for his courage—of …

'The Oil of Joy for Mourning'

Isaiah 61:3

… The varied expressions of this choice Scripture show the manifold loving kindnesses of the Lord to His afflicted and the plentiful devices of wisdom by which He ministers …

Healing Leaves

Revelation 22:2

… Look upward, then, by means of the Scripture before us, to Heaven, and see it full of every good! See it purged of every evil and see in …

"Jesus Wept"

John 11:35

… When His body was formed according to that Scripture, "A body have You prepared Me," that holy thing had in it the full apparatus of grief—the tear …

The Approachableness of Jesus

Luke 15:1

… That word "priest" has come to smell very badly nowadays; but, for all that, it is a very sweet word as we find it in Holy Scripture. The …

God's Writing Upon Man's Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… That is not the way in which Scripture goes to work. Scripture just alters the man's heart, puts new machinery in him and the heavenly steam—and …

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:34

… If we may ever set any portion of Scripture before another, this is one of the most precious Chapters in the whole compass of Revelation and, in some …

Shall and Will

Psalm 91:15

… In reading Scripture, you constantly see evidence of it in precept, in promise and in example. Now, when the sun rises, there is light. Why, I do not …

Religion a Present Concern

… We are told in Scripture that this life is a seed-time, and the future is the harvest, “he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh …

Christ Made a Curse for Us

Galatians 3:13

… Now, we learn from Scripture that God is angry with the wicked every day. Though towards the persons of sinners God exhibits great longsuffering, yet sin exceedingly provokes …

Fellowship With Christ

1 Corinthians 10:16

… In Scripture phraseology it might be said, we "commune with each other," "we hold communion with one another." So, Beloved, there are times when Christ and His people …

A New Year's Wish

Philippians 4:19

… When you turn over the pages of Scripture and read of men who were in serious trouble and were helped, you may say, "Here is Abraham, he was …

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

… It is an ill sign when a man dares not look a Scripture in the face, and an evidence of brazen impudence when he tries to make it …

Gethsemane

Luke 22:44

… The emotions of that dolorous night are expressed by several words in Scripture. John describes him as saying four days before his passion, “Now is my soul troubled …

Free Grace

Ezekiel 36:32

… Over and over again, Holy Scripture has to remind us of that which we never ought to forget, that salvation is God’s work from first to last …

The Prodigal's Return

Luke 15:20

… If I had been let alone to form my notion of God, entirely from Holy Scripture, I feel, that with the assistance of his Holy Spirit it would …

The Chariots Of Amminadib

Solomon 6:12

… There are other Scripture passages where the Savior is spoken of as being like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether, or division, because …

Marrow and Fatness

2 Samuel 7:18-22

… Yet the Psalmist's sitting was also a posture of worship and surely of all passages of Scripture none can be said to contain more true adoration than …

The Lord No More Angry with His People

Isaiah 54:9

… Forever must His anger burn! We have nothing in Scripture to warrant the hope that God's wrath against evildoers will ever come to an end. Oh, the …

The Big Gates Wide Open

John 6:37

… And unless we really wish to twist the plain meaning of words and to make something out of Scripture which Scripture does not naturally teach, we shall never …

A Look and Its Lessons

Isaiah 51:1

… And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. Just as …

For The Troubled

Psalm 88:7

… It is clear to all those who read the narratives of Scripture, or are acquainted with good men, that the best of God's servants may be brought …

Accidents, Not Punishments

Luke 13:1-5

… But Scripture teaches us that providence is a great depth in which the human intellect may swim and dive, but it can neither find a bottom nor a …

Strengthening Medicine For God's Servants

Joshua 1:5

… No Scripture is ofprivate interpretation! No text has spout itself upon the person who first received it. God's comforts are like wells which no one man or …