“With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness” (Isa 26:9). Do you see how strategic Isaiah’s thinking is? Lying in the darkness, he contemplates world-sized thoughts. […]
J.F. Strombeck, in his book, So Great Salvation, suggests God’s salvation is great because it is available to such a great number: “the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe” (Rom 3:22). As well, it is great because of what was required to accomplish […]
CHRIST the PROMISE-KEEPER: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” (Heb 10:23). Henry Durbanville tells the following story: William P. White recounts how, as a young preacher, he received a message one morning, “Father Junkins is dying and wants to see you.” The dying man […]
“Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble” (Ps 10:12). Humility brings vulnerability; but it also brings victory, since “the Lord lifts up the humble” (147:6). Before being called to India, William Carey was trained as a cobbler. But how did the Lord use him in the work? Robert […]
Abdullah did not see why the Messiah must die for our sins. I took him to Genesis, telling him the story of a holy, faithful, and loving God who created humans to enjoy a close relationship with Himself. Next, we heard of God’s prohibition to Adam (2:16-17). I asked Abdullah, “Did God tell Adam that […]
Conceit is a strange disease in that, when a person has it, it makes everyone else sick! To grasp the significance of the events today, we’ll have to go back to two other stories in Israel’s history. One dates to the early days of the nation’s Egyptian exodus, and the other to the inception of […]
CHRIST the LAMB of GOD: “Behold the Lamb…” (Jn 1:29). Sidlow Baxter points out the ten great Lamb passages: in Genesis 4, we see Abel and the necessity of the Lamb; in Genesis 22, it is Abraham and the provision of the Lamb; in Exodus 12, the Passover emphasizes the slaying of the Lamb; in […]
“He…offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears” (Heb 5:7, KJV). Jesus performed many mighty works without outward signs of strain, but these words describe His praying. J. Oswald Sanders writes: “‘Epaphras is always wrestling for you in his prayers,’ wrote Paul to the Colossians (4:12).…The word ‘wrestling’ is that from which our […]
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet 3:9). Repentance simply means “a change of mind.” Man naturally does not think rightly about himself, sin, God, or the way of […]