Job. No other name is so effective to summon from the mists of history a man whose quietness and confidence were rudely interrupted and rapidly exchanged for questioning. We may with reverence place the two names, Job and Jesus, side by side as the supreme examples of faith, hope and love, assaulted by all the […]
Before you turn to the verse which I shall ask you very carefully to look at, which speaks of how a believer is to know that he has eternal life, let me quote it in the distorted way that man’s imagination often puts it. “These happy feelings have I given unto you that believe on […]
How may I be sure that I have repented enough? Test yourself in this way. You once lived in sin and loved it. Do you now desire deliverance from it? You were once self-confident and trusting in your own fancied goodness. Do you now judge yourself as a sinner before God? If you can honestly […]
Some years ago in a cartoon strip Charlie Brown commented after losing a ball game, “How could we lose when we were so sincere?” Maybe you have felt the same way. Deliberate Sins It may be that you have committed serious sin, deliberate, willful rebellion against the laws of God. Sin weighs on the conscience […]
Every sin should increase our trust, seeing it proves to us in the most convincing manner, that He is absolutely necessary. Weakness is ours, since it forces us to live by faith on One mighty to save. The drying up of earthly streams makes us cleave to Him who is all in all–prevails on us […]
This first epistle of John was written to give the basis of a person knowing that they believed. But sometimes, due to misunderstanding the text, these verses have the opposite effect. Thus this commentary is so helpful to the doubting saint. Verse 4–Every one that doeth sin Here the tense is the present continuous and […]
One of the many ways God cares for His people in this age is through shepherds or elders. This is God’s idea. We save ourselves a lot of mental stress when we accept this just as He presents it to us in the New Testament. To attempt to design some other scheme or program is […]
During the thrilling days of 1859-1860 often scores of urgent requests would come from different places at once to the Lord’s servants. So the revival spread through the Irish counties of Tyrone and Donegal, of Monaghan and Cavan, and later broke forth in County Armagh. By September of 1859 every part of Ulster was affected. […]
From his first days as a Christian in the Salvation Army, Harry Ironside had a deep passion for winning lost souls for the Lord. By the time he was nineteen, he was already preaching well over four hundred sermons a year in addition to dealing with countless individuals and directing the work of his company. […]