BIBLE TRUTH BOOKS

We are again listing a few books for your consideration. A complete list may be obtained by writing us. Good books make excellent gifts for young and old. Cassette tapes of sermons of our ministers are also available upon request on a loan basis. Many thanks for past orders, and may you remember us in prayer as we attempt to place good literature in the homes. Orders should be sent to Bible Truth Books, P.O. Box 2373, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49003.

Israel’s Hope Encouraged by John Bunyan

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“Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy and with Him is plenteous redemption”. Psalm 130:7. Using this text, Bunyan describes the beauty of that precious soul exercise through which God delights to strengthen His people. 126 pages (paperback)

A Short History of the Early Church by Harry R. Boer

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This book is a fascinating and clearly written history of the church from Pentecost. Boer deals with the major persons, places, events, and doctrinal disputes of the time. Recommended for teenagers and adults alike as an excellent introductory survey of early church history. 184 pages (paperback)

The Gospel Of A Covenant God by John Warburton

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A series of sermons of a servant of God that was richly blessed in its day. Although John Warburton was not the most educated or gifted minister, yet he preached with a warmth and zeal that was used of God to the conversion of souls. 151 pages (hardcover )

Old Testament History by Charles F. Pfeiffer

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Dr. Pfeiffer has written a comprehensive and thoroughly researched history of the Old Testament in terms that can be easily understood by young people and adults alike. Combining the Biblical account with secular history and archaeological finds, the book enables one to gain a much richer understanding of the Bible and the context in which the recorded events occurred. 640 pages (hardcover)

Memories of a Wayfaring Man by Murdoch Campbell

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This book is a brief account of the spiritual pilgrimage of Murdoch Campbell. It tells a little of the story of God’s mercy and love which so many of God’s people could tell. The author’s motive is to magnify the grace of God and to encourage God’s people, many of whom, “in the footsteps of the flock”, carry heavy burdens and are often weary and afraid on the way. 140 pages (paperback)

WE MUST GO ALONG WITH GOD

It is more than forty years ago, that a child of God, who rejoices before the throne already since 1944, spoke the above words to me, and added, “Because God will never go along with us.” How those words have come back to me in my life, and still must experience the truth of them. The aged Datheen says in his precious rhymed Psalm, “Wholly wrong, oh Lord, are our ways.” But how bitter and grievous when we must experience it. No fruit from us henceforth forever. God’s ways are wholly perfect and true. But ah, although we confess that, often our heart is farther from the experience of it than the North is from the South, and the East from the West. God so often strikes out our calculations, and that really is not pleasant. We want to direct our own life, and go our own way, but the Lord says: “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.” And now we know that we shall never win, but we still continue to fight. It is seldom that we agree with God’s ways, and can say yea and Amen to all God does. Our flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

But there are times in our life, that it is possible. But what the Lord has said, that shall stand. We must go along with God. Very likely there are some readers of these poor empty words, who say: “How blessed it is if we may go along with the Lord.” Most certainly, that grace is unspeakably great, that God has known and chosen us from eternity; unspeakably great if He calls us in the time of His good pleasure, as once Levi: “Follow Me.” So that we are made willing to follow, and to receive grace to follow the Lord into the wilderness, in a land that is not sown. Jer. 2:2. To follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth; and by faith may look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, Heb. 12:2. O yes, those people who by sovereign redeeming drawing and calling grace, may be privileged to do so, shall never repent of it. You have never heard that from the mouth of those people, so blessed by God. It will continually become more and more a wonder for them, that God was moved for them from eternity, that He did not spare His Son, but delivered Him up, and that the Holy Spirit was willing to teach and lead them.

Eternity will not be too long to eternally admire that wonder, and above all that wonderful God. The more that their fall is revealed, and the misery of their heart and life, the deeper they will sink away before that Most High God. And all this applies to the life which is given by God: Of that life, which is merited by Christ, granted and planted in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Apostle John says in I John 5:18, “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not;” That life wants only what God wants. That life does not rise up against God, no, that is united with God’s will. We read in Psalm 131 of such a life.

But that life of God will not remain concealed; it will be revealed in the fruit. The power of Christ is glorified in them. As Surety He merited it for all His people, so that there are moments in their life, that with all their heart they may pray: “Thy will be done!” Christ prayed that for all His people in the garden of Gethsemane, and that is the only ground and reason, that in this life, in which there are so many riddles and problems, they may also with all their heart stammer it after Him. Then it is: “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me,” Phil. 4:13. The dominating power of sin in the heart of the elect is broken, as soon as they are called from death unto life. But what remains is the tormenting power of sin. That new man cannot sin, but the old man will never be converted. And those remnants of sin can exercise so much power. How often the new life lies under, and often so far under, so that David feared to perish one day by the hand of Saul. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. No, friends, that is not spiritualizing, but that is the practical life of all those who know something about the true life of God.

Faith does not reason, nor calculate, no, it accepts and follows unconditionally. But unbelief, in the believer, suspects God, in His faithfulness, love and might, it murmurs and challenges God, it becomes angry and cross. Unbelief is the captain of all evil, and continually we become aware, that there is no strength in us, against this great multitude. And then there is that enemy and traitor which we have in our heart. He is in agreement with the murderer from the beginning.

We must go along with God. That is true in the way of God’s providence, but that is also experienced by all those who set their feet upon the way of life and righteousness. In Psalm 73 Asaph was not in agreement with God. He thought that God did wrong. If he had the reins of administration in his hands, then things would have been different. How our flesh can moan and cry, to constrain God to go along with us; so that we could have our way, that the Lord shall make it so, that we would have a heaven upon earth. And in respect to our eternal being, how glad we would be if we could dictate to the Lord. It is an awful disappointment that by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before God, and that we must come to nothing with all that is of us, for we must lose our life, shall we ever be saved. We must be reconciled with God as enemies, and justified as ungodly. It is all so different than we wish and desire. The cross of Christ is a stumbling block to the Jew and unto the Greek foolishness, and we have them both in our heart. Many travel to Jerusalem to find a Jew, and would go to Athens to learn to know the Greek, but ah, if God discovers us, then we will become acquainted with both in our own heart.

And our desire is always to be something, to have something and to become something. Self-love is rooted so deeply in our hearts. But God’s way is to become nothing, to become completely stripped of self. I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and a poor people, and they shall trust in the Lord. We must become as a child, helpless and dependent, so that we will need God from moment to moment. Blest is the man whose strength Thou art, Thy ways are hidden in his heart. Psalter No. 421:3.

“We who live”, says the apostle, “are always delivered unto death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh,” 2 Cor. 4:11. We are robbers of God’s honor, but God leads His people so, that God shall receive the honor inwardly and outwardly. By nature we live only to crown ourselves, but God’s Spirit is always busy to uncrown us, and to make us understand, that the crown shall eternally flourish upon the head of Christ, the Anointed of the Father. All the good pleasure of God is in Him. In natural life it is sometimes said: “We will take your wishes into consideration”, but spiritually that is altogether different. Moses wanted to enter into Canaan with the people of Israel, whom he had led for forty years, but the Lord cut that off and said unto him: “Speak no more to Me of this matter.” And in 2 Cor. 12, Paul prays thrice, that he might be delivered from the thorn in the flesh, and the messenger of satan to buffet him. But the divine answer was: “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” We do not get our way. Sometimes that happens to people. But that belongs to the rarities, that they thank God, that they did not get that for which they constrained God. When they come into the sanctuary with Asaph, then it is: “Thy counsel through my earthly way, shall guide me and control, and then to glory afterwards Thou wilt receive my soul.”

In heaven all will be made clear. There they are delivered from flesh and blood. And there shall be no night there. Neither any power of enmity anymore, nor disagreements with God’s ways, but there it will be eternally praising God and His ways, to admire His eternal wisdom and love whereby He has led them. May God grant it to us out of grace for Christ’s sake.

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