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A Blessed Anticipation
We are again at the beginning of a new year. What this year will bring us we do not know. What we do know is that one generation is coming while another is going. Perhaps there are some among us whose thread of life will be cut off this year. Perhaps you are among those for whom this y ...
The Opening of a Heart
It is likely that Lydia’s moving to Philippi was connected with her business. She was a seller of purple, or a supplier of purple-colored fabrics, which were customarily worn only by rich people. Undoubtedly, she had found a better market for her goods in Philippi. In any event, she wa ...
Pentecost and Its Significance
Pentecost is the feast of accomplishment and of fulfillment. It is the coronation feast of the Church of Christ, where Christ Himself, through His Spirit, comes and dwells in His Church. That is, in the deepest sense, the essence and content of this Pentecostal event. It is truly an aw ...
Godly Rejoicing
The Church of today has forgotten how to rejoice. Many think that with spiritual life one has to walk around with his head hanging down. Yea, today it is the case, the more complaining, the more converted. This, however, is a terrible mistake. The Apostle Paul says, “Rejoice in the Lor ...
A Father’s Lamentation
Jeremiah may justly call himself the man who has seen affliction. Jeremiah lived both before and during the exile of the Jewish nation to Babylon. He has prophesied of the fall of the nation and has also personally experienced it. Approximately one hundred fifty years earlier the ten t ...
Pentecost: The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
The outpouring of the Holy Ghost is one of the facts of salvation which has an exceptional significance for the Church. Actually, this is true for all of the facts of salvation, for not one of them can be missed. Without Christmas, we could not speak about Easter, and likewise without ...
A Merciful God
Ephraim (the remnant, according to the election by God’s grace) has come to repentance, and Ephraim, God’s dear son, is filled with a sorrow after God, a sorrow which worketh a salvation not to be repented of. He brings his complaint before the Lord because of his loathsome ...
Het zuchten van degenen die de eerstelingen des Geestes hebben
In onze tekst wordt gesproken over het zuchten van degenen, die de eerstelingen des Geestes hebben. Maar hebben zij dan reden om te klagen? Zegt de profeet niet: Wat klaagt dan een levend mens? Een ieder klage vanwege zijn zonden. Dat is zeker waar, doch hier wordt niet gesproken over klagen, maa ...
Het Kindeke in de kribbe
Tegenwoordig zegt men, en dat is dan het ruime evangelie: De Heere Jezus is voor ons allemaal gestorven, Hij is voor alle mensen op de wereld gekomen. Dat moet men geloven, en dat moet men maar aannemen. Doch wat is dat een arm evangelie, hoe ruim het ook schijnt te zijn.Gelukkig dat Gods ...
Zij zullen komen!
Jeremia is de profeet die bekend is om zijn klaagliederen. Toch heeft hij niet alleen klaagliederen gezongen. Hij heeft ook op zeer liefelijke wijze op de fluit van het Evangelie gespeeld. Hij is de profeet die het volk het oordeel Gods over de zonden heeft aangekondigd, en die het ook heeft zien ...
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