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HE PREACHED AS IF HE WOULD NEVER PREACH AGAIN
If you were attending the last worship service in your church, because your pastor would not be permitted to preach from the Word of God again, how would you react? Undoubtedly you would cling to every word he spoke. You would listen for spiritual words of comfort by which t ...
The Mischief of Sin
See the text fulfilled this day in our eyes. Sin has brought our nation low. We are falling down, if not collapsed. We do not lack for sin. There is a spirit of wickedness in the land. Ours are mighty sins (Amos 5:12), bloody sins (Hosea 4:2). The sins of Denmark, Spain, Prance, and Italy are tra ...
The Preacher
Christ and His qualifications The preacher was Jesus Christ, the best of preachers. “He went up.” It was He in whom there was a combination of virtues, a constellation of beauties; He whose lips were not only sweet as the honeycomb but did drop as the honeycomb. Hi ...
Poor in Spirit
Our Lord Jesus, being come to raise a high and stately fabric of blessedness, lays the foundation of it low, in poverty of spirit. But all poverty is not blessed. I shall use a fourfold distinction.1.1 distinguish between “poor in estate” and “poor in spirit.” There are the devil's poor, p ...
Obedience
What is the duty which God requires of man? It is obedience to His revealed will.It is not enough to hear God’s voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honor we owe to God. “If then I be a Father, where is Mine honour?” (Malachi 1:6). Obedience ...
Degrees of Sin
Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others. “He that delivered Me unto thee hath the greater sin” (John 19:11).The Sto ...
“When is the time that this King will deliver His people?”
When the hearts of His people are most humble, when their prayers are most fervent, when their faith is strongest, when their forces are weakest, when their enemies are highest—then is the usual time that Christ puts forth His kingly power for their deliverance.— Taken from Thomas Watson’s ...
The Kingdom of Glory
The kingdom of grace is nothing but … the beginning of the kingdom of glory; the kingdom of grace is glory in the seed, and the kingdom of glory is grace in the flower; the kingdom of grace is glory in the daybreak, and the kingdom of glory is grace in the full meridian; the kingdom of grace is g ...
Zoals de engelen …
Thomas Watson spoort ons in zijn boek over het gebed aan om de wil van God te doen zoals de engelen dat doen. Wij kunnen hun niet helemaal gelijk zijn, maar toch moeten wij hun voorbeeld navolgen. Je kunt het vergelijken met een kind dat niet zo mooi kan schrijven als het voorbeeld, maar het tóch ...
1 Over de vreedzaamheid
"Zalig zijn de vreedzamen". (Matth. 5: 9a)Dit is de zevende sport van de gouden ladder der gelukzaligheid: "Zalig zijn de vreedzamen".De naam "vrede" is zoet, en het werk des vredes is een gezegend werk. "Zalig zijn de vreedzamen". Let op de samenhang. De Heilige Schrift verbindt de ...
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