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I Must Shortly Put Off This Tabernacle
Nothing but the life of Jesus manifest in our flesh, can reconcile us to death. This, and this only delivers from the fears of death, disarms it of its sting, and fortifies the mind with the knowledge of complete victory over the king of terrors, ‘through him who hath loved us.' Constant converse with Jesus makes death familiar. So we…
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His Own Son
The Apostle Paul has been leading us to consider the high privileges of sovereign mercy granted to God’s beloved people. Step by step he has been showing us the components of covenant grace. Link by link he has revealed the unbreakable chain of divine purpose. God’s great salvation originates in everlasting love and culminates in the church’s eternal glory. Every…
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Not By Might
This must surely be one of the best-known chapters in the minor prophets, and surely this verse that I have read out to you must be one of the most important words in the whole of the Old Testament. There is so much in it; there is everything it. “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith…
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False Hopes And Self-Righteous Pleas
Pride and self-confidence are deeply rooted in the human heart. False hopes are built on self-righteous pleas. By these the heart is blinded to the exceeding sinfulness of sin, hardened against the fear and dread of the Lord; and such live in rebellion against the truth as it is in Jesus. Like Paul, we are all naturally alive without the…
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The Death Of Saul
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Daniel Allen: Pastor And Pioneer
There is a class of early settlers of whom Australia is justly proud today. They pursued new avenues of discovery, lent their names to mountains and deserts, and set the standards by which their successors were judged. They possessed qualities of vision, energy, courage, and determination: the ‘true grit’ character which opened up the continent. These were the pioneers. To…
