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I Will Send My Beloved Son, It May Be They Will Reverence Him When They See Him
The Lord Jesus Christ here, in one of the many parables which He spoke, is, first of all, setting forth a solemn lesson for the generation in which He lived. He is also setting forth what lay before Him in a few weeks time from when He made this precious declaration. But this is also a word for every generation. It is just the same now as it was in the generation in which our Lord lived. “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” Friends, this is just as true today. Man has not changed. The nature of man is not more amenable to the Truth now than it was in our Lord’s day, here below. Thus, the question and the…
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He shall See Of The Travail Of His Soul, And Shall Be Satisfied
Well nigh two thousand years ago, there was a chariot returning to Ethiopia from Jerusalem. In that chariot was the Ethiopian Eunuch, a man whose heart had been stirred to seek the Truth. The Ethiopian Eunuch was reading from the prophecy of Isaiah. There was a man whom God had ordained to preach Christ to that returning seeker: Philip the Evangelist. When Philip saw the chariot with the Ethiopian Eunuch in it, he was commanded to go and join himself to it. And as Philip joined himself to the chariot, he saw what the Eunuch was reading. He asked him a question. “Understandest thou what thou readest?” That is a question, isn’t it? I wonder how many understand the chapter that we have read this…
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6 The Earthly And Temporary Covenants: The Incarnation Of Christ
I’d like to welcome you back for another study in the Word of God. We're going to be continuing a little series of studies on the biblical covenants, and this will be the second part, looking at the earthly and temporary covenants. But just to place you in remembrance of what we've been looking at in general. I believe the major covenants of the Bible can be placed under two categories. The first of these is what we could call the two spiritual and perpetual covenants—that would be the Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of Works. And then the second of these would be the four earthly and temporary covenants—and that would be the Noahic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, the Mosaic Covenant and the Davidic…
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The Dying Thief
Was there ever such a display of the riches of sovereign grace! Nothing but grace reigns here! Man’s merit has no part. Just consider the character of the dying thief. He is described as a malefactor, an evil doer. Whenever I have mentioned the dying thief over the years, and we have had visitors from Holland, they have always been surprised, because they say that the Dutch version speaks of him as the murderer, the dying murderer. He had nothing, not one claim upon the justice of God or the mercy of God. If you look in one of the other gospels, we are told that both the thieves reviled the dying Saviour, casting scorn upon Him, saying, “If Thou be the Son of God,…
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Christ The Servant
FOR A COMPLETE ORDER OF WORSHIP, INCLUDING BIBLE READING, HYMNS AND SERMON...
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Christ’s Dying For The Ungodly
If you read God’s Holy Word, and I believe most (I hope all) of you do, you will know that it says in various places things like this: ‘Christ died for His sheep.’ Or, ‘Christ died for the members of His mystical body.’ ‘Christ died for the election of grace.’ All those things are true. But our text, and you will understand what I mean when I say this; our text goes right down to the very bedrock of where grace finds a sinner. All that can be said about him when He finds him is this word “ungodly.” In God’s purposes he may be elect; he will be elect if God saves him. To be numbered among the sheep, yes. To be a member…
