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I Will Choose Their Delusions
‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.’ It is good for us to be brought back regularly to reflect on the majesty, glory and infinity of God. God is self-sufficient and needs nothing from us. He possesses all perfection. He is the first and last. Nothing can be added to God nor taken from Him. Conversely, everything we have has been given to us by Him out of His goodness and by His grace. These opening verses are a timely tonic against human pride. Christ’s blood is sufficient Just as we cannot add anything to God’s glory, neither can we add anything to the perfect satisfaction of Christ’s death for sin. Killing an ox or lamb is no doubt a reference to…
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Precious And Honourable In The Sight Of God
This is a very precious and blessed part of God's Word. This, dear friends, is the gospel. It is all compact together in the eternal decrees of God, in God's everlasting, electing love and grace. God chose the church in eternity, and he designed it to be a glorious church; and chose what means he would use to bring about his own purposes and designs in order to make it a glorious church. I read a remark years ago in a good author, and I never forgot it. It was this: "What was first in intention was last in execution." As much as if a man should say, "I will have a house built according to such a plan;" and then he prepared the materials…
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Israel Demands A King
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I Am Holier Than You
FOR A COMPLETE ORDER OF WORSHIP, INCLUDING BIBLE READING, HYMNS AND SERMON...
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Gracious Words
The former part of the verse speaks of the Shepherd, which is Christ, the Good Shepherd (John 10:14), and of the sword awaking against Him at the command of Jehovah the Father. Here is shown the rights of Justice: He will by no means clear the guilty. Jesus took on Himself the sins of His elect; He became as a sinner in the view of Justice: He was considered as the law-breaker, and must bear the punishment due to transgressors, as Isaiah 53:5, "He was bruised for our iniquities," &c., &c., to the end of the chapter. Sins, in Scripture, are called debts. God the Father is represented as our Creditor; and we are debtors, and are by Adam's debts (which are transferred to us),…
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The Days Of Noah
I suppose that most of us are deeply concerned about the very evil, wicked days in which we live. Perilous times have come. Evil men have begun to wax worse and worse. We see the immorality on every hand. We see wickedness, deceit in high places; with our rulers God is not in all their thoughts – the dreadful legislation there has been in Parliament and our Prime Minister [David Cameron, Prime Minister 2010-2016] glorying in it, seeking to impress other countries with it, even the Archbishop of Canterbury leaning towards it, and sport idolised and all the abominations connected with it, that we wonder whatever will be next. People say, Was there ever such a day as this? Well, we think of the days…
