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Not By Might – But By My Spirit And Stilling The Storm
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 the Lord of hosts.” Let me just remind you of the background to this chapter. God’s ancient people were in great trouble, great sadness, and especially their governor Zerubbabel, both personally and also concerning the state of Israel at that time. It seemed they were disappointed. It seemed there was no answer. It seemed they had failed. It seemed their enemies had prevailed. It seemed…
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Upon This Rock
Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was about to remind His beloved disciples that He was going to be crucified, put to death by the hands of wicked men. A verse or two after this, we read, “From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.”
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My Victory Over The Enemy
To trust in our own righteousness, and to glory in our own strength, is natural to us all. But when a poor sinner ‘knows himself, even as he is known of the Lord,’ he thinks otherwise. When ‘he becomes a follower of the Lamb,’ he learns the language of Canaan, and says, ‘I have no confidence in the flesh.’ I subscribe with my whole heart to this confession of faith, ‘In the Lord have I righteousness and strength.’
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That Ye May Know That Ye Have Eternal Life
Little Benjamin was as dear to his father Jacob as his elder brethren. The child Samuel was as truly a priest to the Lord as old Eli. So the feeblest lamb in the flock of Jesus, though ever so weak in faith and knowledge, yet is equally dear to the Father as the strongest believer; loved with the same everlasting love, alike interested in the salvation of Jesus, and as certainly an heir of eternal life.
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Encouraged In The Lord
FOR A COMPLETE ORDER OF WORSHIP, INCLUDING BIBLE READING, HYMNS AND SERMON...
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Seedtime And Harvest
God’s ancient people were an agricultural people. They lived close to the land. That is why you have so many references, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, to farming, and one thing that continually comes in: the sowing and the reaping, and the harvest time, and often there is that emphasis that as we sow, so also we shall reap.
