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Commit Thy Ways Unto The Lord
We are too apt to forget where we are, what we are called to, and whither we are going. When we take a survey of the present state of men and things, judge according to appearances in nature and sense, and see one event happen alike to all, we are ready to ask, what advantage then hath the Christian; or what profit is there to new-born believing souls?
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I Lead In The Way Of Righteousness
One of the many names given to the incomparable Saviour is the name ‘Wisdom.’ In this chapter, we are given a blessed commentary by the Holy Ghost through His servant Solomon of the way in which the Lord Jesus Christ is the very wisdom of God. And, particularly in the verses before us this evening, there is a very necessary application of that wisdom; an essential part of salvation. That is to be led “in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment.” Man, by nature, has not got this wisdom. He is fallen. We are commanded, elsewhere in The Proverbs, not even to lean unto our “own understanding.” We also read: “He that trusteth in his own heart is a…
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Keep Yourselves In The Love Of God
The love of God, like every other attribute and perfection of Jehovah, is everlasting and unchangeable, even as the essence of God himself. This love is manifested to his people in Christ Jesus; he is the object in whom they are viewed and loved by the Father. As Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and for ever, so is God’s love towards them. Time, with all its concurring circumstances, can make no alteration or change, increase or diminution herein. But as to the sense and enjoyment of this love, the word of truth, and the experience of believers plainly testify of its ebbing and flowing, its fervour and abatement in the soul. Hence the necessity of those tender calls, kind warnings, and loving counsels, are…
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The Raised Spirits Of God’s People
The context of this verse, and chapter, is exceedingly instructive. You will remember that under the prophecies, of both Isaiah and Jeremiah, it was foretold that the people of God, who, having been brought out of Egyptian bondage and wonderfully blessed in the Promised Land, because of their iniquity and because of their neglect of God’s Word and of His prophets, would spend seventy years in a foreign country, that being Babylon. They had neglected the Sabbaths of the Lord, and so the Lord gave the land a seventy year Sabbath while the people were absent from it.
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Ezra Gives The Understanding
FOR A COMPLETE ORDER OF WORSHIP, INCLUDING BIBLE READING, HYMNS AND SERMON...
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Redeeming The Time
Light and life are communicated from Jesus to his members, not merely to till their heads with gospel truths, as matters of speculation, or to make them fluent talkers about religion, but chiefly to affect their hearts, renew their minds, and cause them to be close and consistent walkers with Jesus. Without this we only seem to be religious; we deceive ourselves, and our religion is vain. We cannot stand approved in the sight of God, before men, nor to our own consciences. ‘The wise man’s eyes are in his head;’ he looks around him and sees the evil of sin, the vanity of this present world, that its gay pleasures, alluring pastimes, bewitching diversions, are the gilded bait of the god of this world,…
