The Word Of God

Go to dark Gethsemane, ye that feel the tempter’s power; Your Redeemer’s conflict see, watch with Him one bitter hour, turn not from His griefs away; learn of Jesus Christ to pray.  See Him at the judgment hall,  beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned;  O the wormwood and the gall!  O the pangs His soul sustained!  Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;  learn of Christ to bear the cross.  Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;  there, adoring at His feet, mark that miracle of time, God’s own sacrifice complete. “It is finished!” hear Him cry; learn of Jesus Christ to die.  Early hasten to the tomb where they laid His breathless clay;  all is solitude and gloom; who has taken Him away? Christ is risen! He meets our eyes;  Savior, teach us so to rise.  By James Montgomery Photo by StockSnap on Pixabay

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.  Love suffers long and is kind;  love does not envy;  love does not parade itself,  is not puffed up;  does not behave rudely,  does not seek its own,  is not provoked,  thinks no evil;  does not rejoice in iniquity,  but rejoices in the truth;  bears all things,  believes all things,  hopes all things,  endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we

Extract from A Full Christ for Empty Sinners: Part 1 By: William T. Trotter From: Bible Treasury: Volume N8 John 6 "The way in which the same blessed person is presented in Matthew as the Messiah of Israel; by Mark, in active service as the Minister of the Word; by Luke, in the fullness of that grace in which He, the Son of man, came to men as such, to seek and to save that which was lost; and by John as the Word which was in the beginning, which was with God, and was God, but which was made flesh, and dwelt among us; all this the reader has doubtless read and heard again and again, until the words remain in the memory, whether they be understood and enjoyed through divine teaching or not. The peculiar character of John's Gospel has been dwelt upon by many. Many have pointed out how the glory which passes before us in that gospel is the glory of Christ in His highest divine titles and relations; "the glory of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace an

The Cross the End of the Old Man From: Bible Herald, Volume 5 "THE end of man in the flesh in the cross" is said to be error! Rom. 6 and 7 do not say so. Nor does Gal. 2 "I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer live I ,"  etc. Does not this Scripture prove what our paper affirms? Are you not too narrow in your views of the cross?  By the cross God accomplishes a number of things—not atonement only, as you seem to think. The old man is crucified with Christ; the world is crucified to me; the flesh is crucified with the affections and lust; Satan is destroyed. This is the spiritual defect of many converted souls, that they have not seen by faith, and the Spirit that they come to the end of themselves in the Cross of Christ.  They do not see that they have died with Christ to sin , and have got clear of its mastership, as well as that Christ has died for our sins to free us from our guilt. Death with Christ (Rom. 6) is the only means of annulling th

Philippians 3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.  Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Isaiah 65   I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.   I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;   A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;   Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and

Zechariah 14  Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and