“Christ shall be magnified in my body” (Phil. 1.20). What a blessed privilege! what an end in living! By this day’s work, by this hour’s work, I may raise Christ higher. Are we aiming at this?
Issue: Issue 1
THE FORCE OF TRUTH Thomas Scott (First published in 1779) Some time in November 1777, I was, by a then unknown friend, furnished with a considerable number of books, written in general by the old divines, both of the church of England, and of the dissenters. And, to my no small surprise, I found that …
CHRIST IS ALL* But Christ is all, and in all. Col 3.11 What use and improvement are we to make of this subject? 1. IT SHOULD PUT UPON US SOLEMN AND SERIOUS SELF-EXAMINATION. Shall I put the question, and will you make the answer? not outwardly with the voice, but inwardly, in your own conscience …
FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION In GENESIS the world was made by God’s creative hand, In EXODUS the Hebrews marched to gain the promised land; LEVITICUS contains the Law, holy and just and good, NUMBERS records the tribes enrolled – all sons of Abraham’s blood. Moses in DEUTERONOMY recounts God’s mighty deeds, Brave JOSHUA unto Canaan’s …
Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God; Who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2 Corinthians 1.2122.
FULL ASSURANCE Assurance of personal salvation comes only through trusting and believing – that is, through trusting to the death of Christ, as the only way of salvation, and believing God’s word when He says that all who so do have eternal life. This, and this only, is the sure ground of assurance. God cannot …
Knowledge of the Bible without an education is much more valuable than an education without a knowledge of the Bible.