ARE YOU WHEAT OR CHAFF? J. C. Ryle. There are only two classes of people in the world in the sight of God, those who are called the wheat, and there are those who are called the chaff. Viewed with the eye of man, the earth contains many different sorts of inhabitants. Viewed with the …
Issue: Issue 3
FED BY RAVENS In 1822, Mr. Gadsby wanted money to make up the school bill for one of his boys, who was returning to a boarding-school at Rochdale. On the Tuesday evening, in the course of his sermon, he remarked that the Lord was never at a loss for means with which to supply His …
As Adam had a world made for him, so shall Jesus Christ, the second Adam have a world made for Him. This world was not good enough for Him; He had a better appointed than that which Adam had, a new heaven and a new earth, according to the promise of Isaiah 66.22, where the …
Zeal is like resin to the bow strings, without which the lute makes no music. Thomas Watson
FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK (4) The people of God are fruitful in every good work, only because they are the children of God by the new birth. A creation relationship is never spoken of as being “born of God.” Nicodemus enjoyed a creation relationship, but was informed by the Lord Jesus Christ that he …
FROM ME IS THY FRUIT FOUND (Hosea 14.8) There are not a few among the professed followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, who look to themselves alone for all fruit of every sort. There are some who also seem to be careless about everything of a practical nature, who say that the children of God …
THE CHURCH MILITANT A sermon preached by the Rev. Murdoch Cambell, M.A., in 1957.* “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds”, 2 Cor. 10.4. The world in which Paul lived lay in the deep shadows of spiritual death and moral decay. An idolatrous …
THE GLORY OF CHRIST As the godly John Owen came to the day of his death he was told that the first sheet of his Meditations on the Glory of Christ had been printed under the superintendance of William Payne. On hearing this he lifted up his hands and looking upward he said, ‘I am …
THE FEAR OF DEATH Some of the Lord’s saints have not yet received dying grace; but then they are not going to die yet. Saints are prepared before they go. Our Lord does not pluck His fruit unwisely. Foolish people may tear the green apples from the tree with a pull and a wrench, and …
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST (1)* A Sermon preached by Mr. Kenneth J. Cordle at Swaffham Prior, Cambs. August 24th 1980 Colossians 4.3. We do not know how the gospel first reached the Colossians. It would seem that Epaphras was the first minister settled there. He had apparently appeared to the apostle Paul in Rome with …