OBADIAH C. H. Spurgeon ‘I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.’ I Kings 18.12. I suspect that Elijah did not think very much of Obadiah. He does not treat him with any great consideration, but addresses him more sharply than one would expect from a fellow-believer. Elijah was the man of action – …
Issue: Issue 2
`WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?’ J. C. Ryle `What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.’ Matt. 22.42. Beloved, I have told you more than once, and I tell you now again, that since I have had the charge of this House and district it has …
GIVE ME THY HEART `My son, give me thy heart,’Jehovah speaks the word, The most amazing thing,that surely I have heard; That God, the mighty God above, Desires to have my worthless love. `My son give me thy heart,’ The voice of God’s own Son, Reminding me of what He once for me had done, …
CAN I BE HOLY? A Lecture given at Hailsham for SGU on 2nd September 2004 by Paul G. Watts of Coventry `Follow… holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.’ Hebrews 12.14. To be holy sounds, and is, an impossibility to human nature. Joseph Hart in a little-known hymn writes: `That we’re unholy needs …
I AM THE VINE Notes of a lecture given at Rehoboth Chapel, Bromley, September 2003. John 15.1-16 Introduction The language is that of a parable, an illustration of spiritual things by use of a familiar picture from the natural world. As with all parables it is important to grasp the main lessons and not to …
AHAB GOVERNED BY JEZEBEL from Elijah the Tishbite by Dr E W. Krummacher 1796-1868 A great many persons, in every age, are thus led blindfold by human influence. The chains with which the prince of darkness binds mankind to his yoke and banner, are not always the grosser vices and lusts: he secures thousands of …
THE STARTLED PREACHER from Elijah the Tishbite by Dr E W Krummacher 1796-1868 There was, some years ago, not far from this place, a very gifted preacher, who for several years preached with great earnestness and success the doctrine of the cross; and who, on that very account, was violently opposed. One of his opponents, …
COMFORT IN BEREAVEMENT When dearest ones are taken, and sorrow fills the breast, Come unto Me, says Jesus, and I will give you rest, ‘Twas for the joy before Me, I died upon the cross, And rose that I might show you, My comfort in your loss. For I will walk beside you, you will …
WITHOUT CLOUDS J. C. Ryle ‘He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered …