Tag Archive | Savior

The Judgment Seat

We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.  2 Corinthians 5:10 And are there scoffers, who madly walk after their own lusts, and question the coming of the Lord?  The hour hastens when infidelity shall doubt no more:  “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, […]

Jesus Shall Save His People

And thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.  Matthew 1:21. Sin is the deadliest foe we have; it cast our first parents out of paradise; it defaced God’s image in man; it brought pain, sickness, and death into the world, and a spiritual death into the soul; […]

The Prodigal Child

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.  Jer. 3:22.  When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.  Luke 15:20.  Hear therefore the voice of thy loving Father and Shepherd, O thou backsliding child and lost […]

The Mediator’s Fulness of Grace

Behold, we come unto thee.  Jer. 3:22.  I will not leave you comfortless:  I will come to you.  John 14:18.  Make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house.  Luke 19:4-6. O my dear Saviour, since I come to thee, and thou to me, we shall certainly meet one another.  Who […]

Child of Grace

Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.  Exodus 2:9 As Moses was ordered to be saved by the most cruel enemy’s daughter, so Satan himself, even when he meditates our destruction, must be a means of our life.  So also Matt. 12:48, “Who is my mother?”  […]

All-Sufficient Atonement

“God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.  For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” 2 Corinthians 5:19, 21 It highly concerns believers who desire to keep a constant peace […]

A Golden Treasury ~ January 25

25. Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.  2 Cor. 5:9. This indeed is the true disposition of a soul espoused to Christ.  She has but one care, which is to please him in all things.  And this desire to do his will is, as it were, the […]