john-8:36

Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. (John 8:36) As mentioned previously, one way to examine the life of grace is to look at living by faith in the promises of God. Let us now proceed in our consideration of God's "exceedingly great and precious promises" (2 Peter 1:4). The... Read More

I will show you the eight particular properties of a man without Christ. 1. Every man without Jesus Christ is a base man. 2. He is a bondman. 3. He is a beggarly man. 4. He is a blind man. 5. He is a deformed man. 6. He is a disconsolate man. 7. He is a dead man; and 8. He is a damned man. These are... Read More

ALL OF "GRACE GEMS" FROM NOVEMBER 2003 IN ONE FILE Temptation (Joseph Philpot, "Daily Portions") "The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations." 2 Peter 2:9 Few will sincerely and spiritually go to the Lord, and cry from their hearts to be delivered from the power of a temptation, unti... Read More

ALL OF "GRACE QUOTES" FROM MAY 2003 IN ONE FILE Microscopic love? (John MacDuff, "The Night Dream of the Desert") Our Omnipotent God keeps watch over the lichen on the rock, and the lily on the mountain side. He tempers His wind to the fragile flower as it trembles on the lip of the Alpine glacier. ... Read More

Grace and freedom have replaced the Law! The two don’t mix; we cannot hold onto law and at the same time believe we can live under grace. Grace and freedom have taken over. John 1:16-17 says: “And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the Law was given through Moses, but gra... Read More

What a masterpiece of wisdom the Bible is! While it provides us with everything we need to know, it mercifully withholds from us the much that we would like to know, but which it would not be in our highest interests to know, at present. As an example of this, we would like to have full and crystal-... Read More

“There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.” Eccles. 9:14,15 No one would e... Read More

Thinking men and women everywhere must surely be agreed that there is something very remarkable and strangely unique about what we call the Christmas Season. The attention of millions is somehow directed to that simple event that took place that day in the little town of Bethlehem. It is as though G... Read More

"Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?" (v. 46) For reading & meditation: John 8:31-47 Jesus publicly made the challenge: " Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?" Here we are face to face with a kind of person who had not been seen since Adam in his pre-fallen condition - a man without sin. The di... Read More

"For he that is dead is freed from sin." (Romans 6:7) IN the chapter preceding this, the apostle has been led by the Divine Author of the Word to take a view of the two Adams and their two seeds; that Adam the first, by his awful sin and apostacy, brought death and condemnation upon all his offsprin... Read More