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"Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together" Deut. 22: 11. The path of the church of God is a narrow path, such a one that the mere moral sense will continually mistake it. But this should be welcome to us, because it tells us that the Lord looks that His saints ... Read More

Proverbs 25: 12. It is blessed as well as happy to mark the characteristics of the Lord's ministry, for His ministry is the witness of what He Himself is, and He is the witness of what God is, and we thus reach God through the paths of the Lord's walk or ministry here. Every step of that way becomes... Read More

Introduction. It is the Moral Glory, or, as we speak, the character of the Lord Jesus, on which I meditate in these pages. All went up to God as a sacrifice of sweet savour. Every expression of Himself in every measure, however small, and in whatever relationship it was rendered, was incense. In His... Read More

2 Kings 1, 2. We might read these two chapters in connection with this event, though it is only in the second of them we have it recorded. Ahaziah, of the house of Omri, and the successor of his father Ahab on the throne of Israel, appears before us here, as in deep apostacy from the God of Israel. ... Read More

It is not so much of Enoch himself that I now purpose, in the Lord's grace, I would hope, to write a little, but rather of the times and the saints before the flood. Whether it be of them or of him, the materials, as we know, are very scanty; but in the way and wisdom of the Spirit of God, they are ... Read More

On June 12, 1944, just six days after D-Day in World War II, a young lieutenant named Richard Winters led his men to the outskirts of Carentan. As the officer in charge of Easy Company, of the 101st Airborne, he was tasked to clear the large French town of its German defenders. It would be a small b... Read More

For this morning now we return to 2 Timothy chapter 2 and our concluding look at the first seven verses. Last week we began an examination of 2 Timothy 2:1 through 7, this morning we're going to bring that to completion. This week I happened to be doing a little bit of reading and I came across quit... Read More

Open your Bible, if you will, with me and let's turn to Matthew chapter 10.. .Matthew chapter 10. As we continue to progress through the gospel of Matthew and Matthew unfolds to us the majesty of the King, the Lord Jesus Christ, we find ourselves in chapter 10 getting acquainted with the disciples. ... Read More

"Give ye them to eat" (Matt. 14:16; cf. Mark 6; Luke 9; John 6). It is significant that the feeding of a multitude by Jesus is something recorded by all four writers of the Gospels, even if the two occasions are not reported by each. This significance in its general meaning can be easily recognized,... Read More

An Exodus Accomplished Reading: Luke 9:27-36; 2 Pet. 1:16-18; John 18:33-37; Col. 1:13. "There are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God." "My kingdom is not of this world." "...who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transl... Read More