psalm-94:19

WORDS FROM HEAVEN TO THOSE BURDENED WITH ANXIOUS FOREBODINGS AND CARES (From The Visitor's Book of Texts. Chapter 4 from Part 3 " The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful") (In a few cases the wording of the Bible text will be found to differ from the Authorised Version. This is how it was printed ori... Read More

I print the Psalms as poetry; they are so in Hebrew. G.V.W. [Publisher's note: In Present Testimony the Psalms are rendered in full as the Authorised Version, here only the notes are reproduced.] First Book (Pss. 1 - 51) "The faithful are looked at as not yet driven out from Jerusalem; hence covenan... Read More

"When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will be seen in the clouds" Genesis 9:14 1. SOVEREIGNTY "The Lord Reigns." Psalm 93:1 No rainbow of promise in the "dark and cloudy day" shines more radiantly than this. God, my God, the God who gave Jesus, orders all events, and overrules all for my g... Read More

Direction Tenth. The Several Pieces of the Whole Armour of God. Sixth Piece--The Christian's Sword. 'And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God' (Eph. 6:17). Here we have the sixth and last piece in the Christian's panoply brought to our hand--a sword; and that of the right make--'the swo... Read More

'Thy kingdom come.' Matt 6: 10. A soul truly devoted to God, joins heartily in this petition, adveniat regnum tuum, thy kingdom come.' In these words it is implied that God is a king, for he who has a kingdom, can be no less than a king. God is the King of all the earth.' Psa 47: 7. He is a King upo... Read More

Having already presented to your view the dark side of the text, I shall now show you the light side, They shall be comforted'. Where observe: 1. Mourning goes before comfort as the lancing of a wound precedes the cure. The Antinomian talks of comfort, but cries down mourning for sin. He is like a f... Read More

'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' Gal 5:52. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. Joy is setting the soul upon the top of a pinnacle - it is the cream of the sincere milk of the word. Spiritual joy is a sweet and delightful passion, arising from th... Read More

The Bruised Reed and the Flickering Candle by John MacDuff "Comfort, comfort My people!" says your God. Isaiah 40:1 "A bruised reed he will not break, and a flickering candle he will not snuff out!" Isaiah 42:3 No verse in this beautiful chapter, nor in this "Book of Comfort," is more comforting tha... Read More

Old Age Comforted by John MacDuff "Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he — I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you!" Isaiah 46:4 We have here another example Isaiah's contrasted passages. "Carry" and "sustain" are the two emp... Read More

Unforgetting Love! by John MacDuff "Comfort, comfort My people!" says your God. Isaiah 40:1 "Sing for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on them in their suffering. Yet Jerusalem says , 'The Lord has deserted... Read More