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LESSON IV FILLED WITH HIS PRESENCE TEXT. This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:9,10) At the root of all spiritual declension (bac... Read More

Being annoyed! Can that really be a sin? Or is it merely a slight personality flaw, which anyone could afford to have? Annoyance usually stems from being offended when people say or do things that do not suit us. Scripture tells us what this can lead to. In several places it is written that people "... Read More

"I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue." Psalm 39:1 Clovis G. Chappell: Here is a man who has resolved to control his tongue. Most of us know perfectly well how to sympathize with him in his great decision. So much is this the case that we feel that we might even be able to trac... Read More

In Englishspeaking countries at least we breathe such an atmosphere of diffused traditional Christianity that we are apt to take some of the major Christian revelations about God as though they were selfevident, which of course they are not. We assume that kindness is a better thing than intolerance... 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

. . . . I was struck a few days since by a sight of the disciples and their Lord in the matter of feeding the multitude. It gave me to see the two great objects in close and full contrast--man and God, the heart that we carry, and the heart of Jesus. In Matthew 14 the motion begins with the disciple... Read More

One of the great joys in our time of worship together is to study God's Word. How can we worship God unless we know who He is? How can we worship Him fully unless we worship Him in truth? And that truth comes to us through His Word. Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew's gos... Read More

QUESTION. But cannot Christ be hid? Answer. Not of himself. It is hard to hide a great fire, or to cast a covering upon sweet odours, that they smell not. Christ's name is as a sweet ointment poured out: he is a mountain of spices, and he is a strong savour of heaven, and of the higher paradise. You... Read More

The Lord's Object with the Overcomer "And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward." (Is. 37:31). Reading: Isaiah 36:1-22. "And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is h... Read More

Worship Archibald Brown, September 6, 1891, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, London. "God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth ." John 4:24 We shall only dwell on the one word 'worship'. I can almost imagine that I hear someone saying, 'Only one word? Wil... Read More