Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • The Excellency of Christ (Part 1)

    Jonathan Edwards And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in…

  • Christians – A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation, A Peculiar People (Part 4)

    Jonathan Edwards SECTION 4True Christians – A Peculiar People (Cont’d) This truth also suggests to us a few additional reflections. a) Christians need to bear with one another. They are all of one family. Christians share relationships with each other that they do not share with anyone else in the world. Christians might be from…

  • O WORSHIP THE KING

    Amazing Grace Robert Grant, 1779–1838 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise. (Psalm 47:6, 7) The word worship is a contraction of an old expression in the English language, woerth-scipe, denoting the giving…

  • Morning & Evening

    Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a…

  • Christians – A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation, A Peculiar People (Part 2)

    Jonathan Edwards SECTION 2True Christians – A Royal Priesthood The two offices of king and priest were esteemed very highly by both the Jews and the heathens. They were unknown offices under the law of Moses. Moses himself is said to have been king in Jeshurun. His brother Aaron was the high priest. Those who…

  • Christians – A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation, A Peculiar People (Part 1)

    ***** WarriorPrincess4Yeshua **********This is how YHVH sees us because of being in the Veil that is Christ. We are hidden in the beloved, and are not of this world, we await a heavenly kingdom that the King of kings and Lord of lords will bring with Him. Despite the world and it’s slander of us…

  • O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. (Psalm 150:6) Soon after their graduation from Oxford University, John and Charles Wesley decided to sail to America, the new world, to try to minister to the rough colonists under General Oglethorpe in Georgia and to evangelize the Indians.…

  • Morning & Evening

    The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He should be distinguished from it in the great object of his life. To him, “to live,” should be “Christ.” Whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he should do all to God’s glory. You may lay up treasure; but…

  • Justification By Faith Alone (Part 11)

    Jonathan Edwards SECTION 4Answering Objections (Cont’d) Matthew 12:37, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” It cannot be meant that men are accepted before God on the account of their words. God has told us nothing more plainly than that He looks at the heart. When…

  • Justification By Faith Alone (Part 10)

    Jonathan Edwards SECTION 4Answering Objections (Cont’d) PAUL CONFIRMS JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE The apostle Paul, in Romans 4, confirms the doctrine of justification by faith alone. When sin is rightfully confessed to God, there is always faith in that act. Confessing sin joined with despair, as did Judas, is not the confession for which the…