Tag: My Utmost For His Highest

  • THE OFFERING OF THE NATURAL

    My Utmost For His Highest Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. Gal. 4:22. Paul is not dealing with sin in this chapter of Galatians, but with the relation of the natural to the spiritual. The natural must be turned into the spiritual by sacrifice, otherwise a tremendous…

  • THE OFFENCE OF THE NATURAL

    My Utmost For His Highest And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal. 5:24. The natural life is not sinful; we must be apostatized from sin, have nothing to do with sin in any shape or form. Sin belongs to hell and the devil; I, as a child…

  • THE IMPARTIAL POWER OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Hebrews 10:14. We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the…

  • REPENTANCE

    My Utmost For His Highest For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Cor. 7:10. Conviction of sin is best portrayed in the words— ‘My sins, my sins, my Saviour.How sad on Thee they fall.’ Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an…

  • THE BOW IN THE CLOUD

    My Utmost For His Highest I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. Genesis 9:13. It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. ‘Why does…

  • THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST

    My Utmost For His Highest Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Genesis 41:40. I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not “frustrate the grace of God”—make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute,…

  • THE LAW OF ANTAGONISM

    My Utmost For His Highest To him that overcometh.… Rev. 2:7. Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life. Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained only…

  • NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER

    My Utmost For His Highest And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Cor. 2:4. If in preaching the Gospel you substitute your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the Gospel, you…

  • CHRISTIAN PERFECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect.… Phil. 3:12. It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be…

  • THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

    My Utmost For His Highest For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10. The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we be absolutely moral. The…