“While He yet spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.” Matthew 17:5 The Word of God, the Scriptures, has been given to us, to study and know, as this is essential…
“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:19 When Jesus stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth at the beginning of His ministry, He declared to everyone the words found in the book of Isaiah: “The…
“But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 What is the…
“And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and be thou perfect.” Genesis 17:1 There are many instances in the Scriptures which speak of age, one becoming old or older. There are also, concerning those believers who…
“It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 The great proof of faith is not one’s profession, but one’s literal obedience to God according to His word. Why? If we should go back before the day when a person…
“He came to His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.” John 1:11,12 It was S. Crossman who wrote a wonderful hymn entitled “My Song Is Love Unknown.” He concludes that hymn in the last stanza: “Here might…
“This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.” Psalm 34:6 Scripture tells us that David was a man after God’s own heart. He was a man who sought and found God. What characterized David’s seeking of the eternal God, and His intervention in his life and…
“Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.” Isaiah 52:11 If God is our Creator, and He is, and if Christ is our Redeemer, and He is, what are we to be…
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 Many have been the believers when they came to death’s door, realized afresh, counted upon, and cherished, the simple, yet profound truth and reality, that God…
“Keep silence before Me, O islands: and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: le us come near together to judgment.” Isaiah 41:1 In the forty-sixth Psalm, the Lord God calls all men, especially those who believe in Him, to “Be still, and know, that I am God:…