“And He said unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19 From the very outset of the consideration of true Christianity, we find in the words of God, specifically those of Christ, where the call of God is to believe in Him implicitly as the only object of worship…
“Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed.” Romans4:16 In the letter of Paul to the Romans there is a tremendous testimony to the faith of Abraham, one which illustrates the fundamental quality of the faith that God will certainly…
“And He said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to aother, What manner of man is this! for He commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey Him?” Luke 8:25 It is one thing to “believe in God.” It is quite another, in the midst of the…
“So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 If ever there was a picture of the power and authority of the word of…
“We then as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye received not the grace of God in vain.” 2 Corinthians 6:1 It was in the book of Genesis that Moses wrote down the Lord’s words: “My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall…
“Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” Hebrews 9:14 Through the entirety of Scripture, even from before the moment Adam sinned, God had put into place a certain, sure way to redeem mankind. It was…
“And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” Revelation 5:2 The vision of heaven that Isaiah saw approximately seven hundred years before John the Apostle received his vision, was very similar and yet very different. That which was similar…
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will shew you things which must be hereafter.” Revelation 4:1 In the book of Isaiah, he describes a vision…
“But the Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.” Habakkuk 2:20 There is a great hymn written by W. Chalmers Smith, one stanza of which reads like this: “Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,…
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth (giveth life); the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 When the angel of the Lord revealed Himself to Zacharias, he told him that Elizabeth his wife would have a son, whose name would be John. In…