“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 It was written by the beloved physician Luke, that the gospel which he set about to communicate to the world was with a “…perfect understanding of all things from…
“The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills.” Habakkuk 3:19 The book of Habakkuk is the story of a man, a nation, and a God who is seeking to save His people, who have gone so far from God,…
“Behold, The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” John 1:29 It is a remarkable thing that John the Baptist did not know Jesus Christ as the Messiah until, as he put it: “…He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, “Upon whom you see the Spirit descending,…
“…the word of the truth of the Gospel, which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit…” Colossians 1:5,6 Why is it that the angels declared to the shepherds around Bethlehem, just after the birth of Christ, that the news that they were declaring was “good…
“In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation, I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2 If there is one word that expresses how the disciple of Christ is to live, it is the word, “fulness.” Christ…
“For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come, and will not tarry. Now, the just shall live by faith…” Hebrews 10:37,38 In the book of Habakkuk in the Old Testament, we find a man, one whom we call a minor prophet, who is terribly burdened by the judgement of God coming…
“Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will…” Hebrews 13:20,21 When the Apostle Paul wrote his letters to Timothy, as recorded in the Bible,…
“To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ …” Ephesians 3:8 In J.S.B. Monsell’s great hymn, “Oh, Worship the Lord,” he writes: “Fear not to enter His courts in the slenderness of the POOR WEALTH thou…
“…I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that Day.” 2 Timothy 1:12 When the Lord Jesus Christ calls an individual to follow Him, it is more of a commitment of God to that person…
“And He (God) said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name.” Ezekiel 43:7 When the Lord revealed…