The Fathomless Calling Of God

“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately, I conferred not with flesh and blood.” Galatians 1:15,16 God calls people, individual people, but He also calls nations.  The greatest of…


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The Power To Proceed

“For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance…” 1 Thessalonians 1:5 There is power in assurance, that blessed certainty of God’s personal presence and perfect provision. We might add to this list of ways that God assures our hearts by…


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The Perfection Of God

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 It was said of the Lord Jesus Christ that when He spoke, “…He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” (Matt. 7:29) On another occasion, when the chief priests and Pharisees had send men to…


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True Discipleship

“…they (Paul and Barnabas) assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” Acts 11:26 That which characterizes true believers in God from those who are not, and this from the beginning of history to this very day, is true faith.  If we take Abraham as…


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The Anticipated Fruitfulness

“‘Sing, O  barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud…for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,’ saith the Lord.” Isaiah 54:1 In Isaiah’s description of the Suffering Servant, the Lord Jesus Christ, there is associated with the very vivid picture of what…


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The Greatest Reward

“After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, ‘Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” Genesis 15:1 Ministry or service was not enough for Moses, or the Apostle Paul.  Both men had ploughed through the passing pursuits of this world, the deceptive value…


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