HEBREWS 1

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Ours is the clearest of all revelations. In Jesus we...

SEPARATION

It is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16 Do you know you cannot serve God unless you are separated? In the Scripture, that word refers to being set apart for a specific task or purpose. The Lord said to Moses, “You shall offer up a cake of the first of your...

Create in me a clean heart

AND God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. The expanse of the atmosphere separates the vapours above from the waters below. Luther used to wonder at the arch of heaven, which stands unsupported by pillars. He saw in it a...

A FEW WORDS

Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21 Only 297 words are required to sum up in English all of God’s moral law in the Ten Commandments. God distilled it even more when He said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with...

THE INCOMPARABLE CHRIST

He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. Colossians 1:17 Jesus Christ is the most incomparable personality of all human history. Socrates taught forty years, Plato fifty, and Aristotle forty. Jesus’ public ministry lasted less than three years, yet the influence of His life far outweighs the combined 130 years of the...

MANKIND’S BOX

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9 If we were to think of this world as a time–space dimension, then a closed box could represent it, with God outside of the box. It is impossible for mankind to escape the box because, by definition, the natural cannot enter into...

NO MORE BAD NEWS

Romans 1:1 Thousands of babies are born every day into a world filled with bad news. The term bad news has become a colloquialism to describe our era. Why is there so much bad news? It’s simple. The bad news that occurs on a larger scale is only the multiplication of what is occurring on...

A SLAVE FOR CHRIST

1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. The apostle Paul was a “servant” of Christ. It was a role he chose out of love, not fear. There were perhaps millions of slaves in the Roman Empire. For the most part,...

“The Lord is my light.”

THE mere reading of the holy Scriptures will be of no avail to us, unless the Holy Spirit sanctify the truth to our souls. Let us pray that (in commencing this year’s Family Reading) he who commanded light to shine out of darkness may shins into our hearts and give us to know the inner...

THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. People want to change. All advertising is based on the presupposition that people want things different from the way they are. They want to look...