“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (Luke 2:14 KJV). “Ye are the salt of the earth,” Jesus said. Do not withdraw yourselves from the world in order to escape persecution. You are to abide among men, that the savor of the divine love may be as saltContinue reading “Salt, Light, Truth, the Law: Agents of Life”
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Oh, to be a sanctified prisoner!
The new creature living a new life in Christ by faith, and the power of the Holy Spirit. “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unityContinue reading “Oh, to be a sanctified prisoner!”
Mourners Comforted
“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4 KJV). “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” By these words Christ does not teach that mourning in itself has power to remove the guilt of sin. He gives no sanction to pretense or to voluntary humility. The mourning ofContinue reading “Mourners Comforted”
Wonders of the Human Body
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7. RC 149.1 We are God’s workmanship, and His Word declares that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” He has prepared this living habitation for the mind; it is “curiously wrought,” a temple which theContinue reading “Wonders of the Human Body”
The Make-You or Break-You Word: If
“If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him” (John 14:7 KJV). The first step was now to be taken in the organization of the church that after Christ’s departure was to be His representative on earth. No costly sanctuary was atContinue reading “The Make-You or Break-You Word: If”
The Sabbath, Pt. 3
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:“But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger thatContinue reading “The Sabbath, Pt. 3”
The Sabbath, Pt. 2
“I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;“And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God” (Ezekiel 20:19, 20 KJV). No other institution which was committed to the Jews tendedContinue reading “The Sabbath, Pt. 2”