“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29 KJV). Tidings of the wilderness prophet and his wonderful announcement, spread throughout Galilee. The message reached the peasants in the remotest hill towns, and the fisher folk by theContinue reading “The Call: The Baptism”
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Sowing Time
“O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works” (Psalms 71:17 KJV). In the time of John the Baptist, greed for riches, and the love of luxury and display had become widespread. Sensuous pleasures, feasting and drinking, were causing physical disease and degeneracy, benumbing the spiritual perceptions,Continue reading “Sowing Time”
The Family Problem: Jealousy
“I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me” (Isaiah 63:3 KJV). Jesus loved His brothers, and treated them with unfailing kindness; but they were jealous of Him, and manifested the most decided unbelief and contempt. They could not understand His conduct. Great contradictions presented themselves in Jesus. HeContinue reading “The Family Problem: Jealousy”
How to Cast Your Burdens on Jesus
Rules that Must Be Broken
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye” (Psalms 32:8 KJV). “The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts ofContinue reading “Rules that Must Be Broken”
Diet and Food Absorption
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 KJV). “And GodContinue reading “Diet and Food Absorption”
Divine Dreams
“And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.“And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and beContinue reading “Divine Dreams”