“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”—Matthew 5:8. The Jews were so exacting in regard to ceremonial purity that their regulations were extremely burdensome. Their minds were occupied with rules and restrictions and the fear of outward defilement, and they did not perceive the stain that selfishness and malice impart toContinue reading “Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing: The Beatitudes, Part 6”
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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing: The Beatitudes, Part 3
“Blessed are the meek.”—Matthew 5:5. Throughout the Beatitudes there is an advancing line of Christian experience. Those who have felt their need of Christ, those who have mourned because of sin and have sat with Christ in the school of affliction, will learn meekness from the divine Teacher. MB 13.2 Patience and gentleness under wrong were notContinue reading “Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing: The Beatitudes, Part 3”
Steps to Christ: God’s Love for Man—Chapter 1, Part 2
Jesus said, “Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.” John 10:17. That is, “My Father has so loved you that He even loves Me more for giving My life to redeem you. In becoming your Substitute and Surety, by surrendering My life, by taking yourContinue reading “Steps to Christ: God’s Love for Man—Chapter 1, Part 2”
The Judgement
The just shall live by faith. Felix, himself Paul’s judge, trembled as the apostle preached to him of “righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come.” Just for a moment the doctrine of the judgment was pressed so closely home to his calloused senses that he trembled as he thought of appearing himself before the Judge ofContinue reading “The Judgement”
Nothing Too Costly for Christ
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment” (John 12:3, KJV). Mary’s act was in marked contrast with that which Judas was about to do. What a sharpContinue reading “Nothing Too Costly for Christ”
Jehovah’s Rest
New Kingdom Law
“And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:44, 45 KJV). “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.“Let us notContinue reading “New Kingdom Law”