“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48 KJV). God’s ideal for His children is higher than the highest human thought can reach. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” This command is a promise. The plan of redemption contemplatesContinue reading “Godlikeness: The Goal to Be Reached”
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Murderous Mentality: Preventing Spiritual Suicide
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:“But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother,Continue reading “Murderous Mentality: Preventing Spiritual Suicide”
Words to the Chosen Under Fire
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (James 1:2-4 KJV). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.” The sense of unworthiness will leadContinue reading “Words to the Chosen Under Fire”
Self-Control: Highest Evidence of Nobility
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5 KJV). “Blessed are the meek.” The difficulties we have to encounter may be very much lessened by that meekness which hides itself in Christ. If we possess the humility of our Master, we shall rise above the slights, the rebuffs, the annoyances, toContinue reading “Self-Control: Highest Evidence of Nobility”
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”
Unrestricted Access
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3 KJV). Christ seldom gathered His disciples alone to receive His words. He did not choose for His audience those only who knew the way of life. It was His work to reach the multitudes who were in ignorance and error.Continue reading “Unrestricted Access”
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”