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Hebrews 1:14 - Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Hebrews 13:2 - Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Isaiah 6:2 - Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twa... Read More

Jude 1:6 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Jude 1:9 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not br... Read More

“Sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it” (Gen. 4:7, emphasis added). As was pointed out in the previous chapter, our sanctification is a joint effort on the part of God and ourselves. We grow to be progressively more like Jesus as we cooperate with the Father... Read More

Grace be with you and peace from God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ. I want to greet everyone in Jesus' name. It's a blessing to be here. Let's pray. Heavenly Father. We thank you for this beautiful day and this opportunity to live and to see a new day. And to see your mercies new again this morn... Read More

There are many, thank God, who truly rejoice in being righteously made free from the burden of their sins: in being justified freely by God’s grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. They know that His atoning work is so perfect, that God can say concerning those who believe on Him, “T... Read More

How often the daily records speak of a Judge justly sentencing some guilty wretch to the punishment he deserves; but where is to be found the record of a Judge who arranged for a condemned man’s punishment to be borne by another and then took him, a new man, to his happy home as one of his own famil... Read More

“I have redeemed this valuable watch!” remarked a man to his friend, who replied, “I could purchase one at the jewellers just like it!” “That may be true, but you could not have obtained this one, for you had not the right of redemption. It is mine, and I only had that rights.” God has redeemed thos... Read More

These words expressed the height to which the desires of the Lord’s disciples rose. They had seen His wonderful works, they had heard His gracious words, they had observed His perfect life, and they had contemplated His glory—as an only one with a father;—and now, Philip says to Him, “Lord, show us ... Read More

Luke 15:1-7 The last verse which I have read to you, dear friends, gives no authority whatever for the thought that there are in this world men and women so good and so respectable that they need no repentance. The Son of God is showing in this parable that were it so—that if some needed not to repe... Read More

There is something singularly sweet in these words of the Lord. They find an answering echo in most hearts, and that in a special way just now; but in none more so than in the heart of him who knows the love of Christ. We heard an anxious wife, who had received an official report that her husband wa... Read More