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I’d like to begin by reading Isaiah 1 verses 2 through 3 and Isaiah 2 verse 5. And what we’re talking about is making decisions that bring us from the old nature to the new nature. And for most of us, if not all of us, at some point in our life when we make decisions that bring us from the old natur... Read More

Onesimos Nesib, Translator and Missionary Onesimos, was born in about 1855, in western Ethiopia. He was captured by slave traders and brought to the coast. There Swedish missionaries bought him, freed him, educated him, and converted him. He belonged to the Galla people, the largest linguistic group... Read More

On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it ... Read More

1. How much avails the Word of God to us for the correction of our life, both regarding His rewards to be expected, and His punishments to be feared, let each one measure in himself; and let him put his conscience without deceit before His eyes, and not flatter himself in a danger so great: for you ... Read More

1. Just as when we are going to enter into any house, we look on the title to see whose it is and to whom it belongs, lest perchance inopportunely we burst into a place whereunto we ought not; and again, in order that we may not through timidity withdraw from that which we ought to enter: as if in a... Read More

“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly and gave sense, and caused them to understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8). The meanings of the Holy Scriptures are not always obvious to everyone. Hence the preacher’s responsibility to “give sense” and to cause his listeners to understand the t... Read More

September 16, 1838. Lord's day afternoon. We met again to pray for supplies for the orphans. We are at peace, and our hope is in God. He will help us although only one shilling has come in since last evening. September 17. The trial continues. It is now more trying to our faith each day, but I am su... Read More

There is only one sure proof of revival—the visible transformation of secular society through vast numbers of radical conversions. Anything less is not authentic revival. Christians that have been genuinely awakened will never remain passionless about those who will spend an eternity in hell. Awaken... Read More

The Doctrine of Christ (continued) III. The Work of Christ (continued) The Resurrection, Ascension, Session, and Return. We do not state here the proof of the fact of our Lord’s Resurrection. That all-important question falls under Christian Evidence. We assume here the convergence of manifold demon... Read More

The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit I. The Personallty of the Holy Spirit. II. The Work of the Holy Spirit. III. History of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. (1) We have already (p. 22) touched on the revelation of a Third Person within the Divine Being, a Third Agent in the divine action on and in creat... Read More