The Antichrist Chapter 10 ANTICHRIST IN THE APOCALYPSE. The scope of the Apocalypse is indicated by its place in the Sacred Canon. Coming as it does right at the close of the Scriptures, we should naturally expect to find it outlining the last chapters of the world’s history. Such is indeed the case... Read More
THE BEATITUDES THE SECOND BEATITUDE "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted" Matthew 5:4 is hateful and irksome to poor human nature. From suffering and sadness our spirits instinctively shrink. By nature we seek the society of the cheerful and joyous. Our text presents an anomaly ... Read More
Proof of Repentance I. The first word of God to man after 400 years of silence. Repent. A. Vs. 2 John came preaching in the wilderness saying, "Repent" B. What does it mean to repent? 1. One definition is to have a change of mind. 2. Another is to have a feeling of contrition. 3. You can change your... Read More
We are looking at the manifestations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as they are listed in 1 Corinthians 12. Paul speaks of the gift of prophecy. Now we realize immediately that the gift of prophecy is not something new to the New Testament, but that the gift of prophecy has been exercised throughou... Read More
Jer 14.7-9 7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name's sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You. 8O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, Why should You be like a stranger in the land, And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a... Read More
Friends, Do not grow barren [2 Pet 1:8?], but in the root abiding [Rom 11:17], ye will spring upward, and bring forth much fruit in this life, and in the life to come inherit life eternal; and so your lives being hid with Christ in God [Col 3:3], you will be made conformable to his image [Rom 8:29],... Read More
To all Friends every where, scattered abroad: in the light dwell which comes from Christ, that with it ye may see Christ your saviour; that ye may grow up in him. For they who are in him, are new creatures; and ‘old things are passed away, and all things are become new.’ [2 Cor 5:17] And who are in ... Read More
All Friends, in the spirit of the living God wait upon God, to learn of and to be taught by him. For now doth the beast open his mouth in blasphemy [Rev 13:6], speaking great swelling words [2 Pet 2:18, Jude 1:16]. And now is the cage of unclean birds [Rev 18:2], and the unclean spirits, which are g... Read More
A DISCOURSE ON PRAYER. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:15; former Part. What is it then ? I will pray the Spirit, and will pray with the understanding also. The design of this epistle is chiefly to reprove the Church at Corinth for the divisions and contentions, which were there fomented and kept up on account of ... Read More
A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 1—Chapter 8 OF THE GRACE OF GOD Having treated of Faith in God, and of trust or confidence in him, the next in course to be considered is the Grace of Hope; for it, this order they stand, "faith, hope:—Faith is the substance of things hoped for," and therefore go to... Read More
The Antichrist Chapter 10 ANTICHRIST IN THE APOCALYPSE.
THE BEATITUDES THE SECOND BEATITUDE
Matthew 3:8
The Gift of Prophecy
When God seems powerless
Epistle 306
Epistle 42
Epistle 91
A Discourse on Prayer.
Of the Grace of Hope.