Luke 6:14-26

“Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). How can it be otherwise, living as he is in a world which is under the curse that Adam’s sin entailed, and, what is worse, under God’s judgment because of its casting out of His beloved Son. Yet the subject of “trouble” needs to be “righ... Read More

Exposition of the Gospel of John CHAPTER 50 CHRIST COMFORTING HIS DISCIPLES (CONCLUDED) John 14:21-31 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 14: 1. Christ manifested to the believer, verse 21. 2. The quandary of Judas, verse 22. 3. Christ’s explanation, verses 23-25. 4. The mini... Read More

Exposition of the Gospel of John CHAPTER 55 CHRIST GLORIFIED BY THE SPIRIT John 16:12-22 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— 1. The need for the Spirit’s coming, verse 12. 2. The purpose of the Spirit’s coming, verse 13. 3. The end accomplished by the Spirit’s coming, vers... Read More

In Christendom today there are thousands of professing Christians against whom little or nothing in the way of fault could be found so far as their outward lives are concerned. They live moral, clean, upright, honest lives while at the same time the state of their hearts is totally neglected. It is ... Read More

The prayer that is now to engage our attention is a particularly arresting one, but its beauty and blessedness appear even more conspicuously when it is examined in connection with its somber background. It concludes the most solemn Epistle in the New Testament, one that is to be read with fear and ... Read More

“Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice” (Phil. 4:4). How many there are today who make an entirely wrong use of this Divine exhortation. Let any servant of God faithfully trace out the inward experiences of a Christian, let him describe the painful discoveries of “the plague of his ow... Read More

THE BEATITUDES INTRODUCTION has been much divided concerning the design, scope, and application of the Sermon on the Mount. Most commentators have seen in it an exposition of Christian ethics. Men such as the late Count Tolstoi have regarded it as the setting forth of a "golden rule" for all men to ... Read More

THE DOCTRINE OF REVELATION Chapter 13 THE HOLY BIBLE MORE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS—2. 8. Its conciseness. Here is yet another remarkable feature which distinguishes the Bible from other books: though it be the most comprehensive of all, yet the most compact. Though it contains a complete library, havi... Read More

The Purpose of His Coming, To Reveal the Father Intro. We think of the babe lying in the manger, the virgin has brought forth her firstborn Son, Immanuel, God with us. He was sent by His Father into this world to give to man an accurate revelation of the only true God who exists eternally. I. His mi... Read More

Then it says in Luke 6:22: "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in t... Read More