Proverbs 22:11-16

There are few subjects, bearing upon the practical side of the Christian life, that believers are more exercised about than that they may be "led of the Lord" in all their ways; yet when some important decision has to be made, they are often at a stand to know how "the Lord's mind" is to be obtained... Read More

Exposition of the Gospel of John CHAPTER 30 CHRIST, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD (CONCLUDED) John 8:33-59 The passage for our present consideration continues and completes the portion studied in our last chapter. It brings before us Christ as the Light revealing the hidden things of darkness, exposing the... Read More

THE DOCTRINE OF MAN’S IMPOTENCE Chapter 4 ROOT As no heart can sufficiently conceive, so no voice or pen can adequately portray the awful state of wretchedness and woe into which sin has cast guilty man. It has separated him from God and so has severed him from the only Source of holiness and true h... Read More

The Total Depravity of Man Chapter 4 CONSEQUENCES The key to the mystery of human depravity is to be found in a right understanding of the relations which God appointed between the first man and his posterity. As the grand truth of redemption cannot be rightly and intelligently apprehended until we ... Read More

The Total Depravity of Man Chapter 5 TRANSMISSION In introducing this aspect of our subject we cannot do better than set before the reader what A. A. Hodge pointed out in Outlines of Theology as …the self-evident moral principles which must ever be certainly presupposed in every inquiry into the dea... Read More

The Total Depravity of Man Chapter 7 IMPACT There are many scriptural names for original sin, or the depravity of human nature, which serve to cast light upon it. The following list probably contains the most significant ones. Sin is called the plague of the heart (I Kings 8:38), foolishness bound u... Read More

The Total Depravity of Man Chapter 9 EXTENT Neither the scientist, the philosopher, nor the psychologist can correctly diagnose the fatal malady which has seized all mankind, and still less is any of them able to gauge its full extent. For a right and true knowledge of this we are dependent on what ... Read More

Friends, consider how the blessing of the Lord came upon the obedient and faithful to the Lord, and rested upon them. The Lord said to Abraham, ‘Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and <224> from thy father's house, &c. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, &c... Read More

THE MIRACULOUS CATCH OF FISH We have, in these verses, the history of what is commonly called the miraculous catch of fish. It is a remarkable miracle on two accounts. For one thing, it shows us our Lord's complete dominion over the animal creation. The fish of the sea are as much obedient to His wi... Read More

"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." [Proverbs 22:6] I believe that most professing Christians are acquainted with our sermon text. The sound of it is probably very familiar to your ears, like an old tune. It is likely that you have heard it, or read ... Read More