Exposition of the Gospel of John CHAPTER 51 CHRIST THE TRUE VINE John 15:1-6 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— 1. The vine and the husbandman, verse 1. 2. The fruitless branch cared for, verse 2. 3. The purging of fruitless branches, verse 2. 4. Clean through the... Read More
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Part 4: God’s Best in the Christian Life Chapter 13 ENJOYING GOD’S BEST Introduction Since God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, to speak of an enjoying of His best (rather than His second or third best) and missing His best, strikes some as meaningless if not erroneo... Read More
Spiritual Growth 5. Its Analogy I An "analogy" is an agreement or correspondence in certain respects between things which otherwise differ, and just as it is often an aid to obtaining the force of a word by considering its synonyms, so it frequently helps us to a better understanding of a subject or... Read More
If a Man Abide Not in Me, He is Cast Forth as a Branch, and is Withered; and They Gather Them, and Cast Them into the Fire, and They are Burned—John 15.6 The lessons these words teach are very simple and very solemn. A man can come to such a connection with Christ, that he counts himself to be in Hi... Read More
Reading: Revelation 1:12-17; Acts 17:31. In our previous meditation, we were occupied with the fact that it is IN a man that God has determined to judge the world, and we were seeing something of God’s conception of the Man whom He has ordained to be the sphere and standard of His judgment. Now we a... Read More
The mature Christian is rich in spiritual experiences. Oh! the experiences that he has . . . of the ways of God, of the workings of God, of the word of God, of the love of God! Oh! the divine stories that old Christians can tell . . . of the power of the word, of the sweetness of the word, of the us... Read More
The Nature and Blessedness of Sonship with God by Samuel Davies "Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us—that we should be called the sons of God! Therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we sh... Read More
Psalm 90(89) Domine, refugium 1 O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next. 2 Before the mountains were born or the earth or the world brought forth, you are God, without beginning or end. 3 You turn men back to dust and say: "Go back, sons of men." 4 To your eyes a thousand ye... Read More
“This is what the Lord says: Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose confidence is in Him. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river. It shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaves shall be evergreen; it shall have no worries in the yea... Read More
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Exposition of the Gospel of John CHAPTER 51 CHRIST THE TRUE VINE
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Part 4: God’s Best in the Christian Life Chapter 13 ENJOYING GOD’S BEST
Spiritual Growth 5. Its Analogy
Withered Branches
A Presentation of the Man
Rich in spiritual experiences
The Nature and Blessedness of Sonship with God
Book IV
A tree planted by the water
Beyond Categories