Song of Solomon 1:14

The Doctrine of Election 7. Its Design In the last chapter we have sought to go right back to the very beginning of all things and trace out the order of God’s counsels in connection with His eternal decree in election, so far as they are revealed in Holy Writ. Now we shall seek to project our thoug... Read More

Song 1:14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. {camphire: or, cypress} Here is a wonderous vision of what Christ is and what He should be to the Church. What a sorrow it is that so many Christians have only a conception of Christ as their Saviour from sin, b... Read More

But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses, for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away: how shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be with glory? He said tha... Read More

Rom. XII. 14 Bless them which persecute you; bless, and curse not. After teaching them how they ought to be minded towards one another, and after joining the members closely into one, he next proceeds to lead them forth to the battle without, which he makes easier as from this point. For as he who h... Read More

Jude 1:19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.: houtoi eisin (3PPAI) oi apodiorizontes (PAPMPN) psucikoi pneuma me echontes (PAPMPN) who = Pr 18:1; Isa 65:5; Ezek 14:7; Hos 4:14; 9:10; Heb 10:25 sensual = 1Co 2:14; Jas 3:15 Jn 3:5,6; Ro 8:9; 1Co 6:19 Spurgeon... Read More

NOW THAT MRS. ROBINSON had no ministerial responsi­bilities she gave herself entirely to prayer and waiting on God. “I thank God for a good day today, the well of water springing up,” she notes in her journal for July 18. “O Lord, how blessed! Very quiet in my experience just now. In one of the stil... Read More

All these were under the hands of their father for song. 1 Chron. xxv. 5, 6. WHAT a glorious family was here! The household was a band of choristers! From morning till night their home must have been full of holy song and psalm, or talk about the order of the Temple service, in which they were all s... Read More

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song. 1 Chron. xv. 22. THE carrying of the Ark to its right place was associated with every expression of gladness on the part of king and people; but there were some who were specially set apart as the exponents of the general joy. In the old time such w... Read More

Adam, Sheth, Enosh. 1 Chronicles 1:1 THIS is an ancient graveyard. The names of past generations who were born and died, who loved and suffered, who stormed and fought through the world, are engraven on these solid slabs. But there is no inscription to record their worth or demerit. Just names, and ... Read More

Worldly minded (KJV = Sensual) (5591)(psuchikos from psuche = soul) is literally "soulish" and pertains to the natural man versus the spiritual nature of man. Psuchikos means soulish, with affinity to natural sinful propensities, the person in whom the sarx, the flesh, is more the ruling principle e... Read More