Song of Solomon 8:5 NIV

CHRIST IS ALL "Christ is all" (Col. 3:11). The words of the text which heads this page are few, short and soon spoken; but they contain great things. Like those golden sayings, "To me to live is Christ," "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me," they are singularly rich and suggestive (Phil. 1:21... Read More

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up. Thus, whereas he had showed, that both faith and knowledge and prophecy and tongues and gifts and healing and a perfect life and martyrdom, if love be absent, are no great advantage; of necessity he next makes... Read More

Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on October 18, 1857, by J. C. Philpot "Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?" Solomon's Song 8:5 The Song of Solomon is altogether a spiritual book– as spiritual, because as much inspired by the Holy Spirit, as any other p... Read More

Some beloved idol? "Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them." Jeremiah 50:38 Have we not all in our various ways, set up some beloved idol . . . something which engaged our affections, something which occupied our thoughts, something to which we devote... Read More

Some beloved idol? "Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them." Jeremiah 50:38 Have we not all in our various ways, set up some beloved idol . . . something which engaged our affections, something which occupied our thoughts, something to which we devote... Read More

Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on January 5, 1862, by J. C. Philpot. "Come, My beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vines flourish, whether the tender grapes appear, and the pomegranates bud forth –... Read More

'Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved ?' Song 8: 5 Leaning on the Beloved is faith - faith which looks out to Christ, as distinguished from feeling, which looks in to self. Faith has regard to what the Lord has done and spoken, both in respect of justification and... Read More

ALL OF "GRACE GEMS" FROM JANUARY 2004 IN ONE FILE Untried, untrodden, and unknown (Octavius Winslow, "The Untrodden Path" 1860) "You have not passed this way before." Joshua 3:4 How solemn is the reflection that with a new cycle of time, commences a new and untrodden path with each traveler to Zion.... Read More

ALL OF "GRACE GEMS" FROM MARCH 2004 IN ONE FILE What are all the gilded toys of time? (J. C. Philpot, "Letters and Memoirs" 1852) What are all the gilded toys of time compared with the solemn, weighty realities of eternity! But, alas! what wretches are we when left to . . . sin, self, and Satan! How... Read More

ALL OF "GRACE QUOTES" FROM JUNE 2003 IN ONE FILE No spot! (Henry Law, "The Song of Solomon" 1879) "You are all beautiful, My love; there is no spot in you." Song of Solomon 4:1 There is no spot in the Church, because the blood of Jesus entirely obliterates each stain. Omniscience may look for sins, ... Read More