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'And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:' John 16:8 NOTES OF AN ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE PERTH CONVENTION, 1883. Shall we not honour and bless and adore the Holy Spirit? Surely it might well be expected that our love, our adoring and grateful love, s... Read More

Five times in the New Testament Christians are compared to “babes” (1 Cor. 3, 1 Cor. 14, Eph. 4, Heb. 5, and 1 Peter 2), a term which normally indicates the commencement and early stages of the Christian life. But there is this great difference between them. The first, third and fifth refer to the b... Read More

A Sermon (No. 2191) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, February 22nd, 1891, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and... Read More

Mark 5: 22-43; Luke 7: 11-16; John 11. Three times only, as far as we know, did the Lord Jesus, while upon earth, raise the dead to life; viz., the daughter of Jairus, the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus. Each of these cases has its special characteristics and instruction. The daughter of Jair... Read More

The testimony which, according to Scripture, Christ has given of Himself is developed and confirmed by the preaching of the apostles. The confession that a man, named Jesus, is the Christ, the Only-Begotten of the Father, is in such direct conflict with our experience and with all of our thinking, a... Read More

Beloved Brother,--I had a little scrap on Jeremiah lying by me. I do not know if it will suit the present current of your thoughts, but it may give a little communion for some half hour, and it is well to look at the growing character of those boastful and yet religious days in which we live. The Lo... Read More

It is well for us to acquaint ourselves with the many and deep and wondrous interests we have in God--as, for instance, in His affections, His counsels, and His doings. These things are taught and illustrated in Scripture. Divine affections, Divine counsels, Divine doings, make us their object. Bles... Read More

The ways of grace and of faith, and the warrant on which they each act, get very beautiful illustrations in this little book. Faith has two special characteristics--and so has grace. Faith overcomes the world, and returns fully and intimately to God. Or, in language known in Scripture, it takes a pl... Read More

John 9, 10. In John 8 we get the development of part of the truth of Christ referred to in John 1, as the One who is the Light of the world, because in Him was life. In John 9 we get another thing connected with the same truth. Now He is the One who not only has eternal life and is light, but who al... Read More

In reading the Holy Scriptures we should remember that they do not simply contain a rule of life and conduct, but that they are a revelation of God, so as to lead us into the knowledge of Him in Jesus Christ, and thus into life eternal. He that was "in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. ... Read More