Cor. 1: 3, 8 Old Testament Saints waited for the first advent of the Messiah and the consolation of Israel. The New Testament saints wait for the second advent of the Lord, and the completion of the church in holiness, and its entrance into his glory at his appearing. We love him as our Saviour,…

Ecclesiastes 6:11,12 In the best conditions of earthly happiness, there is a craving for some unpossessed gain. People never attain to the end of their desires. We never reach a state of satisfaction. There always seems to be a goal that is always before us. We find there is no anchor in this life to…

Isaiah 40:12,18 Isaiah 40:12,18 The greatest things in the material world are nothing to God, (v.12) The ocean, the heaven and the earth, he made them all, (Ps.33:8,9) The greatest minds in the universe are nothing to him, (v.13,14) He is uninstructible, he is independent of all minds, no one counseled him when it come…

  Romans 5:20,21 This passage seem to trace the course of two mighty rivers. The one has its source in the stream of sin and evil. As sin has proceeds in to the world it is distinguished by abundance and is said to reign, to dominate the world, and it flows at last into the…

  Malachi 3:17,18 The people of God are his peculiar treasures, and it is a joy to know that in a world as this that there is anything which God can regard as his own peculiar treasure. Yes, when we look about us we see sin is everywhere and in all places.     The…

  Ezekiel 43:1,7 Ezekiel has witnessed in sadness the departure of the glory of the Lord from the temple (Ch.11,22,23) “and the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.” Now in (v.4) Ezekiel witness the return…

Hose 7:1,2 “And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness,” God saw the wickedness of Israel.     Because of sin the body is robbed of its beauty, the mind of it vigor, and life spoiled in its influence and end.     All things are naked and opened before…

Luke 4:18 Jesus went to Nazareth to preach the gospel to the poor. The class of people Jesus gathers around him are not the ones the world would prefer. The poor, the broken-heart, the captives, the blind, the bruised and the imprisoned “But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame,…

Hose 11: 1, 4 “When Israel was a child, then I love him, and called my son our of Egypt” (v. 1.) Yet, Israel when from him and sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images (v. 2.) Israel was God’s children in need to be cared for, weak in need to be strengthened,…

Acts 3: 16 It would have been surprising if they had not marveled on seeing a forty year old cripple restored to perfect health, “’And they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him” (v. 10.) While in Capernaum Jesus performed a similar miracle (Lk. 5: 26.) “And they were…