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The love of God is the same for His people (Old Testament) and for His children (New Testament). The difference is in the relationship. Prior to the coming of Christ individuals were known only as the people of God (Jud 20:2; 2 Sam 14:13; Heb 11:25) but now, believers are not only people of God...

With this article I have included the link to a new site (August 1) which contains the material I believe is central for the learning of the antiquated Christian writers whom I believe are well within the Biblical dispensational ideology. As many are aware, their teachings are applicable within...

The same power that took man away from innocence is active still to move man away from the blessings of grace. You can see in the early chapter of Acts how quickly selfishness and self-interest came in to divert souls, and the same thing has continued to work wherever the Light of Christian...

We are all prone to forget the weighty fact that “God trieth the righteous.” He withdraweth not His eyes from them.” We are in our Father’s hands and under His eye continually. We are the objects of His deep, tender and unchanging love; but we are also the subjects of His wise moral government...

That which we most dread—weakness and failure—are the very means by which our Father turns us from self-reliance to full dependence upon the Holy Spirit. “Walking in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, He leads up our hearts to where we are in the Lord Jesus. The new man finds delight in Him, and...

Many have an erroneous idea of what “chastening” means. We think, perhaps, that it represents God as having a big stick in His hand and knocking us about all the time. You have only to make a mistake and down comes the big stick! That, of course, is a wrong conception of our Father, and is not...

When our desires guide us to think on righteousness and holiness, from who is it to be sought? In the one and only place it exists—the Lord Jesus Christ! Yes, and from where is it to be sought? In His saints, because it is where He is via His Holy Spirit. This is to understand that there abides...

“Regeneration is a birth: the center and root of the personality, the spirit, has been re-created and taken possession of by the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:17). But time is required for that center to extend through all the circumference of our being. It is akin to a seed: the life of the Lord Jesus...

To fail to differentiate between dispensations is a normative within contemporary Christendom but I believe to fail to seek understanding in this area is to miss a great mass of spiritual growth doctrine available to the Word-hungry believer. Presently, many do not realize God’s work of...

“And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for My strength is made perfect in weakness….Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong” (2 Cor 12:9, 10). The thorn in the...

There is no strength or power in ourselves against “the law of sin which is in our members” (Rom 7:23). The Father has lefts us much dependent on the Lord Jesus’ work on the Cross for our deliverance as for our forgiveness! It is wholly because we died with Him on the Cross, both to sin and to...

“It is during the time of our being broken that we learn that His promises concerning us cannot be broken.” –MS “It is more than comforting to realize that it is those who have plumbed the depths of failure to whom the Father invariably gives the call to shepherd others. This is not a call to...

The primary significance concerning the life of the believer is not him in Christ, but Christ in him! It is not the life of the believer that produces the doing of “the will of God” (1 John 2:17), but the life of Christ within the believer—“through the Spirit” (1 Pet 1:22 KJV); and it is not the...

“A believer may know that he is positionally free, and yet have to mourn the fact that his experience is that of a wretched captive (Rom 7:24). The freedom is so entirely in Christ Jesus, and the maintenance of the living union with Him is so distinctly and entirely the work of divine power...

"All Christians are fit for heaven, but all too few are fit for earth. One of the true tests of one’s spiritual growth is in one’s influence: affecting others that they not only begin the Christian life but 'grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ'" (2 Pet 3:18)...

“It is the Lord Jesus who gives abiding rest to our souls, and not what our thoughts about ourselves may be. Faith never thinks about that which is in ourselves as its ground of rest; it receives, loves and apprehends what the Father has revealed in His Word, and what are His thoughts about His...

I like the example of the prodigal son because the story's main concept concerns the fact that he is his father's son, evinced by his overwhelming desire (Holy Spirit's work--Gal 5:17) to return to fellowship with his father. It does not question the concept of him being the father's son, which...

The sin atonement providing the forgiveness of sin for Israel was never dependent upon the congregation but upon the sin offering of the priest (Lev 4:20). Therefore without a priest there would be no forgiveness (Num 15:28); but this was to the exclusion of willful sins (Num 15:30) because...

By the body of the Lord Jesus on the Cross believers were made dead to the law (a), in order righteously to be joined to Another, even the risen Lord. The reason why we had to die to the law was seen to be, not at all because the law was bad (it, on the contrary, was “holy, just and good”), but...

I want it to be known to all who read my posts that the material I use is public domain and is free to share, since there are no copyrights (esp. for 1923 or prior). ******************************************************************* “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the...