Pure, Unalloyed, Perfect Truth!

The Bible is a vein of pure gold, unalloyed by any earthly substance. The Scripture is, a star without a speck, a sun without a blot, a light without darkness, and a glory without a dimness. O Bible! It cannot be said of any other book, that it is perfect and pure; but of the Bible we can assuredly declare that all wisdom is gathered up in it, without a particle of folly. This is the judge that ends the strife, where wit and reason fail. This is the Book untainted by any error; but is pure, unalloyed, perfect truth. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

Psalm 19:7-11 ... The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.  Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

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Unutterable Affection!

In calling the Lord Jesus "altogether lovely," the redeemed Church asserts that she sees nothing in Him which she does not admire. The world may rail at His cross and call it shameful; but to her it is the very center and soul of glory. He is never without beauty to her! She presses His pierced feet to her embrace and looks upon His wounds as jewels! Fools stand by His cross and find many a theme for jest and scorn; but she discovers nothing but solemn reason for reverent adoration and unbounded love! "You are absolutely beautiful, my Beloved--with no imperfection in You!" (Song of Solomon 4:7)

Viewing Him in every office and relationship, she cannot discover a flaw! She knows too well, His perfect Godhead and His spotless manhood, to offer a moment's shelter to the thought of a blemish in His immaculate person! She abominates every teaching that debases Him! She spurns the most gorgeous religious drapery that would obscure His beauteous features! Yes, so jealous is she of His honor, that a hint against His unsullied purity would stir her soul to holy wrath! Nothing has ever aroused the ire of the Church so much as a word against her beloved Redeemer. 

To all true believers, this is high treason and an offense which cannot be treated lightly. Jesus is without a single blot or blemish, yet this negative praise this bold denial of any fault, is far from representing the fullness of the loving admiration of the Church. Jesus is positively lovely in her eyes! Not merely lovely His beauties are attracting beauties, and His glories are such as charm the heart. 

But although this utterance of the Church is the very climax of the language of praise and was doubtless intended as the pinnacle of all description yet it is not possible that this one sentence, even when expanded by the most careful meditation, should be able to express more than a mere particle of the admiration felt. Her description towers above all others; but its stature fails to reach the towering height of Heaven-born love. It is but a faint symbol of unutterable affection! It is a choice pearl washed on shore, from the deep sea of Divine love. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

Song of Solomon 5:16 ...  His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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He Leads ...

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. 

[Oswald Chambers]

Proverbs 3:5-6 ... Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Psalm 25:5 ... Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

Isaiah 49:10 ... They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. ❤

You Can Do All Things!!

All that God is, He is to you! All He has, He has for you! All He has promised, He will fulfill in you! Ever, ever remember that all things are possible to your God, your Father, your Savior, and your Friend!

Jesus, my Savior and my Lord! 'Tis good to trust your name; Your power, your faithfulness, and love, Will ever be the same!

What, though my griefs are not removed yet why should I despair? While everlasting arms support, I can the burden bear!

Weak as I am yet through your grace, I all things can perform; And triumph in your saving name, Amid the raging storm!

[James Smith]

Philippians 4:13 ... I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Matthew 19:26 ...  But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ❤

More Fit to Be Called a Devil Than a Parent!

Parents! Your example and life are a continual and powerful sermon which is always seen by your children! Parents! Your children have an everlasting inheritance of happiness to attain, and it is that which you must bring them up for. They have an endless misery to escape, and it is that which you must diligently teach them. If you don't teach them to know God, and how to serve Him, and be saved, and to escape the flames of Hell you teach them nothing, or worse than nothing. It is in your hands to do them the greatest kindness or cruelty in all the world! 

Help them to know God and to be saved, and you do more for them than if you helped them to be kings or princes. If you neglect their souls, and bring them up them in ignorance, worldliness, ungodliness, and sin you betray them to the devil, the enemy of their souls, even as truly as if you sold them to him! You sell them to be slaves to Satan! 

If you saw but a burning furnace, much more the flames of Hell would you not think that man or woman more fit to be called a devil than a parent, who could find in their hearts to cast their child into it? What monsters then of inhumanity are you, who read in Scripture that which is the way to Hell, and who they are that God will deliver up to Satan and yet will bring up your children in that very way and will not take pains to save them from it! If you love them, show it in those things on which their everlasting welfare depends. Do not say you love them and yet lead them unto Hell! 

If you do not love them, yet do not be so unmerciful to them as to damn them! You cannot possibly do more to damn them, than to bring them up in ignorance, carelessness, worldliness, sensuality, and ungodliness! And yet, will you bring them up in such a life and say that you do not desire to damn them? But if you train up your children in ungodliness, you may as well say that you intend to have them damned! And is not the devil more excusable, for dealing thus cruelly to your children than you who are their parents, who are bound by nature to love them, and prevent their misery? 

Let me seriously speak to the hearts of those careless and ungodly parents, who neglect the holy education of their children. Oh, do not be so unmerciful to those who you have brought into the world! Oh, pity and help the souls that you have defiled and undone! Have mercy on the souls that must perish in Hell, if they are not saved! 

Oh, help them that have so many enemies to assault them. Help them that have so many temptations to pass through; and so many difficulties to overcome; and so severe a judgment to undergo! Help them that are so weak, and so easily deceived and overthrown! Help them speedily before sin hardens them, and Satan makes a stronger fortress in their hearts!

Oh, be not cruel to their souls! Do not sell them to Satan, and that for nothing! Do not betray them by your ungodly negligence, to Hell! If any of them will perish, let it not be because of you who are so much bound to do them good. The undoing of your children's souls is a work much fitter for Satan, then for their parents! Consider how odious, soul-betraying parents are who betray their children to be the slaves of Satan here, and the firebrands of Hell forever! O do not join with the devil in this unnatural, horrid wickedness! 

[Richard Baxter] 

Ephesians 6:4 ... And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Not of It...

A man who is Born Again does not use the world's opinion as his standard of right and wrong.

[J. C. Ryle]

Acts 5:29 ... Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

1 John 5:19 ... And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Romans 12:2 ... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ❤

Strength ...

 The Christian's strength lies in the LORD, not in himself.

[William Gurnall]

Isaiah 40:29 ... He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. ❤

A Heaven Unto Me!

That knowledge which accompanies salvation, is a heart-affecting knowledge. It affects the heart with Christ, and all spiritual things. Oh, it does wonderfully endear Christ and the things of Christ to the soul. "Oh, feed me with Your love Your 'raisins' and Your 'apples' for I am utterly lovesick!" Song of Songs 2:5 "Oh," says the spouse, "my heart is taken with Christ, it is ravished with His love; my soul is burning, my soul is beating towards Christ. 

Oh, none but Christ, none but Christ! I cannot live in myself, I cannot live in my duties, I cannot live in external privileges, I cannot live in outward mercies; I can live only in Christ, who is my life, my love, my joy, my crown, my all in all. Oh, the more I come to know Him in His natures, in His names, in His offices, in His discoveries, in His visits, in His beauties, the more I find my heart and affections to prize Christ, to run after Christ, to be affected with Christ, and to be wonderfully endeared to Christ! 

 

Oh God, forbid that my heart should be affected or taken with anything in comparison with Christ. The more I know Him, the more I love Him; the more I know Him, the more I desire Him; the more I know Him, the more my heart is knit unto Him. His beauty is captivating, His love is ravishing, His goodness is attracting, His manifestations are enticing, His person is enamoring, His lovely looks please me, His pleasant voice delights me, His precious Spirit comforts me, His holy Word rules me. 

All these things make Christ to be a heaven unto me! Oh, but all that mere notional knowledge, that speculative knowledge, which leaves a man short of salvation never affects the heart; it never draws it, it never endears the heart to Christ, or to the precious things of Christ. Hence it is that such men, under all their notions, under all their light and knowledge, have no affection to Christ, no delight in Christ, no workings of heart after Christ.

[Thomas Brooks]

1 Corinthians 16:22 ... If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

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Made of Honey and Sugar!

A new god has been lately invented by men: the god of modern Christianity, the god of modern thought, a god made of honey and sugar. He is all leniency, gentleness, mildness, and indifference to sin. Justice is not in him; and as for the punishment of sin, he knows nothing about it. The Old Testament, they say, takes a very harsh view of God; and therefore, modern wisdom sets it aside. Indeed, two-thirds of the Word of God is now out of date and turned into wastepaper. The advanced thinkers of these enlightened times, tell us that the idea of God in the Old Testament is a false one. 

We are to believe in a new god, who does not care whether we do right or wrong; for by his arrangement, all people will come to the same end in the long run. Live as you like, carouse and swear and drink and you shall go to Heaven at last. This is the modern creed which poisons our whole society. 

But let me say that Jehovah, the Judge of all the earth, is a just and righteous God. He has not changed one iota in the stern integrity of His nature, and He will by no means spare the guilty. "Surely God will smash the heads of His enemies, crushing the skulls of those who love their guilty ways." It is clear from these words, that God is not indifferent to human sinfulness. Our God knows His enemies, and He does not mistake them for friends, nor treat them as such. He regards all sin as an offense to Himself. God does not wink at human sin; but calls upon all men everywhere to repent. 

It is obvious that God has the power to smite those who rebel against Him, "Surely God will smash the heads of His enemies, crushing the skulls of those who love their guilty ways." When the Lord puts His hand to the work of vengeance, then His smiting will be dreadful. If He does not smite His enemies until the hour of death, what a blow will they then receive! They boasted of their self-righteousness and their goodness; but oh, what terror will seize them when at the last moment, while they dream of Heaven; they are smitten down into Hell for their daring rebellion against the King of kings! I am not like those flatterers who tell you that there are a little Hell and a little God, from which you naturally infer that you may live as you like. There is a dreadful Hell, for there is a righteous God. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

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Psalm 68:21 ... But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Psalm 50:22 ...  Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. ❤

On Whom Do I Trust?

Reader, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian's answer and see if it is yours. 

"On whom do you trust?" "I trust," says the Christian, "in the triune God of Scripture!" I trust the Father, believing that He has chosen me from before the foundation of the world. I trust Him to provide for me in His providence, to teach me, to guide me, to correct me, if need be, and to bring me home to His own house where the many mansions are! I trust the son. The man Christ Jesus is also the true God. I trust in Him as my Redeemer to take away all my sins by His atoning sacrifice, and to adorn me with His perfect righteousness. 

I trust Him to be my Intercessor, to present my prayers and desires before His Father's throne. I trust Him to be my Advocate at the last great day, to plead my cause, and to justify me. I trust Him for what He is, for what He has done, and for what He has promised yet to do! I trust the Holy Spirit. He has begun to save me from my inbred sins; I trust Him to finally drive them all out.  I trust Him to curb my debased temperament, to subdue my stubborn will, to enlighten my darkened understanding, to check my evil passions, to comfort my despondency, to help my spiritual weakness, to provide my spiritual nourishment, to reign in me as my loving King, to sanctify me wholly, and then to take me up to dwell forever in glory! 

Oh, blessed trust! To trust Him whose power will never be exhausted, whose love will never wane, whose kindness will never change, whose faithfulness will never fail, whose wisdom will never be confounded, and whose perfect goodness can never know a diminution! Happy are you, reader, if this trust is yours! So, trusting, you shall enjoy sweet peace now, and glory hereafter! The foundation of your trust shall never be removed! 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

Isaiah 36:5 ...  I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

Proverbs 3:5 ... Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Nahum 1:7 ...  The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. ❤

The Hell of Hell

As there are a diversity of torments in Hell, so the torments of Hell are eternal. "Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!" Matthew 25:41 The sentence which shall be passed upon them, is eternal. God Himself, who damns them, is eternal. The prison and chains which hold them, are eternal. The worm which gnaws them, is eternal. The fire which torments them, is eternal.  Grievous is the torment of the damned, for the bitterness of the punishments. It is more grievous, for the diversity of the punishments. But it is most grievous, for the eternity of the punishments! 

If, after so many millions of years as there are drops in the ocean, there might be a deliverance out of Hell this would yield a little ease, a little comfort to the damned. But oh, this word, Eternity! this word, Everlasting! this word, forever! will break the hearts of the damned into ten thousand pieces! Suppose that the whole world was turned into a mountain of sand, and that a little bird would come once every thousand years and carry away one grain of sand from that heap. What an infinite number of years would be spent before this great mountain of sand would be fetched away! 

Just so, if a man should lie in everlasting burnings so long a time as this and then have an end of his woe it would give him some ease, some hope, and some comfort. But when that immortal bird shall have carried away this great mountain of sand, a thousand times over and over alas, alas, sinful man shall be as far from the end of his anguish and torment as ever he was! He shall be no nearer coming out of Hell, than he was the very first moment that he entered into Hell! Suppose, say others, that a man were to endure the torments of Hell for as many years as there are sands on the sea-shore, drops of water in the sea, stars in the heavens, leaves on the trees, blades of grass on the ground then he would comfort himself with this poor thought, "Well, there will come a day when my misery and torment shall have an end." But woe and alas! 

This word, "Forever! Forever! Forever!" will fill the hearts of the damned with the greatest horror and terror, anger and rage, bewilderment and astonishment! If the fire of Hell were terminable, then it might be tolerable. But being endless, it must needs be ease less, and remediless. The eternity of Hell is the hell of Hell. The damned shall live as long in Hell as long as God Himself shall live in Heaven! The reprobate shall have punishment, without pity, misery, without mercy, sorrow, without support, crying, without compassion, mischief, without measure, and torment, without end! "And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." Matthew 25:46 

All the pains, torments, curse, and wrath which were due to the elect fell on Christ, until divine justice was fully satisfied! "For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thessalonians 5:9 Oh, exalt and extol that Savior, who has loved you, and saved you from that eternal wrath! 

[Thomas Brooks]

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