The Danger of Unsanctified Head-Knowledge
Let us pray that we may be delivered from a cold, speculative, unsanctified head-knowledge of Christianity. It is a rock on which thousands make shipwreck to all eternity. No heart becomes so hard as...
View ArticleTrusting the Process of Christ
“If you profess to be a child of God, leave to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way. Rest satisfied that He never makes any mistakes. Be sure that He does all things well. The winds may howl...
View ArticleLook Away From Self and Towards Christ
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked; you cannot make atonement for your past transgressions, you cannot wipe out a single page on that long black list....
View ArticleThe Humble New Believer
To see a calm-minded young believer, who is not stuck up, self confident and self-conceited, but content with a daily steady effort to grow up into Christ’s likeness, and to do Christ’s work quietly...
View ArticleDo You Have These Marks of a Christian?
Are we ourselves people of God? Have we been born again? Have we the MARKS which always accompany the new birth–sense of sin, faith in Jesus, love of others, righteous living, separation from the...
View ArticleThe Double Nature Christian
There is a double nature in all believers. Converted, renewed, sanctified as they are, they still carry about with them a mass of indwelling corruption, a body of sin. Paul speaks of this when he says,...
View ArticleProve Your Profession By Fruits!
Is not every fruitless professor of Christianity in dreadful danger of becoming a withered fig tree? There can be no doubt of it. So long as a man is content with the leaves of religion–with a name to...
View ArticleThe Model of Sanctification: Jesus Christ
The Lord God has mercifully provided His people with everything necessary to their sanctification. He has given those who follow after holiness the clearest of precepts, the best of motives, and the...
View ArticleProving Your Profession
Repentance towards God, faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ, holiness of life and character, prayerfulness, humility, charity, spiritual-mindedness–these are the only satisfactory proofs that the seed...
View ArticleFighting Against the Gates of Hell
Be prepared for the hostility of the gates of hell. Put on the whole armor of God. The weapons of our warfare have been tried by millions of poor sinners like ourselves, and have never been found to...
View ArticleChrist’s Pruning Knife in a Believer: Trials
How would the great work of sanctification go on in a person if they had no trial? Trouble is often the only fire which will burn away the dross that clings to our hearts. Trouble is the pruning–knife...
View ArticleSanctified Suffering
Suffering is a part of the process by which the children of God are sanctified. They are chastened to wean them from the world, and make them partakers of God’s holiness. The Captain of their salvation...
View ArticleObtaining Assurance of Your Salvation
The Word of God appears to me to teach, that a believer may arrive at an assured confidence with regard to his own salvation. I lay it down deliberately that a true Christian or converted person may...
View ArticleStrong Faith Produces Strong Character
Do you desire to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ? Would you bring forth much fruit? Would you be eminently holy and useful? Would you be bright, and shine as a light in...
View ArticleThe Happiness of Following God
Happiness is the gift of God—but that there is the closest connection between full following of God and full happiness, let no person for an instant doubt. A hopeful growing believer has the witness...
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