“I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:32, ESV)

The uselessness of a mere outward profession of Christianity.

At the ninth hour, about 3 P. M. All that follows occurred just before his death. Cried with a loud voice, the utterance of intolerable...

1. The Call for the Wise Man. 3:13a “Who is wise and understanding among you?” (τίς σοφὸς καὶ ἐπιστήμον ἐν ὑμῖν;). The question does not...

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off, &c.] Jarchi interprets this of the vengeance of God, and his...

The Glorious Deeds of the Lord

“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity.” He is thunderstruck at the discovery of his inbred sin, and proceeds to set it forth. This was not...

Christ, our sacrifice, was made sin and a curse for us and the sacrifice was consumed by the fire of God’s wrath against sin...

Jeremiah can rest in the proper and eternal relations between God and His beloved people...

The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Contents: Birth of Ishmael. Characters: Sarah, Abram, Hagar, Angel, Ishmael. Conclusion: The moment the believer takes...

Gal. 3:13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. The law, which subjects all mankind to a curse,...

Yes, verily, they are a mirror in which we may see our own image; and the events of their days are still visible in ours.

Literally, that they may have abundance, or that which abounds.

A man can lay up nothing better for the infirmities of old age than the favor of God sought, by earnest prayer...

“Help me, O Lord my God.” Laying hold of Jehovah by the appropriating word my, he implores his aid both to help him to bear his heavy...

This petition of our Saviour’s was of no light consequence, when it had such an answer from heaven by an audible voice...

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, &c.] Since the blood of men may be required of those, who are negligent or partial in their office,...