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- The wisdom of the fathers SUBSTITUTION Our whole salvation rest on the principle of substitution. Adam and the first creation came through the Fall under the dominion of sin and death; the latter is the direct result of sin. This law of sin and...
- The wisdom of the fathersTHE LIFE OF CONTINUAL OBEDIENCEOur Lord ever spoke of His relation to the Father as the type and the promise of our relation to Him, and to the Father through Him. With us as with Him, the life of continual obedience is...
- The wisdom of the fathersIN QUIETOne of the first things a spiritual pilgrim must learn is to be quiet before God AND TO REMAIN before Him - coming without any request or even any personal will in ANY matter. If the believer chooses to act on his...
- The wisdom of the fathersHOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS?Our Lord died an apparent failure, discredited by the leaders of established religion, rejected by society and forsaken by His friends. The man who ordered Him to the cross was the successful...
- The wisdom of the fathersIT IS A SEPARATED BODY - NO EXCESSESThe sanctified body - continued9. The sanctified body is one whose dress is free from worldliness and sin, and marked by that modesty and simplicity which neither attracts attention by its...
- The wisdom of the fathersIMITATING CHRIST AND DESPISING ALL VANITIES ON EARTHHE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness," says the Lord. By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life and habits, if we wish to be truly enlightened and...
- The wisdom of the fathersCONSECRATION AND DEDICATION continuedNo sinner can make a definite Bible consecration; for he has no good things to bring to God. He is guilty and condemned in the sight of God. It is the justified believer who has learned...
- The wisdom of the fathersCONSECRATION AND DEDICATION“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Romans 12.1...The...
- The wisdom of our fathers WHAT MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD COSTS OTHER PEOPLEAs they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon…, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. —Luke 23:26If we obey God, it is going to cost...
- The wisdom of the fathersNEVER LOOK BACKWe are told that we are to leave the first principles of the doctrine of Christ and go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and the doctrine of baptisms and other...
- The wisdom of the fathersPEARLS OF DIVINE PROMISES 37 "We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him." Acts 5.32 A further condition for receiving the Spirit of Pentecost is obedience, which...
- The wisdom of the fathers THE BLESSEDNESS OF WINTER!I see the season of winter as an excellent example of the transforming work of the Lord in a Christian's life. When winter comes, the vegetable world, it seems to me, reflects the image of the...
- The wisdom of the fathersTHE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD - OUR PHYSICIANEleventh Letter: I do not pray that you may be delivered from your pains; but I pray earnestly that God gives you strength and patience to bear them as long as He pleases....
- The wisdom of the fathers DIVINE EDUCATION When you have heard the call to be completely transformed into the image of Jesus, He will lead you onto the path of dying and humility. He will make the kind of demands on your obedience, so that you will...
- THE LIGHT OF GOD AND KNOWLEDGE 3 continued...Light has one law: it shines wherever it is admitted. That is the only requirement. We may shut it out of ourselves; it fears nothing else. If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble...