Sermons and Biblical Studies

Neither the writer nor the reader of these words is qualified to appreciate the holiness of God. Quite literally a new channel must be cut through the desert of our minds to allow the sweet waters of truth that will heal our great sickness to flow in. We cannot grasp the true meaning of the … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS HOLINESS”

We who feel ourselves alienated from the fellowship of God can now raise our discouraged heads and look up. Through the virtues of Christ’s atoning death the cause of our banishment has been removed. We may return as the Prodigal returned, and be welcome. As we approach the Garden, our home before the Fall, the … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS GRACE; FORGIVENESS”

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS GRACE”

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation. Repentance, though necessary, is not meritorious but a condition for receiving the gracious gift of pardon which God gives of His goodness. Prayer is not in itself meritorious. It lays God under no obligation nor puts Him in debt to any. He hears prayer because He … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS GOODNESS”

Always and always God must be first. The gospel in its scriptural context puts the glory of God first and the salvation of man second. The angels, approaching from above, chanted “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” This puts the glory of God and the blessing of … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS GLORY; EVANGELISM: GOD FIRST”

If all this sounds strange to modern ears, it is only because we have for a full half century taken God for granted. The glory of God has not been revealed to this generation of men. The God of contemporary Christianity is only slightly superior to the gods of Greece and Rome, if indeed He … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS GLORY”

“God’s gifts,” said Meister Eckhart, “are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.” Did we enjoy God’s gifts according to the giver there would be no spiritual poverty among us, for surely there is no lack in God.… I cannot want a benefit as eagerly as God wants to give it … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS GIFTS; BLESSINGS: UNLIMITED”

I have said it before and I will say it again: This low concept of God is our spiritual problem today. Mankind has succeeded quite well in reducing God to a pitiful nothing! The God of the modern context is no God at all. He is simply a glorified chairman of the board, a kind … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS AWESOMENESS; WORSHIP: AWE”

A person who has sensed what Isaiah sensed will never be able to joke about “the Man upstairs” or the “Someone up there who likes me.” One of the movie actresses who still prowled around the nightclubs after her supposed conversion to Christ was quoted as telling someone, “You ought to know God. You know, … Continue reading “GOD:
HIS AWESOMENESS; FLIPPANCY”

But in this service I attended, they had asked a young girl to sing, and she was a hunchback, terribly deformed and twisted. There she stood, about as high as the desk, and with her face set almost down on her breast. Sweetly she began to sing and you knew she was singing her testimony … Continue reading “GLORIFIED
BODY; HEAVEN: GLORY OF; TRIALS: ATTITUDE TOWARD”