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God it does not follow that He hatesthem. It is the sin that He hates.
It was the love which Christ had for Peter that broke his heart, and brought him back in penitence to the feet of his Lord.
At that
day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.
Wonderful love! That God can possibly love us as He loves His Own Son seems too good to be true. Yet that is the teaching of Jesus Christ.
inveterate
But let me tell you that no mother’s love is to be compared with the love of God;
Oh, the love that God must have had for the world when He gave His Son to die for it!
Paul prayed that he might know the height, the depth, the length, and the breadth, of the love of God; but it was past his finding out. It “passeth knowledge”
What brought the prodigal home? It was the thought that his father loved him.
sepulchres.
Do not let unbelief keep you away from Him.
The world
may treat you unkindly; but Christ never will.
If Abraham Lincoln had compassion on
that little girl, heard her petition and answered it, do you think the Lord Jesus will not hear your prayer?
publicans
It is “to him that worketh not, but believeth” (Rom. IV. 5). We work because we are saved; we do not work to be saved. We work from the cross; but not towards it.
So, you must have salvation before you can work it out.
decoction
take your eyes off from men; take your eyes off from the church.
infidels
Let us look to Jesus on the Cross and be saved.
publican.
penitential
“How am I to get my heart warmed?” It is by believing. You do not get power to love and serve God until you believe.
There cannot be true peace where there is fear.
“Perfect love casteth out fear.”
True love never has a doubt.
And let a man believe the record that God has given of Christ, and it will very quickly affect his whole life.
is taking God at His Word that is the means of our salvation. The truth cannot be made too simple.
“Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom. X. 17).
A knowledge of Christ will not help the inquirer, unless he believes in Him, and takes hold of Him, as his only hope.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thykeeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
I am so thankful that these I have mentioned were men of like passions with ourselves.
Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength. When man has no strength, if he leans on God he becomes powerful.
immutability
Melchisedec.”
It is God’s work to hold.
Now if God has got hold of my right hand in His, cannot He hold me and keep me?
The great God who made heaven and earth can keep a poor sinner like you and like me if we trust Him.
is a comforting thing to know that the Lord will not begin the good work without also finishing it.
