Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1.
Read More“If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” John 15:10. These things cannot be parted — abiding in obedience and abiding in the love of Jesus. A life under the rule of Christ can alone prove that we are…
Read More“But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was preached to you.” 1 Peter 1:25. All human teaching and, indeed, all human beings shall pass away as the grass of the meadow; but we are here assured that the Word of the Lord is of a very different character,…
Read More“If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.” 2 Samuel 23:5. This is not so much one promise as an aggregate of promises…
Read More“Their soul shall be as a watered garden.” Jeremiah 31:12. Oh, to have one’s soul under heavenly cultivation; no longer a wilderness but a garden of the Lord! Enclosed from the waste, walled around by grace, planted by instruction, visited by love, weeded by heavenly discipline, and guarded by divine power, one’s favored soul is…
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