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Consider the severity of God! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“Consider the kindness and the SEVERITY of God!” Romans 11:22“Who knows the power of Your anger?” Psalm 90:11Contemplate the inconceivable weight of God’s anger!Of course, in speaking of God’s anger we must divest it of all those tumultuous feelings of human anger; and conceive of it […]
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For to me, to live is Christ! (Thomas Watson, “Body of Divinity“) LISTEN to Audio! Download AudioPaul was a great admirer of Christ. He desired to know nothing but Christ, and Him crucified.“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain!” Philippians 1:21“For to me, to live is Christ.”That is, “Christ is my
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It would crush the highest archangel in an instant!(Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep!” John 10:11“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus because He will save His people from their sins!” Matthew 1:21Salvation
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Yes, He is altogether lovely!(Octavius Winslow) LISTEN to Audio! Download AudioSong of Songs 5:16“Yes, He is altogether lovely! This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend!”You will never see the pure loveliness of Jesus–until you see your own sinful deformity!Never will you be enamored with His love–until you cease to admire and love yourself; and
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Above all else, guard your heart!(Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time!” Genesis 6:5“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked! Who really knows
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A shield and deliverer! (Octavius Winslow, “Christ is Ever with You!” 1863) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“Surely, I am with you always–even unto the end of the world!” Matthew 28:20Christ is ever with His people, as a shield and deliverer. Our estimation of this truth will be proportioned to our intelligent apprehension of the number and
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What more could they desire?(Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“The Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly!O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in You!” Psalm 84:11-12God will not withhold anything that is truly good from His redeemed people–those
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He wounded the old serpent three times! (Thomas Watson, “The Christian Soldier” 1669) LISTEN to Audio! Download AudioWhat an infinite mercy it is, that God has blessed us with the Scriptures! The barbarous Indians have their golden mines–but not the Scriptures, which are “more to be desired than much fine gold!”Our Savior bids us search the
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Whose presence is thus promised and pledged? (Octavius Winslow, “Christ is Ever With You!” 1863)LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“Lo, I am with you always–even unto the end of the world!” Matthew 28:20Whose presence is thus promised and pledged? It is the presence of Christ!The Christ who is God.“Immanuel, God with us!”The Christ who . . . made all
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One sin lived in! (Thomas Watson, “The Godly Man’s Picture Drawn with a Scripture Pencil“) LISTEN to Audio! Download AudioA godly man considers the mischief which one sin lived in, will do.1. One sin lived in, gives Satan as much advantage against you as more sins.The fowler can hold a bird by one wing.Satan held Judas