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A Great Warning to Proud Mockers

"Nay, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against GOD?" - Romans 9:20 [KJV] The sovereignty of God, in dispensing His grace to whom He pleaseth, and which He oweth to none, ever has been a subject of contention. Unawakened people, with self-righteous hearts, and stubborn free-will pride, rise with indignation of spirit, daringly call in question the ways of God to man, and impiously reply against God, as though He had not an absolute right to do what He will with His own, and confer His favours when, and on whom He pleases. “Ye shall be as gods,” says the father of lies, (Genesis 3:5.) Our first parents believed him. They have tainted our whole race with this proud lie.  Hence the poet most sarcastically says, to repliers against God, Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge His justice, be the god of God . St. Paul meets such. He puts a question to them. He demands an answer from them. Who art thou? The Lord in the sovereignty of grace, and wit...
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Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 13 December, 2025 A.D.

"The tree of life." -Revelation 22:2 [KJV] Lead me, O Holy Ghost, by the hand of faith, this morning, into the paradise of God, and cause me to sit down under the tree of life; and for a while, before the world breaks in upon me, enable me to meditate on its beauties, its loveliness, and its fruit. Is it not Jesus which I behold in this charming similitude? Surely Jesus is to me the tree of life, for I have no life but in Him! And it is not only He which gave me life at the first, but preserves it, maintains it, and will preserve it for ever. He saith himself, "Because I live, ye shall live also."  And as He is Himself the life of my soul, so every thing in Him is the promoter of my life. His fruit also is all my sustenance, all I want, all I desire, all I can truly enjoy. He bears twelve manner of fruits. Yes, for there is in Him both fulness and variety: pardon, mercy, and peace, in the blood of His cross; favour with God, affection with men; the Spi...
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Personal Manifestations of The Mercy of Almighty God

"And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." -Zechariah 3:1 [KJV] It is the object of Satan to keep those secure who are safe in his hands; nor does God see fit to disturb their quiet. But on the other hand, where Satan perceives a work of grace going on, where he sees the eyes sometimes filled with tears, where he hears the sobs heaving from the contrite heart, where he observes the knees often bent in secret prayer, where his listening ear often hears the poor penitent confess his sins, weaknesses, and backslidings before God, (for by these observations we have reason to believe Satan gains his intelligence,) wherever he sees this secret work going on in the soul, mad with wrath and filled with malice, he vents his hellish spleen against the objects of God's love.  Sometimes he tries to ensnare them into sin, sometimes to harass them with temptation, sometimes to stir u...
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THE FATHER OF LOVE & THE FRIEND OF SINNERS

"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." - Isaiah 49:15 [KJV] Lord, remember David and all his afflictions (Psalm 132:1.) How comprehensive is this short petition? What a holy boldness, what a filial confidence breathes in it! Yes, says a poor doubting dejected soul, but it came from an eminent saint, but I am a miserable sinner: I am afraid the Lord hath forgotten and forsaken me. Is your mind pained at the thoughts of this? That is a godly sorrow, which the wicked are strangers to. This is one of the afflictions of the righteous. Lord, remember me , is the prayer of faith, to a covenant God.  Here is a precious cordial, a heart reviving answer from the Lord. Look at that woman with her smiling babe at her breast. See how fond she is of it, how delighted with it. It is part of herself. She bore it with pains, and brought it into the world with labour....
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Blessed JESUS, Thy Love is Better Than Wine

"Take this and divide it among yourselves."   - Luke 22:17 [KJV] Precious Lord, such was thine unbounded love to Thy people that Thou gavest all to them! And, dearest Jesus, what didst Thou reserve for Thyself? And how wisely was Thy love manifested! To every one grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ; for the purchase of redemption, in the case of all, cost Thee the same. If, indeed, a lamb of Thine be weak, or diseased, or torn, or scattered, Thou wilt take it to Thy bosom, while Thou wilt gently lead those that are with young. But every one, and all, shall have Thy care; all, as their several wants may be.  Here then, Lord, to Thy table I would come. Thy death hath confirmed all Thy purchased blessings. And in the holy supper I would seek grace, that my right may be confirmed in them. Before God, and angels, and men, I would take the seal of Thy gift. In Thy blood Thou hast signed them: in the word of Thy gospel Thou hast recorded them: in the ord...
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Hungering & Thirsting After Righteousness

"I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment; that I may cause those that love Me to inherit substance." -Proverbs 8:20, 21 [KJV] Whence springs it, that God causes His people "to inherit substance," by  "leading them in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment?"  When He leads them first into the way of righteousness by opening up His holy law, it drives away all shadows. We had been heaping together, with great toil, chaff and hay and straw and stubble; we had been like the man spoken of in Scripture, who "dreamed, and behold! he ate, but he awoke and his soul was empty;" so we were dreaming our life away continually with shadows, with a name to live, with a formal religion, with a mere external show of godliness, content with a few ordinances and sermons, and thinking that these would shelter us in the day of wrath. These were only shadows; of no more avail to deliver our soul...
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Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 11 December, 2025 A.D.

"And the LORD spoke unto Moses, face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend."   - Exodus 33:11 [KJV] In the opinion of infidels, Moses is as vile a hypocrite, and as great an enthusiast as ever existed. You see your calling, brethren. What shall be done unto the men, whom the King of saints delighteth to honour? Treat them as the filth and offscouring of all things, say the world. Thank you, ye sons of folly. You give us an evident token of our salvation, and that of God (Philippians 1:28.) If Moses is not to be credited, Christ is to be rejected. He puts His cause upon the testimony of Moses. “Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me, for he wrote of Me”   (John 5:46.)   He was a friend of the Bridegroom. He was admitted to close and intimate converse with Him, before He appeared in flesh. Our Saviour saith to all His disciples, “ye are My friends” (John 15:14.) He admits them into sweet fellowship, and free communion with Himself. A preci...
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