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Christ's Righteousness is Upon Us to JUSTIFY Us!

" Thy God reigneth." -Isaiah 52:7 [KJV] Christ commissions His ministers, to proclaim this joyful truth to Zion, His church, that every member of His might receive it in faith, change the pronoun and say, My God reigneth . Christ’s reign is His people’s glory, their triumph on earth; and the shouts of disembodied saints in glory. Listen to their acclamations of joy. “Allelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come.” -Revelation 19:6, 7   Are we married to the Lamb? Has He our hearts and affections? Then we shall constantly rejoice, and give honor to Him, that He, Who is our God, reigneth. Where? Where He dwells. In heaven for us: and in our hearts over us. For, as He dwells in our hearts by faith, He spiritually reigns over all within us. O what matter of joy and consolation is this!  For (1st.) If our King has set up His throne in our hearts, what enemy can hurt us? They...
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Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 06 April, 2025 A.D.

"Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon Him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am He . And Judas also, which betrayed Him, stood with them. As soon then as He had said unto them, I am He , they went backward and fell to the ground ." -John 18:4-6 [KJV] What a glorious scripture is this! Ponder it well, my soul; for of all the miracles of thy Jesus, there is not one more sweet and satisfactory to contemplate. Yesterday thou wast looking at thy Redeemer under a heavy cloud. Look at Him as He is here represented, for He is still, in this transaction, in the same garden of Gethsemane; and behold how the Godhead shone forth with a glory surpassing all description.  Observe what a willing sacrifice was Jesus. He knew the hour was come, for He had said so. He doth not wait to be taken, and by wicked hands to be crucified and slain: but He goeth forth to surrender Himself. Ye...
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The LORD of Armies

"And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him?" -Luke 18:7 [KJV] "Behold, he prayeth," was the word of the Lord to Ananias to convince him that that dreaded persecutor, Saul of Tarsus, had been quickened by the Spirit. And what a mercy it is for the quickened soul that the blessed Spirit thus helps his sinking, trembling spirit, puts life and energy into his cries and sighs, holds him up and keeps him steadfast at the throne, and thus enables him to persevere with his earnest suings for mercy, mingles faith with his petitions, and himself most graciously and kindly intercedes within him and for him with groanings which cannot be uttered. This is "praying with the spirit" (I Corinthians 14:15) and "in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 20) .  This is pouring out the heart before God (Psalm 62:8) , pouring out the soul before the Lord (I Samuel 1:15) ; and by this free discharge of the contents of an almost bursting ...
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Hearing the Voice of Christ JESUS, "The LORD our Righteousness"

" Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear, and your souls shall live." -Isaiah 55:3 [KJV] Some cannot bear exhortations to be used, either to saints or sinners. O, dear! they sound so legal in their ears, they are quite disgusted with them. But why? Truly, such are wise above what is written; and they proclaim their folly in condemning the conduct of Christ, and His Spirit in the prophets and apostles. They have most need of exhortations, who see least cause for them: be not high-minded, but fear .  A Chinese philosopher asserted, that a man had three ears: one differed from those two which are seen. This was counted a great absurdity. But it holds true in a spiritual sense; for naturally we have ears, but hear not. “The hearing ear, the L ORD hath made” (Proverbs 20:12.) This Christ calls for: “Incline your ear.” Act as sentenced rebels and condemned malefactors; be all ear to a sound of mercy, and a proclamation of a reprieve, from Me.   Though your heart...
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O Thou Meek & Holy LAMB OF GOD ~ the Sinner's SURETY

"Being in an agony ." -Luke 22:44 [KJV] My soul, art thou still in Gethsemane? Look at Jesus once more; behold Him in His agony; view Him in His bloody sweat, in a night of cold, and in the open air, when we are told the servants, in the high priest's hall, were obliged to make a fire of coals to warm themselves. In such a night was thy Jesus, from the extremity of anguish in His soul, by reason of thy sins, made to sweat great drops of blood. Look at the Lord in this situation; and as the prophet, by vision, beheld Him coming up with His dyed garments, as One that had trodden the wine fat; so do thou, by faith, behold Him in His bloody sweat; when, from treading the winepress of the wrath of God, under the heavy load of the world's guilt, His whole raiment was stained with blood. Sin first made man to sweat: and Jesus, though He knew no sin, yet taking out the curse of it for His people, is made to sweat blood. Oh Thou meek and holy Lamb of God! Methink...
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Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 05 April, 2025 A.D.

"And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: BUT THE SON ABIDETH EVER." -John 8:35 [KJV] It is the irreversible blessing of a son, that he is never to be turned out of the house, that the union between the Parent and the child can never be broken, but that he is to reign with Christ through the ages of one everlasting day. This is a sweet consolation to God's family that "the Son abideth ever." How often is a child of God exercised, whether he shall abide for ever, whether he may not draw back to perdition, whether some temptation may not overtake him whereby it shall be made manifest that he is nothing but a deceiver and deceived! But the Lord Himself says, "the Son abideth ever;" let him be but a babe, let him have but the first beginning of spiritual life in his soul, he "abideth ever;" he has the same interest in the affections of the Father, is a fellow-heir with Christ, and has a title to the same inheritance as t...
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The Word of The LORD is our Ground of Faith

" By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." -Hebrews 11:27 [KJV] Here we see faith opposed by fear, and the victory of faith over the dread of wrath. Consider his work and his danger; his faith and his safety.  (1st.) Moses was engaged in a great work. He was to go to Pharaoh, and say from the Lord, “Israel is My son, even My first-born son: let him go, that he may serve Me” (Exodus 4:23.) Now, might not the king very naturally look upon Moses as a very dangerous, pestilent, hotheaded enthusiast, who, under a pretence of religion, wanted to raise a rebellion in his kingdom? He had to fear, that the king might put him to death in his wrath. “For the wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion” (Proverbs 19:12.) Most terribly fierce! But,  (2d.) consider his faith. This set him above fear: he bids defiance to wrath. Forsake Egypt, he must; flee from the king, he was determined: for he had the command of his God for it. Faith is the parent ...
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