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Oh! The Struggle & Conflict...

"I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him." -Ezekiel 21:27 [KJV] Are there not seasons in our experience when we can lay down our souls before God, and say, "Let Christ be precious to my soul, let Him come with power to my heart, let Him set up His throne as Lord and King, and let self be nothing before Him?"  Well, we utter these prayers in sincerity and simplicity, we desire their fulfilment; but oh, the struggle! the conflict! when God answers these petitions. When our plans are frustrated, what a rebellion works up in the carnal mind! When self is cast down, what a rising up of the fretful, peevish impatience of the creature! When the Lord does answer our prayers, and strips off all false confidence; when He does remove our rotten props, and dash to pieces our broken cisterns, what a storm—what a conflict takes place in the soul! Angry with the Lord for doing the very ...
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It is by Christ JESUS' Blood

“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”   -Ephesians 2:13 [KJV] Our sin has created a vast distance between us and God. “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2.)     By nature, we are as far away from God as we can get.  Man has no desire and no ability to cross that great gulf back to God.  But God sent His Son to reconcile His people to Himself and He did it by the blood of Christ.     The blood of Christ removed all of the sin that separated us from God.  The blood of Christ justifies His people and makes them fit to be brought back into God’s presence.   My friends, make much of the blood of Christ!  It is the blood of Christ that has reconciled us to God.  It is not our morality.  It is not our orthodoxy.  It is not our knowledge.  It has no...
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SHALL NOT THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO RIGHT?

“ That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ?” -Genesis 18:25 [KJV]   Is this not our confidence and comfort, that the Judge of all the earth will do right ; He can do no wrong. Even though I may not understand what the Judge is doing, I am confident it is right. Therefore we know, with absolute confidence, that He will not slay the righteous with the wicked. Believers do not have to fear His judgments. Let us never be guilty of judging the Judge, but let us be still and know that He is God  (Psalm 46:10).     -preacher John Chapman  
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By the WORD and WILL of GOD ALMIGHTY

"For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.  Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.  In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee: for Thou wilt answer me.  Among the gods there is none like unto Thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto Thy works."   - Psalm 86:5-8 [KJV] -------0-------      "God created man out of the dust, and back to the dust he goes at the word of His creator. By His word we live, and by His word we die. Believers do not die because of AGE, DISEASE, or a decree of FATE, but by the will and word of our Heavenly Father (Job 14:5). An old writer once said, "Even an angel cannot save me from the grave, nor could a thousand angels put me there."     Our times are in His hand (Psalm 31:15) ! One of our friends was asked if she had any preference concern­ing when and how she would die. She replied, "...
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Thought for the Day ~ 25 May, 2026 A.D.

"We should never form unions on earth with those from whom we should wish to be separated at the day of judgment."   -preacher Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892 A.D.)
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BE CLOTHED WITH HUMILITY

"I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." -I Corinthians 15:10 [KJV] When we meet with journals, diaries, experiences, etc. which do not exalt the riches of the grace of God, but set off the self-importance of the writers of them, they are as nauseous to the mind as tainted food to the palate. They remind us of the poet’s observation, “And I the little hero of each tale.”  Not so St. Paul, in speaking of himself. No sooner had he brought this little great "I" upon the stage, but he instantly caused it to disappear. Hence, the doctrine is plain, The grace of God makes a person labour for God, and yet keeps him humble before God . Consider, (1st.) To have the grace of God with one, is to have a lively sense of God’s free favour, in Christ, upon one’s own soul . Without this, we go on heavily in the ways of God; soon tire in His service; and turn back and walk no more with Christ. This was the life and sp...
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A Sweet View of JESUS our LORD

"And He is the head of the body, the church." -Colossians 1:18 [KJV] Sweet view of Jesus! Ponder well the subject, my soul, and behold thy Lord in this endearing character, and thine own personal union with Him. Jesus is indeed, in every point of view, "the head of His body, the church." He is so by the Father's own appointment, as our glorious Surety: in which character He stood up at the call of God the Father, from everlasting; for when, at that call, He put Himself in our stead, in our law-room and place, He undertook, as the church's representative, to do all, and to suffer all for her; and what He did and suffered, they, as His body, might truly be said to do and suffer in Him. Sweet thought! When Jesus obeyed the whole law, then was Jesus their law-fulfiller. When He suffered the death of the cross, they in Him were crucified. When He arose from the dead, in that resurrection they partook of the triumph, and, as members of His body, arose...
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