Looking Unto JESUS - Rock of Salvation



"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." -HEBREWS 13:8 [KJV]

The eye of our faith must be ever fixed on Jesus, for the Person of Christ is the grand object of faith, and to lose sight of Him is to lose sight of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Is He not the same Jesus now that He was on earth? He is exalted, it is true, to an inconceivable height of glory, so that when John saw Him, even as if in some measure veiled, he fell at his feet as dead. But He is the same Jesus now as when He was the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as He wears the same human body, so He has the same tender, compassionate heart. All that He was upon earth as Jesus, He is in heaven still.

All that tenderness and gentleness, all that pity to poor sensible sinners, all that compassion on the ignorant and on those that are out of the way, all that grace and truth which came by Him and were manifest in Him, all that bleeding, dying love, all that sympathy with the afflicted and tempted, all that power to heal by a word all manner of sickness and disease, all that surpassing beauty and blessedness whereby He is to those who have seen Him the chiefest among ten thousand and the altogether lovely, He not only retains in the highest heavens, but is, so to speak, endowed with greater capacity to use them, for all power is given to Him in heaven and earth, and all things are put under His feet, and that not only for His own sake, but that He might be the Head over all things to the Church.

-Gospel report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
April 16th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES


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