“How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?”—Hebrews 2:3
One of the great human failings with which God has to deal is that He can never bring us up face to face with the real issues of life. We know they are there, we are conscious that the dangers are ‘round about us, but we do not want to face them.
It is a helpful thing to know the characteristics of animals. It gives you a sort of rough outline of some human characteristics. I used to have a yellow dog that I picked up one day and …
The moving picture shows are all the rage. But before a mile of film ever danced through the white light and showed upon the screen, God had made reel after reel of real men and set their record down so that you could see it any time of day or night for less than a nickel.
Now God gives a perfect picture of any man’s life when He does the recording. He gives a whole picture; that is, inside and outside. He throws the light into the heart and there you see it just as it is.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”—Galatians 6:7-9
So many times we talk about this first verse: “As a man soweth, that shall he also reap,” but that does not mean enough unless you take the next verse, which states that the man …
I want to talk to you on the suicide of a soul. There surely could not be anything so terrific, as far as human condition of mind and human condition of heart is concerned, than for a man or a woman to deliberately take their own life. It is an awful thing to face death at the hand of disease or at the hand of men, but to have to face death by your own hand—that is almost unthinkable and must mean a terrific condition of soul darkness.
It is because of this awful soul darkness that Jesus Christ ever …
I will be delighted to see Paul when Jesus comes and we all get together around Him. I can’t blame a Jew for wanting to see Abraham, because he was God’s chosen vessel to start things for the Jew, but a Christian I am sure is more interested in seeing the man Jesus picked as a choice one through whom He especially sent His Gospel to the Gentiles. Jesus speaking to Ananias in a vision said, “He is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will …
These words fall from the lips of Jesus again and again: “The kingdom of heaven is like”—and are recorded for us in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew. Picture Him standing there in the little boat as it rocks quietly in the water, and before Him crowded right up to the water’s edge a great multitude, listening intently to every sentence from His lips.
“The kingdom of heaven.” These are surprising words. Is there then to be a kingdom heaven born, heaven bought, and heaven sent? That is exactly what Jesus is saying, and furthermore …
Psalm 77: “I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and He gave ear unto me…”
This psalm tells the story of David and how he got out of the cave. As Professor James G. Murphy of Belfast says in his commentary, “The psalm was most probably composed on some critical emergency in the eventful life of David. The hiding of David in the cave of Adullam has been suggested by different writers.”
It is the devil’s peculiar joy to get us into a hole, and it is God’s particular delight to get us out …
We’ll use a very familiar text tonight: “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:36
Now Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. And the big work of the devil was to cause men to undervalue their souls; worse still, to place no value upon them, and far worse still to be absolutely indifferent to the fact that their souls would live somewhere forever.
Spoke in Plain Manner
So Jesus, like a good lawyer at court, used everything that people understood to explain to them the thing …
“When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen: immediately, I conferred not with flesh and blood.”—Galatians 1:15–16
Oh, what a wondrous landscape the Spirit can paint with one sweep of His matchless brush. Nowhere else can a few words hold the wealth of meaning that they hold in God’s Word.
Paul here tells us in a few words, drawn forth through the Spirit, of the whole method, purpose and result of God’s hand in his life. He …
I want to talk to you tonight about border battles. The subject came to me as I thought of the Mexican situation—of how a few men down there could run across the border, commit such depredation and murder, and then ride back again. Now they haven’t been up here where we live, and won’t get up here; we are way back in our own country. But on the border line these things happen. So tonight I am going to talk to you about living on the border, when you could live where God is, in the very heart of His …
