The Narrow Gate

Thursday, May 14, 2009

His anger was spent upon Christ



My brethren, what a discovery was that when we learned the secret that we were to be saved not by what we were or were to be; but, saved by what Christ had done for us! The simplicity of the cross is the grandest of all revelations. “Look unto me and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth.” Why it is as simple as the interpretation...

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Today's Puritan Audio Devotional:
"So blind, so deaf, so dumb, so lame, so dead"
by Thomas Brooks, insightful!
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This was his final verdict!

(Charles Spurgeon)

"Behold, all is vanity!" Ecclesiastes 1:14

Nothing can fully satisfy a person--but the Lord's love and the Lord's own self. Christians have tried other pursuits--but they have been driven out of such fatal refuges.

Solomon, the wisest

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The way to live the Christian life

“There is nothing that is so calculated to promote holiness as the realization that we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, that our destiny is certain and secure, that nothing can prevent it. Realizing that, we purify ourselves even as He is pure, and we feel that there is no time to waste. That is the way to live the Christian life!
Do not turn it into a law, but realize that you have received the Holy Spirit. Then work out...

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