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"You are not your own, for you were bought....with a price...."1 Corinthians 6:19-20 The Apostle pleads that we should submit to be possessed by the One who has purchased us. Christian people are a purchased people. You, ....says Paul, have been bought with a price. The people here had heard...

"Not everyone that saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father - Mathew 7:21 In this passage of scripture we read a most solemn warning. We read that saying 'Lord' does not necessarily mean anything. We may say the Creed a...

Unto us a Child is Born, Unto us a Son is given. He will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace........Isaiah 9. 6-7 The angel on that first Christmas night said "for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord"...

"Create in me a clean heart O God; and renew a right spirit within me" Psalm 51:10 The great value of the Psalms is that they are not primarily theological treatises, but the authentic heart yearnings of people with whom God is dealing. They are not the polished phrases of the study; they are...

"Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? - Psalm 24:3 Here we have the Christians supreme prerogative - to ascend into the hill of the Lord, and to stand in the holy place; to have true and holy and unbroken fellowship with God. When God created man in...

God....hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ - 2 Corinthians 4 : 6 The secret of becoming like Christ is to be occupied with Christ. For God in a wonderful way has made provision that we might reflect the glory of God as we...

"Straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up: and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague - " Mark 5:29 What can we learn from this miracle? I think that we can learn at least two things, which I mention today. First, that what Jesus gives must be received personally...

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all -- Hebrews 10:10. Who thought of Calvary? Did you? Did I? Did the Jews of that day think of Calvary? Did any other man? No! It was God's idea, it was thought of in heaven. Jesus is the Lamb slain...

"The Lord Turned and Looked upon Peter" Luke 22:61 The look of Jesus said more than many words; it gathered up all possible words and tones of solemn expostulation, of sad disappointment, of deep sorrow. There is something striking in the silence of Jesus as He turns and looks at Peter. He...

"All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do ye even unto them..." Mathew 7:12. This Golden Rule was already in existence in a negative form, before Jesus spoke it. For example in the book of Tobias in the Apocrypha, 'Do that to no man which you hate.' Rabbi Hillel said 'What...

There is more factual evidence to support the Birth Life Death and Resurrection of Jesus, than can be found to support the existence of any other person who lived on the Earth GOD OF ETERNITY BORN IN HUMANITY RAISED IN OBSCURITY LIVED IN PURITY SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY DIED IN HUMILITY RAISED UP BY...

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to all the saints - Colossians 1: 4 The Apostle says, 'I rejoice not only of your faith in Christ, but in your love for one another' By faith they were linked to Christ; in love they were linked with one another. We...

"The blood of Jesus Christ.....cleanseth us from all sin - 1 John 1:7. According to the scriptures the blood of Christ is divinely appointed from before the foundation of this world, as the means of cleansing and cure. It is as we learn from Hebrews 13:20, "the blood of the everlasting...

".....O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt." The man William Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating the bible into English. Tyndale loaded the English language with more phrases than any other writer before or since...

"If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.......out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water" - John 7: 37 - 39' After all the sacrifice, after all the ceremony, when everything expected, demanded by the 'law' had been fulfilled, Jesus stood and shouted with a loud...

I recall voting to join a 'Common Market' along with a majority of fellow British folks at that time in 1975. Since then it has become a very powererful European Union. Recently I heard on T.V. that England follows Germany as the second largest monetary contributer to its success. I am glad...

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. — Isaiah:53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Here we have the...

You’ll never get relief from worry until you confess it as sin. Worry doubts the goodness of God; it says He doesn’t care. Worry doubts the wisdom of God; it says He doesn’t know what He’s doing. Worry doubts the power of God; it says He cannot deliver me from the thing that’s causing me to...

"Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.......which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body - 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20. These two verses may be paraphrased very simply into two brief sentences: first, the...

"Thomas said unto them, except I shall see......" John 20:25. If the world is going to know something through you of Christ, it is a living witness that is vital. And so we hear Thomas say, "Except I see.....' It is not talk: he wanted sight. The Apostles had talked enough, but Thomas wanted...