THE SPIRITUAL SOCIETY Till we all come . . unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. – Ephesians 4:13 Rehabilitation means the putting back of the whole human race into the relationship God designed it to be in, and this is what Jesus Christ did in Redemption. The Church ceases to [...]

THE SPIRITUAL SLUGGARD Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. – Hebrews 10:24-25 We are all capable of being spiritual sluggards; we do not want to mix with the rough and tumble of life as it is, our one object is to [...]

The great probing Ye cannot serve the Lord. Joshua 24:19. Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? That [...]

The will to loyalty Choose you this day whom ye will serve. – Joshua 24:15 Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a [...]

ALL NOBLE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT Enter ye in at the strait gate . . because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way… -Matthew 7:13-14 If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty [...]

VISION AND REALITY And the parched ground shall become a pool. – Isaiah 35:7 We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to [...]

Don’t Calculate Without God Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. – Psalm 37:5 Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not [...]

One Of God’s Great Don’ts Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing. – Psalm 37:8 Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say “Fret not,” but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so [...]

The Concentration Of Personal Sin Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.. – Isaiah 6:5 When I get into the presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense; I realize the concentration of sin in a particular feature of [...]

The Conditions Of Discipleship If any man come to Me, and hate not … he cannot be My disciple. – Luke 14:26,27,33 If the closest relationships of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ, He says it must be instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person, Our Lord Jesus [...]