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[Brother Love]

CONDITIONED, NOT CONDITIONS




"We have received...the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given us of God" (1 Cor. 2:12)

This Spirit's ministry is to present a Person, rather than to produce an experience.

"Where man calls for conditions, God calls for the Cross.  As the finished work of the Cross is applied to the life by the Holy Spirit, thereby progressively holding the old man in the position of death, the believer is conditioned for the Spirit's fulness.  It is not a surrendered self, but a crucified self that gives the Spirit freedom in the life.

The sixth of Romans comes before the twelfth.  In the latter we have the surrender, but it is not to get, or to attain; it is because he has entered into what is his; he has accepted the wondrous fact of his death with the Lord Jesus, and of the Spirit's presence and ministry.  A crucified man relies upon no experience.  To him the Lord Jesus is his very life." ---S.R.

"Whether it be for the initial revelation to our hearts of divine things, or amid the discipline that must follow ere those divine truths be-coming a part of us, we shall find it neces-sary to turn again ad again to this gracious  comforter of our infirmities.

"It is by His revelation through the Word that we behold spiritual realities; it is by His lov-ing discipline that we enter into those reali-ties.  By the former, He opens the gateway to progress; by the latter, He leads us on in the pathway of growth. The former is foundation, the latter is the temple.  Without His scriptural revelation we cannot commence the course, but without the discipline of His ministry we cannot complete it.  Both these aspects of this Spirit's work are equally essential, and for both we can assuredly count upon Him."

"The spirit of truth...will lead you into all truth (John 16:13).

By--M. Stanford

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[Brother Love]

"THE SINS THAT ARE PAST"





In Chapter 3 of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans he declares that God has set forth Christ as a satisfaction for man’s sin and that redemp-tion is obtained by faith in "His blood," or His payment for sin at Calvary, entirely apart from works, religious or otherwise (Rom. 3:21-26).

But in this same passage he states that this "remission" concerns the "sins that are past" (Ver. 25). What does he mean by this? Some have taught from this verse that when a sin-ner turns to God for salvation all his sins are forgiven up to that time and now that he is saved he is henceforth responsible for him-self. But this would mean that God saves men by His grace only to turn them over again to their own weak and sinful natures. If this were the case, the converted sinner would be lost again the same day, for what Christian believer is wholly free from sin?

Paul rather looks back here at past ages and declares that we now know and proclaim that men like Abel, Noah and Abraham, and also like Moses, David and Daniel (who lived
under the Law) were actually saved by the redemption wrought by Christ, although Christ’s death was still future in their day. In other words, Christ died, not only for the
sins which we have committed, but also for the "sins which are past." The believers of past ages simply believed what God told them then, and God counted them righteous (Gen. 15:6) on the basis of Christ’s coming payment for sin.

We have the same truth set forth in Hebrews 9:15, where we are told that Christ’s death availed also "for the redemption of the trans-gressions that were under the first covenant," i.e., the Law.

How blessed we are to live at a time when God’s plan of salvation has been fully revealed, and that we can now look to the Lord Jesus Christ and exclaim with Paul: "He loved me, and gave Himself for me!" (Gal. 2:20).

By C. R. Stam

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[Brother Love]

"NATURE, NOT LAW'




But now we are delivered from the law (Romans 7:6a)

The Christian life is not regulated by Moses and the Law, but lived by "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus."  Not rules, but nature.

"God gave His people Israel, a nation living in the world, the law; one of its purposes being to act as a curb or restraint, a kind of bit and bridal on their rebellious flesh.  It had to be checked on the one hand; it had to be pushed on the other, so to speak.  Thus it was that the law dealt with man's flesh.  But to go back to the law now is just the denial of Christianity.

"Some good men who in grievous error would impose the law as a rule of life for the believer means very well by it (for they strive to be pious); but the whole principle is false.  The law,  instead of being a rule of life, is necessarily a rule of death to one who has a sin nature.  Far from being a delivering power, it can only condemn such; far from being, a means of holiness, it is, in fact, and according to Paul, the 'strength of sin' (1 Cor. 15:56)"-- W.  K.

"In man the law the flesh always go together.  The Cross was that end of both in the sight of God.  The flesh was judged and condemned there; it was treated as a dead thing before God -- dead and buried.  And the law which deals with the flesh we are dead to.

"We have passed out of both; we are not in the flesh, and are no longer under the law.  The flesh being that in us with which the law grapples, and the flesh being now by faith reckoned a dead thing, there is no more for the law to lay hold of.  We pass out of its province into another country and atmosphere -- --'hid with Christ in God' (Colossians 3:3)."  --W.K.

"That we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter" (Romans 7:6b).

By M. Stanford

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[Brother Love]

"THE SUPREMACY OF LOVE"
1 Cor. 13:1-3



  This chapter of Corinthians is known as the love chapter of Scripture. These first three verses show the value of love. It is supreme above all other experiences of Christian faith. The problem in Christian assemblies today was a problem in the early Corinthian church - 'such talk with too little walk'. The Christians of Corinth boasted of nine gifts, maybe more. However, with all these gifts, something was lacking. They could talk in different languages (12:30) and have them interpreted, but the language most understood by all was missing. This was the language of love. Someone said, 'The language of love is understood by everyone, everywhere.' Paul did not condemn the exercise of the gifts of the spirit but he declared them value-less without the expression of love.

   It may be well at this point to remind ourselves of the true meaning of love as spoken of in the chapter. We must never associate the LOVE mentioned here with the silly, slushy, empty, meaningless sentimentality generally associated with love. It is unfortunate that the King James version translates the word as 'charity'. Verse three makes that clear for 'bestowing goods to feed the poor' is not necessarily the expression of love; it might be sympathy.

   We all know that there are three words used for love in the Greek language. Two of them are used in the New Testament. Years ago while a student at the Moody Bible Institute, I heard my Greek professor say, 'There are three words for love in the Greek language. One is eros - love which could be spelled lust-love. Another is philos - love, which could be spelled like - love and the third is agapa - love which could be spelled love - love.' The latter is the word used in 1 Cor. 13. It is a divine love. This love is always, with no discrepancy used of man's love to God. Thus when man loves God it is a divine, pure and holy love.

   However, God's love to man is expressed with the use of the latter two Greek words mentioned above. That is, He both likes and loves His own. The love of this chapter then is a love that is pure, holy and unwavering. Paul declares that unless our claims of spiritual gifts are founded up this love we 'become as sound-ing brass, or a tinkling cymbal.' 'Sounding brass' could mean a roaring trumpet with no certain message in its blast ( 1 Cor. 14:7-8). 'Tinkling cymbal' also means some inharmonious sound. Thus unless love prevails in the Christian's life the gift claims are meaningless. We get our English word love from the Teutonic 'leben' which means 'to live'. This is true, for love is the means, dispenser and preserver of life.

   How easy it is for people today to declare that they love the Lord, but sad it is that there is no connection or relationship between the testimony and the life. There is no harmonious sound of the two. The noise of the mouth and noise of the life are incongruous. When a Christian boasts of his or her spirit-filled life with accompanying gifts, a life manifesting the love of God should be very evident. One's walk and talk should be a symphony. How often in the ministry it has been our experience to hear people testify of their faith in the Lord and their love for Him but when called upon for a sweet humble service or the exercise of gifts given by the Savior, they neither have the time nor interest to do so. One of the big problems in our fundamental an evangelical churches today is to get Christians to serve. Choir chairs remain empty, Bible school classes are without teachers, many vacancies are unfilled - the world rushes on madly toward the pit and Christians stand idly by.

   Do these so-called Christians really LOVE God? It is possible to have been given gifts of God, to know it and also to know there is a desperate need for those gifts and refuse to exercise those gifts for One whom you are supposed to love? Is this possible?

   Remember there is the 'sounding brass and tinkling cymbal' of Christian testimony. Christians, let us 'awake to righteous-ness'.

   The world hates our lovely Lord, religious or otherwise. Let us who are of the faith be sure that we have what Paul declares to the Galatians: 'Faith which worketh by love' (5:6). A real good test of our sincerity and genuineness is to evaluate our service to God. It is so easy to say, 'Yes, I'm a Christian' or 'I believe' or 'I love the Lord' and then have no time, money or talent for Him who loved so much 'that He gave' yes, gave ALL. 'You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.' It is because of this that Paul was inspired to write 1 Cor. 13. The Corinthian Christians claimed all gifts but love was not evident - either for the Lord or one another. Paul said, 'The trumpet gives an un-certain sound - sounding brass.' There is an inharmonious jangle - 'tinkling cymbal'. No little wonder that he wrote them later saying, 'Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.' 2 Cor. 13:5. This is good advice to much of modern Christianity today.

Pastor L. Peterson

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"GOD’S REVELATION OF HIMSELF"




Romans 1:18-20 declares that God has revealed Himself to man in creation. Not that we can learn His plan of salvation from creation -- far from it. But the creation: the glory of its star-studded heavens, the beauty of its flowers and sunsets, the sun and rain and crops to supply us with food, and the un-changeable laws of nature, all show forth, not only the existence of God, but His power, His love, His justice, so that man is a respon-sible being and, as Verse 20 says, "without excuse" for the deplorable condition in which
he finds himself.

A believer, talking with an atheistic evolutionist one day, took out his watch, looked at it and put it back into his pocket, saying: "I have a wonderful watch; it keeps perfect time; never misses a second."

"What make is it?" the atheist asked. "Oh, no make," answered the Christian. "Well, who manufactured it?" "Oh, nobody; it just put itself together somehow."

"Nonsense," said the atheist, "A watch can’t just come into existence. Somebody had to design it and somebody had to manufacture it."

"True," said the Christian, "yet you expect me to believe that this universe, with its billions of stars and planets, all working together in perfect order, just came about by itself; that it had no Designer, no Creator and no one who
keeps it running? Isn’t that nonsense?"

No wonder Paul says that the godless are "without excuse," including even the vast majority of "religious" people, who salve their consciences by giving a small part of each week or each day to the performance of some religious rite but keep God out of their businesses, their politics, their social relationships -- their hearts.

But thank God, as He has revealed His power and glory in creation, He has revealed His mercy and grace, His plan of salvation, in the Bible, where we read how "Christ died for our sins" (I Cor. 15:3), so that we might have "redemption through His blood, the forgive-ness of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).

By C. R. Stam

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"CROSS-LESS CHURCH"



"I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Cor. 2 2).

The harvest can be no better than the sowing and cultivating.  The burden over the need of others develops our hunger of heart to be a "vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto every good work" (2 Timothy 2:21).

"It is a universal law that everything possess-ing productive power brings forth 'after it's kind.'  This is no less true in sharing.  'Religious ministry may be psychic, orthodox, heretical, social, humanitarian, educational, political, or spiritual.  In each case it produces results 'after it's kind.  But are outward 'results' (as such) the main objective of evangelism?  God forbid!  By those initiated in the art, 'results' of a kind can be easily and cheaply produced.  But the true end of evangelism is the establishment of the Lord Jesus' sovereignty in hearts.  This is the work of the Holy Spirit, and it cannot be measured by statistics. -- R.W.

"How much there is that is called spiritual that is but flesh!  How many of the Lord's people are seeking to touch the living God and fail to find Him and to satisfy their heart-- hunger for true fellowship with Him.  Theoretically we believe in His presence, but we find only a mere stirring of emotions.  We are told of the Spirit's power, but we see results produced by showmanship, oratory, any emotionalism.  We are counseled to depend upon the Spirit, but in practice dependence is really on human wisdom, ability, personality and programs.  We do not get through, behind all that is of man, to touch the living God." -- -- A. H.

"Ten thousand tutors!  Not many fathers!  How true it is today!  Many teachers, but not many willing to suffer, and to bear others on their hearts, until they are borne through  their babyhood stage to maturity."

"Preached the Gospel: not with words of wisdom, lest the Cross of Christ be made a none effect" (1 Cor.1:17).


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"GRACE AND DEBT"





"Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:4,5).

As we look back at all the Old Testament types: the physical types, the narratives, the sacrifices, we exclaim: "The cross was not an accident, nor an afterthought on God’s
part: He had it in mind all the while." Surely Paul was right when he said of believers that "[God] hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began" (II Tim. 1:9).

It is on the basis of the cross, typified all through the Old Testament, that God now saves us by grace through faith alone, and the types show that this was indeed His
eternal purpose. Furthermore salvation should be by grace through faith.

As our text, above, declares: if man could earn his salvation it would be the payment of a debt, not the bestowal of a gift -- and God will never be indebted to anyone. He will
never be in a position where He owes us, sinners, a debt. Nor will He ever allow us to disgrace ourselves and annoy others by our boasting about how we earned eternal life.

But He can, on the basis of the penalty paid at Calvary, bestow salvation as a free gift. This is why we read:

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord" (Rom. 6:23).

"It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:8,9).

God owed Abraham nothing, but seeing his faith He said, in effect: "This man believes Me; I will count his faith for righteousness" (Gen. 15:6). And this He still does for those
who trust Him, only He has now revealed the basis for this action: Christ’s payment for sins at Calvary. This is why, in Romans 4:5, He forbids works for salvation and declares
that the believer’s faith is "counted for righteousness."

By C. R. Stam










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"GRACE AND DEBT"





"Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:4,5).

As we look back at all the Old Testament types: the physical types, the narratives, the sacrifices, we exclaim: "The cross was not an accident, nor an afterthought on God’s
part: He had it in mind all the while." Surely Paul was right when he said of believers that "[God] hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began" (II Tim. 1:9).

It is on the basis of the cross, typified all through the Old Testament, that God now saves us by grace through faith alone, and the types show that this was indeed His
eternal purpose. Furthermore salvation should be by grace through faith.

As our text, above, declares: if man could earn his salvation it would be the payment of a debt, not the bestowal of a gift -- and God will never be indebted to anyone. He will
never be in a position where He owes us, sinners, a debt. Nor will He ever allow us to disgrace ourselves and annoy others by our boasting about how we earned eternal life.

But He can, on the basis of the penalty paid at Calvary, bestow salvation as a free gift. This is why we read:

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord" (Rom. 6:23).

"It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:8,9).

God owed Abraham nothing, but seeing his faith He said, in effect: "This man believes Me; I will count his faith for righteousness" (Gen. 15:6). And this He still does for those
who trust Him, only He has now revealed the basis for this action: Christ’s payment for sins at Calvary. This is why, in Romans 4:5, He forbids works for salvation and declares
that the believer’s faith is "counted for righteousness."

By C. R. Stam










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"PERSONAL REPOSE"



"Come unto Me...and I will give you rest"   (Matthew 11:28)

We rest in the One upon whom the universe rests.

"I find when I sit down with people quietly to have a talk that they begin at once to speak of the trials of the way.  And after that, if I say, suppose we change the subject talk of the things of God -- then I find that they can talk of nothing but His mercies to themselves, but it is all His temporal benefits they talkof. And    they go no higher than this.  How few  can say, The Father has shown me wonderful things lately about the Lord Jesus Christ."
--J.B.S.

" 'In everything ye are  enriched by Him'
(1 Cor.1:5).   The favor of the Father is given to us in His Beloved Son, and in everything we are enriched in Him.  If we are not happy it is because we have lost sight of the favor given us in the Lord Jesus.  In our foolish-
ness we turned to the world or look into our own hearts, instead of keeping our eyes upon the Lord Jesus, the risen and exalted Man in whom the Father has given us His favor." --C.A.C.

"The Lord Jesus Christ, as Man, has glorified the Father on the earth. The Father rests in that; as Man having accomplished redemp-tion, He 'has passed into the heavens, now to appear in the presence of God for us.' It is the  glorified Lord Jesus who gives  abiding rest to our souls, and not what our thoughts about ourselves may be.

"Faith never thinks about  that which is in ourselves as its ground to rest; it receives,  loves, and apprehends what the Father has revealed in His Word, and what are His thoughts about the Lord Jesus, in whom is His rest." -- J.N.D.

"Take my yolk upon you... and ye shall find rest unto your souls" (Matthew 11:29).

By M. Stanford

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"PEACE ON EARTH?"




When Christ was born of Mary, the angels praised God and sang: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" (Luke 2:14).

This glad carol of the angels seems farther from realization today than it ever was, and as a result many have become cynical and have concluded that the Bible is not true; that the angels’ song was but a pleasant, wishful thought.Those who feel thus do not, however, know their Bibles very well or they would know why we have unrest and trouble today, instead of peace.

Our Lord was indeed the long-promised King, through whom His people and the whole world were to -- and will one day -- enjoy peace and true prosperity. John the Baptist appeared as the King’s herald. The twelve apostles went forth "preaching the gospel of the kingdom" (Matt. 4:23). The four Gospels records are filled with proofs and demonst-rations of Christ’s royal authority. But the King was rejected, as God had prophesied He would be at His first advent (I Pet. 1:11). Over His cross Pilate placed an inscription, saying: "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews," and today, the King is a royal Exile from His nation and the world.

Is it strange, then, that we do not yet enjoy peace on earth? The second Psalm describes the folly of the nations and their rulers in ignoring this basic fact and predicts that God will laugh, as it were, at their derision as they seek to run the world without His Son.

Thank God, this period of Christ’s rejection is also a wonderful period of grace. When sin had risen to its height, God saved Saul of Tarsus, the leader of the world’s rebellion against Christ, and sent him forth to proclaim "the gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24), the good news that "Christ died for our sins," and that any sinner may be reconciled to God by faith in Christ. This is why the Bible calls the divine administration under which we are living "the dispensation of the grace of God" (Eph. 3:2). So, while "peace on earth" awaits a future day, we may now have "peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1).

By C. R. Stam


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"RESPONSE TO REVELATION'





"You were set free from the tyranny of sin" (Rom. 6:18 Wey.)

There is no use in forcing any spiritual issue in our lives, nor in anyone else's.  When our Father has us prepared for progress through the knowledge of His facts, we will believe; we will reckon upon and rest in the required truth.

"What is the secret of reckoning?  We need revelation from the Word of God (Matt.16:17; Eph.1:17,18).  We need to have our eyes open to the fact of our union with the Lord Jesus.  Most of us can remember the day when we saw clearly that He died for us, and we ought to be equally clear as to the time when we saw that we died with Him. It is not that I reckon myself to be dead, and therefore I will be dead.  It is that, because I died -- therefore I reckon myself to head died.  It is not reckoning toward death, but from death.

"There is no need talking about victorious Christian living unless we are willing to face the fact that as believers we are out of our element here in this world. We are living in enemy territory.  Believers may be in bondage because of deception or ignorance of the full scope of their inheritance in the Lord Jesus, or because they have not, according to Romans  6:11,  reckoned themselves dead to sin and a live unto God in Jesus Christ our Lord." --F.J.H.

"Through grace 'the old man' was nailed to the Cross and buried in the tomb; through faith the old man will be kept there. Continuously reckon yourself to be totally severed from all that belongs to the old man and all that pertains to the old sphere, and faith will eventuate into experience. ---R.P.

"The Sixth of Romans is not an aspect of truth, but the foundation truth upon which every believer must stand if he is to grow and mature in the 'not I, but Christ' life."

"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering"    ( Hebrews 10:23).

By M. Stanford'


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"CONTRASTING HEARTS"



"The Lord is very pitiful,  and of tender mercy" (James 5:11)

There are two hearts that we learn in the process of suffering: our own sinful heart, and our Father's loving heart.

"There is a Divine mystery in suffering, a strange and super-natural power in it, which has never been fathomed by human reason.  There never has been known great saintliness of soul which did not pass through great suffering.  When the suffering soul reaches a calm sweet carelessness, when it can inwardly smile at its own suffering, and does not even ask the Father to deliver it from suffering, then it has wrought its blessed ministry; then patience has its perfect work; then the crucifixion begins to weave itself into a crown." --T.W.

"There is no place for learning the tender sympathy of the Lord Jesus, and the blessings of the Father's love and patience and care, as in the trials of the wilderness journey. True, we must first have reached by faith the Canaan to which we have already come in the Lord Jesus Then we find that this world is not the sphere in which the Father can bless us fully; We Have Already Come in the Lord Jesus.  but that there Is no place where our own heart is more thoroughly learned, and the heart of the Lord Jesus, as in the wilderness journey."--F.G.P.

"Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you  as unto children; My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him' (Heb. 12:5).  I am not to despise the child-training, like a duck in the rain,  indifferent to it, braving as it were everything; neither am I to 'faint when ...rebuked of Him,' like a hen in the rain, which is a miserable object. I am neither to be miserable nor indifferent, but thoughtful and exercised."--J.B.S.

"The Father of mercies, and the God of comfort" (2 Cor. 1:3).


By M. Stanford


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"BROKEN BREAD"  




"Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it" (Matt. 26:26).

The Lord Jesus is not going to "break" anything in our lives that does not require breaking.  But that of the old which remains unbroken, which we seek  to hold back from the processing of His nail - pierced hands, will continually leaven and spoil our attempts to feed others.

How often we have murmured under trial only to see later the preparation of the Lord Jesus of our hearts that we might be His ministers of comfort in an hour of need in the life of another 2 Cor. 1:4.  Afflictions, therefore, many times are the advance token of the Father that we are being prepared for a special ministry of comfort to others.  This is a principal seen through-out the Word.  All that would be used of the Father in the hands of the Lord Jesus to meet the needs of the hungry- hearted must first be made a blessing by Him.  This involves being broken in His hands.  This process is necessary because of our tendency to think more of working for the Lord Jesus than becoming a channel for the outflowing of a heavenly bread to broken hearts on every side."  -- H. R.

"Others come to us in their deep need, and, with our hearts breaking, we are called  upon to give out of our emptiness and loss what we seem to need ourselves.  We are asked to 'claim victory' for others in distress, when it seems that we are in greater distress that may.  Thus it  was athe Calvary!  He who had loosed others from bond teacher was given up, as it appeared, to the full  rage of the murderous in me.  He who  had  down the mighty works of God for others, lay in impo-tence and weakness in the hands of men.  Yes, this is the Cross.  Life, power, blessing, deliverance for others-and nothing for thyself, but to lie in the will of the Father, and accept from His hand all that He pleases  to permit to come upon thee."

"Come and let us return unto the Lord; for He hath torn,  and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up" (Hosea 6:1).  

By M. Stanford





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"CAN THE LAW SAVE?"




This writer does not wear clerical garb, but somehow when he visits a church away from home, someone is apt to step up to him and ask: "Are you by chance a minister?"

Acts 13 tells how this once happened to Paul and Barnabas. They had entered a synagogue as strangers and simply sat down to listen. After "the reading of the law and the prophets," however, the leaders of the synagogue sent someone to ask them: "If ye men and brethren have some word of exhortation for the people, say on" (Ver. 15). Some how Paul and Barnabas had been recognized as men of God.

The custom at that time was to read a passage from the Law and then some passage in which the prophets urged the people to observe the Law. This was followed by an exhortation by one or more of the religious leaders present.

In this case Paul did have a word of exhortation for the people, but it would be somewhat of a surprise. Getting to the point of his message, he preached to them about Christ and the resurrection and closed his talk with the following words:

"Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of  Moses" (Vers. 38,39).

Exhortation? Yes, the Apostle was saying in effect: "Don’t trust in the Law for salvation -- trust in Christ, who died for your sins." This makes sense and it agrees with the Bible as a whole. "By the law is the knowledge of sin" (Rom. 3:20); "it was added because of transgression" (Gal. 3:19); "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse" (Gal. 3:10); but "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us" (Gal. 3:13). "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law" (Rom. 3:28). And then he exhorted them further not to "despise" this divine truth.

It should be obvious that the Law can only condemn sinners, but it is also a fact that Christ died for sinners, to save them from the condemnation of the Law.

"Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1).

By Cornelius R. Stam


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"Height advantage"




"But now in Christ Jesus ye who once were far off are made near by the Blood of Christ" (Eph. 2:13).

To know the Lord Jesus is to love Him; and to love Him is to insist on being with Him; to "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling  of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:14)

"Our growth is wrought out in our lives down here; but it is formed up there in fellowship with the Lord Jesus; where our affections and minds get into the condition to be manifested down here." - J.N.D.

"Every blessing is now connected with the Lord Jesus at the right hand of the Father.  'Hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ'? (Eph.1:3).  It is a great thing to have the consciousness that we are bound up with Him there in heavenly glory, and to know that we are with Him in that sphere of ascension to participate in all that constitutes His life in that blessed circle of love and glory where He lives unto the Father.  If we apprehend this we shall not be deceived and intoxicated by what goes on upon the earth."--C.A.C.

Most do not go beyond His resurrection; they do not extend to His ascension.  They do not know the Lord Jesus in glory.  They are occupied with Him in relation to the their own side.  He was at my side and glorified the Father perfectly in His walk here and in death;  but He is now at His own side, and it is there I intelligently realize the vastness of my life in Him, for He is my life.

"His death, resurrection and ascension translated the believer from His own side to His side, so that as He is so are we in this world; and accordingly as we are at full rest about ourselves, we are occupied with Him who has set us free for fellowship." -- J.B.S.

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus" (Heb. 10:19).

By M. Stanford





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