Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Psalm 96:6. From the creation and fall of man to the present time, there has been a continual unfolding of the plan of God for the redemption,
A Straight Message
Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Amos 4:12, last part. John the Baptist in his desert life was taught of God. He studied the revelations of God in nature. Under the guiding of the divine Spirit, he studied the
Sold Out
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24. So gradual was
Superficial Beauty
But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Psalm 3:3. With the memory ever before him of his own transgression of the law of God, David seemed morally paralyzed; he
One Sin Leads to Another
The thing that David had done displeased the Lord. 2 Samuel 11:27. When in ease and self-security he let go his hold upon God, David yielded to Satan and brought upon his soul the stain of guilt. He, the Heaven-appointed
A Mismatched Pair
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30. In the character of Abigail, the wife of Nabal, we have an illustration of womanhood after the order of Christ;
God’s Choice, Not Man’s
And the Lord said unto Samuel, … fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. 1 Samuel 16:1. When the sacrifice was ended,