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37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth, to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. The unclean bird made its escape, and found, no doubt, a resting-p... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In itself it was only a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nehushtan,"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In life, and in death, the lower animals were to be at the service of man. All creation is delivered, by God's everlasting covenant, from the fear of a second deluge. Judgment is never again to take that shape."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world that then was, ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "And God said, This is the token of the covenant ... I do set my bow in the cloud ... and I will remember my covenant. The whole creation rests, as to its exemption from a second deluge, on the eternal stability of God's covenant, of which the bow is the token; and it is happy to... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that _the bow shall be seen in the cloud_. Beautiful and most expressive emblem! The beams of the sun, reflected from that which threatens judgment, tranquillize the heart, as telling of God's covenant, God's salvat... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation; and Noah walked with God."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "(James iii. 17.) The wisdom which is from beneath would put"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "we get, not by baptism, how important soever it may be, as an ordinance of the kingdom, but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "&c. In a word, Satan's Babylon is always seen as the instrument moulded and fashioned by his hand, for the purpose of counteracting the divine operations, whether in Israel of old, or the Church now. Throughout the Old Testament Israel... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a _mighty one in the earth_. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, _in the land of Shinar... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.... And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one anothe... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord _had_ said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and _from thy kindred_, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. (Chap. xii. 1.) Such was the communication made to Abraham,--a communication of the most definite character, designed of God to ac... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "because, evidently, if we fail to apprehend the calling, we cannot"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "thereof. I must know where I am called to go, before I can go thither. Had Abraham's soul been fully under the power of the truth that"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--our high, our holy, our heavenly calling,--our"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "put away, as to the root or principle thereof, and I see my"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "borne. I see God to be, in very deed,"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All that he has said,--all that he has done, from the very beginning, indicates that it was ever uppermost in his heart. And no wonder! His dear and well-beloved Son was to hang there, between heaven and earth, the object of all the... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To him that hath shall more be given."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And for what purpose? To set before his soul's vision an attractive object,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This was not compulsion but attraction. God's land was in the judgment of the new nature,--the judgment of faith, far better than Ur or Charran: and albeit he... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and no"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This gospel reveals God himself coming down in perfect grace, and putting away sin by the sacrifice of the cross; putting it away, in the most absolute manner, on the ground of eternal righteousness, inasmuch as Christ suffered for it, having been made sin for us. And not only i... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. The presence of the Canaanite in God's land would, necessarily, prove a trial to Abraham. It would be a demand upon his faith and hope, an exercise of hea... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Should he, therefore, have concluded that he was not in his right place? Assuredly not. That would have been to judge according to the sight of his eyes, the very thing which faith never does. No doubt it was a deep trial to the heart, an inexplicable puzzle to nature; but to fa... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abraham had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels. Substantial proofs, the natural heart would, doubtless, say, of the rightness of his step, in going down to Egypt. But, ah! he had no altar,--no communion. Egypt was not th... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for which nothing can compensate. Should trial come, let us, instead of turning aside into Egypt, wait on God; and thus the trial, instead of proving an occasion of stumbling, will prove an opportunity for obedience. Let us, when tempted to slip into the course of the world, rem... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and in nothing are we so prone to limit him as in his restoring grace. In the case now before us, we see that Abraham was not only delivered out of Egypt, but brought back"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing can satisfy God, in reference to a wanderer or backslide... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A mixed multitude followed them, and caused much defilement, weakness, and sorrow; for we read, in Numbers xi.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So also, in the early days of the Church; and not only so, but in every revival which has taken place therein, down to the p... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ur of the Chaldees, but he fell in the plains of Sodom. The call of God had not reached his heart, nor the inheritance of God filled his vision. Solemn thought! may we ponder it deeply! Blessed be God, there is a path for each of his servants, along which shines the light of his... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is truly lamentable and humiliating. Our language should ever be,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee ... for we are brethren. Still, why did not Abraham make choice of Sodom? Why did not the strife drive him into t... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its future destiny was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--to be destroyed by"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, it may be said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lot knew nothing of all this. Perhaps not, nor Abraham either; but God did; and had... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how great is thy goodness which _thou hast laid up_ for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men. He lost nothing by the strife. He had his tent and his altar before; and he had his tent and his altar afterwards."
},
... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "yet Lot was. His position was such as to involve him in the whole affair. So long as we are enabled, through grace, to pursue the path of simple faith, we shall be thrown completely outside the range of this world's circumstances; but if we abandon our high and holy position as ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Abraham heard that _his brother_ was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan ... and he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him. There was, evidently, a very deep and insidious design of the enemy in this movement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The king of Sodom pr... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and not only so, but pronounces Abraham"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of that same God. This was effectually preparing him for the king of Sodom. A man who was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of God did not need to take aught from the enemy; and if"
}... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. (2 Chron. xvi. 9.) This is an encouraging truth for our poor, timid, doubting, faltering hearts. Christ will be our strength and shield... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If the Holy Ghost is grieved, he will not minister the enjoyment of that which is our proper portion, our proper hope. Hence in the section of Abraham's history now before us, we see that when he had returned from the slaughter o... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed unto him; but for us also to whom it shall be imputed, _if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead_. Here the God of resurrection is presented"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as the objec... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THROUGH GRACE, BY FAITH, WITHOUT WORKS OF LAW."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. Here comes out the great question of heirship, and the peculiar path along which the chosen ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christ also hath _once_ suffered for sins, and that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was on the tree and _nowhere else_. He never suffered for sins before, and he never can suffer for sins again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unto you _it is given_, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. (Phil. i. 29.) Moreover, there can be little doubt but that the real secret of suffering for Christ is to have the heart's affections centred in him. The more I love Jes... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be. What was the goal of Christ's earthly career? Was it an elevated, influential position in this world? By no means. What then? He found his place on the cross, between two condemned malefactor... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And _when the sun was going down_, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four h... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An horror of great darkness passed across the spirit of Abraham. Jacob had to endure twenty-one years of sore hardship, in the house of Laban. Joseph found his furnace of affliction in the dungeons of Egypt. Moses spent forty years in the desert. Thus it must be with all God's _... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold the Lord hath restrained me from bearing. These words bespeak the usual impatience of unbelief; and Abram should have treated them accordingly, and waited patiently on the Lord for the accomplishment of his gracious promise. The poor heart natur... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord has failed me; it may be, my Egyptian maid will prove a resource for me. Any thing but God for a heart under the influence of unbelief. It is often truly marvellous to observe the trifles to which we will betake ourselves when once we have lost the sense of God's nearne... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by having recourse to Hagar; for"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Sarai said, My wrong be _upon thee_. When we act wrong, we are ofttimes prone to lay the blame on some one else. Sarah was only reaping the fruit of her own proposal, and yet she says to Abraham,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My wrong be upon thee; and then, wit... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. This is an unalterable principle, meeting us again and again on the page of inspirati... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The flesh is, in this important passage, contrasted with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and thus we not only get the divine idea as to what the term"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "implies, but also as to Abraham's effort to obtain the seed by means of H... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jesus Christ had been evidently set forth crucified among them. This was not merely promise divinely made, but promise divinely and most gloriously accomplished. A crucified Christ settled every thing in reference both to God's claims and man's necessities. But the false teacher... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must be so and so, in order to be saved,"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This being so, the inspired apostle hesitates not to say to the Galatians,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christ is become of no effect unto you; whosoever of you are justified by law ([Greek: en nomô]), ye are fallen from grace. If man has any thing to do in the mat... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walk before _me_. This is true power. To walk thus, implies our having nothing whatever before our hearts save God himself. If I am founding my expectation upon men and things, I am not walking before God, but before men and things. It is of the utmost importance to ascertain wh... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's mighty power, or, as it may be rendered,"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Abraham was called upon to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "it did not mean perfect to himself; for this he never was, and never could be. It simply meant that he should be perfect as regards the object before his heart,--that his hopes and expectations were to... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The apostle says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and yet a little farther on he says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let as many as be _perfect_ be thus minded."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me. (Rev. iii. 20.) Again, we read,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jesus answered, and said unto him, If a man love me he will keep... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is hypocrisy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If a man love me, he will keep my words. Hence, if we are not keeping Christ's words, it is a sure proof we are not walking in the love of his name. Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which he commands, and not b... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with _laughter_, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, the Lord hath done great things for them; the Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the assurance of faith, having the heart and conscience perfectly at rest, being able to repose in God as to the past, the present, and the future,--that soul will be able and willing to intercede for others. The man who has on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "will ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will speak _yet but this once_, and there he stopped short, as if afraid of having presented too large a draft at the treasury of infinite grace, or forgetting that faith's check was never yet dishonored at God's bank. It was not that he was straitened in God. By no means. The... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to _wait for his Son from heaven_. (1 Thess. i. 9, 10.) Now, evidently, those Thessalonian saints could, at the moment of their conversion, have known little, if any thing, of prophecy, or the special subject the... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the place of authority. He has evidently made progress. He has"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looked at from a worldly point of view, his course has been a successful one. He at first"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, no doubt, he found his way into ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be content with such things as ye have. Why? Is it because you are so well off in the world? Because you have all that your poor rambling hearts would seek after? Because there is not so much as a single chink in your circumstances, through which a vain desire might make its esc... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! not so, my Lord: behold, now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast showed unto me in saving _my life_; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die: behold, now, _this city_ is near to flee unto... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love not the world!"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The earth also, and the things that are therein, shall be burned up. All that about which the children of this world are so intensely anxious--after which they are so eagerly grasping--for which they are so fiercely contending--all--all will be burned up. And who can tell how so... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I doing this by faith?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatever is not of faith is sin; and,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Without faith it is impossible to please God."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are as Christ is before God. They are perfected forever, as to their standing in Christ."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are not in the flesh but in the Spirit."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither have I seen perverseness in Israel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel. Again, when Satan stands forth to resist Joshua, the word is,"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold, thou art but a dead man; and of Abraham he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee. Yes, with all"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the king of Gerar was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and, moreo... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the Lord visited Sarah, as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the Lord must"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and faith must wait, and nature must be still; yea, must be entirely set aside as a dead, worthless thing, and then the divine glory can shine out, and faith find in that outshining all its rich and sweet reward."
},... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can that which is thus spoken of ever undergo any improvement? The apostle goes on to say,"
},
{
"from": "h... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(8-10.) Here was the only remedy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That which is crooked cannot be made straight;"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. Here salvation was made to depend upon something that man could be, or man could do, or man could keep. This was upsetting the whole glorious fabric of redemption, which, as the believer knows, rests exclusi... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or on that principle ([Greek: ex ergôn nomou]). This is very plain. The bond-woman only genders to bondage, and can never bring forth a free man. How can she? The law never could give liberty, for so long as a man was alive it ruled him. (Rom. vii. 1.) I can never be free so lon... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord, Lord, or,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I go, sir. The heart must be probed to the very bottom, in order that no element of hypocrisy or false profession may be allowed to lodge there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My son, give me _thine heart_.... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; Sodom tempted Lot. He never reached a sufficiently high elevation to warrant his being tried by the hand of Jehovah. It was too plainly manifest that there was plenty between his heart and the Lord, and it did not, therefore, require the furnace to bring that out. Sodom woul... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble, that we can also add,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning. There is ready obedience."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made haste and delayed not to keep ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I and the lad will go yonder and _worship_. The really devoted servant will keep his eye, not on his service, be it ever so great, but on the Master, and this will produce a spirit of worship. If I love my master, according to the flesh, I shall not mind whether I am cleaning hi... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises, offered up his only-begotten. (Heb. xi. 17.) It is only as we are walking by faith that we can begin, continue, and end our works in God. Abraham not merely set out to offer his son, bu... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. Mark, it is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It had never been proved before. It was there, no doubt; and, if there, God knew it; but the valuable point here is, that ... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abraham was justified when"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abraham was justified when"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the former case we have his secret standing; in the latter, his public acknowledgment b... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jehovah Jireh. It is only when we are really put to the test that we discover what God is. Without trial we can be but theorists, and God would not have us such: he would have us entering into the living depths that are in himself,--the divine realities of personal communion wit... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which it is calculated to afford. How little prepared are we, in the power of faith, in the promise of God, to slay our Isaac! We need to cry to God that he would be graciously pleased to endow us with a deeper insight into the blessed reality of a life of faith in himself, that... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(1 Thess. iv. 12:)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(2 Cor. viii. 21:)"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. The child of God must meet such things; but he must not meet them as others. The great fact of resurrection comes in to his relief, and imparts a character to his sorrow quite peculiar. (1 Thess. iv. 13, 14.) The man of faith... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These all died in (or according to) faith, ([Greek: kata pistin]) not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Heb. xi. 13.) This is a truly exqu... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. This is our hope. What is the moral effect of this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and they would fain have done him a favor; but Abraham had learnt to take his favors only from the God of resurrection, and while he would pay _them_ for Machpelah, he would look to _him_ for Canaan. The sons of Heth knew well the value of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The middle wall of partition needed to be broken down, ere the"
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which is given me to you-ward: how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery ... which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of me... |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning."
}
] |
37915 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In thy book were all my members written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there were none of them. (Ps. cxxxix. 16.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing... |
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