Monthly Archives: March 2008
PREFACE When, at the request of the Publisher, I undertook to furnish an answer to that important question, “What is it that saves a soul?” I intended merely to write a few pages. But as I wrote, I found the subject to grow under my hand, and thoughts and ideas to flow into my soul. I felt, especially when I came to the second part of my subject, namely, salvation as an… Read More
A Study Of Revelation 11:5-7 Life and Death of the Two Witnesses What makes this chapter so difficult is that it is a mix of symbols and real literal stuff. And yet it is very important that we understand this chapter very well. Two weeks ago, when we considered the first two verses in this chapter, we came to the conclusion that Jerusalem and the temple and worshippers must not be taken… Read More
From John Warburton’s “Mercies of a Covenant God.” ———————————— I shall now relate another sore trial that I passed through (It was about 1830), which was one of the keenest I ever had in all my life, so much so that at times I felt as if my very heart-strings were breaking. It was respecting my youngest son, who is the youngest of ten children now living. I agreed with a person… Read More
John Kershaw’s account of the early days of his pastorate. ———————————————————– After I commenced my pastoral labours, the Word was much blessed, and for some months things went on tolerably well. In September of the same year, Mr. Littlewood, minister at Town Meadows, the old Baptist chapel, died. Immediately after his death, Mr. Stephens of Manchester began to supply. They gave him a call, which he accepted. The cause at that time… Read More
I hope never to forget the night the Lord brought my soul out of bondage into the glorious liberty of the gospel. It was on a Lord’s day evening. I went in the morning to the house of God in a very distressed state of mind, and remained so all day. The preaching only tended to increase my misery, the enemy telling me that, like Simon Magus, I had neither part nor… Read More
One evening I had been out preaching about seven miles from home, and when I was returning, it being late before I reached home, O what a keen feeling of hunger came upon me before I got there! And what was my greatest distress, I knew there was nothing to eat when I got home. O the dreadful feelings and hard thoughts which rose up in my mind against God! I dare… Read More
Are trials and afflictions necessarily chastisements for sin; in other words, are they always visitations for some particular disobedience? Heavenly wisdom, holy caution, and spiritual experience, we feel, are deeply needed to handle these two subjects scripturally and experimentally, so as to clear God in all his dealings, not to darken counsel by words without knowledge, or advance anything inconsistent with the truth of God as revealed in the scripture, or made… Read More
Everyone who believes the Gospel, every sinner in whose heart God has been glorified, has been given by God the Holy Spirit a threefold desire: 1) An honest zeal for the glory and honor of God. 2) A sincere concern for the preeminence of Christ. 3) A fervent desire for the salvation of sinners. God’s foremost design in all things is His own glory. He reigns and disposes of everything in this… Read More
The early experience of John Kershaw of Rochdale (1792-1870), taken from his autobiography. ———————————————- I had many inward cryings to the Lord before I began to go aside for private prayer. I well remember the first time I retired for this purpose. It was to me then a matter of necessity. One morning, when I was at work with my father, I was so bowed down with sin and the terrors of… Read More
“God is love” (1 John 4:10), and the greatest evidence of God’s love is His sending His Son to die to honour His character in the salvation of guilty sinners. By nature all men are “dead in trespasses and sins,” guilty, depraved, without spiritual life, incapable of thinking, feeling, choosing, acting, enjoying, or loving communion with a holy and just God. If any are to be saved, God must in love choose… Read More
God’s redemptive character, how God reveals Himself in salvation, is His chief glory. We cannot properly identify the God of redemption, and, therefore, call on sinners to believe unto salvation, until we preach the particulars revealing how He justifies the ungodly based on the righteousness of Christ. Everything we preach by way of encouragement, warning, exhortation, and instruction, whether it be to lost sinners to believe and be saved, or whether it… Read More
Satan’s attacks are always aimed against God’s glory in salvation. It is in this context that we understand the wiles of Satan. Satan’s goal is to keep sinners in a state of darkness, and his main weapon is deceit concerning the glory of God and the ground of salvation. Satan’s attacks are always aimed against God being glorified in the hearts of sinners. 2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid,… Read More
We who believe the Gospel must judge all things by the standard of God’s glory, and we must seek to be motivated in all our desires by that same glory. It is our love and compassion, therefore, for lost sinners and our desire to see them saved that keeps us from compromising the truth concerning God’s glory and Christ’s Person and work. This is what motivates us to preach the Gospel to… Read More
From John Warburton’s Mercies of a Covenant God. ———————————————– For many years John Warburton’s great trial was that his wife, whom he had married when he was unregenerate, was a complete stranger to the things of God. Here he tells how his prayers were wonderfully answered. ———————————————– O the blessings that broke through these clouds that I had so much dreaded [the death of a little daughter]! I never can tell a… Read More
Preached at Zoar Chapel, London, on July 6, 1845, by J. C. Philpot “I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.” (Zephaniah 3:12) Jerusalem was the center of the worship of the only true God from the day that David brought the ark there, until she rejected the Lord of life and glory, and brought upon… Read More
GOD tells us that His people are ACCEPTED IN CHRIST (Ephesians 1:6). If a person is without Christ, then he has nothing that God will accept! God tells us that no man CAN COME unto the Father but by Christ; therefore, if a person is without Christ, he has no ground upon which he can approach God. Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” If He is THE… Read More
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8) _______________________________________ What a mercy, my hearers, that our Jesus, on whom we build our souls’ eternal all, is “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever”! Whatever we look at, save the God of our salvation, we see changing. Look at the world and the things of the world – its fashion is changed. The Psalmist David had… Read More
“Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” (Romans 8:33) To be justified is to be declared righteous, not guilty, before God based on the finished work of Christ on the cross (His shed blood and imputed righteousness). This was God’s purpose in eternity as we see that the Gospel is the preaching of the terms of the everlasting covenant of grace. God’s purpose… Read More
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth, and the husband is bound by the law to his wife as long as the wife liveth. And, that a bill of divorcement legally obtained may in the eye of our civil code disannul a former marriage contract so that, as far as the civil law is concerned, the parties may contract to live in adultery and their issue… Read More
When Christ said, “Judge not, that you be not judged” Matthew 7:1, was He forbidding us to judge anyone at all who is in error? No! He was giving us guidelines as to how we are to be discerning and not merely judgmental, particularly with regard to whether or not we or others are saved or lost. The standard that the Lord gave is “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall… Read More
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” (Ephesians 1:3) God has blessed his people from the beginning with every needful new covenant blessing, treasured up in Christ Jesus their covenant Head. There is not a single blessing of grace and salvation which is not secured and deposited in him. Ah, my friends, it is well… Read More
“The poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 29:19) It is Christ alone that is the Christian’s rejoicing. Paul speaks of it thus: “We are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and refoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” This is the way God circumcises the hearts of his people with the circumcision of Christ, made without hands, which cuts them… Read More
Ask almost any man, “Whether he hopes to be saved eternally?” He will answer in the affirmative. But enquire again, “On what foundation he rests his hope?” Here too many are sadly divided. The Pelagian hopes to get to heaven by a moral life and a good use of his natural powers. The Arminian by a jumble of grace and free-will, human works, and the merits of Christ. The Deist by an… Read More
Brother Beebe:- I received, a short time since, a letter from brother Davis S. Woody, of Missouri, in which he makes the following request: “Dear Brother: For the satisfaction of some of my dear brethren, who I think do not understand you and brother Thomas P. Dudley, on the subject of the new birth or regeneration, I would like to have your views on that subject, and what it is that is… Read More
“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” (Philippians 2:3) In Philippians 2, Paul addresses his comments directly to the justified, regenerated sinners at Philippi who find consolation and comfort in Christ, and fellowship of the indwelling Spirit (vs. 1) as He points sinners to Christ and His obedience unto death (and that alone) for such assurance (vss. 8-11). But… Read More
“The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.” (Psalm 18:46) The gracious words of our text set forth the glorious Person of our Lord Jesus Christ, concerning whom the Apostle says, as it can be said of no other, that He is “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). All things in nature and in providence change. The… Read More
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. It is certainly not unreasonable to expect a sinner, who has been freely and unconditionally pardoned, redeemed, forgiven, justified, sanctified, who has been given the fulness of righteousness, the whole inheritance of grace, the complete privilege of fellowship with God, (and all through… Read More
In Deuteronomy 4:28, God through Moses described the idols Israel would worship once they were scattered among the nations saying, “And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.” In scripture, God often distinguishes Himself as “the living God” in contrast to such idols constructed in the imagination of our own evil hearts (Jeremiah 18:12; Jeremiah 23:16-17). When… Read More
“For in the time of trouble He will hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle will He hide me; He will set me up upon a rock.” (Psalm 27:5) —————————— We have no refuge but Jesus where we can hide our guilty heads. Where else can I hide? In the law? That curses. In self? That is treacherous. In the world? That is under the curse of God…. Read More
Why Do You Love God? The way you answer this seemingly simple question gives great insight into your hope of justification before the true and living God. Have you ever seriously considered your MOTIVE, (the inner drive or reason), for all the religious activities (prayer, church attendance, giving, evangelizing, holy living, etc) you do? I can speak from personal experience concerning this life or death issue. When I was in a state… Read More
Thus truly was he “brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he opens not his mouth.” (Isaiah 53:7.) What heart can conceive, what tongue express what his holy soul endured when “the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all”? In the garden of Gethsemane, what a load of guilt, what a weight of sin, what an intolerable burden of the… Read More
It’s sad that so few actually see or understand the “amazing grace” of God which is so clearly revealed in the Gospel. While most talk about God’s grace, the grace they profess to believe and rest in as their hope of salvation is nothing more than Satan’s cleverly disguised system of works salvation. Their problem lies in the deceitfulness of the human heart – “The heart (mind, understanding, or will) is deceitful… Read More
I will now briefly notice this union with Adam, &c. Whilst they were thus set up in Christ, and as such loved with an everlasting love, it was the pleasure of the Father that they should be partakers of flesh and blood, and therefore as rational creatures they were created in a natural head, Adam, and under the law; were in common with all his posterity, left to fall in him, and… Read More
Christ was numbered among transgressors although not one Himself. He was made sin in that His soul was MADE an offering for sin, in fulfillment of the Old Testament sacrifice types, Isaiah 53:10. Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. He was THE SIN OFFERING by which God transferred to His account ALL… Read More
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin…” (II Corinthians 5:21) SIN is transgression of the law of God. Was Christ made to be a transgression? That makes no sense. There is the nature of sinfulness that resides in man and demons. Was Christ made to be a sin nature? Was Christ made to have a sin nature? Surely this is blasphemy, as to be God… Read More
Paul never forgot the glory in which the Son of God appeared to him. He viewed this glory in connection with the cross on which his sins had been expiated. In it he beheld the exceeding sinfulness of sin; in it, connected with Christ’s resurrection and ascension, he saw the proof of all his sins having been forgiven. He was now begotten again to a lively hope of an unfading inheritance, but… Read More
“And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” (Mark 16:20) Beloved, holy men were inspired and directed by the Lord the Holy Spirit to give us a full and particular account of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary’s cross, where He died for our sins and where He was delivered for our offences, and raised again… Read More
Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) The doctrine laid down by the apostle is that God loved His people even when they were dead in sins. Now when we consider what is involved in being dead in sins, when we take… Read More
Preached at Ford Street Chapel, Coventry, 1867 – By John Kershaw. ————————————————– “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” (Mark 16:20) Beloved, holy men were inspired and directed by the Lord the Holy Spirit to give us a full and particular account of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary’s cross, where He died for our… Read More
Preached at Ford Street Chapel, Coventry, 1867 – By John Kershaw. ————————————————– “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” (Mark 16:20) Beloved, holy men were inspired and directed by the Lord the Holy Spirit to give us a full and particular account of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary’s cross, where He died for our… Read More
“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God.” (Psalm 46:4) I shall first take notice of the Church of God under the metaphor or title of a “city”. In the second place I shall speak of the “river” by which this city is made glad. In the third place I shall enumerate some of the “streams” that are connected with this river. 1. The first branch… Read More
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, 1845 – By John Kershaw. ————————————————————- “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God.” (Psalm 46:4) I shall first take notice of the Church of God under the metaphor or title of a “city”. In the second place I shall speak of the “river” by which this city is made glad. In the third place I shall enumerate… Read More
Revelation 11 is probably the most important chapter of the prophecy of Revelation. Almost everything else in this prophecy, from chapter 11 to chapter 22, depends on how we understand this present chapter. And thus we must not be in a hurry when we study this chapter. This article will deal with the question: who are the two witnesses or Revelation 11? In Revelation 11:3-4 God introduces us to: The Two Witnesses… Read More
“Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.” (Proverbs 8:34) In the Scriptures, no more than two classes of people are declared to be in the world. The one class is called “the blessed of the Lord,” and the other “the cursed of the Lord,” or “the people of God’s curse.” This latter class contains all the “vessels of wrath fitted… Read More
“Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise Your name.” (Psalm 142:7) It is not certain that David composed this Psalm in the Cave of Adullam, when he had fled from Achish king of Gath, or in the cave of Engedi, when he had taken refuge from the wrath of Saul (1 Sam. 22:1, 2 and 24:1-3). But this is a matter of very little consequence to us; as it… Read More
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, On LORD’s Day Evening, 1848 – By John Kershaw “The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.” (Psalm 18:46) The gracious words of our text set forth the glorious Person of our Lord Jesus Christ, concerning whom the Apostle says, as it can be said of no other, that He is “Jesus Christ the same… Read More
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, Jan. 9, 1850, by J. C. Philpot “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” (James 1:2-4) A singular race of men lived in the middle ages called Alchemists–a name still retained in the words “chemist”… Read More
A study of Revelation 20:1-3 The Binding of Satan We have come to a passage in Revelation 20 from where theologians have derived the theory of the Jewish Millennium. The Latin word Millennium means “one thousand”. It is the theory that before the end of the world comes there will be a glorious thousand years where the Jews are evangelizing the world, and almost the whole world will come to worship Christ…. Read More
We have come to that section of Revelation where Satan is loosed out of the Bottomless Pit. This is the moment in time that is called: The End of the Thousand Years It is the end of the period of time that is symbolically called the 1000 years, which is nothing else than the completeness of God’s plan for the binding of Satan. At the end of this symbolic 1000 years God… Read More
Preached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London, on Tuesday Evening, July 30, 1850, by J. C. Philpot “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:10) The grand object of the Epistle to the Romans is to set forth and exalt salvation by grace. In order fully to do this, the… Read More
Philpot’s letter of resignation from the Church of England, March 28, 1835. Mr. Provost: I beg leave to resign the Fellowship of Worcester College, to which I was elected in the year 1826. This step I am compelled to take because I can no longer with a good conscience continue a Minister or a Member of the Established Church. After great and numerous trials of mind, I am, as I trust, led… Read More
Imagine that you are ignorant of the gospel and of God’s way of preventing evil and of bringing about good– and were called upon to design some plan whereby a man might be most effectually restrained from the commission of sin, and made obedient to the law of God. Now, what plan would you adopt? Most probably you would lay down strict rules of life; you would appoint certain seasons of prayer… Read More
J. C. Philpot, preached at Zoar Chapel, London, on August 6, 1843 “But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” (1 Peter 5:10) Philosophers tell us that every ray of light which comes from the sun is divisible into seven distinct colors. And this they show by a very… Read More
A study of Mark 16:16 What Baptism? In Mark chapter 16 – The Lord Jesus has risen from the grave, and before He left them to go to heaven He gave them the great commission to evangelize the world. This is usually read from the last chapter in Matthew, but today I wanted to read this great commission from the Gospel according to Mark, because I want to address the subject of… Read More
This is an audio sermon titled “Christ, Our Eternal High Priest” The scripture text is from Hebrews 7:1-16 and the audio is 28 minutes long.
This is an audio sermon titled: “For Whom Did Christ Die?” The scripture text is from Hebrews 2:10-13, and the audio is 27 minutes long.
This is an audio sermon titled: “Saved By The Blood” The scripture text is from Hebrews 9:13-38, and the audio is 28 minutes long.
And as it was with Peter and the rest of the disciples, so it is with all sensible sinners and true believers who see there is no other to go to for life and salvation but Christ; not to the law of Moses, which accuses, curses, and condemns, and by which there is neither life nor righteousness; nor to any creature or creature performance, for there is a curse on him that… Read More
Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us? If the bliss even of angels and glorified souls, consists greatly in seeing, and praising, the Son of God; surely, to love, to trust, and to celebrate the Friend of sinners, must be a principal ingredient in the happiness of saints not yet made perfect. Solomon, whose experience of grace was lively and triumphant when he wrote… Read More
Preached at Park Street Chapel, Nottingham, on Thursday Evening, Sept. 23, 1858, by J. C. Philpot “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law,… Read More
A sermon preached August 9, 1840 by J. C. Philpot, at Arlington “Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.” (Psalm 119:41-42) Unless we have a right conception of the situation in which a person is, we shall form very inadequate opinions as to the expressions which… Read More
Preached at Zoar Chapel, London, on Thursday Evening, August 10, 1843, by J. C. Philpot —————————— “Brethren, farewell.” (2 Corinthians 13:11) —————————— I cannot say that ‘Anniversary’, ‘Funeral’, or ‘Farewell’ Sermons are much to my taste; and whenever I have attempted to preach with a view to such occasions, it is but rarely that I have had any liberty of soul or of speech. I learned a lesson on this subject not… Read More
Bound as Long as He or She Liveth (Romans 7:2-3, 1 Corinthians 7:39, 1 Corinthians 7:10-16) The fact that a man and a woman who are married are one flesh is stated in many places in the Bible and they all agree: The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives, and the husband is bound to his wife as long as she lives. This bond is not dissolved… Read More
Well indeed might the Apostle say, “Great is the mystery of godliness.” Here as in a mirror we see the wonderful love of Jesus, that he who is the Son of God, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, a sharer of the Father’s essence, of the Father’s glory, should stoop so low to lift us up so high; that he should condescend to unite to his glorious Person… Read More
Today I want to talk to you about: “Which God are we serving?” Do we bow down to the One and Only Almighty God who is described by the Bible alone, or do we serve another god whom our Church says we should be worshipping? Of course, you all know the answer to that question. We must worship the God of the Bible, because the men in the Church may be badly… Read More
A study of Revelation 19:17-18 All the Fowls Were Filled With Their Flesh Revelation chapter 19 verse 11 begins a new vision that the Lord Jesus gave to the Apostle John. Here John saw the Lord Jesus Christ come out of heaven riding on a white horse, and all the armies which were in heaven followed Him on white horses. We need to keep in mind that this vision is recorded in… Read More
From the autobiography of John Kershaw. ——————————————— The next place I went to supply was Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield. I set out on the Saturday, having fifteen miles to walk. Part of the road was over a high hill called Buckstones, a continuation of Blackstone Edge, the great range of hills that divides the counties of York and Lancaster. A heavy fall of snow came on, so that I had hard work to… Read More
In Ruth chapters 1-4 we read about the story of: Ruth the Moabitess (Ruth 1:1-7) Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. (He had sold his property in Bethlehem and he went to live… Read More
In this study we are going to look at Matthew chapter 19 and it is a very controversial matter in these United States. It is the matter of marriage and divorce. What is God declaring about marriage and divorce? What does the Bible say? Remarkably, the Pharisees immediately addressed the subject of divorce. We read in Matthew 19:1-9, Can We Put Away Our Wives for Every Cause? (Matthew 19:1-9) Matthew 19:1 And… Read More
From John Warburton’s Mercies of a Covenant God. ———————————————– For many years John Warburton’s great trial was that his wife, whom he had married when he was unregenerate, was a complete stranger to the things of God. Here he tells how his prayers were wonderfully answered. ———————————————– O the blessings that broke through these clouds that I had so much dreaded [the death of a little daughter]! I never can tell a… Read More
This is an audio sermon by Alfred J. Chompff titled: “Sun of Righteousness” The scripture text that brother Alfred is preaching from is Malachi 4:1-6 and the audio is 43 minutes long.
“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.” (Isaiah 59:19) IN this chapter we have the total depravity, utter incorrigibility, and universal corruption of human nature strikingly set forth. As my eye scanned the chapter this morning before coming here, much questioning arose in my mind as to whether or no I should read it. The greater portion displays… Read More
To the Editors of the Gospel Standard. Messrs. Editors, If you think the following inquiry worthy your notice, you would greatly oblige the writer of these lines by a reply to the same in the Standard. Is it consistent for instruments of music to be used in the house of God? Near Chard, Somerset. S. D. _____________________________________ Answer by John M’Kenzie and J.C. Philpot We cannot see any sanction in the New… Read More
Preached in Grove Chapel, Camberwell, 1879 – By Thomas Bradbury __________________________________________________________ “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.” (Isaiah 59:19) IN this chapter we have the total depravity, utter incorrigibility, and universal corruption of human nature strikingly set forth. As my eye scanned the chapter this morning before coming here, much questioning arose in my mind as to… Read More
This is an audio sermon titled: “Where is Your Righteousness?” The scripture text is from Luke 18:9-14 and the audio is 43 minutes long. Is your hope built on nothing more and nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness?
Once a man makes the conversion of sinners his prime design and all-consuming end and NOT THE GLORY OF GOD, he is exceedingly apt to adopt a wrong course. Instead of striving to preach the Truth in all its purity, he will tone it down so as to make it more palatable to the unregenerate. Impelled by a single force, moving in one fixed direction, his object is to make conversion easy;… Read More
“But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.” (2nd Thessalonians 2:13) —————————— There are three things here which deserve special attention. First, the fact that we are expressly told that God’s elect are “chosen to salvation”: Language could not be more explicit. How… Read More
God can only be known by means of a supernatural revelation of Himself Apart from the Scriptures, even a theoretical acquaintance with Him is impossible. It still holds true that ‘the world by wisdom knew not God’ (1 Corinthians 1:21). Where the Scriptures are ignored, God is “the unknown God” (Acts 17:23). But something more than the Scriptures is required before the soul can know God, know Him in a real, personal,… Read More
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Proverbs 1:7) —————————— Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of god’s majesty, that has had a vision of God’s awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His sovereign grace. Does someone save,”But it is only the unsaved, those outside of Christ, who need to fear God”? Then the sufficient answer is that the saved,… Read More
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on February 16, 1862, by J. C. Philpot “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel,… Read More
This is a question which has faced many parents with young children, especially when at school. They may have been asked to draw a picture of some incident in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, or to take part in a Nativity play. What answer do we give to our children and also to those [deceived men and women] who see no wrong in this? The deep reservations about pictures of… Read More
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on July 9, 1865, by J. C. Philpot “O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst… Read More
Preached on Tuesday Evening, October 18th, 1842, at Trinity Chapel, Leicester, by J. C. Philpot “For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” (2 Corinthians 4:11) It is very sweet, as well as instructive, to trace the wisdom of God as manifested in the way wherein the Scriptures of the New Testament were written…. Read More
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Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on December 13, 1857, by J. C. Philpot “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without… Read More
Preached at Zoar Chapel, London, on August 11, 1844, by J. C. Philpot ———— “Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.” (Zechariah 4:7) The children of Israel were, beyond all controversy, a “typical people”; and therefore God’s dealings with Israel after the flesh were typical of his dealings with his elect… Read More
It may appear to some of our readers that the exposition we have given of John 3:16 in the chapter on “Difficulties and Objections” is a forced and unnatural one, inasmuch as our definition of the term “world” seems to be out of harmony with the meaning and scope of this word in other passages, where, to supply the world of believers (God’s elect) as a definition of “world” would make no… Read More
“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock.” (Song of Solomon 2:14) Jesus is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin and self. “You are my hiding-place,” said David of old. This was shown to Moses, in figure, when the Lord put him into the cleft of a rock, which Toplady has so beautifully versified, to paint the longing desires of his soul – “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let… Read More
When sinners become convinced by the Spirit in Regeneration that Christ “put away sin”, “abolished death”, and Eternally Justified EVERY sinner He lived and died for, they WILL HEED the Spirit’s exhortation to REST in the work of Christ ALONE. They will heed the Spirit’s command to stop looking WITHIN for any part of their standing before God, “Let not sin reign, but yield yourselves to God,” “Let not sin therefore REIGN..”… Read More
“Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life…” (Genesis 19:19) —————————— The religious leaders in Christ’s day on earth, falsely assumed that because they were blessed with riches, religious esteem, and were prospering in this life, that they were therefore objects of God’s grace. Our Lord in Matthew 23 used very condemning language to… Read More
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works,” (Titus 3:8) ————————————— Context is so vital in understanding the scriptures. If you simply take and cut out the above verse, by itself, and put it under the microscope, you might come away with the idea that our salvation is somehow gained or maintained… Read More
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 3:16) —————————— That no one is declared just before God by any personal obedience is clear from Scripture. The law requires perfect and sinless obedience, and condemns as guilty even the slightest disobedience, James 2:10. The sole ground of justification before God is declared to be BY THE FAITH OF JESUS… Read More
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on July 22, 1866, by J. C. Philpot “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths… Read More
Preached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, London, on August 3, 1851, by J. C. Philpot “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (Ephesians 6:13) Every child of God is a soldier, and a real one. In the Christian army, there are no feather-bed, no fire-side soldiers. All to a man are actual… Read More
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