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HEART PREPARATION It was a good work to leave his country and his father’s house at God’s bidding; it was a good work to separate from Lot in so noble a spirit; it was a good work to follow after the robber-kings with undaunted courage; it was a grand work to refuse to take the […]

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Posted on: December 25, 2015 - 10:49AM

HEART PREPARATION Simeon explicitly says that this baby will not only be the glory of his own people Israel. He will also be the light of revelation for the Gentiles. He’s not just for Israel. He didn’t come just for their benefit. He came to shine a light of the revelation of God into every […]

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Posted on: December 18, 2015 - 8:55AM

HEART PREPARATION It was much that there was born a Saviour – much that there was born a Messiah. Men needed a deliverer, and the proclamation here is best kept in its widest meaning – as of one who sets free from all ills outward and inward, and brings all outward and inward good. The […]

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Posted on: December 10, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION Let us not do as Zacharias did. Dear friend, are you at this moment questioning any promise? Are you saying, “How shall I know this?” Cease from doubting the infallible word and rest in the Lord, His Holy Spirit enabling you to believe. On the other hand, are you a seeking sinner and […]

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Posted on: November 26, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION Why should he, who has God’s promise that all the land is his, squabble with his kinsman about pasture and wells? The herdsmen naturally would come to high words and blows, especially as the available land was diminished by the claims of the ‘Canaanite and Perizzite.’ But the direct effect of Abram’s faith […]

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Posted on: November 19, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION The authority of God should in our minds be paramount to every other authority. As he “consulted not with flesh and blood,” when once the Divine will was intimated to him, so neither should we: it should be sufficient for us that God hath commanded any thing: there should then be no inquiry […]

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Posted on: November 12, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION Thus the story of the founding of Babylon has been carefully constructed around key terms and ideas. The people of the land were at first united as one people sharing one language and living in the “land”. They moved “eastward” and built a city to make a name for themselves in order not […]

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Posted on: November 5, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION A funnel is an instrument for concentrating the flow of something from a wide area into a small area. That’s what’s happening here [in this text]. Although it appears that God is working only with nations, the end of the chapter reminds us that the line of promise goes from one man to […]

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Posted on: October 29, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION Sin is just as much a problem after the flood as before. The flood of judgment did not eradicate sin; the covenant of grace did not guarantee righteousness. If God’s purpose was to fill the earth with the glory of his righteousness, then we must conclude one of two things: God is a […]

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Posted on: October 22, 2015 - 10:00PM

HEART PREPARATION “The flood came as a surprise, and Christ’s second coming is going to come as a surprise. We tend to think that our experience is a good teacher, as if it were sufficient to make predictions about the future. We assume that because God hasn’t dramatically intervened with terrible judgment during our lives […]

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Posted on: October 15, 2015 - 10:00PM