"Two and Two Make Four" | 1888 Essential Reading
It is a simple lesson. By believing it we know it is so, and this we must know in order to go on in the knowledge of the Lord, and of His word.
It is a simple lesson. By believing it we know it is so, and this we must know in order to go on in the knowledge of the Lord, and of His word.
The preaching of Christ and Him crucified is the preaching of the power of God, and therefore it is the preaching of the Gospel, for the Gospel is the power of God. ... The conclusion therefore is that the Gospel is the revelation of Jesus Christ in men.
I must be willing that the Lord should take my life, and all that pertains to it. It will be like taking my life, for my life has been made up of sin.
This white garment is "that garment that is woven in the loom of heaven, in which there is not a single thread of human making." That garment was woven in a human body and the flesh of Christ was the loom. That garment was woven in Jesus; in the same flesh that we have, for He took part of the same flesh and blood that we have.
As God inhabits eternity, so that all time is present with Him, so all His promises and blessings for men are in the present tense.
The mystery of godliness is “God was manifested in the flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16). And the finishing of this mystery signifies not only the finishing of the work of God in the believer, so that the believer reflects only Christ, —all of God and none of self
We see the mystery of the Gospel to be the mystery of creation.