The Contrast of Christ’s Comings

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“The second coming of Christ shall be utterly unlike the first. He came the first time in weakness, a tender infant, born of a poor woman in the manger at Bethlehem, unnoticed, unhonored, and scarcely known. He shall come the second time in royal dignity, with the armies of heaven around Him, to be known, recognized and feared, by all the tribes of the earth.

Without Conversion, We Are Dead

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Without conversion of heart we cannot serve God on earth. We have naturally neither faith, nor fear, nor love, toward God and His Son Jesus Christ. We have no delight in His Word.

The Reality of Eternity

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The state of things after the judgment is changeless and without end. The misery of the lost, and the blessedness of the saved, are both alike forever.

Useless Doctrine

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“Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of ‘the image of Christ’ must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.”

~ J.C. Ryle

Faithfulness and Holiness: The Witness of J.C. Ryle,

“Introduction”, 93, 96.

We Are Born Proud and Need Humility

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Humility like this is one of the strongest evidences of the indwelling of the Spirit of God. We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

Faithfully Waiting For Christ’s Return

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“Those who denounce the doctrine of the second advent as speculative, fanciful and unpractical, would do well to reconsider the subject.

Applying Doctrine To Head and Heart

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Let us beware of resting our hopes of salvation on mere intellectual knowledge. We live in days when there is great danger of doing so.

In Need of a New Heart

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Life is the mightiest of all possessions. From death to life is the mightiest of all changes. And no change short of this will ever avail to fit a person’s soul for heaven.

Forsaking the World For Christ

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True Christians must make up their minds to trouble in this world. Whether we are ministers or hearers, whether we teach or are taught, it makes little difference.

God’s Election Bears Fruit

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“Election is always to sanctification. Those whom Christ chooses out of mankind, He chooses not only that they be saved, but that they may bear fruit, and that it can be seen.

No Fickleness in Jesus

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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end. Husbands have been known to forsake their wives; parents have been known to cast off their children; human vows and promises of faithfulness have often been forgotten.

Make Your Calling and Election Sure

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The duty of the true Christian is clear and plain. Whatever others do, he must give all diligence to make his own calling and election sure.

Death Does Not Discriminate

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We often think and talk as if the possession of riches was the great antidote to sorrow, and as if money could secure us against sickness and death.

The Demonstration of Being Elected

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“Sanctification is the only sure mark of God’s election. The names and number of the elect are a secret thing, no doubt, which God has wisely kept in His own power, and not revealed to man.

The Definition of Christian Love

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Christian love will show itself in the general spirit and demeanor of a believer. It will make him kind, unselfish, good-natured, good-tempered, and considerate for others.

Ponder the Real Gospel

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Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. Christ “lifted up” and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians “enter into the holiest,” and are at length landed in glory.

Let Go of Selfishness; Share Christ!

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Let us beware of selfishness in our religion, even after we have learned to value the light. We should labor to make all people see that we have found “the pearl of great price,” and that we want them to find it as well as ourselves.

Bring Your Mind to Church

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Let us take with us to church, not only our bodies, but our minds, our reason, our hearts and our consciences. Let us often ask ourselves, ‘What have I got from this sermon?’, ‘What have I learned?’, ‘What truths have been impressed on my mind?’. 

Parents: Don’t Be Hypocrites!

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“Instruction, advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are serious and obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel.”

~ J.C. Ryle

The Upper Room, “The Duties of Parents”, 311.

Possessing Compassion for the Unconverted

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We ought to feel compassion when we think of the wretched state of unconverted souls, and the misery of all men and women who live and die without Christ. No poverty like this poverty! No disease like this disease!

Do Not Doubt the Reality of Hell

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Do you believe the Bible? Then depend upon it, Hell is real and true. It is as true as Heaven — as true as justification by faith — as true as the fact that Christ died upon the cross.

All About Doing, Never About Believing

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How painfully self–righteous are many! They can talk complacently about having “done their duty,” and being “kind to everybody,” and having always “kept to their church,” and having “never been so very bad” as some, and therefore they seem to think they must go to heaven!

Preachers: Sow Good Seed

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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, if he wants to see fruit.

Discerning the True and the False Christian

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How should you know who are true Christians, if following Christ was the way to be free from trouble? How should we discern the wheat from the chaff, if it were not for the winnowing of trial?

The Two Sides of Friendship

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“Good friends are among our greatest blessings – they may keep us back from much evil, quicken us in our course, speak a word in season, draw us upward, and draw us on.

Blessed Servants of God

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“Some believers are rivers of living water long after they die. They do good by their books and writings in every part of the world, long after the hands which held the pen are mouldering in the dust.