DISCOURSE: 939 THE EFFICACY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 45:8. _Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it_. IT is generally thought, that doctrine... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 940 STRIVING WITH OUR MAKER Isaiah 45:9. _Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!_ GOD is a mighty Sovereign, greatly and exclusively to be feared. To shew that those who were exalted as rivals to Him had no power, he challenged them all to foretell any future event; or, if they coul... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 941 THE EXTENT AND CERTAINTY OF ISRAEL’S SALVATION Isaiah 45:17. _Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end._ AS in the dispensations of God’s providence we behold a mixture of mercy and judgment, so in the... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 942 JEHOVAH A JUST GOD AND A SAVIOUR Isaiah 45:21. _There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is mine beside me._ TO us, who have been habituated from our infancy to hear of none but the true and living God, it seems incredible that man should be so stupid and selfi... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 943 LOOKING TO CHRIST Isaiah 45:22. _Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else._ MANY consider the Scriptures merely as a history of past events, and imagine that the declarations contained in it are to be confined to those persons, f... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 944 EXALTATION OF CHRIST Isaiah 45:23. _I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall me... [ Continue Reading ]