Whence came that love? Not from anything outside of God Himself. God’s love springs from Himself. He loves because it is His nature to do so. ‘God is love.’ As I have said already, nothing upon the face of the earth could have merited His love, […]
“Rise up, be our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.” Psalm 44:26 It was not primarily or mainly on their own account that the psalmist urges this prayer; it was that the character of God might be made known, or that it […]
Such is the wicked ambition which belongs to our nature, that when the question relates to the origin of our salvation, we quickly form diabolical imaginations about our own merits. Accordingly, we imagine that God is reconciled to us, because He has reckoned us worthy that […]
And if God does require of the sinner—dead in sin—that he should take the first step, then he requireth just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as ever it was under the law, seeing man is as unable to believe as he is […]
God loves you in eternity with that love with which He loves the Lord Jesus, for He beholds you in the light of the same loveliness in which He beholds Jesus Christ. Then He brings down the treasure of this love and loveliness, which is His […]