The Poison Of False Teaching

There have been many, Destroyed by Poisons, given to lull them to sleep...                                                  

Many have been ruined by the cry of "peace, peace," when there is no peace...

Hearing gentle things, when they ought to be hearing things that convict their hearts. 

Cleopatra's asp was brought in a basket of flowers...

And men's ruin often lurks in fair and sweet speeches. 

But the Holy Spirit's comfort is safe, and you may rest on it. 

Let him speak the word, and there is a reality about it...

Let him give the cup of consolation, and you may drink it to the bottom...

For in its depths there are no residue, nothing to intoxicate or ruin; it is all safe.

~Charles Spurgeon~

Ask Him Now How He Likes His Bargain!

Heb 3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Sin is a mere cheat. While it pretends to please us, it beguiles us!

Sin does as Jael did. First she brought the milk and butter to Sisera, then she pounded the tent peg through his head!

Judges 5:25  He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

Judges 5:26  She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

Sin first courts, and then kills!

It is first a fox and then a lion.

Whoever sin betrays...it kills!

Those locusts in Revelation are fit emblems of sin...

They had gold crowns on their heads...

They had tails that stung like scorpions, with power to torture people.(Revelation 9:7-10).

Judas pleased himself with the thirty pieces of silver...but they proved deceitful riches.

Ask him now how he likes his bargain!

~Thomas Watson~

"I KNOW" By The Revelation Of Jesus Christ

Gal 1:12  For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For strength to overcome and press on, only a revelation by the Holy Spirit in us can suffice – but it can! 

A revelation that is within one's spirit and not a mental appreciation of truth, even though it is truth about God. 

Oh, the power to be able to say "I KNOW," not "I have heard or read," but "I KNOW." 

It is an experience nothing can rob us of.

It is absolutely essential to have this revelation by the Holy Spirit because we have to meet forces of evil against which nothing can stand save that which is of God. 

In pressure Thou hast enlarged me.

How? 

Because of the constant uprising of the Life within. 

Trouble, trial, sorrow...we are subject to these things, they are common to all men, but we rise above them through the "strength of His might" within. 

We are strong because of the Light given in the knowledge of God. 

Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

This is a growing revelation. 

Paul is writing to the Ephesian saints, and what a wonderful history these had! 

See Paul's words to them in parting (Acts 20:17-38). 

To such he says, "That ye may be strengthened to apprehend," showing the necessity for the mighty power of God in bringing through revelation. 

The enemy mightily withstands revelation; to mar or hinder that, he'll stop at nothing!

Light and Strength go together; endurance is by revelation, "I know." 

Establishment in the truth by revelation of the truth, this brings an impact on Satan and his hosts; light leading to might. 

When the Lord opens eyes you see what happens, "the eyes of your heart being enlightened, that ye may know" this is the result of opened eyes.

2Co 4:14  Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

~T. Austin Sparks~

It Was Sin Which Wove The Crown Of Thorns

Surely that man must be in an Unhealthy state of soul, who can think of all that Jesus suffered...and yet Love those sins for which that Suffering was undergone!  

It was sin which Wove the crown of thorns!

It was sin which Pierced our Lord’s hands and feet and side!  

It was sin which Brought Him to Gethsemane and Calvary, to the cross and to the grave!  

Cold must our hearts be, if we do not Hate sin and labor to get rid of it–though we may have to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye in doing it!”

~J.C. Ryle~