“Note, It is natural to proud men to prescribe to God, and then to make that an excuse for not subscribing to him; but a man’s offence will never be his defence. II. His answer to this address, this insolent demand, 1. He condemns the demand, as the language of an evil and adulterous generation, Matthew 12:39. He fastens the charge, not only on the scribes and Pharisees, but the whole nation of the Jews; they were all...
Spurgeon on the Imprecations and Praise of Psalm 35
“”Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul.” There is nothing malicious here, the slandered man simply craves for justice, and the petition is natural and justifiable. Guided by God’s good spirit the Psalmist foretells the everlasting confusion of all the haters of the righteous. Shameful disappointment shall be the portion of the enemies of the gospel, nor would the most tender-hearted Christian...
C.S. Lewis on the Person of Christ
“I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a...
Meredith Kline on “Dynastic Covenant”
“New winds are blowing on the bark of Deuteronomic studies. It has managed not to drift very far from its Josianic (7th century B.C.) dock only because of the unusually stout cables of critical traditionalism which tie it there. [1] The fate of so much higher-critical treasure rides with this vessel that the scholarly merchants have been understandably anxious about its moorings and timid about entrusting it to the gods of wind and...
Restoration, Sovereignty, Faithfulness, & Dependency
(Baby Dedication Testimony) “There are four things that come to mind as I stand here looking at our daughter, Piper Joy. Restoration, God’s sovereignty, God’s faithfulness and, as I was reminded last night in a conversation with Ken, my dependency on the Lord. There are so many reasons by the world’s standards that Piper shouldn’t be here today, the first one being that, when I was pregnant with our daughter Marlie, my husband and I chose...