Author: BTP

“The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. … But … the angel of the Lord appeared … in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.” And “behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews?” “The angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call His name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David.” But not only is “a child … born,” also “a son is given.” “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son.” “He … spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all.”

“Christ Jesus came into the world,” Born a Babe at Bethlehem, To die for sinners such as we; He took all God’s wrath for them.

Isaiah 9:6 ~ Matthew 1:18 ~ Matthew 1:20‑21 ~ Matthew 2:1‑2 ~ Luke 1:30‑32 ~ John 3:16 ~ Galatians 4:4 ~ Romans 8:32

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“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.” “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” “And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.” Our Lord Jesus Christ said that “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me,” and, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” He also said that “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” “Christ, who is our life.” “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

“Dead in trespasses and sins,” With no hope that I could see, But God’s dear Son took my place, That I delivered might be.

John 10:10 ~ John 1:4 ~ 1 John 4:9 ~ 1 John 5:12 ~ Ephesians 2:1 ~ Colossians 2:13 ~ John 14:6 ~ John 5:24 ~ John 6:51 ~ Colossians 3:4

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There is for the child of God “the present,” and often it is not “joyous, but grievous,” as we pass “through manifold temptations” and “the fiery trial which is to try you.” “The travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it” carries with it a weight of sorrow and weariness, and for the time we forget that “all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.” But our loving Father does not work in our lives simply for present benefit and ease. He looks to the “afterward,” both in this life and in eternity. As we allow ourselves to be “exercised” by all the circumstances of life, our trials yield to us “the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” Thus God leads us “that He might humble thee, and that He might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end,” and “that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.”

We know not the “why” of our trials, Nor how they can work for our good, But He sees the end of our testings, And make us more Christ-like He would.

Hebrews 12:11 ~ 1 Peter 1:6 ~ 1 Peter 4:12 ~ Ecclesiastes 3:10 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:15 ~ Deuteronomy 8:16 ~ 1 Peter 1:7

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It is a blessed thing indeed to know that “He knoweth” all about us: our desires, our motives, our hopes, our failures, our temptations, our tears, ALL. “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous.” “The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.” When trials oppress us heavily, let us not forget that “He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness,” and we can say with Job that “He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” And He not only knows all things, He also “remembereth that we are dust.” He knows our limitations, and “though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.” He tells us that “I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls which I have made.” “He hath remembered His mercy and His truth.” So, “remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.”

“He knoweth the way” of His saints, And He forsaketh them never; The world and all its allurements Cannot us from Him sever.

Psalm 103:14 ~ Psalm 1:6 ~ Psalm 37:18 ~ Deuteronomy 2:7 ~ Job 23:10 ~ Lamentations 3:32 ~ Isaiah 57:16 ~ Psalm 98:3 ~ Psalm 25:6

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Here we have the “grace” of giving, for it is a “grace” worked into our hearts because of our love for the Lord. It is “the proof of your love” and a means “to prove the sincerity of your love.” And God not only looks at what we give, but also at what we keep for ourselves. “If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.” God’s Word teaches us to give regularly and proportionately. “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay [up] by him in store, as God hath prospered him.” And He tells us of the blessing of giving bountifully, and of the loss both of present blessing and future reward for careless and grudging giving. “This I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” “Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Whatever we may give to Him Out of His bountiful store Will be in heaven waiting for us, And added to more and more.

2 Corinthians 8:7 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:24 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:8 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:12 ~ 1 Corinthians 16:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:6‑8 ~ Acts 20:35

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Many there are among the saints who know something about “a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.” It may be some physical infirmity, as was evidently the case with Paul. Or it may be a testing or a pressure of some other nature, for which prayer for its removal has been made many times. However, the Lord has not seen fit to remove it. It is not that He is unconcerned, for He “is touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” But He wants us to learn to draw our strength from Him, who is “the God of all grace.” He not only has saving grace, but He also has sustaining grace, and His “strength is made perfect in [our] weakness.” “Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat.”

Have you cried to Him many times That your “thorn in the flesh” might go? But still He has not removed it, For to you His grace He would show.

2 Corinthians 12:7‑9 ~ Hebrews 4:15 ~ 1 Peter 5:10 ~ Isaiah 25:4

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In the family of God, there are always those who are undergoing sorrow or pressure and who need help and encouragement. If we would “fulfill the law of Christ,” we are to “bear … one another’s burdens,” “for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached Thee fell on Me,” and when He was here on earth, “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses,” voluntarily making the troubles of others His very own. “By sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken,” and “heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.” Let us look for opportunities to “bear … one another’s burdens,” the opportunity to speak that word or perform that act of kindness that will help our brother in his time of need. “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves,” to be “distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. … Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.” “Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Let me help my brother, dear Lord, As Thou in grace hast helped me; Let me bear his sorrows with him, So that lighter his load may be.

Galatians 6:2 ~ Romans 15:3 ~ Matthew 8:17 ~ Proverbs 15:13 ~ Proverbs 12:25 ~ Romans 15:1 ~ Romans 12:13 ~ Romans 12:15 ~ Hebrews 13:3

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All of us who know the Lord Jesus, “being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another,” and therefore we are to “consider one another” and “be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.” We are admonished to “look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” God has given us the privilege and the responsibility to “bear … one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ,” that we might “by love serve one another.” There may be occasion, in the circle in which we move, to “warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded [fainthearted], support the weak, be patient toward all men,” “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” Let us then, Christian friends, “consider one another,” watching out for the needs of others, that we might stir up and incite them “unto love and to good works.” “See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently,” “and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

There is always need with others For a word of love and cheer, Both to warn and to encourage, And to deliver from fear.

Hebrews 10:24 ~ Romans 12:5 ~ Romans 12:10 ~ Philippians 2:4 ~ Galatians 6:2 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:14 ~ Ephesians 4:2 ~ 1 Peter 1:22 ~ Ephesians 4:32

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We who know the Savior are exhorted to “come boldly unto the throne of grace.” For the believer, God’s throne is no longer a throne of judgment, which we must fear. Rather, because our sins have been forever put away by the blood of Christ, it is now a throne of grace! “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” And our verse does not say that we are to “come boldly,” in all confidence and outspokenness, in order to ask for mercy and to hope for grace in our “time of need.” Rather, it says that we come “that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” “This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.” Like David, we know the Lord as “Thou that hearest prayer.” “Ah, Lord God! Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” “Pour out your heart before Him.”

I may come boldly unto Him With all my needs and my cares; He has promised grace sufficient, And His promise calms my fears.

Hebrews 4:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ 1 John 5:14‑15 ~ Psalm 65:2 ~ Jeremiah 32:17 ~ Psalm 62:8

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“Sincere” means to be “tested by sunlight,” and God wants His people to be tested by the light of His Word and to be found “sincere,” to be clean and pure, truthful and honest, and to be without deceit and pretense. In order for this, He desires “that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment,” and such experience is possible by our “being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” To this end, we are to “desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,” and we have the assurance of God’s grace toward “all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.” As we walk in the light of His Word, such “simplicity and godly sincerity” will be ours, as we are “tested by sunlight,” for “the entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple,” and to this Word of God “ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts.” Such a life will “prove the sincerity of your love.”

To be “sincere … without offense,” Till the time when He appears, To have Him say to us, “Well done”: Blest reward for all our tears.

Philippians 1:10 ~ Philippians 1:9 ~ Philippians 1:11 ~ 1 Peter 2:2 ~ Ephesians 6:24 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:12 ~ Psalm 119:130 ~ 2 Peter 1:19 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:8

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