An honest and good heart is the heart that loves Christ. That man has an honest and good heart that finds Christ so precious that he would not vivo Him up for anything.
We may have to suffer for Christ's sake in this world; but no suffering can take away from us any of the blessings that we have got in Him.
We have all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; and neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
They that received the seed on the stony ground had not an honest and good heart, for they gave up Christ in the time of persecution and affliction.
They that received the seed among thorns, had not an honest and good heart, for they tried to keep the love of money and of pleasure in their hearts together with the love of Christ; but this cannot be. The love of money and of pleasure will prevail over the love of Christ, if we try to keep them both in our hearts at the same time.
Neither money nor pleasure could get for us what Christ has got for us; and therefore they should never be allowed to have a place together in the same heart.
We could not by pleasure or money get pardon and life; but we have got them through Christ.
We could not by money or pleasure get a treasure in heaven, but we have got it through Christ.
He is the word which is the seed of life to us.
No man can have an honest and good heart who does not keep Christ in his heart as the word of life.
But if he keeps Him, then lie will bring forth fruit.
Everything we do by which we show that Christ is precious is fruit. To confess His name is fruit.
To give thanks to Him is fruit.
To suffer for His sake is fruit.
To show kindness to one of His disciples for His sake is fruit. To forgive for His name's sake is fruit.
This fruit is brought forth with patience, because we have to bear His cross and to endure many things.-From the MSS. of T. T. Ed.