Comfort of the Scriptures

Paul had just been writing about “our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.” “But,” he continues, “we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us.” Thus he connects the deliverance which God has wrought for him with the prayers of his Corinthian friends, “ye also helping together by prayer for us.” Never will we know, until that hour when all the saints are safely home with the Lord, what God has wrought in our lives by the prayers of other saints. Paul, in prison, wrote to the Philippians about his situation and said that “I know that this shall turn to my salvation [deliverance] through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” God’s Word has much to say about our praying one for another. Thus we “bear … one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

As we remember each other Before the throne of His grace, God undertakes for us richly, For each one in his own place.

2 Corinthians 1:11 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:8‑10 ~ Philippians 1:19 ~ Galatians 6:2 ~ James 5:16

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The Lord Jesus Christ took our sins, that He might give us His righteousness. “All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Our Lord “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.” “It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin.” “Now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested … even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference.” “Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us … righteousness,” that I may “be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

Clothed in the righteousness of Christ, No more does my sin appear; “Accepted in the Beloved,” I have nothing now to fear.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ Isaiah 53:6 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ 1 Peter 3:18 ~ Isaiah 53:10 ~ Romans 3:21‑22 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:30 ~ Philippians 3:9

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There come times in our Christian lives when we must proceed with godly determination. Some unpleasant duty faces us, some task must be performed, and we feel that we are not fitted for it. Some word needs to be spoken, and we find ourselves reluctant to do it. At such times, regardless of our feeling and fears, we must move forward. Paul, with his heart heavy because of the carnality of the Corinthian believers, “determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” Later he wrote to them that “I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.” Having determined these things in his heart, he proceeded to fulfill them. It is recorded of our blessed Lord that, “when the time was come that He should be received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.” We hear Him speaking prophetically, through Isaiah, saying, “The Lord God will help Me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.” May we who know Him determine to do His will. “I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”

The task is not mine, but the Lord’s, That which He calls me to do; I yield myself to His leading, And He will carry me through.

1 Corinthians 2:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:1 ~ Luke 9:51 ~ Isaiah 50:7 ~ Psalm 16:8

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“The house of the Lord” was where the Lord had said that “there will I meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.” David’s desire then was to be in the Lord’s presence, to be in fellowship with Him. The same desire is expressed by Paul when he said “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death,” and “I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Many of us who know the Lord have a desire to go with the Lord, to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,” but, unlike David, we do not constantly “seek after” such fellowship. We allow ourselves to be “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.” If we would “follow on to know the Lord” in intimate fellowship, we must continually “seek those things which are above.”

If we would know His presence near And reflect His beauty too, Then we must count all things as loss That would hide His face from view.

Psalm 27:4 ~ Exodus 25:22 ~ Philippians 3:10 ~ Philippians 3:13‑14 ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ Luke 8:14 ~ Hosea 6:3 ~ Colossians 3:1

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“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God,” for “of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures,” and “it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare Thy name unto My brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee.” So “the Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.” Our Lord said that “I go to prepare a place for you. … And … I will come again, and receive you unto Myself.”

Born into the family of God By faith in our precious Lord; So then the world knows us not; It knows not Him nor His Word.

1 John 3:1 ~ John 1:12‑13 ~ James 1:18 ~ Hebrews 2:10‑12 ~ Romans 8:16‑17 ~ John 14:2‑3

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Many are the tears that have been shed by God’s people in this sin-cursed and hostile world: tears of grief, tears of regret and remorse, tears of repentance, tears of helplessness, tears of concern, and even sometimes tears of joy. And the Lord knows about them all and keeps account of them all. Most of us can put ourselves in the place of the psalmist when he said that “my tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?” Many of God’s dear servants like Paul are “serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears,” and have “ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears.” Many a letter has been written by the saints of which it may be said that “I wrote unto you with many tears,” and many dear children of God can say with David, “I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.” God permits these heartaches and tears for a purpose, and He counts all our tears. “In all their affliction He was afflicted … and He bare them, and carried them,” and His word to Hezekiah comes home to our hearts: “I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears.” And the time is fast approaching when “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”

The heart does break, and the tears flow Through dark and sorrowful nights, But blessing will come from His hand, Down from “the Father of lights.”

Psalm 56:8 ~ Psalm 42:3 ~ Acts 20:19 ~ Acts 20:31 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:4 ~ Psalm 6:6 ~ Isaiah 63:9 ~ 2 Kings 20:5 ~ Revelation 21:4

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Few are the children of God who have never been “desolate,” lonely even in the midst of friends and loved ones, and “afflicted,” depressed, and greatly conscious of our need. At such times we know, deep in our hearts, the truth of the Lord’s words that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness,” but even such knowledge seems hard to lay hold upon in times of such depression. Our situation seems like that of Asaph, when he cried, “I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. … Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? Is His mercy clean gone forever? Doth His promise fail forevermore?” But notice how Asaph overcame such depression: “I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember Thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all Thy work, and talk of Thy doings.” Do likewise, afflicted friend.

Is your heart now sad and lonely? Do you feel that all has gone? Your feelings do not alter Him; He’s ever true to His own.

Psalm 25:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ Psalm 77:3‑8 ~ Psalm 77:10‑12

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This verse anticipates the glorious time when our Lord Jesus Christ shall sit in Jerusalem on the “throne of His father David: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end.” But that which will be true of redeemed and restored Israel in that day is so applicable now to us who know Him. For us He “is mighty,” He is “wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.” “He will save,” for “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” And “He will rejoice over thee with joy.” When we came to Him and trusted Him, there was “joy … in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,” and now the Lord continues to “rejoice over thee with joy.” He is not a hard taskmaster, ready to smite us when we fail. He deals with us in love and grace, and “like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.” “He will joy over thee with singing.” “His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.”

He rejoiceth over His own, As one that findeth great spoil; He has redeemed us by His blood, Apart from our works or toil.

Zephaniah 3:17 ~ Luke 1:32‑33 ~ Isaiah 28:29 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ Luke 15:7 ~ Psalm 103:13‑14 ~ Lamentations 3:22‑23

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What a dark picture precedes the above words. We “were dead in trespasses and sins,” and we “walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” How benighted and benumbed and depraved we all were, “but God!” But for His intervention there was no hope for any. “But God … rich in mercy,” and because of “His great love,” has “quickened us together with Christ,” “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” so that now “by grace ye are saved.” “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” And not only so, “but God” still intervenes for us. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

Lost, blinded, condemned and undone, No hope nor help could be found, “But God … rich in mercy” and grace, With love unbounded came down.

Ephesians 2:4‑5 ~ Ephesians 2:1‑3 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ Romans 5:8 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13

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We are not always able to see how God works in the lives of His children. We know not His design nor can we trace His movements, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” And the Lord says to us, as He did to Peter, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” But amid all the testings and pressures of life we do know, by faith, that “as for God, His way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: He is a buckler to all those who trust in Him. … It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.” If, like Asaph, we must say that “all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning,” yet His word to us is that “I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Now “we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us … after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” So though “we are troubled on every side, yet [we are] not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair,” for we “have not seen, and yet have believed.”

We may not trace the ways of God, As He works in us each hour To bring His image in our lives, And to fill us with His power.

John 20:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ John 13:7 ~ Psalm 18:30 ~ Psalm 18:32 ~ Psalm 73:14 ~ Isaiah 41:13 ~ Hebrews 12:9‑11 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8

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