XC. The Darkest of Deaths.
JOHN viii. 24. “For if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins.” THESE words were spoken by our Lord to men who seemed determined by the maddest of all rejections of mercy to make…
LXXXIX. The Faithful Witness.
JOHN viii. 18 “I am one that bear witness of myself.” I. OUR Lord affirms that He Himself is a witness to His own mission. 1. He meant this to apply to the manifest Deity that shone through all His…
LXXXVIII. The Light of the World.
JOHN viii. 12. “I am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness.” It was early morning and the Lord had come in from the Mount of Olives to the Temple Court, where He…
LXXXVII. Literalism and Party Spirit.
JOHN viii. 59. “Then took they up stones to cast at Him.’” JOHN xix. 7. “We have a law, and by our law He ought to die.” THE prevailing motive which led the Jewish people to the dreadful crime of…
LXXXVI. Christ’s Call to the Thirsty.
JOHN vii. 37. “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.” THESE are bold words, and they would be as false as…
LXXXV. Apostacy.
JOHN vi. 67. “Will ye also go away.” I. WHY do people go away? Because the Gospel is offensive to human nature and revolting to the pride of the creature. Some leave Christ being terrified by persecution. Some forsake true…
LXXXIV. True Religion.
JOHN vi. 37. “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” THE whole Gospel is here in germ and type. All is but the outgrowth and the blooming of this seed. I. Tried by this text,…
LXXXIII. The Bread of God.
JOHN vi. 33. “For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.” No miracle of Jesus excited or stirred the multitude like that of the feeding of the five thousand. It…
LXXXII. God a Spirit.
JOHN iv. 24. “God is a Spirit.” So far as our knowledge goes, we know of the existence of only two substances—the one, with qualities that are known to us by our senses, we call matter; and the other, known…
LXXXI. Faith and Unbelief.
JOHN iii. 18. “He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” JESUS CHRIST is here speaking of…