Moments For You

Mary wept because the Lord was no longer in the tomb. Instead, she should have wept if He had been there. Had He remained in the grave, we would have been without a Saviour. Does it not show that we often weep senselessly? Jacob said, "All these things are against... Read more →

"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20). On the day that Jesus arose, the firstfruit sheaf of the barley harvest was being waved by the High Priest in the Temple, as the representative of the myriads that stood stacked... Read more →

Man, in his preoccupation with the things of the world, is inclined to forget his greatest enemies: Satan, sin, and death. This terrific array of might he is unable to cope with. Hence the purpose of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ into the world—to defeat these invincibles that... Read more →

"If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." (1 Corinthians 15:14,17). Everything depends upon this one central fact: a risen Christ. His Claims Unfulfilled If Jesus Christ had not risen, what would it have meant so far as He Himself was concerned?... Read more →

"Jesus … whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it" (Acts 2:24). A stanza from an old hymn says that Jesus Christ "burst the bars" of the grave and "tore its bands away." If a... Read more →

"Wherefore 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" (Hebrews 7:25). As deep and varied as are the necessities of the believer's soul, they are all met by the death and resurrection of... Read more →

The resurrection is a glorious reality, for we have documentary, institutional, and experiential proofs. It validates the Gospel message, it authenticates faith, it certifies the Christian testimony, it secures the believer's salvation, and it authorizes the Divine program and the great commission. It guarantees the Christian's future resurrection; it gives... Read more →

Before we come to the examination of what Scripture teaches as to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it will be helpful to investigate these few questions: Who is it that could rise from the dead? What kind of life was it that deserved such a distinction? What kind of death... Read more →

"That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection" (Philippians 3:10). Christian, do you know the power of the resurrection of Christ? Are your thoughts those of one who is risen with Him, set on things above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God? Are... Read more →

Nothing helps the Christian to endure the trials of life so much as the habit of seeing God in everything. If we remember, as we start each day, that the hand of our Father can be traced in every scene—if we could see in the smallest, as well as in... Read more →

"The younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country" (Luke 15:13). "Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord" (Jonah 1:3). When God called Jonah to go to Nineveh on an errand of mercy, it was too high a hurdle... Read more →

Jonah's experience has to some extent been the experience of all who have passed from death unto life, all who have been brought from the bondage of sin into the liberty of the sons of God. Notice these seven things in the experience of Jonah. Disobedience "Jonah rose up to... Read more →

Who Was Jonah? "The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai" (Jonah 1:1) Jonah (which means "dove" in Hebrew) is identified as the son of Amittai. According to 2 Kings 14:25, Jonah was from Gath Hepher, a village about 2 miles northeast of Nazareth. Second Kings... Read more →

"Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that... Read more →

"The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee" (Jonah 3:1,2). God, in His grace, often gives us second, third, and even more chances to obey Him. After Jonah had... Read more →