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Download and/or listen to the following audio MP3 sermon: The Gospel In A Nutshell (15.6 MB) preached by Pastor Jason Lim at Gospel Light Christian Church Singapore To download, right-click and save to your local drive. To steam and listen online, click on the link and a new page will open.  Click on the play button to play the message (see illustration below) Illustration - how to play

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In an American locomotive shed there is an instrument, something like a piano, for testing engines. The sound of each part of the engine, when in a perfect state, is in unison with the corresponding note in the testing machine. The slightest flaw in any of the parts will cause a discord, and so reveal its weakness. The Word of God is a perfect testing instrument for man's character and life. If

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Just before Lent the Roman Catholics have what they call the time of carnival, which literally means the solace of the flesh. If they must fast during Lent the flesh must have special license beforehand. Solacing the flesh is not confined to Romanists. We are warned to make no provision for the flesh. If we live in the flesh the flesh will make provision for itself; if we live in the Spirit the

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Becomingness The word in italics in the texts is one and the same in the Greek. 1. A Subjective Saviour. “Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness” (Mat_3:15). 2. A Suffering Kinsman. “It became Him,” etc. (Heb_2:10). 3. A Holy Priest. “Such an high priest became us” (Heb_7:26). 4. A Woman’s Attitude. “Is it comely (becoming) that a woman?” (1Co_11:13). 5. A Saintly Walk. “As becometh

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"The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him." Lam_3:24 It is our great privilege, beloved, that we live in a portionless world. This is both our distinctive badge and our Christian charter. When God parceled out the land of Canaan among the tribes of Israel, He made an exception in the tribe of Levi, to whom He said, "You shall have no inheritance in the land, neither

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"Men tell us sometimes," says Drummond, "there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true there is no God. They cannot see God, because they have no eye." When the fool says in his heart, there is no God, it would appear that in his foolish heart he believes what he says, because he has actually no capacity for seeing God, because of the blindness of his

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There is a variety of apple called "Apple-John," which is considered to be in perfection when it is shrivelled and withered. There are also those who believe in an apple-John religion, which to them is perfect only when it is thoroughly dried up of all spiritual power and utterly destitute of the sap of life and growth. The trees of the Lord are full of sap.

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True education is not the cramming of the mind with different ideas, but the developing of our capacities, so that their real character may be brought out to the best advantage, and the highest purposes of our lives accomplished. In the caterpillar all the rudiments of the butterfly may be seen, but a great change is needful to liberate the higher faculties, and make the caterpillar that new

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Perhaps the most ferocious animal in creation is the "hamster rat." When it takes a grip, rather than yield it will allow itself to be beaten in pieces with a stick. If it seizes a man's hand, it must be killed before it will quit its hold. How like this "hamster rat" is our own proud, unyielding, sinful self. That selfish spirit, that would cling to and suck the life out of the new heaven-born

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In South America the wind from the marshes comes charged with the germs of intermittent fever, and often the most deadly cholera accompanies stillness in the atmosphere. A storm is the best purifier of the air, and the inhabitants long eagerly for it. From the marshy places of our lower nature the fever of lust and unsanctified passion comes. The stillness of inactivity and do-nothingness is

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What a flutter was created in the minds of many by the 20 prize offered by the proprietor of a Scottish paper to the one who finds the hidden medallion. With what eagerness have many been searching night and day, heedless of who sees them, or of what others may think. They are seeking for treasure which they believe is within their reach. Although only one can possibly get the prize, yet hundreds

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THE BEAUTIFUL INCARNATION.We are all familiar with the beauty of the carnation flower, which takes its name from its flesh-coloured appearance. It is said that no other flower presents such scenes of wonder and beauty under the microscope. What an emblem of Him who was made in the likeness of sinful flesh! What hidden wonders there are in the great incarnation, only to be seen through the

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There is a certain moral disease peculiar to soldiers called "malingery." It means to feign sickness when there is some fighting to do. There are many malingerers in the religious camp when the trumpet of battle is sounded. They have no gifts; they can do nothing but talk about their leanness.

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God announces Himself the witness and judge of man. The evil-doer can neither elude the all-seeing eye, nor escape from the almighty hand. Secrecy is the study and the hope of the wicked. A sinner’s chief labour is to hide his sin, and his labour is all lost. Darkness hideth not from God. He who knows evil in its secret source is able to limit the range of its operation. There is a special method

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In Greek lore "Briareus" was said to be a giant with one hundred heads. Sin is such a giant, every atom of its being is capable of putting on a self-assertive head. This briarean monster can only be overcome by the indwelling presence of Him "who was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2Cor 5:21).

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I. You deny boldly the existence of God. You believe the world fatherless and forsaken; itself eternal, or the product of chance. By your creed you profess to be, or at least to know, the very God whose existence you so madly deny. In the greatness of your folly you arrogate to yourselves the very perfections of Divinity, while a God is denied.II. Apply the description of the text to the

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When the Mosaic law was instituted, commerce had not been taken up by the Israelites, and the lending of money on interest for its employment in trade was a thing unknown. The only occasion for loans would be to supply the immediate necessities of the borrower, and the exaction of interest under such circumstances would be productive of great hardship, involving the loss of land, and even of

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Everybody can see the cedar of Lebanon, the pine of the forest, or the hedge with its convolvulus and wild rose. They can even see the daisy, the flower in the grass. But who sees the grass? He who made the grass to grow upon the mountain, He knows every blade of it, and for every blade has recognition, sunshine, and dew. So is it with the lowliest and humblest man in this world to-day. God’s

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Strangers with thee in life! Those united in Christ are those only who are united in truth. Strangers with thee in death! Alone wilt thou descend the banks of that dark river. For be assured the hosts of darkness and sin flee terror-stricken from its waters. The Lord and the Church are with them; but “strangers with thee.” Strangers with thee in eternity! There the little finesses and shams by

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It is not wise or safe to be turning about with every wind, like the weathercock. The jib-sail in front of the foremast shifts itself to catch the wind, the ship is thereby helped on its course. Old forms, like the windmill, may be beautiful, but they are useless when the power is gone. It will be often necessary for us, like the jib-sail, to turn ourselves if we would catch the breath of Heaven

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A painter lays down a dark ground to lean his picture on, and thereby bring its beauty out. Such is the method adopted in this portion of the Word. The pure delights of the family are about to be represented in the sweetest colours that nature yields--wedded love mirrored in running waters; surely we have apples of gold in pictures of silver here. And in all the earlier part of the chapter the

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I. Lamentation follows wantonness.1. When men find their goods gone and their bodies corrupted.2. When they see all their opportunities of doing good to soul and body gone.3. They feel God’s hand heavy on them, as being on the rack of an evil conscience.II. The end of wanton courses is sorrowful.1. Because of pleasures past.2. Because of present sorrows.3. Because of pursuing pain that is gotten

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It is said of Sir I. Newton that once having dismounted from his horse to lead him up a hill, the horse slipped his head out of the bridle, but Newton, oblivious to what had happened, went on holding the bridle till he reached the hill top, and turned to remount. While he, in his mind, was busy here and there, the horse was gone. Let us take heed, lest-while we are engrossed with other things-the

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I. A dissolute young man with a decaying body. The wise man foresaw the wretched physical condition to which the dissolute life of the young man whom he calls his son would lead.1. It is a sad sight to see a young man decay at all.2. It is more sad when the physical decay has been produced by a dissolute life.II. A dissolute young man with an active memory.1. He remembers the many privileges he

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In ancient times a cross used to be set up at the place where the market was to be held. If strangers asked where they could get such and such things they were told to go to the cross for them. The Cross of Christ is God's market-place for the world. Stranger, if you want pardon, life, and rest, go to the Cross. But you must buy without money.

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