A Goodly Heritage

Blaidhna mhath uir dhuibh uile. Happy New Year To You All

While you do not look to the law in the least for justification , you nevertheless magnify and honour the law by your obedience to its requirements. You do not obey the law in order to obtain the forgiveness of your sins . They are already forgiven for Christ's sake . That part of your salvation is secure. But you obey the law because you are forgiven ; because you love to obey . You obey it because your faith in Christ's blood is living , and not dead ; is working faith, and not inoperative faith- the genuine principle which Paul praises and defends, and not the counterfeit which James condemns and attacks.

"I will send a famine in the land ...........of hearing the words of the Lord."Amos 8: 11. Israel will not listen to God' s prophets , and their voices will be silenced . This was a just retribution . As they were not willing to have the word of God , so there should be a famine of that word . The word of God was precious in the days of Samuel , because there was no open vision ; so should it be again . And perhaps this privation will be one day meted to our own beloved country . There is a much larger proportion of our population outside than inside our churches ; and men proudly eschew God's Word . It may be that the message of the Gospel will almost cease from among them , and be replaced - as in many instances is now the case  - by the dry husks of morality and ceremonialism . Then they shall run to and fro to seek the word of of the Lord , and shall not find it .................. It is worth notice , that if men have not God , they will find some substitute . Th...

The sacrament of the Supper exhibits Christ not merely as a Lamb to be slain for a sin - offering , but as a Paschal Lamb to be eaten for spiritual nourishment . "Take eat this is My Body ."By this injunction Jesus taught the twelve , and through them all Christians , to regard His crucified humanity as the bread of God for the life of their souls . We must eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man spiritually by faith , as we eat the bread and drink the wine literally with the mouth .  In regarding Christ as the Bread of Life , we are not to restrict ourselves to the one benefit mentioned by Him in instituting the feast , the remission of sins , but to have in view all His benefits tending to our spiritual nourishment and growth in grace . Christ is the Bread of Life in all His offices  . As a Prophet , He supplies the bread  of divine truth to feed our minds ; as a Priest , He furnishes the bread of righteousness to satisfy our troubled consciences ; as a King...