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28 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) Asking the way to Zion ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 119:33–40 They shall ask the way. This intimates:(i)Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 27th Where the battle’s lost and won If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord.… Jeremiah 4:1. The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. The Spirit of God apprehends me and I am obliged to get alone with GodContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 27 “His soul entered into iron.” (Psalm 105:18.) TURN, that about and render it in our language, and it reads thus, “Iron entered his soul.” Is there not a truth in this? That sorrow and privation, the yoke borne in the youth, the soul’s enforced restraint, are all conducive to an iron tenacity andContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

27 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) Citizens of Zion ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 87:1–7 Zion represents the church of God. It has twoContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 26th Placed in the light If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, … the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John 1:7. To mistake conscious freedom from sin for deliverance from sin by the Atonement is a great error. No man knows whatContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”