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The birth of the Sons In the eternal life and order of God the Lord Jesus became for us a man, that He might bring us by His own birth into the family of God. For by His grace we too may know a similar kind of birth, a new birth entirely. A birth from sin to sanctity, from self to God, from vileness... Read More

Reply to Queries and Animadversions1 [1667, published posthumously] Concerning the Rule of the New Covenant, or that which GOD hath appointed to be the Rule to the Children of the New Covenant. THE way, the truth, the life; the everlasting way, the everlasting truth, the everlasting life; that is th... Read More

Communion with God By J. C. Philpot Nothing distinguishes the divine religion of the child of God, not only from the dead profanity of the openly ungodly, but from the formal lip-service of the lifeless professor—so much as communion with God. How clearly do we see this exemplified in the saints of ... Read More

July 1 "My grace is sufficient for you--for my strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9 How mysterious are God's dealings! That such a highly-favored man as Paul should come down from the "third heaven" to the very gates of hell (that is not too strong an expression, for "the messen... Read More

December 1 "According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love--having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will." Ephesians 1:4, 5 It is a ve... Read More

"For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth--and the fowls sha... Read More

Preached on July 31, 1853, at Eden Street Chapel, by J. C. Philpot "Now if any man builds upon this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest – for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try... Read More

Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on, March 1, 1862, by J. C. Philpot "Your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope." 1 Thess. 1:3 When our blessed Lord rose from the dead and went up on high to appear in the presence of God for us, as our personal Representative and interced... Read More

The Lives of Joseph and John the Baptist November 8, 1981 The Lives of Joseph and John the Baptist Except for Saturdays our family sits down for breakfast at about 7:15 a.m. After our cereal and juice we open the Bible and I read the morning Scripture. Then we pray and the boys head off to school. W... Read More

Apostolic Power OH! FOR A CALL BACK to apostolic preaching, apostolic power, apostolic praying. We cry out ‘I want apostolic power’ but do we really? Do we want to suffer as they did? Do we want to crown our offering with a tortured bloody martyrdom as they did? Pentecost has a cost. If we are going... Read More