“Talent on loan from GOD” – One year ago today, is the day Rush passed away.
Rush: “I pray every night to God not to disappoint you, that your prayers be answered.”
Category: God
WHAT IT MEANS TO PREACH CHRIST – Acts 8
A bare catalogue of the facts of the gospel is overwhelming: God entered our earth-life as a man, in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, fulfilling the great prophecies of the Old Testament; he wrought the greatest wonders ever seen on earth, even raising the dead again and again; he was despised and rejected; he died on the cross according to the Scriptures in order to procure eternal life for men; he rose the third day, ascended to the right hand of God, established his church, sent the Holy Spirit, is reigning until all enemies are destroyed; and finally, he will raise to life again all who ever lived on earth, preside over the final judgment and appoint all men their destiny.
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HEAVEN OPENED AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE – Revelation 19
This is a description of the Lord Jesus Christ. We also identify him with the rider of the white horse in the first seal (Revelation 6:2).
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AGONY IN GETHSEMANE: “MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWFUL EVEN UNTO DEATH” – Mark 14
Jesus did not meet death with the joyful attitude of some of the martyrs, nor in the gay serenity of Socrates, but with overwhelming sorrow, convulsive grief, and with the sweat of blood.
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THE PERFECTION OF CHRISTIANS – Ephesians 1
The Perfection of Christians
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THE FIRST INNOVATOR – THE GREAT SIN OF CAIN
The great sin of Cain was simply this – he offered to God what he supposed would be just as good as what God commanded.
He was the first innovator.
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BABYLON’S JUDGMENT & THE IDENTITY OF THE HARLOT – Revelation 18
Revelation 18 deals with the particular judgment of God himself upon Babylon, as sharply distinguished from the judgment of Revelation 17, in which the nations of earth, not by the intervention of heaven, but by something that mankind does, grow weary of her and destroy her.
