“God intermixeth mercy with affliction: he steeps his sword of justice in the oil of mercy; there was no night so dark, but Israel had a pillar of fire in it; there is no condition so dismal, but we may see a pillar of fire to give light. If the body be in pain, conscience is in peace, –there is mercy: affliction is for the prevention of sin, –there is mercy. In the ark there was a rod and a pot of manna, the emblem of a Christian’s condition, mercy interlined with judgment.”
– Thomas Watson
Weaned from Feeding on Husks and Ashes
(J. C. Philpot, “Zion’s Blessings” 1843)
“I will satisfy her poor with bread.” Psalm 132:15
The Lord has given a special promise to Zion’s
poor—”I will satisfy her poor with bread.”
Nothing else? Bread? Is that all?
Yes! That is all God has promised—bread,
the staff of life.
But what does He mean by “bread”?
The Lord Himself explains what bread is. He says,
“I am the Bread of life. He who comes to Me will
never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will
never be thirsty. I am the living Bread who came
down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread,
he will live forever.” John 6:35,51
The bread, then, that God gives to Zion’s poor is
His own dear Son—fed upon by living faith, under
the special operations of the Holy Spirit in the heart.
“I will satisfy her poor with bread.” Psalm 132:15
But must not we have an appetite before we can
feed upon bread? The rich man who feasts continually
upon juicy meat and savory sauces, would not live upon
bread. To come down to live on such simple food as bread
—why, one must be really hungry to be satisfied with that.
So it is spiritually. A man fed upon ‘mere notions’ and a
number of ‘speculative doctrines’ cannot descend to the
simplicity of the gospel. To feed upon a crucified Christ,
a bleeding Jesus!—he is not sufficiently brought down to
the starving point, to relish such spiritual food as this!
Before, then, he can feed upon this Bread of life he must
be made spiritually poor. And when he is brought to be
nothing but a mass of wretchedness, filth, guilt, and misery
—when he feels his soul sinking under the wrath of God,
and has scarcely a hope to buoy up his poor tottering heart
—when he finds the world embittered to him, and he has no
one object from which he can reap any abiding consolation
—then the Lord is pleased to open up in his conscience,
and bring the sweet savor of the love of His dear Son
into his heart—and he begins to taste gospel bread.
Being weaned from feeding on husks and ashes, and
sick “of the vines of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah,”
and being brought to relish simple gospel food, he begins
to taste a sweetness in ‘Christ crucified’ which he never
could know—until he was made experimentally poor.
The Lord has promised to satisfy such.
“I will satisfy her poor with bread.” Psalm 132:15
A large video collection of classic hymns, contemporary Praise and Worship songs, and the works (audio books, devotional readings, and sermons) of men greatly used of God, such as: Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, A.W. Tozer, A.W. Pink, John Owen, Oswald Chambers, Andrew Murray, E.M. Bounds, John Bunyan, George Whitefield, and many more, covering topics on many aspects of the Christian life. May your time spent here be blessed.
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A. W. Pink – Attributes of God: The Holiness of God (Antithesis of All Moral Blemish)
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Exodus 15:11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
A large video collection of classic hymns, contemporary Praise and Worship songs, and the works (audio books, devotional readings, and sermons) of men greatly used of God, such as: Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, A.W. Tozer, A.W. Pink, John Owen, Oswald Chambers, Andrew Murray, E.M. Bounds, John Bunyan, George Whitefield, and many more, covering topics on many aspects of the Christian life. May your time spent here be blessed.
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Dr. James White Sermon – Woe Betide This Culture
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries ( http://www.aomin.org/ ), a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics. He has authored or contributed to more than twenty books, including The King James Only Controversy, The Forgotten Trinity, The Potter’s Freedom, and The God Who Justifies. He is an accomplished debater, having engaged in more than one-hundred moderated, public debates with leading proponents of Roman Catholicism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormonism, as well as critics such as Bart Ehrman, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, and John Shelby Spong. He is an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, has been married to Kelli for more than twenty-eight years, and has two children, Joshua and Summer.
“Avoid a sugared Gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek that Gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the Gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his Gospel soak into your soul.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ’s absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.”
– Samuel Rutherford
“If the sun of God’s countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.”
– Joseph Hall
A large video collection of classic hymns, contemporary Praise and Worship songs, and the works (audio books, devotional readings, and sermons) of men greatly used of God, such as: Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, A.W. Tozer, A.W. Pink, John Owen, Oswald Chambers, Andrew Murray, E.M. Bounds, John Bunyan, George Whitefield, and many more, covering topics on many aspects of the Christian life. May your time spent here be blessed.
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Contemporary Christian Music Lyric Videos Compilation (Full album / bonus demos)
Because there may be people who cannot afford to purchase my new album, I have made it available to listen to for free here on YouTube. If you can afford to buy the album, or perhaps just select songs from the album, and feel so led to help support this ministry, I would greatly appreciate it. Whatever the case may be, I pray you will find the songs a blessing to your soul…all praise, honor, and glory to God.
The links to my recently released new album, “A Message of Hope.” The album is available on iTunes and Amazon:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/a-message-of-hope/id731510259
Music and video owned and copyrighted by
Rich Moore Music©
Song order:
1. Behold, I am Coming Quickly! / Revelation 3
2. Do not be afraid, Stand Still / Exodus 14
3. Message of Hope / James 1
4. Woe to those who call Evil Good, and Good Evil / Isaiah 5
5. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, the Life / John 14
6. I am Distraught / Psalm 88
7. Sing Praises to the Lord and Bless His Name / Psalm 145
8. What it takes to be Jesus’ Disciple / Luke 9
9. I will Sing to the Lord / Psalm 104
10. The Wicked Walk on Every Side / Psalm 12
Bonus demo tracks:
11. God must be Loved
12. Our God is Holy
13. I will Sing to the Lord / Psalm 104
14. The Wicked Walk on Every Side / Psalm 12
15. Sing Praises to the Lord and Bless His Name / Psalm 145
You will find lyric videos for each individual song in “My Original Contemporary Christian Songs” (playlist): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzOwqed_gET0JkRfjd1-xm_BGrCYaJqVR
Christian Praise and Worship Songs playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4D0533BC00E40EA4
“Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“In heaven our knowledge will be perfect, but the Lord Jesus Himself will be the fountain of it. Dark providences, never understood before, will then be clearly seen, and all that puzzles us now will become plain to us in the light of the Lamb. Oh, what revelations there will be and what glorifying of the God of love!”
– C.H. Spurgeon: Morning By Morning
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