Christian Living

“Woe is me! for I am undone;   because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:   for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”—Isaiah 6:5 Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard....

To get the priceless gift of the Holy Spirit—a clean heart— you must work together with God. On God’s side, all things are ready, and He waits and longs to give the blessing; but before He can do so, you must, with His help, get yourself ready; you must do your part,...

“And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” —Deuteronomy 30:6 To love God with all the heart can occur only when it is circumcised—purified...

“How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” —Luke 11:13 This promise is the Magna Carta of all the rights of the believer respecting the promise and power of the Holy Spirit provided by Christ’s atonement. This means that...

Many talk much about what Christ has done for us, but how little is spoken about what He is to do in us. He was incarnated, suffered, died, and rose again from the dead; ascended into heaven, and there appears in the presence of God for us. These were all saving,...

Question: “I am in great distress, having been pardoned and baptized with the Holy Spirit, a happy, aggressive Christian worker, then knowingly and deliberately committing sin and repeating it for months and years. Do you think there is any hope for so great a...

We live in a soft, lax age which does not like discipline. But if we would live holy lives for the Lord Jesus Christ, we must learn to discipline ourselves. Such discipline will include a resistance of temptation to forbidden indulgence and also a careful control of...

All the dealings of God with the soul of the believer are in order to bring it into oneness with Himself. This divine union was the glorious purpose in the heart of God for His people before the foundation of the world. It was the mystery hid from ages and...

Among the very first conditions of being qualified for membership in the true Church, which is the Bride of Christ, is that of having a willing and obedient heart to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. Seven times within the limits of the second and third chapters of...

Every true Christian, called to be a disciple of the blessed Jesus, rather than refusing this offered privilege, renounces his all to follow Him. This is even more conspicuous in the character of every true minister. Such a person, who is inwardly called by the grace...