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Sunday, February 8, 2009
MORNING:
"Thou shalt call his name Jesus."
-- Matthew 1:21
When a person is dear, everything connected with him becomes dear for
his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus in the
estimation of all true believers, that everything about him they
consider to be inestimable beyond all price. "All thy garments smell of
myrrh, and aloes, and cassia," said David, as if the very vestments of
the Saviour were so sweetened by his person that he could not but love
them. Certain it is, that there is not a spot where that hallowed foot
hath trodden-there is not a word which those blessed lips have
uttered-nor a thought which his loving Word has revealed-which is not
to us precious beyond all price. And this is true of the names of
Christ-they are all sweet in the believer's ear. Whether he be called
the Husband of the Church, her Bridegroom, her Friend; whether he be
styled the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world-the King, the
Prophet, or the Priest-every title of our Master-Shiloh, Emmanuel,
Wonderful, the Mighty Counsellor-every name is like the honeycomb
dropping with honey, and luscious are the drops that distil from it.
But if there be one name sweeter than another in the believer's ear, it
is the name of Jesus. Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of
heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name
more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven
into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin
with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it.
It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the
bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension,
although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a
gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.
"Jesus, I love thy charming name,
'Tis music to mine ear."
EVENING:
"He shall save his people from their sins."
-- Matthew 1:21
Many persons, if they are asked what they understand by salvation, will
reply, "Being saved from hell and taken to heaven." This is one result
of salvation, but it is not one tithe of what is contained in that
boon. It is true our Lord Jesus Christ does redeem all his people from
the wrath to come; he saves them from the fearful condemnation which
their sins had brought upon them; but his triumph is far more complete
than this. He saves his people "from their sins." Oh! sweet deliverance
from our worst foes. Where Christ works a saving work, he casts Satan
from his throne, and will not let him be master any longer. No man is a
true Christian if sin reigns in his mortal body. Sin will be in us-it
will never be utterly expelled till the spirit enters glory; but it
will never have dominion. There will be a striving for dominion-a
lusting against the new law and the new spirit which God has
implanted-but sin will never get the upper hand so as to be absolute
monarch of our nature. Christ will be Master of the heart, and sin must
be mortified. The Lion of the tribe of Judah shall prevail, and the
dragon shall be cast out. Professor! is sin subdued in you? If your
life is unholy your heart is unchanged, and if your heart is unchanged
you are an unsaved person. If the Saviour has not sanctified you,
renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, he has
done nothing in you of a saving character. The grace which does not
make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves
his people, not in their sins, but from them. "Without holiness no man
shall see the Lord." "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ
depart from iniquity." If not saved from sin, how shall we hope to be
counted among his people. Lord, save me now from all evil, and enable
me to honour my Saviour.
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