Hebrews 12 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. An American lawyer researching the law discovered it is based on the law of…
Romans 7 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Virgil was a great poet in the century preceding the birth of Christ. He wrote of the Roman form of capital punishment. The corpse was chained face to face with the murderer until it putrified against…
Isaiah 43 1 But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. Redemption means that God buys us out of our slavery to sin. There is the true story of…
Isaiah 45 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. At 15 years old CH Spurgeon (known as the Prince of Preachers in the 19th Century) heard the above verse and saw the Light. His mother had said she would…
1 Peter 1 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ… Some people just seem to be happy sitting in their sin,…
Romans 7 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord After the beginning of the work of the Revival in Mapumulo a desperate young man came to Rev Stegen late one evening. He was on the verge of committing…