THE POOR MAN’S OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY by Robert Hawker “DEUTERONOMY 10:14-15 It is very precious to trace all mercies to their source. The infinite greatness of GOD, and the infinite littleness of man, are in these verses most suitably brought together, by way of demonstrating, to the full, the wonderful properties of distinguishing grace. Nothing but distinguishing grace can be the cause assigned for GOD’S mercy. The…
Call to Worship December 3, 2019
THE POOR MAN’S OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY Robert Hawker “DEUTERONOMY 9:23-29 I would again remind the Reader, in this place, of that sweet office of the HOLY GHOST as the LORD’S Remembrancer. Moses was acting in this instance as his instrument. And when at any time our sins and rebellions are brought to our remembrance, whatever is the instrument, may we have grace to consider in it the…
Call to Worship October 27, 2019
Seeking a Reformation of Worship BY R.C. SPROUL “When Israel’s prophets denounced the corruption of Israelite worship, they sought reform, not revolution. Though they vehemently criticized liturgicalism, they never attacked the liturgy. Though they railed against externalism and formalism, they never sought to remove the externals and forms God had instituted. For the forms of worship to communicate the content they are designed to convey, there must be constant instruction so…
Call to Worship October20 2019
THE POOR MAN’S OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY Robert Hawker “DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: (8) But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with…
Call to Worship October 13 2019
THE POOR MAN’S OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY Robert Hawker “What can the imagination form of more loveliness, than that of beholding a pious parent encircled by his little family, to whom he is recounting the LORD’S gracious dealings with his soul. Reader, only picture to yourself a father…thus engaged, and then ask, whether the blessing of the LORD must not rest upon such households! And observe moreover, the…
Call to Worship September 29 2019
Robert Hawker, The Poor Man’s Commentary, Deuteronomy Chapter 4 “Verses 41-43 GOD hath given commandment concerning those cities of refuge: Numbers 35:9-34. But of such importance was the thing itself, that Moses in the very opening as it were, of his sermon, breaks off to follow up the LORD’S precept concerning this thing. But is there not a gospel sense in it, and that of a very…
Call to Worship September 15 2019
The Lord’s Supper by Thomas Watson “3. Is Christ’s blood shed? Here is comfort against death. A dying Savior, sweetens the pangs of death. Is your Lord crucified? Be of good comfort! Christ, by dying, has overcome death. He has cut the lock of sin where the strength of death lay! Christ has knocked out the teeth of this lion! He has pulled the thorn out of death—so that it cannot prick a believer’s…
Call to Worship September 6 2019
The Lord’s Supper by Thomas Watson “COMFORT to God’s people. 1. From Christ’s broken body and His blood poured out, we may gather this comfort—that it was a glorious sacrifice. It was a sacrifice of infinite merit. Had it been only an angel that suffered, or had Christ been only a mere man, as some blasphemously dream—then we might have despaired of salvation. But He suffered for us—who was God as well as man….
Call to Worship September 1 2019
The Lord’s Supper by Thomas Watson “Branch 7. If Jesus Christ has provided so holy an ordinance as the Lord’s Supper, let us live suitably to it. Have we received Christ into our hearts? Let us show Him forth—by our heavenliness. Let us show forth Christ by our heavenly words. Let us speak the language of Canaan. When the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles, they spoke…
The Lord’s Supper by Thomas Watson “Branch 3. Does Christ offer His body and blood to us in the Supper? Then with what solemn preparation should we come to so sacred an ordinance! It is not enough to do what God has appointed—but as He has appointed. ‘Prepare your hearts unto the Lord,’ 1 Samuel 7:3. The musician first puts his instrument in tune—before he plays. The heart must be prepared and put in tune—before…