F.B. Meyer

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101.) The Prayer of Intercession
      "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy."-Phil. 1:3,4. The epistles of Paul are full of allusions to his prayers. We might almost call them his prayer book. Let us verify that assertion by turning to the epistles as they come on the pages of the Bible. "God is my witnes ...read more

102.) The Secret of Christ's Indwelling
      It is meet that the largest church in the greatest Gentile city in the world should be dedicated to the Apostle Paul, for Gentiles are under a great obligation to him as the Apostle of the Gentiles. It is to him that we owe, under the Spirit of God, the unveiling of two great mysteries, which specially touch us as Gentiles. The first of these ...read more

103.) The Secret of Guidance
      MANY CHILDREN of GOD are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have us do. The importance of the subject cannot be exaggerated; so much of our power and peace consists in knowing where God would have us be, an ...read more

104.) Watering
      "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day" (Isa. 27:3). In the scorching Oriental heat the vineyard needs incessant watering, else the vines fail. And our spirits are equally dependent on the refreshment which only God's tender love can afford. The heat of temptation and of sore d ...read more

105.) Way Into the Holiest - PREFACE
      This Epistle bears no name of author, or designation of church. But it needs neither. In every sentence we can detect the Authorship of the Holy Spirit, and feel that it has a message, not to one age, but to all ages, not to one community, but to the universal Church. We do not therefore discuss questions which are amply treated in every comment ...read more

106.) Way Into the Holiest - 10: THE GOSPEL OF REST
      "There remains therefore a rest to the people of God." - (HEBREWS 4.9) THE keynote of this chapter is Rest. In the second verse it is spoken of as a gospel, or good news. And is there any gospel that more needs preaching in these busy, weary days, through which our age is rushing to its close, than the Gospel of Rest? On all hands we hear of ...read more

107.) Way Into the Holiest - 1: THE WORD OF GOD
      GOD, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son." (Hebrews 1.1-2). What word could more fittingly stand at the head of the first line of the first paragraph in this noble epistle! Each structure must rest on Him as foundation, each tree must spring f ...read more

108.) Way Into the Holiest - 2: THE DIGNITY OF CHRIST
      "Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Being made so much better than the angels." (Hebrews 1.3-4). In these few lines we can but lightly touch on the majestic titles ...read more

109.) Way Into the Holiest - 3: THE GLORY OF CHRIST'S OFFICE
      "He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name." (Hebrews 1.4). Apart from Scripture, we would have been disposed to infer the existence of other orders of intelligent and spiritual beings besides man. As the order of creation climbs up to man from the lowest living organism through many various stages of existence, so surely the series m ...read more

110.) Way Into the Holiest - 4: DRIFTING
      "We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." - (HEBREWS 2. 1). SALVATION is a great word, and it is one of the keywords of this Epistle. Heirs of salvation (1.14), so great salvation (2.3), Captain of salvation (2.10), eternal salvation (5. 9), things that accompany salvati ...read more

111.) Way Into the Holiest - 5: "WHAT IS MAN?"
      "We see Jesus, ... crowned with glory and honour." {HEBREWS 2.5-9). IN the first great division of this treatise, we have seen the incomparable superiority of the Lord Jesus to angels, and archangels, and all the heavenly host. But now there arises an objection which was very keenly realised by these Hebrew Christians, and which, to a certain ex ...read more

112.) Way Into the Holiest - 6: "PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS"
      "It became Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." (HEBREWS 2.10). THERE is no book which can stand the test of sorrow and suffering as the Bible can. Other books may delight us in sunny hours, when the heart is gay; but in dar ...read more

113.) Way Into the Holiest - 7: THE DEATH OF DEATH
      "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil; and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (HEBREWS 2.14-15). WE fear death with a double fear. Th ...read more

114.) Way Into the Holiest - 8: CHRIST'S MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HELP
      "We have a merciful and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God." (HEBREWS 2.17). DO you wonder that your Lord was tempted and sorrowful? It is indeed the marvel of eternity, and yet not so marvellous, when we consider the beings whom He elected to succour, help, and save, and of whom each of us is one. Had He chosen to lay hold of f ...read more

115.) Way Into the Holiest - 9: A WARNING AGAINST UNBELIEF
      "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." - HEBREWS 3.12. THE contrast between the third and fourth chapters of this epistle is very marked. The former is like a drear November day, when all the landscape is drenched by sweeping rain, and the rotting leaves fall in showers to ...read more

116.) Way Into the Holiest - 11: THE WORD OF GOD AND ITS EDGE
      "The Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (HEBREWS 4.12). WE all have to do with God. "Him with whom we have to do." You cannot break the connection. You must ...read more

117.) Way Into the Holiest - 12: TIMELY AND NEEDED HELP
      "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (HEBREWS 4.16). NEED! Time of need! Every hour we live is a time of need, and we are safest and happiest when we feel our needs most keenly. If you say that you are rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, yo ...read more

118.) Way Into the Holiest - 13: GETHSEMANE
      "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared: though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered." (HEBREWS 5.7-8). Eight ancient olive trees still mark the site of Gethsemane. ...read more

119.) Way Into the Holiest - 14: IMPOSSIBLE TO RENEW TO REPENTANCE
      "It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an op ...read more