Al's Devotional

Hi, This is true expository preaching.  It is also life-changing, as a sermon should be.  Let me know what you think. Since this came from the early 1800's, it had the old spelling for words, and no scripture references, so I put all the references in italics with endnotes, and updated the spelling. ~Al C ONCUPISCENCE P UNISHED   The Rev. William Jay (6 May 1769 - 27 December 1853)    And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.  And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.  And while ...

Kelso is a small town situated in Scotland, with a rich history.   Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) was a Scottish churchman and poet, known for his hymns and biographies. He was a minister of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland.   Around 1850 he wrote a book titled, Kelso Tracts, which laid the foundations of the Christian faith for his church members.   These tracts were brief essays that explained different aspects of Christianity.   I love many of these tracts, as Bonar prints extracts from sermons that came from the dawn of the Reformation.   Our Faith was established long ago, and has a rich history among men.   It is the same song, it is the same Lord.   We do well to heed the riches that they wrote about.   This is the third tract in the series, I already printed out the first two in my previous blogs.   God bless you as you read this. The Faithful Saying   " God so loved the world, that he gave hi...

T O A LL C ARNAL , U NCONVERTED , C HRISTLESS S INNERS !   M ISERABLE S OULS! With the eye of a sure, though too feeble faith, we see the heaven which you neglect, and the blessed souls in glory with Christ, whose companions you might be forever!   We see the multitude of souls in hell who came thither by the same way that you are going in, who are shut out of the glorious presence of God, and are now among the devils that deceived them. With our bodily eyes we see abundance of poor sinners living about us as if there were no God, no Christ, no heaven, no hell, no death, no judgment, no eternity! O what a deceiver is the devil, that can thus lead on souls to their own damnation! O what a cheater is this transitory world, that can make men so forget the world where they must live forever! O what an enemy is this flesh, that thus draweth men's souls from God! O what a besotting thing is sin, that turneth a reasonable soul into worse than a beast! O wha...

  THE DOOR OF SALVATION OPENED.   The everlasting Door of Mercy and Salvation Opened; or a loud and shrill voice from heaven to unregenerate sinners on earth. Plainly showing the necessity of opening your hearts that the King of Glory may enter in; for He is coming in flaming fire to take vengeance upon them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.   " Behold I stand at the door and knock! "-REV. 3: 20.   IT has pleased the most wise Disposer of all things, out of the riches of his free grace, to offer Jesus Christ to poor, lost, and undone sinners; and also it has pleased the Lord Jesus, not only to die for sinners, that He might open up a way for them to return to God, but to stand knocking at the door of their hearts to intreat them to be reconciled to God. Therefore, as you love your souls, as you love your bodies, as you would not bring damnation on yourselves, hear and fear, and do no more wicked...

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  Act 2:37-38    Acts 2:38   Then Peter said unto them - Peter had been the chief speaker, though others had also addressed them. He now, in the name of all, directed the multitude what to do. Repent - Repentance implies sorrow for sin as committed against God, along with a purpose to forsake it. It is not merely a fear of the consequences of sin or of the wrath of God in hell. It is such a view of sin, as evil in itself, as to lead the mind to hate it and forsake it. Laying aside all view of the punishment of sin, the true penitent hates it. Even if sin were the means of procuring him happiness; if it would ...

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:  All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.  And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.  And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.  Gen 7:21-24     Here is, I. The general destruction of all flesh by the waters of the flood. Come, and see the desolations which God makes in the earth (Psa 46:8), and how he lays heaps upon heaps. Never did death triumph, from its first entrance unto this day, as it did then. Come, and see Death upon his pale horse, and hell following with him, R...