Edit Regarding "Referendum" Post

Edit regarding "Referendum" post.

If you have already read my Post entitled "Referendum," I would ask you to reread it as some of the lines were "displaced" and gave little sense, I fear!

Forgive the failing of an old saint, please!

G.V. Wigram --Psalms

G.V. Wigram--Psalms 

Many of my fellow brethren will be familiar with the name of George Vicesimus Wigram 1805-1879. He was one of the earliest "brethren" who gathered to the Name of the Lord Jesus with the saints in Plymouth U.K. He appears to have financed the production and printing of the "Englishmans' Greek and English Concordance to the New Testament" in 1839and in 1843 its' corresponding volume entitled the " Englishmans' Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance to the Old Testament." Both have proved invaluable to the scholarly believer.

G.V.W. also penned among many other very helpful works, "A Study of the Psalms." This is very well known too, I believe. But yesterday I discovered his "Translation of the Psalms," I have no idea how I have overlooked it in the past! Having just read one Psalm I already value you it greatly.

It is found in his "Memorials" volume 2, the second part, Critical. I have managed to purchase a second-hand copy, but I know "it" can be found on the Stem website. Please avail yourselves of it and feel free to comment.

I do hope and pray that this may be of benefit to some of the Lords' people seeking such help. 

Referendum

REFERENDUM

An exercise of heart caused me to telephone a brother to enquire as to how his wife was feeling having undergone an operation and therapy for cancer. I have know him for over 45 years and assisted him in open-air preaching, distributing tracts etc. for many of those years.

Having heard directly from his wife I was able to speak with him too. We talked about a number of spiritual things and our current service for the Lord and our experiencing fellowship with the saints.

Suddenly and unexpectedly he asked me regarding my "vote" in the imminent referendum. He has always liked being humorous and I really thought he  was jesting. But he was absolutely serious and I was astonished. He had "always voted," and his experience among "Brethren" had influenced his decision as they taught it to be "their democratic right," and the vast majority of them voted!

I am fully aware that teaching regarding these things is almost unheard of today, but I can barely take in the thought of previous generations teaching such blatant error!

Can any "brother" provide information as to this practice? Was it generally "received" that dabbling in the politics of men was not only a Right," but a duty for the Lords' heavenly people?

Endeavouring to "prevent" what may "appear" to be in the prophetic Word, no matter how persuasive or plausible this argument may seem, is contrary to the Scriptures and thus the mind of God!

We are exhorted to pray for those in authority over us, remembering that the powers that be are ordained of God! We must realise that His will MUST be done, and He needs no help from us to accomplish it! 

Once again I am distraught at the ignorance of professing believers, both in the denominations and the Assemblies, alike. And frustrated that teaching on these things is non-existent or wilfully ignored or rejected.

It nevertheless quietens my fears, and banishes my disappointments, to know that God rules in the Kingdoms and affairs of men; He is STILL on the Throne!



Mercy

MERCY

Mercy, or loving-kindness, appear to be entwined together and all Gods' believing people will have experienced and enjoyed this precious attribute of a Saviour-God.

I simply want to testify concerning His mercy toward me. Having come under chastisement as a son, I cried out to Him taking up something of the sentiments of Hezekiah when he knew he was to die.

I too stood on the brink of eternity, eleven years ago today! My Consultant had described my condition as a "walking time-bomb!" I desperately needed a triple heart-bypass operation. A terrifying prospect, I cast myself upon the mercy of my God and implored Him for the sake of the Name of His lovely Son that He would bring me safely through the procedure. HE DID!

I have enjoyed quite good health ever since, and not a single pain or complication connected with my previous condition. Not only have these precious blessings been vouchsafed to me, but He has helped me to view more fully, all things in the light of eternity, to see them somewhat as He does; and He has permitted me to serve Him, though falteringly, ever since.

"For Thy mercy (loving-kindness) is great unto the heavens, and Thy truth unto the clouds;" "For great is Thy mercy (loving-kindness) toward me;" 

"Mercy glories over judgement;" "Ye have....seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion (tender mercy) and pitiful."

Psalm 57:10 & Psalm 86:13; James 2:13; 5:11.

I allow the Scriptures of truth, Old and New Testaments alike, to speak for themselves, and thereby for Him!



Home-Calls

HOME-CALLS

In the last few weeks at least four brethren I have known were "called home." I realise that many saints "have fallen asleep through Jesus," from time to time, but I feel more than ever that this knowledge should have a singular bearing on our walk.

Quite some years ago a brother in his ministry disclosed to us a poignant moment in the life of a servant of God. He had apparently drunk some poison, I hasten to add, inadvertently! He realised immediately and fell on his knees and cried out to the Lord for His mercy. He told the Lord that he was "not afraid to die," but that "he was ashamed to die!" The Lord graciously spared him and he was a different servant from that moment and served the Lord very faithfully for many years.

This true anecdote is not repeated here for our comfort, although praise the Lord it surely does console us; I have "posted" it that we might be exhorted to view things in the love of Calvary, and in the light of eternity!

Perhaps for some this moment in their experience could be a new beginning wherein Christ may be further glorified. may it be so for His lovely Names' sake.



Pithy Sayings (5)

Pithy Sayings number 5.

If Christ COULD sin down here, He COULD sin up there! It is the same Man in glory in the realm above, as the Man in humiliation in this scene below!

What a blasphemous suggestion it is, and what a precarious eternity it would be!

Christ was IMPECCABLE in His humanity from conception, and throughout time, and He remains so for all the ages of a blissful eternity!

T.W.

Greater Love Hath No Man

"Greater LOVE hath no man...." John 15:13.

This morning I was perusing a book I had just recently acquired, [it was given to me,] when I discovered in its pages a "tear off" from a calendar. I am sure it dates back many years, but the Word of Truth never changes, as it is the Word of the immutable God and its central theme is "Jesus Christ the Same yesterday, and today and for ever." Hebrews 13:8.

The Scripture quotation above and that used in the "header" were not those on the calendar; they came to me when I read the poem at the close of the address on the page. It is beautiful; I have no idea who wrote it or anything more about it, and I felt I must share it with any of the Lords' people who come across this "Post."

To objects who deserve Thy wrath,

Thy boundless love extends;

Thou'rt tenderer to Thine enemies,

Than men are to their friends.

Perhaps the same line of a choice hymn will spring into your minds as it did into my own:

No man of greater love can boast
Than for his friend to die;
Thou for Thine enemies was slain;
What love with Thine can vie?

Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs
number 88
J. Stennett 1663-1713