A Pattern of Prayer
A Pattern of Prayer – Alexander Mclaren WHEN YE PRAY, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do” Matthew 6:7. But earnest reiteration is not vain repetition. The second is born of doubt; the first, of faith. The prayer that springs from a deep felt need, and will not cease till that need is supplied, […]
CHRIST’S LAST INVITATION FROM THE THRONE
CHRIST’S LAST INVITATION FROM THE THRONE – Alexander Maclaren ‘Let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. — Revelation 22:17. last verses of this last book of Scripture are like the final movement of some great concerto, in which we hear all the instruments of the orchestra […]
LAST BEATITUDE OF THE ASCENDED CHRIST
LAST BEATITUDE OF THE ASCENDED CHRIST – Alexander Maclaren ‘Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. — Revelation 22:14. 1 The Revised Version reads: ‘Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the […]
THE TRIPLE RAYS WHICH MAKE THE WHITE LIGHT OF HEAVEN
THE TRIPLE RAYS WHICH MAKE THE WHITE LIGHT OF HEAVEN – Alexander Maclaren ‘… His servants shall serve Him: 4. And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.’ — Revelation 22:3, 4. One may well shrink from taking words like these for a text. Their lofty music will necessarily make […]
THE CITY THE CITIZENS AND THE KING
THE CITY, THE CITIZENS, AND THE KING – Alexander Maclaren ‘And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out Of the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree […]
NO MORE SEA
NO MORE SEA – Alexander Maclaren ‘I John,’ says the Apocalypse at its commencement, ‘was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the testimony of Jesus.’ In this, the one prophetic book of the New Testament, we find the same fact that meets us in the old prophecies, that the circumstances of the prophet […]
THE NEW JERUSALEM ON THE NEW EARTH
THE NEW JERUSALEM ON THE NEW EARTH – Alexander Maclaren ‘And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared […]
THE SONG OF MOSES AND THE LAMB
THE SONG OF MOSES AND THE LAMB – Alexander Maclaren ‘And I saw as it were a see of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image,… and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. […]
THE PALM BEARING MULTITUDE
THE PALM BEARING MULTITUDE – Alexander Maclaren ‘… Lo, a great multitude.., stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.’ — Revelation 7:9. The Seer is about to disclose the floods of misery which are to fall upon the earth at the sound of the seven trumpets, […]
SEVEN EYES OF THE SLAIN LAMB
SEVEN EYES OF THE SLAIN LAMB – Alexander Maclaren ‘…A Lamb as it had been slain, having…seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth,’ — Revelation 5:6. John received a double commission, to write the things which are and the things which shall be. The things which are signify, […]