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THE BELIEVER'S DAILY REMEBRANCER: Pastor's Evening Visit
JAMES SMITH (1802-1862)
SADLY, WE HAVE LEARNED THAT THE MORNING VISIT'S ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
This is 'The Believer's Daily Remembrancer: Pastor's Evening Visit'
JAMES SMITH served as Pastor of NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL in London from 1841-1850 where he was succeeded by Charles H. Spurgeon. At the dedication service of THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE in 1861 Spurgeon had various preachers expound The Doctrines of Grace, and JAMES SMITH was asked to preach on EFFECTUAL CALLING.
As you read these pages you will find James Smith to have a heart warmly affectionate to the person and work of Christ and tenderly pastoral towards sinners. Many selections are a meditation on an excerpt from a selected text which is thematically developed with an aim towards experiential religion. His style is lucid and succinct, delivering to the mind and affections biblically accurate, theologically pregnant, and concisely memorable statements. As you read Mr. Smith you will find your love for Christ growing, and experience a greater sense of the Christian’s peace with God through Jesus Christ.
This title is a daily devotional which provides a page length meditation for every day of the year.
Sample
January 3 – One Mediator between God and Man (1 Tim. 2:5)
"There is but one Mediator; man has invented more, but God has appointed, revealed, and accepted but one. One is sufficient. Jesus alone is the Mediator of reconciliation. His atonement is infinite in its value and efficacy; it honored the law, satisfied justice, and glorified all the perfections of God. It perfected for ever them that are sanctified. It is a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savor unto God. On the ground of the one sacrifice of Jesus, sinners are received, pardoned, and accepted of God. Let nothing else engage your attention when seeking acceptance with God, go through Jesus, through Jesus only: however vile, however sinful you may be, there is reconciliation to God through the death of his Son. There is but one Mediator of intercession. One is sufficient. Jesus ever lives to make intercession. The Father always hears him. We need no one to dispose his mind to pity, listen to, or plead for us; his nature is love, it is his office and work to save, and he delights in his work. Therefore he is able to save them to the uttermost, who come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."
MARCH 20
"RISEN WITH CHRIST" - Colossians 3:1
'Christ as our substitute died in our stead. He died as a public person, representing his people; and as such he rose from the dead. All his people are said to have died in him, when he died, and rose with him, when he arose. By virtue of this we are quickened by the Spirit of life from Christ, and we arise and ascend to him in our hopes, desires, and affections. His life is put forth in us, and we are to make manifest the resurrection life of Christ in our bodies. We are to reckon ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
It is also stated of all believers that he hath raised us up together, and made us sit together with Christ in the heavenlies. Christ and his people are one. They were represented by him when he fulfilled the law, when he made the atonement, when he arose from the dead, and when he entered into the holiest of all with his own blood. They live through his death. They live in union to his person. They live for his honor and glory. Being risen with Christ, they should not grovel on earth; but as their head, their portion, and their life is in heaven, there their thoughts, desires, and affections should be."
'Believing souls, whom Jesus know,
If risen indeed, with him ye are,
Superior to the joys below,
His resurrection power declare.'
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