Isaiah 61:1 The person of our blessed Lord is a type of the mystic personality of His Church. The notes by which He was manifested to the world as the true Messiah are notes by which also His Church is manifested to the world as the true Church. He was to be the true Healer and Comforter of all, br... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 61:1 Observe the breadth and comprehensiveness of this great announcement. It includes all forms and classes of sorrow: "the poor" the world's sad and uniform majority; "the brokenhearted" all the children of sorrow; "the captives" all upon whose soul ignorance or sin had bound fetters; "the... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 61:3 I. God's people are called "trees of righteousness" because they are "the planting of the Lord." Godliness is not a thing which any craft of man can fashion. A man can no more make Himself godly than he can make a tree, or so much as the seed of a tree. If he becomes so, it must be the... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 61:10 "The robe of righteousness" is a familiar phrase with evangelical Christians. Adopted, undoubtedly, from the passage just read, it is used to denote that righteousness of the Lord Jesus which they who believe in Him are supposed to have attributed to them by God, so that their actual p... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 61:11 Just as incredible as spring is to winter, as life is to death, is the summer splendour that shall one day mantle this sad world, this sad universe, to the darkness and drearihood of its present winter and night. I. Consider the concords of the natural and the human worlds. The worlds... [ Continue Reading ]