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this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven in the kingdom of heaven the least is the greatest the most humble is the most exalted he that will fulfill the lowest offices for the brethren shall be highest in their esteem we have need to use endeavors to make ourselves truly lowly in mind and if through almighty grace we succeed in it we shall take high degrees in the school of love what a kingdom is this in which every man ascends by willingly going down it is wisdom for a man to humble himself for thus he will escape the necessity of being humbled children do not try to be humble but they are so and the same is the case with really gracious persons the imitation of humility is sickening the reality is attractive may grace work it in us 5 and whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me it is no small thing to be able to appreciate humble and lowly characters to receive one childlike believer in christ s name is to receive christ to delight in a lowly trustful character is to delight in christ if we count it a joy to do service to such persons we may be sure that we are therein serving our lord those who receive little ones in christ s name will grow like them and so in another way will receive christ into their own souls charles h spurgeon the gospel of the kingdom a popular exposition to the gospel according to matthew 1893 categories commentary tags charles h spurgeon commentary matthew verse by verse the wednesday word the gospel believer part 1 august 5 2026 reformedontheweb leave a comment christ is all and in all colossians 3 11 the gospel believer holds that jesus is the sum and substance of our wonderful gospel in the gospel we are presented with the lord jesus christ the god man the gospel declares the wonderful facts of his incarnation and impeccable life these indeed are wonderful truths but they are not the sum total of our gospel there is much more by the way if the gospel stopped with the incarnation and sinless life of christ then no one would ever have been saved that god came to earth as a genuine sinless human being is a precious gospel truth but it is not the entirety of the good news the incarnation in and of itself saves no one the incarnation however is the beginning of the good news it is the alpha but not the omega the gospel in its fullness tells us more yes indeed it tells us that christ was born and lived sinlessly but it goes on to tell us that christ was crucified christ died christ was buried christ rose from the dead christ ascended to heaven christ sits in cosmic authority as our advocate with the father 1 john 2 1 and he ever lives to make intercession for us hebrews 7 25 these are some of the great facts of the good news they are so simple even a child can learn them yet god s profound wisdom mercy and grace flow from them the gospel believer knows this upon christ and his work we rest our entire confidence for a full gospel we must have the entire gospel however basic as the constituent parts of the gospel are we must not stop with them for there is even more to the gospel than these facts of history for example the gospel presents us with the person of christ but who is he as already alluded to the gospel declares the answer to this question the gospel teaches us that in the person of christ we have a perfect representation of god for if we have seen him we have seen the father john 14 9 in christ we also have the perfect prophet the perfect priest the perfect king the lamb and the lion the way and the door grace and justice mercy and holiness the friend of sinners and the hater of sin the life and the light the resurrection and our destiny these are all gospel truths but for the gospel purposed believer there s even more than these wonderful facts as true gospel believers we learn to live in the applications of the gospel we must know for example that jesus not only came for us but that he also came as us this is an often forgotten truth jesus not only lived for us but he also lived as us he not only died for us but he also died as us he not only rose for us but he also rose as us when he ascended we ascended when he received the approval and welcome of the father we received it also he is our man in heaven he is our representative he has done everything as if we had done it ourselves this means that at this very moment god is thrilled with us do you believe that he is well pleased with you do you agree with that if so then you are a gospel believer and that s the gospel truth miles mckee http www milesmckee com categories gospel tags gospel king christ alone miles mckee prophet priest christ s death christ s resurrection christ s burial colossians 3 11 to the reader of a treatise of the vanity of childish baptisme august 5 2026 reformedontheweb leave a comment to the reader _____________________________ having with most serious thoughts minded divers texts of scripture which does evidently set out baptism to be an undoubted pledge from god to all the right subjects to whom it is applied of the free pardon and remission of all their sins mar 1 4 and 16 16 acts 2 3 8 and 22 16 1 pet 3 21 and finding also that baptism is designed only to believers upon their making profession of faith and their willing submission thereunto mat 28 19 john 3 22 compared with 4 1 2 act 2 41 and 8 12 37 38 and 18 8 and seeing likewise that the right subjects are not to be merely passive but are required and did perform therein such duties as are incompatible to all infants and persons destitute of understanding mat 3 2 6 mar 1 5 act 22 16 gal 3 27 col 2 12 compared with 3 1 i could not without unfaithfulness to god and my own conscience but much suspect the truth of the baptism which i had in my infancy in the church of england whereupon i diligently tried by all good ways and means for satisfaction in this point yet found none but the more i tried the more i still saw the non justification 1 for the baptizing of infants even by the invalidity and insufficiency of the very strongest arguments which are and could be given by the best and ablest maintainers thereof insomuch that at last i found it to be but only a mere devise and tradition of men and brought into the world for politics and by ends and accordingly yet continued and still defended merely by the subtlety of human arts and acuteness of mans brain wherefore in discharge of my duty to almighty god and to express my unfeigned love to my country men and lovers of truth for whose best welfare i count not my life dear i am now emboldened courteous reader to present these few lines to thy serious view entreating 2 thee as thou wilt answer it at the great day herein to lay aside all prejudice and partiality duly to weigh all things and to embrace the naked truth of god in the love thereof and not to respect it as it hath esteem in the world with variable men 3 but only as it hath been is and ever will be unchangeable in jesus christ who shortly will come and enlighten the earth with his glory to the discovery of things hid in darkness to the making manifest the counsels of mens hearts and 4 to the praise and glory of all them that love his appearing to whose grace and direction i commend thee farewell thine a r march 25 1642 footnotes 1 ritor used the word unwarrantableness 2 ritor used the word introating 3 luk 21 27 isa 40 5 10 and 24 23 and 25 8 28 5 30 26 31 4 66 15 16 18 4 1 cor 4 5 psal 72 67 isa 2 20 21 2 tim 4 8 col 3 4 andrew ritor a treatise of the vanity of childish baptisme categories baptism tags andrew ritor covenant theology credo baptism infant baptism infant baptism erroneous new covenant paedobaptists vanity it was grace alone which delivered israel from egypt august 4 2026 reformedontheweb leave a comment the sinaitic covenant was supplementary and subsidiary to the abrahamic serving to promote both its natural and spiritual ends its object was not to convey but to direct life its immediate design was to make clear to abraham s seed how it behooved them to act toward god and toward each other as a chosen generation as the people of jehovah it made evident the character and conduct required from those who were partakers of the grace revealed in the promises it made manifest the all important principle that redemption carries in its bosom a conformity to the divine will and that only when the soul really responds to the righteousness of heaven is the work of redemption completed it trained the mind and stimulated the conscience of the regenerate unto a more enlightened apprehension of the mercy revealed and which its instituted symbols served more fully to explain it was grace alone which delivered israel from egypt but as god s acknowledged people they were going to occupy for their inheritance that land which the lord claimed as more peculiarly his own they must go there then as typically at least partakers of his holiness for thus alone could they either glorify his name or enjoy his blessings hence the holiness of israel was the common end aimed at in all the levitical institutions under which they were placed take for example the laver at which the priests under pain of death exodus 30 20 21 were always required to wash their hands and feet before either serving at the altar or entering the tabernacle that was symbolical of the inward purity which god required the psalmist clearly intimates this and shows he held it to be no less applicable to himself when he says i will wash mine hands in innocency so will i compass thine altar o lord 26 6 that he spoke of no bodily ablution but of the state of his heart and conduct is evident from the whole tenor of the psalm arthur w pink the divine covenants part five the sinaitic covenant categories covenant theology tags abrahamic covenant arthur w pink biblical covenant covenant of works new covenant old covenant the law discovers to us the depravity of our nature august 3 2026 reformedontheweb leave a comment 3 the law reveals the exceeding abundance of sin by discovering to us the depravity of our nature we are all prepared to charge the serpent with our guilt or to insinuate that we go astray from the force of ill example but the holy spirit dissipates these dreams by bringing the law into the heart then the fountains of the great deep are broken up the chambers of imagery are opened the innate evil of the very essence of fallen man is discovered the law cuts into the core of the evil it reveals the seat of the malady and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within oh how the man abhors himself when he sees all his rivers of water turned into blood and loathsomeness creeping over all his being he learns that sin is no flesh wound but a stab in the heart he discovers that the poison has impregnated his veins lies in his very marrow and hath its fountain in his inmost heart now he loathes himself and would fain be healed actual sin seems not half so terrible as in bred sin and at the thought of what he is he turns pale and gives up salvation by works as an impossibility charles h spurgeon law and grace a sermon delivered on sabbath morning august 26 1855 at new park street chapel southwark categories gospel law tags charles h spurgeon gospel grace law rightly distinguishing romans 5 20 all those holy ends that god aimed at in true dipping are wholly made void and of no effect in the dipping of infants july 31 2026 reformedontheweb leave a comment now the lord jesus came not till the fullness of time gal 4 5 and when he was come never undertook any administration though he were heir of all things heb 1 3 but in an orderly way as hath been shewed nor will he contract marriage with any though the husband of all his church and members hosea 2 19 i will bethroth them unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in loving kindness and in mercy yet not with any that are so young and under age gal 4 1 2 3 that they are not sensible of the want of christ or any benefit they receive by him or what contract they make with him in short all those holy ends that god aimed at in true dipping are wholly made void and of no effect in the dipping of infants which the lord christ commanded not jer 7 31 rev 22 18 matt 28 19 20 nor came into his heart and cursed is he that shall add to the word of the lord deut 4 2 12 31 prov 30 6 if any man shall add to these things god shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book and therefore that every one would be encouraged to bring out their talent and not to hide it in a napkin to the overthrowing of all the inventions of the man of sin psal 137 8 9 edward barber a small treatise of baptisme or dipping 1641 categories baptism tags anti paedobaptism baptism believer s baptism credo baptism dipping edward barber immersion matthew 17 24 27 our king and the tribute money july 30 2026 reformedontheweb leave a comment chapter 17 matthew 17 24 27 our king and the tribute money 24 and when they were come to capernaum they that received tribute money came to peter and said doth not your master pay tribute the half shekel tribute was a religious payment based originally on law but enlarged by a custom which had no support in scripture it was ordained by the divine law to be paid for each person to the lord when the people were counted from this redemption money there was no exemption but it was not a tax levied year by year it had gradually grown into a fashion among professedly religious people to pay this tribute money every year but the payment was entirely optional thus it was established by custom but it had not been appointed by law and could not be enforced by it it was a voluntary annual gift and only persons who were professed devotees of the jewish religion would pay it such religionists as these would be very particular not only to pay the annual tribute but to have it known that they paid it the collectors of half shekels did not apply at once to jesus of whom it may be they stood in salutary awe but they addressed peter with the somewhat ensnaring question doth not your master pay tribute as much as to say surely he does so we would not suspect him of neglecting to do so a person of such eminence cannot fail to be peculiarly exact as to this customary fee 25 26 he saith yes and when he was come into the house jesus prevented him saying what thinkest thou simon of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute of their own children or of strangers peter saith unto him of strangers jesus saith unto him then are the children free peter was in such a hurry to vindicate his lord that he compromised him he saith yes he might have asked his lord s mind or he might have referred the collectors to jesus himself but he was in a hurry and thought himself safe enough in maintaining his master s reputation he was quite certain that his lord would do all that good people did our savior and his cause have often suffered from the zeal of friends christ is better known by what he says himself than by what his f...