“If you want to reach a hand to your poor perishing fellow-sinners who are just sinking in the quicksands, you must have your own feet on the rock, for it is only by walking in God's ways that you can have firm standing-ground, whence you may reach downward, and give a helping-hand and a strong pull to those who are being engulfed in the quicksands of a perishing world.” HelpingLostStrengthSavingStanceStandDifferentiation Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood
“We also considered, you remember, several passages of Scripture in which we are warned against different kinds of leaven. We saw how hypocritical selfrighteousness was called leaven,—leaven of the Pharisees; and infidelity, the leaven of the Sadducees; worldliness in the one hand and religion in the other, is called the leaven of Herod; seeking to be justified by the works which we do and by the work which Christ has done, at the same time, is described as the leaven of the Galatians; all "malice and wickedness," is called leaven. In fact, the term "leaven" takes in all sin, every form and kind of evil.” EvilSinSincerityLeaven Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood
“Now, this separation from the world is accomplished only by the blood of Jesus. It was when the Israelites were saved by the blood of the lamb that they were separated from Egypt—not before. All the other miracles did nothing for them in that respect—they never brought them out of Egypt . They were not to come out of Egypt before, but after the lamb was slain, and the blood sprinkled. It is only when you know the power of the blood of the Lamb of God that you are able to be separate from the world.” SeparationDistinctionDeliveranceBlood Of The Lamb Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood
“No separation from the world ever saved a soul. It was not by leaving Egypt that the Israelites were saved, but by the blood of the lamb; and so it is by faith in the blood of Jesus that your souls are to be saved. First salvation and then —in its right order—separation from the world. It is not by giving up the world or the things of the world that you can gain Christ, but it is by taking Christ as your Saviour that you get power to give up the things of the world. First drink of the water of life—it is offered "without money and without price" in Christ —and you will not thirst after the waters of this world. Taste of the "river of God's pleasures," and you will cease to care for the "pleasures of sin.” WorldSalvationSeparationEgyptBlood Of The LambBlood Of Christ Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood
“Whatever brings you nearer to Jesus is a means of grace. Prayer is a means of grace, because in prayer you come to Jesus; reading the Word is a means of grace, because that Word is full of Jesus; and so partaking of the Lord's Supper is a means of grace, because it is a means of communion with Jesus.” PrayerGraceWord Of GodEucharistMeans Of GraceLords Supper Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood
“It is "the love of Christ" which "constraineth us" "to live not unto ourselves, but unto Him that died for us, and rose again.” BelongingSet ApartLove Of ChristSurrendered To The Lord Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood
“See, then, dear brothers and sisters in Jesus, in the sanctification of the Levite the type of your own separation unto God. Like them, " Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price," (1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.) You belong wholly and entirely to Him who purchased you with His own most precious blood. You are the exclusive property of Him who laid down His life for you; to Him you owe everything; and being set apart unto Him, neither the world, the flesh, nor the devil have any longer the slightest claim on you. You are "debtors," but "not to the flesh." Your ransomed body, soul, and spirit, saved from destruction by the blood of the Lamb, are, from the moment of your deliverance, the Lord's, and His alone. And you are His for ever: a Levite could never return to the position of an ordinary Israelite, nor can you ever belong to any one else but the living God. You are one of a "peculiar people," a "royal priesthood," the saints of the Most High. You may, alas! often forget your wondrous position, and walk unworthily of Him who has "called you unto His kingdom and glory." But thanks be unto God, the same that said, "I sanctified them for myself," said also, "Mine they shall be. I am Jehovah," (Num. iii. 13.) -- Stevenson Blackwood, The Shadow and The Substance” SanctificationSet ApartBelonging To GodRoyal Priesthood Author:Stevenson A. Blackwood