Category: Writings by C. H. Mackintosh.
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THE CLOSING SCENES OF MALACHI AND JUDE. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
In comparing these two inspired writings, we find many points of similarity and many points of contrast. Both the prophet and apostle portray scenes of ruin, corruption and apostasy. The former is occupied with the ruin of Judaism, the latter with the ruin of Christendom. The prophet Malachi, in his…
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PROVISION FOR PERILOUS TIMES. Read Second Timothy, Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
It is of the greatest importance for the servant of Christ in all ages to have a clear, deep, abiding, influential sense of his position, his path, his portion and his prospects — a divinely wrought apprehension of the ground which he is called to occupy, the sphere of action…
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SELF-CONTROL. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
The word “temperance” in 2 Peter 1:6 means a great deal more than what is usually understood by that term. It is customary to apply the word “temperance” to a habit of moderation in reference to eating and drinking. No doubt it fully involves this, but it involves much more. Indeed, the…
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SELF-EMPTINESS. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
The fullness of God ever waits upon an empty vessel. This is a grand practical truth, very easily stated, but involving a great deal more than one might imagine. The entire Book of God illustrates this truth. The history of the people of God illustrates it; the experience of each…
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SELF-JUDGMENT. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
There are few exercises more valuable or healthful for the Christian than self-judgment. I do not mean by this the unhappy practice of looking in upon oneself for evidences of life and security in Christ. This is terrible work to be at. To be looking at a worthless self instead…
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SELF-DENIAL. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“If only we exercise a little self denial every day, we shall get on to heaven very comfortably.” What a volume of wholesome practical truth in this brief utterance! The path of self-denial is the Christian’s true path. “If any man,” says Christ, “will come after Me, let him deny…
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WHAT IS A CASTAWAY?. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that, by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself be a castaway” (1 Corinthians 9:27). This passage has perplexed and troubled many an earnest heart. Many have argued thus, while pondering the above solemn scripture,…
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THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
We have received earnest requests for help as to the solemn subject of the judgment seat of Christ. One dear friend writes thus: “I am in a difficulty. A dear friend is very unhappy in the thought that, at the judgment seat of Christ, every secret thought and every motive…
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RESURRECTION. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
A correspondent requests special notice of Philippians 3:11, “If by any means I might attain to the resurrection from among the dead.” The point toward which the desires of the true Christian ever tend is resurrection-glory. It matters not to him by what way he is to reach that point. He…
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THREE PRECIOUS GIFTS. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“I give to My sheep eternal life and they shall never perish” (John 10). “The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6). “He that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8). “Christ shall give thee…
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RELIEF FOR A BURDENED HEART. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
(A reply to an anxious enquirer) Your letter has interested us exceedingly. Few things lie nearer to the heart than the case of anxious and burdened spirits. The work of emancipating and soothing such is becoming more and more charming to us. Words cannot convey how intensely we long to…
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“ACCEPTED” AND “ACCEPTABLE”. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“He has made us accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6). “Wherefore we labor, that whether present or absent, we may be acceptable to Him” (2 Corinthians 5:9). The two words which form the heading of this paper, though rendered by the same word in our Authorized Version, are not at…
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“RECONCILED AND SAVED”. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5:10). If ever there was a moment in which it was important to set forth the great foundation truths of Christianity,…
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TWO IMPOSSIBLES, Hebrews 6. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
There are few who have set out to follow the Lord Jesus who have not, at some time or other, gone through painful exercise of heart in connection with the opening verses of Hebrews 6. While, in the long run, they have no reason to regret the exercise, yet it is…
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SEPARATION: NOT FUSION. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“Therefore, thus says the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth; let them return to thee; but return not thou to them” (Jeremiah 15:19). The…
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A FRAGMENT ON WORSHIP. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
It is deeply important that the Christian reader should understand the true character of the worship God looks for and in which He delights. God delights in Christ. Hence it should be our constant aim to present Him to God. Christ should ever be the material of our worship, and…
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“RIVERS OF LIVING WATER”. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He that believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38). The feast…
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GOD PREACHING PEACE. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
“The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: He is Lord of all” (Acts 10:36). One of the most momentous questions which can be put to a human being is this, “Have you peace with God?” It is a question of the deepest…
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“IF THE LORD TARRY”. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
My Beloved Friend, Since our last conversation, I have been thinking a good deal of the subject which was then before us, and the more I think of it, the more disposed I am to doubt the moral fitness of the use so frequently made of the sentence which stands…
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FOUR POINTS OF KNOWLEDGE. Short Papers By C. H. Mackintosh
(READ DEUTERONOMY 8:1-9) In these verses we have four valuable points of knowledge connected with our walk through the wilderness, namely the knowledge of ourselves, the knowledge of God, the knowledge of our relationship, and the knowledge of our hope. First, as to the knowledge of self, we read, “Thou shalt…
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