Category: Writings by John Thomas Mawson
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Your Rope’s Not Long Enough, by John Thomas Mawson,
A preacher was holding an open-air meeting, in the course of which he exhorted his hearers to do good and be good; he spoke of Jesus as a pattern, and advised them to follow in His steps if they would be saved. A poor woman bearing unmistakably upon her features…
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Your Own Salvation, by John Thomas Mawson,
“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13). We were sitting in a room where played a little baby boy; he had just begun to walk and talk, and…
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Your Body, by John Thomas Mawson,
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). It is an arresting thought…
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You and Me, by John Thomas Mawson,
“This is My body which is given for you this do in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19). It is the personal element in the Lord’s Supper that makes it so attractive to all who love Him. This is the one arresting thing in the words that He used when He instituted it…
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Ye are Christ’s, by John Thomas Mawson,
“Ye are Christ’s” (1 Corinthians 3:23). These three words will be enough for my purpose at this time. I invite you to dismiss from your minds all popular notions as to what our relations with Christ are, for the more popular the notion is the more likely it is to…
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Words of Life and Peace, by John Thomas Mawson,
God’s ways of teaching and saving men are very varied and always deeply interesting. They often illustrate the truth of the scripture, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8). The other day we met a Christian in whom we became…
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“Woman, Why Weepest Thou?”, by John Thomas Mawson,
To Those in Sorrow The blight of death has fallen upon your life, and you stand bereaved among the tombs with sorrow gripping your heart with a ruthless and iron hand. What is the world to you now, or life, since the sun of your hopes has set so suddenly,…
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Within the Holiest, by John Thomas Mawson,
Notes of an Address at Cockenzie, New Year’s Meeting, 1926 on Hebrews 10:17-22; 9:1-6 We are invited by God, as His forgiven and reconciled saints, to have our affections set upon things above, and these things are not shadowy, or mystical, or unpractical: things that will not be of any benefit to…
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Wings and Wheels, by John Thomas Mawson,
There are some parts of Scripture that are not easy to understand and may even seem to be of no value to us at all, but the claim that it makes for itself is that “all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable” and those that believe…
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Why the Lord was Condemned, by John Thomas Mawson,
It is deeply interesting to see that all the endeavours to convict the Lord as worthy of death on the evidence of the false witnesses failed. It was for the truth that He died. This, and the inveterate hatred of the truth on the part of the leaders of Jews…
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Why does not God intervene? And Does God Care?, by John Thomas Mawson,
“Bewildered.” — Yes, thousands are bewildered at the unparalleled destruction of human life of which we are the witnesses — unparalleled not merely as to numbers, but as to the hatred that inspires it, the callous ingenuity with which it is planned, the ferocity with which it is done, and…
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Whom Will You Follow, by John Thomas Mawson,
“For to the angels has He not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than…
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“Whom the Lord Loves”, by John Thomas Mawson,
A Word to Those who are Passing through Trial Is it not a wonderful thing that the Lord should take a special and individual interest in you, and that for your own profit? If you were asked what you desired for yourself above all things, would you not answer, I…
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Who Glories in Tribulation?, by John Thomas Mawson,
“We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope; and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us” (Romans 5:3-5). Who glories in tribulation? Most of would…
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“Whither Goest Thou?”, by John Thomas Mawson,
“Whither goest thou?” is the challenge that I wish to ring in your ears, my reader, as you march onward across the sands of time. The question is pointed and personal, I know; but it is also one of the utmost importance, for you are most assuredly passing on to some great…
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Where are the Dead?, by John Thomas Mawson,
The fact that a leading London newspaper finds it worthwhile to devote half a page daily to the question of whether there is a life beyond this, proves that it is a subject in which many are interested, and that they are anxious to hear what can be said about…
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When Ye Come Together”, by John Thomas Mawson,
We desire to press upon our readers the necessity of deep heart-searchings before God as to the present general condition of things, and the lack of spiritual power and freshness in the gatherings together of the saints of God. Much depends in the way of testimony to those without, as…
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“Whence Come Wars”?, by John Thomas Mawson,
The Self-Will of Man There is an important statement of truth in Acts 17:26, “God has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitations, that they should seek after God.” It should…
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What Occupies Our Thoughts?, by John Thomas Mawson,
Philippians 4 “My head, ” said one of the most famous men in English literature, “is like a tavern in which a company of low punch-drinkers have taken up the room that might have been filled with lords drinking burgundy.” It was an arresting saying and many of us may…
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What is Salvation?, by John Thomas Mawson,
There are some who look upon salvation as something they have received in the same way as they might receive a present by parcel post. It was good and kind of the Lord, and an evidence of His love to them, to send it to them. They had but to…
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