Category: Writings by John Thomas Mawson
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Things Most Surely Believed, Part 6 of 12, by John Thomas Mawson,
6. The Deity of the Lord as seen in the opening of the New Testament It was not the business of earlier writers of the New Testament to prove that the Lord Jesus Christ is God. To them this great truth was not a matter of debate, it was their…
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Things Most Surely Believed, Part 5 of 12, by John Thomas Mawson,
5. The Deity of the Lord Jesus In the history of the church on earth no greater theologian than Athanasius ever arose to champion the truth of God against error, yet great and faithful as he was, he confessed that “whenever he forced his understanding to meditate on the Divinity…
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Things Most Surely Believed, Part 4 of 12, by John Thomas Mawson,
4. The Deity of the Lord Jesus — The Necessity for it We can understand the envy with which the kings of Egypt would view the rise and progress of Israel. They had held that nation as slaves for many generations but had been compelled by the will of Jehovah…
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Things Most Surely Believed, Part 3 of 12, by John Thomas Mawson,
3. The Temptations of the Lord Jesus Of what character were the temptations that the Lord Jesus endured? This question arises definitely out of the fact of His sinlessness, which was our subject in the last chapter. There are some who do not seem able to understand any other sort…
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Things Most Surely Believed, Part 2 of 12, by John Thomas Mawson,
2. The Sinlessness of the Lord Jesus It will be for our profit to consider what sin is as God shows it to us in His Word, for if we have superficial thoughts of it we shall not appreciate the sinlessness of our Lord, nor the necessity and significance of…
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Things Most Surely Believed, Part 1 of 12, by John Thomas Mawson,
1. The Miraculous Conception: the Fact and the reason for it In a recently published book a popular preacher gives his views as to the great facts of our Christian faith. He begins with the birth of our Lord and questions the miraculous conception and Virgin birth. His reasons are…
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“They Went After Them Unto Jordan”, by John Thomas Mawson,
“They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. And they went after them to Jordan: and, lo, the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned,…
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The Yoke of our Lord, by John Thomas Mawson,
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the…
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They Departed Quickly … And Did Run, by John Thomas Mawson,
“And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring His disciples word” (Matthew 28:8). Choose what cemetery you will, and standing at the gate of it, observe the folk who come to render their tribute of love to the lately buried dead.…
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The Wrong Door, by John Thomas Mawson,
“I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture” (John 10:9). Imagine a gathering of people in a hilly country in the north of England: farmers, shepherds and labourers, rough of exterior, but warm of…
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The Work of the Gospel, by John Thomas Mawson,
The fear has been expressed that there is a danger of our becoming, as Christians, too evangelistic. This is a strange fear and those who feel it must have imbibed a strange gospel, or sadly backslidden from the true one, if ever they knew it. Is it possible for us…
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The Word of God and the Coming of the Lord, by John Thomas Mawson,
Revelation 22 “I JESUS, have sent My angel to TESTIFY UNTO YOU THESE THINGS in the churches.” “I TESTIFY to every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book… if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take…
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“The Word Became Flesh”, by John Thomas Mawson,
“IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD.” In this opening statement of the Gospel of John our thoughts are carried back to Eternity, and by the infinite grace of our God there is revealed to us who and what was there. Before Time began or ever the first creatorial word was…
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The Word and the World, by John Thomas Mawson,
From an address given at a prayer meeting for the Gospel in heathen lands at Heaton Chapel I got my message for this meeting through the post this morning. Among some circulars from a publisher was one advertising “Young’s Analytical Concordance” — a very good book to possess. In this…
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“The Woman whom Thou gavest … me”, by John Thomas Mawson,
“The Men which Thou gavest Me” (Genesis 3:12, John 17:6) How great is the contrast between the first man and the second, between Adam and Christ. To Adam God gave a helpmeet to be his companion and joy in the place of dominion in which God set him. And as it…
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The Witness of Simon Peter, by John Thomas Mawson,
When the time came for Simon Peter to write his Epistle the Holy Spirit of God brought to his remembrance what he had seen and heard (John 14:26) and gave him the thoughts and the very words with which to express them. Like all the rest of Scripture what he…
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The Way of Victory, by John Thomas Mawson,
Notes of an address on Judges 6:7-16; 7:19-22 at Edinburgh, 25th October 1912 “The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour… Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel … have not I sent thee? … Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man”…
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The Way of Peace, by John Thomas Mawson,
Correspondence We have received the following letter from a correspondent: “I have been so troubled in soul that when I read your letter to ‘A young man in soul difficulties’, I felt I must write to you to tell me what is wrong. I professed conversion years ago, but I…
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The Way of Joy and Liberty, by John Thomas Mawson,
“How can I be filled with the love of God?”“My failure in the past and gloom in the present weary me.”“My life is full of failure, and each day is perhaps a little worse than the one preceding. As I review each day it is always failure, failure in every…
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The Way of Deliverance, by John Thomas Mawson,
We were talking together, a young Christian and I, and he was telling of his spiritual experiences, of his struggles after holiness of life, and of all his terrible failures and disappointments. He had been plumbing the depths of the iniquity within him, and had come to his wits’ end.…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 