And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
A Pharisee and ruler of the sanhedrim comes to Christ, proof that grace subdues even the greatest opposition. He sought private counsel rather than public hearing, a pattern we should follow: go to faithful ministers about the deep matters of your soul, not content with hearing sermons alone.
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Commenting on John 3:1-21
Men refuse the light offered freely to them for one reason alone: wickedness. The cause of condemnation is not your corrupt nature at birth, but your refusal of the salvation God sent.
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an incorruptible treasiu'e lay, and would lose it rather than your sloth ! Oh in what breast doth the ancient zeal of former saints to the word lodge ! Have they not counted it above rubies? Have they not travelled over sea and land to get the sight of it ?
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20