Fri.-Sabbath, 4/19-21/24 Devotion

Praise God—it is almost Sunday. In order to help us prepare for the church’s Worship Services, here is the fine (18th-19th century) Scots pastor John Col-quhoun, from his, “The Law and The Gospel” book. . . .

“The gospel then, is glad tidings of good things. No tidings were ever as joyful as those that are announced in the gospel, and no benefits were ever as good as those that are exhibited in it. At the same time, no man will ever love or so much as understand rightly a single doctrine of the gospel unless he sees and feels that as a sinner he is utterly undone. It is to men as sinners that the word of this salvation is sent. No doctrine deserves to be called ‘gos-pel' but that which makes the adorable Redeemer ‘all in all,’ (Eph. 1:23), the ‘Alpha and Omega,’ (Rev. 22:13), in the redemption of a sinner. . . . "