In the fourth chapter of the epistle to the Romans when the apostle Paul is establishing the great doctrine of justification by faith alone, he cites two Old Testament Scriptures as proof that in all dispensations every one who was ever saved was saved by grace through faith, altogether apart form human merit. In the third chapter, verse 21, we read, “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed—or borne testimony to—by the law and the prophets.” Those terms, “The law and the prophets” refer, not to individuals so much, but to the two divisions …
Over in India a woman stretches high, the full length of her body, and then falls flat on her face in the sand. Marking a little place with her fingertips she again rises to her full height, walks to the place marked in the sand, stretches high in the air, and falls flat on her face. This she continues to do, working, crawling, agonizing her way along hundreds of miles over the hot land. The sun rises, sets, rises again, goes to its zenith, and sets. Day after day she continues this torturous journey until she has covered some twelve …
It is quite generally recognized that anxiety and fear and dread are working havoc with us.
Many panaceas are being offered for the cure of worry, but our God offers us a remedy that is very simple, yet very sure. It is a remedy which, if we would accept it, will deliver us from all care and fear, and worry would become unknown to us. Not only so, but we would be such a testimony to the world and fellow saints that the name of God would be glorified and the greatness of His grace manifested.
Antonio F. Scorza was pastor of the Moody Italian Mission Church from 1922 into the 1940s. The Moody Italian Mission Church was started in 1909.
“As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.” “What persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me” (2 Corinthians 11:10; 2 Timothy 3:11b).
Next to my Saviour and Lord, Paul the apostle is my pattern of a Christian and a servant of God. Reading his inspired writings has been through these years an unfailing source of inspiration and …
