Light and Truth from the Old Testament

Bible Thoughts and Themes [Updated and Annotated]

Horatius Bonar

• Publisher: Aneko Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781622459537
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work. – 1 Timothy 3:16-17 God speaks to us through the Bible. That Book embodies His words. Creation itself is the visible embodiment of His power and wisdom. It is the result of His words. This Book of His is, in a different way, the effect of His speaking. It is His written wisdom and power. There is His voice to us. The thunder and tempest are His loud voice of grandeur. The sunshine and the gentle breeze are His still small voice. But deeper, clearer, keener, softer, and still more penetrating than all of these is His written Word to us. The Bible is what it is because it contains the words of God. It is through the Word, and in connection with it, that God communicates with us. The Word revives: Your word has revived me (Psalm 119:50). The word produces faith: Faith comes from hearing (Romans 10:17). The Word strengthens, comforts, heals, nourishes, and revives. It gets into contact with each part of our souls and works its own work there. And it does this because it is divine. No human words could be trusted to work the work in a human soul so unrestrictedly. It is not eloquence, poetry, nor argument, but something more than all these together. It is something peculiar and indescribable, which man could not have formed and which he cannot understand, that makes it so suitable for the soul of a foolish and sinful man.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Register This New Book
• Preface
• The Old and New Creation
• The Link Between Being and NonBeing
• A Happy World
• The Sin, the Sinner, and the Sentence
• Man’s Fig Leaves
• Expulsion and Reentrance
• The Blood of Sprinkling and the Blood of Abel
• The Way of Cain
• The Man of Rest
• Going Out and Keeping Out
• The Shield and the Recompense
• Liberty and Service
• The Day of Despair
• The Blood of Deliverance
• How God Deals with Sin and the Sinner
• The Fire Quenched
• The Vision from the Rocks
• The Doom of the Doublehearted
• Be Not Borderers
• The Outlines of a Saved Sinner’s History
• Divine Longings over the Foolish
• What a Believing Man Can Do
• Song of the Putting Off of the Armor
• The Kiss of the Backslider
• The Priestly Word of Peace
• Human Anesthetics
• Spiritual and Carnal Weapons
• Divine Silence and Human Despair
• Jewish Unbelief and Gentile Blessing
• The Restoration of the Banished
• The Farewell Gift
• God’s Dealing with Sin and the Sinner
• God Finding a Resting Place
• The Moriah Group
• Diverse Kinds of Conscience
• The Soul Turning from Man to God
• Man’s Dislike of a Present God
• True and False Consolation
• Gain and Loss for Eternity
• Man’s Misconstruction of the Works of God
• The Two Cries and the Two Answers
• The Knowledge of God’s Name
• Deliverance from Deep Waters
• The Excellency of the Divine Lovingkindness
• The Sickness, the Healer, and the Healing
• The Consecration of Earth’s Gold and Silver
• The Gifts of the Ascended One
• The Speaker, the Listener, the Peace
• The Believing Man’s Confident Appeal
• The Love and the Deliverance
• The Sin and Folly of Being Unhappy
• The Book of Books
• The Secret of Deliverance from Evil
• The Voice of the Heavenly Bridegroom
• The Love That Passes Knowledge
• The Vision of the Glory
• Man’s Extremity and Satan’s Opportunity
• The Day of Clear Vision to the Dim Eyes
• The Unfainting Creator and the Fainting Creature
• The Knowledge That Justifies
• The Heritage and Its Title Deeds
• The Meeting between the Sinner and God
• God’s Love and God’s Way of Blessing
• Divine Jealousy for the Truth
• Divine Love and Human Rejection of It
• God’s Desire to Bless the Sinner
• The Resting Place Forgotten
• The Day That Will Right All Wrongs
• The Glory and the Love
• False Religion and Its Doom
• No Breath, No Life
• Every Christian a Teacher
• Work, Rest, and Recompense
• Human Heedlessness and Divine Remembrance
• Lies, the Food of Man
• The Love and the Calling
• The Anger and the Goodness
• Darkness Pursuing the Sinner
• Jerusalem, the Center of the World’s Peace
• Jerusalem and Her King
• Looking to the Pierced One
• The Holiness of Common Things
• Wearying Jehovah with Our Words
• Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)
• Horatius Bonar – A Brief Biography