This warm devotional commentary explores Ephesians’ fifteen key themes of the inner life, including the Father, living in Christ, love, the Holy Spirit, the power of God, the church, our walk, and the Christian’s armor. F.B. Meyer’s concern that Christian principles should challenge and affect every area of our daily walk shines through in his writing. “The Epistle to the Ephesians,” Meyer said, “is pre-eminently the Epistle of the Inner Life. . . . And as we weave [the key words of Ephesi...

Love to the Uttermost by F. B. Meyer is a poignant exploration of the theme of divine love as revealed through the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. In this work, Meyer emphasizes the transformative power of God's love, highlighting its unconditional and sacrificial nature. He draws on various biblical passages to illustrate how Christ’s love was expressed in His interactions with individuals, particularly through acts of compassion, forgiveness, and healing.The book is divided into chap...

Grammar Uses Version is included with these notes.Frederick Brotherton Meyer was born in London. He attended Brighton College and graduated from the University of London in 1869. He studied theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford and began pastoring churches in 1870. His first pastorate was at Pembroke Baptist Chapel in Liverpool. In 1872 he pastored Priory Street Baptist Church in York. While he was there he met the American evangelist Dwight L. Moody, whom he introduced to othe...

These chapters contain the essence of Addresses delivered at several Conferences and Missions, in which they have been wonderfully used to the quickening of the children of God.Looked at in this form, they seem as unlikely to produce life as the rod which was laid in vain on the face of the dead child (2 Kings 4:31). Yet may He who caused the rod of Aaron to bud and bear fruit graciously bless these words after like manner; and use them to answer some of the questions which are bei...

A famous teacher of Homiletics in an American school used to tell his students a generation ago that the one kind of preaching which always wore was the Expository. The experience of his students, now honoured and wise leaders of their own generations, has many times confirmed this. It is not pulpit eloquence no matter how brilliant, nor topical preaching no matter how timely, wise, varied, or epigrammatic, which best resists the wear and tear of time in a long pastorate with its steady an...

The Angels who daily spread the table in the wilderness during the desert wanderings could hardly have had more pleasure in their work than I have had in preparing a daily meal for many of God’s children; and the response has been quite remarkable.From sick chambers, from souls in sore distress and perplexity, from discouraged servants of God, from those occupied in lonely outpost duty, from all parts of the world — testimony has come to the appropriateness and directness with which...

Peter comes nearer to us than any of his brother Apostles. We revere James, the brother of our Lord, for his austere saintliness. We strain our eyes in the effort to follow John to the serene heights, whither his eagle-wing bore him. But Peter is so human, so like ourselves in his downsittings and uprisings, so compassed with infirmity, that we are encouraged to hope that perhaps the Great Potter may be able to make something even of our common clay.When walking over his farmstead with a f...

“On whom the ends of the ages are come”—i. e., the end of one age and the beginning of another. Such is our position to-day. In every direction the old order is giving place to the new. It was thus in the days of the Primitive Church, when the typical institutions of the Levitical system were being replaced by “the heavenly things themselves.” And it was also thus at the time when our narrative begins. The story of Samuel is a divine interlude between the days of the Judges and those of Da...

On each Lord’s day large numbers of devoted men, who have not received special training for their noble work, go forth to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ.It is impossible to overestimate the worth of their self-sacrificing labors. Thousands of pulpits in town and country would stand empty and silent but for them. And the standard of excellence set before them and realized is very high.I have put together these chapters in as brief a form as possible, because I am a...

The chapters in this little book might be called “Work-a-day Sermons.” They are intended to bring the highest principles of our holy religion to bear on the practical business of every-day life.Probably all our sermons should have more of this element in them. The Epistles of the New Testament are admirable specimens of the blending of the doctrinal and practical. We are shown how to apply the loftiest principles to the solution of every-day problems. People are not apt to do this ...

It is very necessary sometimes to ask, especially at the beginning of our Christian life, if we are really right¬—there are so many counterfeits in the world and the church, and when once we have received the stamp and imprimatur of some Christian body, we are apt to trust it as decisive in all after time, so that when appeals are addressed to the unconverted and halting, we at once pass them off to others, feeling sure that they cannot apply to ourselves. How often do souls sit in a very ...

As the people of Israel returned from exile in Babylon, they found their nation, including their temple, in ruins. Out of this rubble came the prophet Zechariah with a message of hope, proclaiming that their God had not forsaken them. He was still at work and planned to live again with His people in Jerusalem. He would save them from their enemies and cleanse them from sin.Zechariah’s prophecy of the coming Messiah would later serve the apostles as an explanation for the suffering, ...