Struggling against the power of sin? How many poor souls are struggling against thepower of sin, and yet never get any victory over it! How many are daily led captive by . . . the lusts of the flesh, the love of the world, and the pride of life,and never get any victory over them! How many fight […]
Universal Redemption? by Don Fortner When the Lord Jesus Christ poured out his life’sblood at Calvary, he did not make salvation apossibility, but a reality. He obtained eternalredemption for God’s elect. Any doctrine which says that Christ wants to savethose who perish, tries to save those who perish,and provides salvation for those who perish isnonsense, theological […]
IT IS THE BLOOD THAT SAVES Octavius Winslow “And He said unto them, This is My blood of the new testament, shed for many.”–Mark 14:24 Never did those lips, upon which grace shed its divinest, sweetest fragrance, utter words so precious as these. The language is figurative, but the truth is literal. “This is My blood,” or, […]
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is […]
LOVE SUFFERING, AND BLEEDING, AND EXPIRING! The love of Christ! Such a precious theme! Of it can we ever weary? Never! Its greatness can we ever know? Never! Its plenitude can we fully contain? Never! Its depths cannot be fathomed, its dimensions cannot be measured! It passes knowledge! All that Jesus did for His people […]
WHAT A BOUNDLESS, FATHOMLESS OCEAN! Eternal love moved the heart of Jesus to relinquish heaven for earth—a diadem for a cross—the robe of divine majesty for the garment of our nature; by taking upon Himself the leprosy of our sin. Oh, the infinite love of Christ! What a boundless, fathomless ocean! Ask the ransomed of the Lord, […]
IMPUTATION Romans 5:13: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14: Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression… God gave these verses to show that God imputed sin to us […]
I was as truly in Christ’s loins so that “I am crucified with Christ!”, as I was in Adam’s loins so that I sinned and died. The apostle Paul did not say it was “as if” I was crucified with Christ. He said, “I AM crucified with Christ.” That is emphatic, dogmatic language. If God […]
I was as truly in Christ’s loins so that “I am crucified with Christ!”, as I was in Adam’s loins so that I sinned and died. The apostle Paul did not say it was “as if” I was crucified with Christ. He said, “I AM crucified with Christ.” That is emphatic, dogmatic language. If God […]
The Precious Blood of Christ!by Spurgeon- Standing at the foot of the cross, we see his hands, and feet,and side, all distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It is precious because of its “redeeming and atoning efficacy”.By it the sins of Christ’s people are atoned for;they are redeemed from under the law;they are reconciled to […]