Man’s religion & God’s religion Man’s religion is to build up the creature. God’s religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ. JC Philpot When we are reduced to poverty and beggary How often we seem not to have any real religion, or enjoy any solid comfort! […]

AM OR WAS?“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief” (I Tim. 1:15). What if Paul said, “Of whom I was the chief, but since God saved me, by His grace I have progressively become more holy and less sinful! Through Bible study, prayer and self-denial I have […]

“It pleased the Lord to bruise Him.”  – Isaiah 53:10            The death of Christ pleased every attribute of the Father.  The death of Christ pleased God’s wisdom. The death of Christ enables God to be both just and justifier.  The death of Christ pleased God’s justice.   Christ suffered for the sin of His people until the debt was paid in […]

Of this I am sure. If salvation is not all of grace, I will not be saved. If any aspect of salvation is dependent upon me doing or not doing something, I will not be in heaven. If what Christ did alone is not enough to make me just before God, I will be in […]

GOD’S ELECT IN PUBLIC ASSEMBLY Since the days of the apostles I see them. All around the world I see them. Some are Jews and some are Gentiles; some are employers and some employees; some are prosperous and well to do and some are poor and hardly make do; some hold degrees in education and […]

SOMEONE IS LYING!             WHO is spreading lies across America and throughout the world? Who is it that is telling around that the Lord Jesus Christ ransomed some who are not ransomed? Redeemed some who are not actually redeemed? Atoned for the sins of some whose sins are not covered? Purged the sins of some whose sins have not […]

Truth must be spoken however it be taken.                        John Trapp Serve Christ; let His cause be your cause, give not an hairbreadth of truth away, for it is not yours but God’s.                            […]

The Spirit’s work in salvation by Spurgeon The Holy Spirit lays bare his heart, lets him see the loathsome cancer that is there eating away his life, uncovers to him all the blackness and defilement of that sink of hell– the human heart; and then the man stands aghast– “I never thought I was like […]

THE FLAMING SWORD OF JUSTICE QUENCHED IN THE HOLY, LOVING BOSOM OF JESUS! Octavius Winslow The most significant and appalling demonstration of God’s holiness that the universe ever beheld, infinitely distancing and transcending every other, is the sufferings and death of His only and beloved Son! The cross of Calvary exhibits God’s hatred and punishment […]

Lord, I am a poor, blind child (Winslow, “Daily Need Divinely Supplied”) “He tends His flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart; He gently leads those that have young.”Isaiah 40:11 Jesus leads those who are burdened, and need a skilful, sure, and gentle shepherd. […]