Building Upon The Foundation 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 It takes no more than a casual reading of 1 Corinthians 3 to realise that the message of this chapter is primarily directed to gospel preachers. Paul is not addressing himself to false prophets, but to men who preach the gospel. God the Holy Spirit inspired the apostle […]
“Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.” 1 Peter 1:5 This salvation takes in all the circumstances of a child of God. It is not only a salvation from wrath to come—that were an immeasurable act of grace—but it is a present salvation, anticipating and providing for every exigency of […]
“He shall sit as a Refiner.”–Malachi 3:3. Simple is the process of refining. Its purpose is clear. It purifies from dross the ore submitted to its test. A furnace is prepared. The metal is placed within. Fire is strongly applied. The action of the overpowering heat produces liquefaction. The worthless parts, which before were intermixed, are […]
Living Commentary! Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. – Psalm 119:117 We are poor, weak, inconsistent creatures if left but a little to ourselves. When I think how cold, dull and heartless I have been; how often I have wandered, how often trifled […]
The religious professor receives doctrines because he sees them in the Bible. The believer not only sees them in the Book, but he feels them in his heart, put there by the Holy Spirit. The believer gets at truth through trouble. He arrives at the banquet of mercy through sharp pangs of hunger. He lays […]
He cannot see, nor know, nor feel If we take the Scriptures as our authority, in what a fearful state is mankind at large! O, how awfully fallen—O, how deeply sunk, man is! And yet one feature of man’s ruined state is his complete ignorance of the depths of the fall. Though the sinful child of a […]
Absolutes of the Gospel Norm Day and I were discussing the character of God and His salvation and Norm used a word which so clearly expresses the gospel we preach and believe and love – “absolute.” Let’s look at some absolutes of God. The scriptures are absolutely the holy, inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God. […]
The cross has not become obsolete! (Horatius Bonar, “The Surety’s Cross”) “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 The whole world looked with contempt-indignant at the audacity of a few humble Christians, thus . . . affronting and defying […]
Conversion Jeremiah 31:18-20 Conversion is the turning of God’s elect to Christ by the power of his grace. It is a willing turn of rebels to Christ as their King, surrendering to his dominion. Yet, it is a turning that is caused by God’s free grace. We turn to him, because he has turned us […]
The divine hammer!Spurgeon, “Preach, Preach, Preach Everywhere” You do not know who the elect are. You do not know whose heart will be broken by the divine hammer of truth.But it is your responsibility to use the divine hammer on the hard heart. And as the gospel is preached it will attract to itself, by […]