How do we become children of God?  I answer, first, by “eternal election;” and therefore we are called “a chosen generation,” 1 Pet. 2:9.  2 By “pre-adoption“. And, because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father,” Gal. 4:6.  3, By regeneration. God, who from everlasting willed […]

His secret power and influence J.C.Philpot “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:44 “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying,Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Jeremiah 31:3 […]

The ocean of Divine love!(by Octavius Winslow) The love of God to His people was as eternalas the eternity of His being, as everlasting asHis uncreated nature. “I have loved you withan everlasting love.” It panted, it yearned foran outlet. It sought and found it in Christ. Nowhere in the heavens above, or in theearth […]

Eternal love!-Spurgeon’s sermon, “Good Cheer for Christmas” Every child of God is the object of eternal love–love without beginning and without end.This is one of the fat things full of marrow. Is it so, that I, a believer in Jesus, unworthy as I am,am the object of the eternal love of God? What transport lies in […]

WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US           I John 4:19             We may differ on many points. But in this one thing every true child of God is like every other child of God-“We love him”. We do not love him as we desire. We do not love him as we know we should. We do […]

“Herein is Our Love made Perfect” 1 John 4:17 “Herein is our love made perfect.” Those words, as suggested by our translators in the margin of our Bible, might be better translated, “Herein is his love with us made perfect.”       John is not talking about us loving God perfectly or loving one another perfectly. […]

“Herein is Our Love made Perfect” 1 John 4:17 “Herein is our love made perfect.” Those words, as suggested by our translators in the margin of our Bible, might be better translated, “Herein is his love with us made perfect.”       John is not talking about us loving God perfectly or loving one another perfectly. […]

ARE YOU A BEGGAR? “He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill . . . “ 1 Samuel 2:8     Begging is something that is repulsive to the proud nature of man. When a person is reduced to begging physically, we don’t even like to look at them. […]

Promise and Call “The PROMISE is unto you and to your children, and to all that are a far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall CALL.” Acts 2:39.      Both the promises of God and the call of God are necessary for his glory and for our salvation. The promises of God, without […]

LOOK TO CHRIST  “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:  for I am God, and there is none else.” Isaiah 45:22 I constantly tell sinners to look to Christ. Don’t look to your works.  Look to Christ to be everything God requires of you. Don’t look at  your sins. […]