Christmas None of us know what month of the year the Son of God was born of a virgin. And you and I don’t wait until the 25th of December to celebrate it. We rejoice to hear of the incarnation all the year long. But still, I love the Christmas season. We hear more of […]
“Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” Ephesians 2:19 If grace has touched your heart; if the love of God has come into your soul, it has placed you among the saints of the Most High, and given you every privilege which […]
Who then can be saved? When the Lord Jesus Christ met that young-rich ruler, who sought salvation by his good works, He quickly showed this man that he actually had no good works that would justify his soul. Although this man had claimed he had kept the law, “All these have I observed from my […]
The cross is not made of soft feathers (Charles Spurgeon) “Take up the cross—and follow Me.” Mark 10:21 You have not the liberty of making of your own cross; although unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. Neither are you permitted to choose your own cross; although self-will would gladly be lord and master. Your cross is prepared and appointed […]
What must I do to be saved? Ask that question to a dozen different people, and you may receive a dozen different answers: keep the Law of Moses; observe sabbaths; decide for Christ; come to the altar; travel the Roman Road; be baptized; get religion; say the sinner’s prayer; join a church; do good works; […]
ETERNAL LIFE Our Lord said, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish.” Eternal life refers to the BELIEVER’S NEW NATURE. It is not something we look for. It is something we have. Every believer has eternal life imparted to him. In regeneration we are made “partakers of the Divine nature”. Christ is […]
“Nothing, either great or small, Nothing, sinner, no; Jesus did it, did it all, Long, long ago! When He, from His lofty throne, Stooped to do and die, Everything was fully done. Hearken to His cry: — “It is finished!” Yes, indeed, Finished every jot: Sinner, this is all you need. Tell me, Is it […]
LOOK TO CHRIST-NOT THE LAW A friend of mine once asked a certain divine in London what he thought of the law as the believer’s only rule of life? He replied, “The believer must look with one eye to Christ, and with the other to the law.” But he brought no more proof from the […]
Absolutely Sovereign Clay Curtis Psalm 76:10: Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. If we deny the absolute sovereignty of God we do not deny it because we think it belittles God. Whether we know it or not we do it TO BELITTLE GOD AND EXALT SELF. […]
Of God is Christ Jesus made unto Us Sanctification Sanctification is holiness. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. The Lord Jesus told the thief on the cross he would be with him that day in glory. But the thief had his hands and his feet nailed to the cross? Holiness is not in […]