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 […]

FREE AT LAST Our freedom from slavery under sin is as sure as our justification from sin because it is by Christ Jesus and not us. Romans 6: 4: Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, […]

SANCTIFICATION BY CHRIST When the self-righteous Pharisee is made to admit that he can not use the law to justify himself, he will turn to the law to sanctify himself. Up till now Paul has been talking about justification, the work of grace for sinners, now Paul begins talking about sanctification, the work of God’s grace in […]

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you… It has dominion over God’s people in a state of unregeneracy: and after conversion it is still in them, and has great power oftentimes to hinder that which is good, and to effect that which is evil; it entices and ensnares, and brings into captivity, […]

Smokin’,Drinkin’,and Cussin’ People love to be preached to about their sins and told to quit smoking, drinking, cussing, and to be kind to their neighbor, tithe, and go to church, etc. It’s because when they are able to manage these outward things, they can feel good about themselves. If I am only a sinner because […]