John 11:43-44 – There are many pictures of grace in the Bible, by which God illustrates the gospel message of salvation by grace alone. One of the most instructive of these pictures is the resurrection of Lazarus. Read John 11 and 12, and note these five things about Lazarus: HIS CONDITION (11:4) – Lazarus was […]

My Rock! (“Solitude Sweetened” by James Meikle, 1730-1799)”The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my Savior, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the strength of my salvation, my stronghold!”    (Psalm 18:2) Do rocks defend me from blasts, from whatever quarter they blow? So does my Rock! Is the blast from hell? Well, […]

“Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God… It is the business of all false religion to patch up a righteousness in which the sinner is to stand before God. But it is the business of the glorious gospel to bring near to us, by the hand […]

A man’s free will cannot cure him even of a toothache or a sore finger, and yet he madly thinks it is in his power to cure his soul of sin. Actually, the greatest judgment which God Himself can in this present life inflict upon a man is to leave that man in the hand […]

THE MASTER KEY? -Spurgeon, “A Stanza of Deliverance” God does not violate the human will when he saves men.
They are not converted against their will,
but their will itself is converted.
The Lord has a way of entering the heart–
not with a crowbar, like a burglar.
But with a master-key, which he gently inserts in the lock,
and the bolt […]

“The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick. You are sick from head to foot–covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds!” Isaiah 1:5-6 Often in Scripture, sin is spoken of as a disease, a sickness, a hurt. Christ, as the great Physician, has the only sovereign balm. Sin is a dreadful disease! Yes, it […]

You will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if you had trusted to your sins. There is a ‘clean’ path to hell as well as a ‘dirty’ one. There is as sure a road to perdition along the ‘highway of morality’, as sure as down the slough of vice. […]

Sin has thoroughly diseased us, and poisoned our very blood. Sin has diseased our understanding, so as to disable it from receiving the truth. Sin has diseased our conscience, so as to make it dull and heavy, and undiscerning of right and wrong. Sin has diseased our imagination, polluting it with every idle, foolish, and […]

Here is a sevenfold definition of faith I picked up from a sermon by Ebenezer Erskine a long, long time ago. 1. Faith is the gift of God. It is not the product of a free will. It is the operation of the Spirit of God by the Word of God and is the parent […]

The Word and the Spirit are so intimately conjoined, that we are scarcely warranted in thinking of the one, without the other. The Word does not operate without the Spirit’s agency—and the Spirit does not work apart from the Word. *It was by the Spirit’s inspiration, that the Word was first given, for “holy men […]