All the heresies….from Spurgeon’s sermon, “Self-Sufficiency Slain” It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which havearisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendencyto ‘dishonour God and to flatter man’. They have always had for their covert, if not for their open aim,the exaltation of human nature, and the casting down ofthe sovereignty of divine […]
False faith!(Don Fortner) There is a false faith in which multitudes are confidently resting. There is a false faith by which multitudes are deceived and will perish for ever in Hell. A false faith may be greatly enlightened and knowledgeable in gospel truth (Heb. 6:4).A false faith excites the affections (Stony Ground Hearers).A false faith reforms the […]
Christ is ALL “Christ is all, and in all.” Col 3:11. Christ is only ALL, when He is ALL you have. Christ is ALL we have in salvation. He is ALL our wisdom. God has made the wisdom of the world foolishness unto us that Christ may be ALL the truth of God. He is […]
Ask the Right Questions Someone contacted me recently and wanted suggestions of some questions they could ask to stimulate a discussion in their marriage counselling group. I was happy to respond and sent them these three questions. 1) Who is Christ? 2) What did He accomplish? 3) What is the gospel? I do not think […]
The most hideous blasphemy ever to be spewed from the pit of darkness! (Don Fortner) Universal atonement is the most hideous blasphemy ever to be spewed from the pit of darkness! No greater blasphemy ever spewed from the pit of Hell, than the blasphemous assertion that Christ died to redeem the multitudes who suffer the wrath of […]
Only when we come to know God through faith in Christ are we able to see ourselves as we really are, as doomed, dammed, hell deserving rebels. Apart from knowing God in Christ we can never have a real knowledge of our self and sin. “For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy […]
Engraved! (John MacDuff, 1874) “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;” Isaiah 49:15-16 “Behold,” says infinite God, “I have engraved you on the palms […]
We meekly knock at mercy’s gate (Henry Law) “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.“ Isaiah 64:6 Holy Father, Almighty God,We feel our weakness, our ignorance, our deep corruptions. We meekly knock at […]
These scars are the memorials of the fight! (C.H.Spurgeon) “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain” Rev 5:6 Why would our exalted Lord appear in His wounds, in glory? The wounds […]
What are those wounds?Spurgeon, “The Evidence of Our Lord’s Wounds”O Lord Jesus, what are those wounds in your side,and in your hands? He answers–“These I endured when suffering for you.How can I forget you?I have graven you upon the palms of my hands.How can I ever fail to remember you?On my very heart the spear has written […]