The Old Covenant – Don Fortner Once Christ came, the old covenant was antiquated, out of date, and made old, made old by God’s design and purpose. Therefore, it vanished away. Why it is so difficult for people to see this I cannot imagine. Why religious people insist upon trying to mix law and grace […]
– Hebrews 7:22 – Don Fortner In the covenant of grace, before the world began, the Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily offered himself to be our Surety. He willingly took on himself all the responsibilities and liabilities of his covenant people. He is our Surety in an absolute sense. He agreed to do for us whatever God […]
“How precious also are Your thoughts unto me, O God!” “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken, nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10 The mountains are the most stable objects in the […]
There is a strange power about the very name of blood, and the sight of it is always affecting. A kind heart cannot bear to see a sparrow bleed, and unless familiarized by use, turns away with horror at the slaughter of a beast. As to the blood of men, it is a consecrated thing: […]
My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; […]
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 […]