The believer’s eternal confession! (John MacDuff, “The Night Watches“) “By the grace of God—I am what I am!” 1 Corinthians 15:10 This is the believer’s eternal confession! Grace found him a rebel against God—it leaves him a son of God! Grace found him wandering at the gates of Hell—it leaves him at the gates of Heaven! Grace devised the scheme of Redemption.Justice never would; reason never could.And it is grace […]
Monsters of iniquity!Spurgeon’s, “Spots in Our Feasts of Charity” Oh, the depths of human sin! Sin is an incomprehensible thing! There is no water so deep but fish will swim in it;no pond so foul but frogs will live in it;no mire so filthy but swine will wallow in it, andno sin so damnable but […]
Brazen Hypocrisy John 13:2 Nothing in all the world is more corrupt or more callous than the heart of a hypocrite. There sat Judas at the table with the Son of God and his disciples. But he had already struck his deal with the Jews’ priests to betray the Saviour. — What brazen hypocrisy! Judas […]
An apostolic face and a Judas heart (Letters of J. C. Philpot) Many think that a minister is exempt from suchcoldness, deadness, and barrenness, as privateChristians feel. And the hypocritical looks andwords of many of Satan’s ministers favour thisdelusion. Holiness is so much on their tongues,and on their faces, that their deluded hearersnecessarily conclude that it is in their hearts. […]
WHEN IS A SINNER BORN AGAIN? Galatians 1:15-16 I have no interest in answering the foolish questions of men about the chronological sequence of events in a man’s salvation. I will leave that to theologians who have nothing better to do than dissect the scriptures. But I do want to tell you when a person may […]
The Unbelief Of Man Luke 22:67 If I understand the Word of God, the greatest, most abominable evil in this world is the horrible sin of unbelief. I would rather stand before God guilty of any crime known to man than stand before him guilty of having heard and refused to believe the gospel […]
A mother sin Unbelief is a mother sin—a breeding sin. It does not remain in the heart alone, but gives birth to thousands of sins, all springing up out of its prolific womb—like the fabled sea monsters. We see in the wilderness how all through all their journeyings the crying sin of the people of Israel was […]
The foulest filth under the cleanest cloak (J. C. Philpot, “New Years’ Address, 1858“) “Take heed unto yourselves!” Acts 20:28 There are few Christians who have not ever found SELF to be their greatest enemy. The pride, unbelief, hardness, and impenitence of a man’s own heart; the deceitfulness, hypocrisy, and wickedness of his own fallen nature; the […]
My hope lives, not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what […]
God must save us before we will desire to be saved. God must give light before we know we were in darkness, God must give life before we will know that we were dead. God must do everything in our salvation. ~John Chapman (Spring Lake Nth Carolina) “And there shall be no […]