To believe that Jesus is the Christ is to believe that the man, Jesus of Nazareth, is the woman’s promised Seed, the incarnate God, and that by his obedience unto death he actually accomplished all that the Old Testament Scriptures prophesied he would accomplish, He saved his people from their sins!  Pastor Don Fortner A Self Made […]

“If my salvation was so difficult to accomplish that it necessitated the death of Christ, then all my works, all my righteousness of the Law, is good for nothing. How can I buy for a penny what cost a million dollars?” Martin Luther Why must we be born again? “Jesus answered and said unto him, […]

“Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us  from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar  people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14 There is no victory over the indwelling power of sin, and there is no pardon for the guilt of sin, but as the soul deals with the blood of […]

Consider Jesus– as Without Deceit Octavius Winslow “He did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.” 1 Peter 2:22 Purer than the purest crystal, more transparent than the brightest sun, was the character of Jesus. It needed but the visual organ purged from the blinding and distorting effects of sin to have looked […]

Christ takes the garbage! Jewellers can only prepare and polish the choicest diamonds. But Jesus Christ polishes a common pebble, and makes a jewel of it! Jewellers make their precious treasures, out of precious materials. Christ makes His precious things, out of dross! He always begins with bad material. Christ takes . . .   […]

The desires of the righteous! (John MacDuff, “Brief Thoughts for the Followers of Jesus” 1855) “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.” Galatians 5:17 How true is this! How exactly does it […]

There are many things that we ask the Lord to give us in prayer. But did you know there is something that we ought to ask from above all things?  “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves.” Love is “That more excellent way” which we should “Follow after”, or make our aim.  The […]

Have we nothing to give Christ? (J. C. Philpot, “REVIEWS”) Have we nothing to give Christ? Yes! Our sins, our sorrows, our burdens, our trials, and above all the salvation and sanctification of our souls. And what has He to give us? What? Why, everything worth having, everything worth a moment’s anxious thought, everything for […]

Gathered  “Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them.”  Matthew 18:20 The Holy Spirit is the only Gatherer. Christ Himself is the only object to which we are gathered, and our assembly, when convened, is to be characterised by holiness. The Holy Spirit can only gather […]

“The Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World” Revelation 13:8 Don Fortner      Though he did not come until after the world had existed for four thousand years, Christ is described as “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” because he offered himself to God as a sin-atoning sacrifice for his people […]