FIVE REASONS GOD SAVES THROUGH PREACHING Clay Curtis Here are five reasons why God chose the means of preaching to save his people. One, preaching is how God destroys the wisdom of the wise and prudent—“For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of […]
A faithful minister! (Letters of John Newton) “Tychicus is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.” Colossians 4:7 Dear fellow pastor, You have desired a good work — may the Lord give you the desires of your heart. May He give you . . . the wisdom of Daniel, the […]
The Providence of God! (Don Fortner) “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 Predestination is the sovereign, eternal, immutable, unalterable purpose of God almighty, by which He ordained and ordered, according to His own will […]
Man-made ministers! From Spurgeon’s, “The Two Effects of the Gospel” The ministry has been very often degraded into a ‘trade’. They are ‘selected by man’, they are crammed with literature; they are educated up to a certain point; they are turned out ready dressed; and persons call them ‘ministers’. I wish them all God-speed, every […]
The popular gospel is a declaration of man’s rights and God’s obligations… “I have a right to salvation if I want it, and God must give it to me if I ask for it.” The Gospel of Christ is a declaration of God’s rights and man’s helplessness to fulfill any of the obligations…. “Hath not […]
Sanctification By J. C. Philpot As from the cross flows all salvation, so from the cross flows all sanctification. What have not men done, to make themselves holy; and by this means render themselves, as they have thought, acceptable to God! What tortures of body, what fastings, scourgings, self-imposed penances to sanctify their sinful nature, […]
Even your own relatives think you are almost insane (J. C. Philpot, “The Abiding Comforter” 1858) “The Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him,because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.”John 14:17 The world—that is, the world dead in sin, and theworld dead in profession—men destitute of the lifeand power of God—must have something […]
The religionists of the day (J. C. Philpot, “Faith’s Standing-Ground” 1862) “And everyone will hate you because of yourallegiance to Me.” Luke 21:17 Professors of religion have always been thedeadliest enemies of the children of God. Who were so opposed to the blessed Lord as theScribes and Pharisees? It was the religious teachersand leaders who […]
Four great concerns…. by Don Fortner “Enoch WALKED with God….” Genesis 5:24 My heart is motivated, driven and governed by four great concerns.Here are four things I want more than anything in this world.I am not an ambitious man. But I am ambitious for thesefour things. For the attainment of these four things I amprepared, […]
“THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN” I Timothy 1:9 Henry Mahan No man is righteous in himself. The righteous man here intended is the man who believes in Christ with the heart unto righteousness and who lays hold on Christ’s righteousness by faith, in consequence of which he lives soberly, righteously, and […]