Exclusive and Inclusive Greg Elmquist The gospel of God’s grace in Christ Jesus is both exclusive and inclusive. It is a double-edged sword. It cuts people out and it cuts people in. The exclusivity of God’s gospel will not allow a person to be saved while believing another gospel. One’s complete hope and trust must […]
All of Grace “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace.”(Galatians 1:15 ) Saved sinners find the thought and experience of grace so overwhelmingly wonderful that they never get over it. Grace is the constant theme of their talk and their prayers. In times past […]
Converted, Healed, Filled and Raised Acts Chapter 9 If we chose four words to describe the life of a believer–that is, what the Lord Jesus does for the believer from before the first hour we believe until we come into final glory–these four words might sum it up: converted, healed, filled, and raised. In the […]
Converted, Healed, Filled and Raised Acts Chapter 9 If we chose four words to describe the life of a believer–that is, what the Lord Jesus does for the believer from before the first hour we believe until we come into final glory–these four words might sum it up: converted, healed, filled, and raised. In the […]
“And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.”—Isa. xlii. 16. Never, surely, was there a promise of […]
“It is true that I have sin in me, but it is pardoned. God has forgiven me all trespasses. I stand before Him in my Redeemer, Who undertook for me, and I am perfect in Him. The Father chose me in His Son: He looks upon the face of His beloved, and sees me in […]
There Is A Remnant According To The Election Of God “Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no […]
THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS Let us not confuse Brashness with Boldness. What some want to believe is the offense of the gospel is just their own offensive personality. A martyr mentality is another form of self-righteousness. Now, that being said, the gospel of God’s grace in Christ is offensive to the natural man. The […]
“I Was Alive Without the Law Once.” — Romans 7:9 When Paul says that he was alive without the law, he does not mean that he did not know the law. He knew and understood the letter of it very well. When Paul says, “I was alive without the law once,” his meaning is this […]
SURE INDICATIONS OF SALVATION Acts 9: 5, 6 Before the Lord saved Saul he was a pride-filled, ambitious, sinner lost in religion who would heed no one’s voice but his own. After Christ appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus and knocked him off his high horse the Lord called him by name and […]