Some Things We Know I Peter 1:18-23 Believers are men and women who are taught of God. Being taught of God, they know some things. Others have opinions, theories, speculations, and conjectures, but believers know some things. Here are four things that Peter says the people of God know. 1. WE KNOW THAT WE WERE […]
The Gospel of God is not good advice, but good news. In preaching the Gospel we do not tell sinners what they must do, but what God has done.- Don Fortner.
“He hath done all things well.” Mark 7:37 If these men and women who had seen our Savior’s miracles were astonished and cried out, “He hath done all things well,” how much more astonished we ought to be who have tasted and experienced his grace! How much more we ought to confess to God our […]
Come To God Hebrews 7:25 The Bible alone, the Book of Holy Scripture, tells us what salvation is and how it may be obtained. The Scriptures alone are able to make us wise unto salvation. Only in the Bible do we read of God’s mercy, love, and grace toward fallen man. The Word of God […]
Will Believers Be Called Into Judgment For Their Sins? “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?” Psalm 130:3 The question is often raised, “Will believers be called into judgment for their sins; or will God judge his elect for their sins and failures, committed after they were saved, and expose them […]
Christ Made Sin For Us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 In order to save me, the Lord Jesus Christ was made to be sin for me. The Son of God voluntarily took upon himself that horrible, ugly, vile, ignominious thing which he most hates — sin. O my soul, be forever astonished! The God-man became sin […]
Wise Counsel for Preachers to Follow The year was 1768. A young preacher by the name of Augustus Toplady, who wrote many of our best hymns, including “Rock of Ages”, spent the afternoon in London with an older, veteran Gospel preacher, whom he greatly admired and from whom he learned much. The older preacher was […]
THE DISTINGUISHING GRACE OF GOD by Don Fortner “ For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” 1 Cor. 4:7 The only difference between the believer and the unbeliever, between the righteous […]
“…NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH…” II Peter 3:9 In this passage of scripture Peter is comforting the children of God with the assurance of Christ’s second advent. If you will read the chapter carefully, you will observe that the apostle makes a clear and deliberate distinction between “us” who believe and the scoffers who […]
God Sees No Sin In His People “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel.” Numbers 23:21 These words do not suggest that there was no sin or perverseness in Israel. There was an abundance of perverseness among them; but the Lord God did not mark the sins of […]