It Pleased the Lord Through Preaching Acts 12: 25, 13: 1-3 In this text, we have the account of how the Lord faithfully sent forth Barnabas and Saul to the Gentile world. God has an elect people whom he has determined to save OUT OF all corners and people of this world in Christ Jesus. […]
Natural Sense is not Spiritual Sense Isaiah 6: 10: Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. What did the Lord command Isaiah to do to […]
Love and the Law Acts 15: 5: But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses…7: Peter rose up, and said unto them,…10: Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke […]
Christ is the way Isaiah 35: 8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; Earthly Zion was where the city of Jerusalem was. It was the place where the one altar and the one mercy-seat were. That […]
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 […]
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 […]
Christ is the way Isaiah 35: 8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; Earthly Zion was where the city of Jerusalem was. It was the place where the one altar and the one mercy-seat were. That […]
Men commonly teach that the Holy Spirit is striving to call all sinners to life and faith in Christ but that the Holy Spirit can be resisted unless man allows the Holy Spirit to save them. They use this scripture, among others, to support their claims. If God the Holy Spirit is trying to call […]
ONE DOCTRINE, TWO WORKS Deuteronomy 32:2: My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: The gospel of Christ is one doctrine: “my doctrine.” This one doctrine declares the absolute sovereignty of God, our total […]
Good Out of Evil Acts 8: 6: And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7: For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, […]