Justice sheaths its avenging sword in His heart! (Henry Law, “Gleanings from the Book of Life”) “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Cor. 5:21 It is a comforting thought, that the sins thus removed from the guilty and […]
1. Grace is always sovereign. “Therefore, hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth.” (Romans 9:18) 2. God’s grace is always free. “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:24) 3. God’s grace is always saving. “By grace are ye […]
How is salvation recieved Most everyone would agree that there is immense need of salvation in the soul of all people. Just look around, there are churches and different denominations of religion everywhere. Surely, people are saying there is a necessity of salvation. The scriptures certainly make it plain that there is a need of […]
THE GRACE OF GOD by Don Fortner- If you search the Scriptures you will find four things which always characterize the GRACE OF GOD. Any doctrine that is inconsistent with these four things is a denial of the doctrine of the grace of God. 1. THE GRACE OF GOD IS ETERNAL (II Tim. 1:9). Grace […]
Of Time and Eternity Today, men talk about salvation only as something done in the experience of time with eternal consequences. But in the Bible salvation is described as something done by God in eternity past, revealed and experienced in time, and enjoyed in eternity future. Read the Word of God, marking the verb tenses […]
Do you believe in common grace? To answer this question one needs to be able to define what common grace is. Unfortunately, the term means different things to different people. For some common grace describes God’s good gifts or common provisions in nature such as sunshine and rain. Some see it in terms of talents […]
The free love and favor of God, and His unspeakable goodness and mercy manifested in Jesus Christ to poor sinners—is the very spring and fountain of all evangelical sorrow. Nothing breaks the heart of a poor sinner like the sight of God’s free love in Christ, the Redeemer. A man cannot seriously look upon the […]
‘The Justice of God in the damnation of sinners’ (extract from Jonathon Edwards) It would have been most Just with God for ever to have cast you off; But He has had Mercy upon you; He hath made His Glorious Grace appear in your “EVERLASTING SALVATION” You had no love to God; But yet He […]
The free, sovereign grace of God! (Octavius Winslow, “Christ, Our Righteousness”) “Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.” Romans 8:30 The justified sinner stands the closest to God, of any created being in the universe. Nearer to the throne of the Eternal, […]
(Charles Spurgeon, “The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant!” 1859) “The blood of the everlasting covenant!” Hebrews 13:20 Long before the day-star knew its place, long before God had spoken existence out of nothing, long before angel’s wing had stirred the unnavigated ether, long before a solitary song had disturbed the solemnity of the silence in […]