Romans 8:38-39 Religion is to know biblical facts; life is to know God (I John 5:20). Religion is to know what I believe; life is to know Whom I believe (II Timothy 1:12). Religion is to be baptized into the church; Life is to be baptized into Christ (Romans 6:3). Religion is to be reformed, […]
The sinner’s friend “I have called you friends!” John 15:15 The Pharisees called our Lord “The friend of sinners.” They thought to brand him with shame and hold his name up to ridicule; but what they thought to be his shame is his chief glory. He is indeed “the friend of sinners.” Thank God he […]
Mark then well the importance of the Truth of God, for in these days men are apt to set light by it and, for the sake of peace and quiet, to lead us to suppose that contrary things can also be true. The Truth is not only important, but substantial in its character. The Gospel […]
Not an Offer Anytime a preacher presents the grace of God as an offer on God’s part to anybody who is willing to receive it, he has not preached grace as the Bible does. The Bible does not say, “But God, who is rich in mercy for His great love where with He loved us, […]
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 […]
If we deny- Charles Pennington. If we deny that man is dead in sin; that he is nothing, has nothing and can do nothing to merit salvation then we make ‘man true and God a liar’! If we deny God’s eternal and unconditional election of a people unto salvation; make salvation to be by man’s […]
LOOKING UNTO JESUS Octavius Winslow “Looking unto Jesus” —Hebrews 12:2. It was no little kindness in our God that as one saving object, and one alone, was to engage the attention and fix the eye of the soul, through time and through eternity, that object should be of surpassing excellence and of peerless beauty. That […]
FRUITS AND MOTIVE OF FALSE TEACHERS 2 Peter 2: 1-10 All false teachers will either deny or diminish the truth that God in Christ is Just and the Justifier of his elect people and at the same time exalt the sinner in some way. True teaching declares always: ruined by the fall, the successful redemption […]
Unbelieving Christians? Tommy Robbins “But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth” 2Th 2:13 There is no such animal as a Bible believing Christian that doesn’t […]
The whole apparatus of religion (J. C. Philpot, “Reviews”) “I see that you are very religious in every way.” Acts 17:22 Religion, in some shape or other, is indispensable to the very existence of civilized society. There is a natural religion–as well as a spiritual religion. Natural conscience is the seat of the former; a […]