I believe that Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a saved state. Not to put them where they could save themselves, but to do the work in them and for them, from first to last. If I did not believe that there was might going forth […]
Beware of religion without Christ! Mark 4:1-20 – The Parable of the Sower You may think, “All is well with my soul. No one could ever feel what I feel and experience what I have experienced and yet be lost.” You ought to think again! False faith is a strong delusion, a delusion by which, […]
No oil? (Bonar, “Religion Without the Holy Spirit”) “The five who were foolish took no oil for their lamps.” Matthew 25.3 This parable has many sides and aspects. It is prophetical; it is also practical. It suits all ages, but especially the last days. It suits the world, but especially the church of God. It is […]
They dress the wound of My people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace!” they say, when there is no peace. Jeremiah 8:11 How Jeremiah testifies against those prophets who prophesy smooth things—who prophesy deceits—who know not the way of the Lord, nor have walked in His counsel. There is no greater mark of false ministers […]
Do not put implicit confidence in any man’s opinion, merely because he is a minister. What are the best of ministers but men– dust, ashes and clay- men with a nature like our own, men exposed to temptations, men liable to weaknesses and failings. They have often driven the truth into the wilderness, and decreed […]
Man asks, “How am I to worship God?” and he has answered it also in his own way. In the gorgeous temple, in the pillared cathedral, with incense, and vestments, and forms, and ceremonies, and processions, and postures, he says. But these performances are the ‘will worship’ of self righteousness, not the obedient service of […]
Seven elements which distinguish the real gospel, the new covenant, from imitations: the free grace of God as the cause of salvation; peace with God as the result of salvation; Christ as the heart of salvation; Christ’s death and resurrection as the means of salvation; deliverance as the hallmark of salvation; the will of God as the source of salvation the […]
So then, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Galatians 3:9-10) […]
Acts 11: 1: And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the Word of God. 2: And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3: Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. Here […]
The unbearable yoke that they were going to tempt God with, by galling the neck of the disciples, was first, the needfullness of circumcision: Secondly, a command to keep the law of Moses; and it is called tempting God, because it was a reflection cast upon His work who had purified their hearts by faith, […]