What Is It To Preach The Gospel? Psalm 130:5-6 The Apostle Paul said, “Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of” (I Cor. 9:16). What is it to preach the gospel? Is everybody preaching the gospel? Regrettably no! It would be great if all the churches everywhere did preach the gospel, but […]
Sent to Preach Good Things And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Romans 10:15 This passage is quoted from Isaiah 52 and is the beginning of the immediate context […]
Why do God’s preachers preach? When God calls a man to preach the glorious gospel of His free grace, He puts in his heart a hope behind his preaching. Like his Master, he has been sent to, “preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captive, recover […]
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 […]
GOD’S UNSTOPPABLE GOSPEL Acts 4: 1-4 Let the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing, hold forth the gospel of Christ Jesus alone and declare boldly that all flesh is grass. Carnal men have never once succeeded in their God-hating endeavors. Even at Calvary, they did what God had before determined to be […]
Preaching About Christ or Preaching Christ? He (the Holy Spirit) shall glorify ME; for He shall receive of mine and show it unto you.”–John 16:14. – The Holy Spirit does not reach after something novel, new, or spectacular in order to glorify Christ or to preach Christ to men. He does not need tongues, fleshly emotion, […]
“There was a division because of Him” John 7:43; 9:16; 10:19 In this religious world you will hardly find anyone that is “for” drunkenness, immorality or abortion. You can eliminate all the bars, houses of prostitution and even all abortions, but you have not even touched the real issue! The real issue, as in these passages, is where […]
What Is The Gospel? After all the logic, after all the reasoning, when the smoke blows away and the dust settles we are left finally with this piercing question. We know that, “The gospel is the [only] power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes …” “Neither is there salvation in any other: for […]
Contending for the truth Contending for the truth against the errors of modern religion is the duty of God’s servants. I hope our spirit is one of genuine love to all the chosen of God; but today’s rule of charity which requires us to keep silent on certain points in order to avoid controversy, I […]
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth The church of the living God as she is seen in her local assemblies is the pillar and ground of the truth. Though these assemblies are few and far between they alone have the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They stand wherever God has gathered them […]