Wise Counsel for Preachers to Follow The year was 1768. A young preacher by the name of Augustus Toplady, who wrote many of our best hymns, including “Rock of Ages”, spent the afternoon in London with an older, veteran Gospel preacher, whom he greatly admired and from whom he learned much. The older preacher was […]
The sacrifice under the old covenant on the Day of Atonement was a type. A type means it was “as if” the sins of the people were put on the goat. A shadow means God treated the goat “as if” he were sin. A picture means God regarded the sacrifice “as if” sin had been […]
God’s sovereignty (Charles Spurgeon) There is no attribute more comforting to His children, than that of God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials—they believe that sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules them, and that sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God […]
ONLY TRUST ME “Only believe.”–Mark 5:36 Precious and significant are the words of Jesus, the very same words that He spoke when on earth. Did those lips–glowing with more than a seraph’s hallowed touch, lips into which grace without measure was poured–ever breathe a sentence more touching, more simple, or more significant than this, “Only […]
Purpose of Despisers, Purpose of God Acts 13: 38-41 The whole purpose of Satan and the message preached in the synagogues of Satan are to keep men in ignorance to the liberty that is in Christ Jesus. It is not those who are being bewitched that I reject but those who have heard the gospel […]
GOD PROMISES THE PRISONER AND CAPTIVE God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. Psalm 68:6 Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners. (Psalm 146:7). “If any of […]
“Your Own Salvation” Philippians 2:12 No description of salvation can be found that is sweeter, more delightful, comforting, or more satisfying to our souls than that which is found in Philippians 2:12. Here the Spirit of God declares to believing sinners that God’s eternal, great, everlasting salvation is “Your Own Salvation”. I like that! If […]
“And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, […]
— The Individual Believer Eternal life is by the Seed being sown within us–Christ in you the hope of glory. We begin as babes. And children grow up. The Lord compared faith to a grain of mustard seed, we grow in faith. Believers are complete in Christ–it is not the measure of our faith that […]
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 […]