Natural Sense is not Spiritual Sense Isaiah 6: 10: Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. What did the Lord command Isaiah to do to […]
Reformation is not Regeneration Before the soul can know anything about salvation, it must learn deeply and experimentally the nature of sin, and of itself, as stained and polluted by sin. It is proud, and needs to be humbled; careless, and needs to be awakened; alive, and needs to be killed; full, and requires to […]
SURE INDICATIONS OF SALVATION Acts 9: 5, 6 Before the Lord saved Saul he was a pride-filled, ambitious, sinner lost in religion who would heed no one’s voice but his own. After Christ appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus and knocked him off his high horse the Lord called him by name and […]
The Way Some Call Heresy “But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets…” (Acts. 24:14) Someone recently referred to our congregation as a cult saying, “They don’t believe […]
There Are Only Two Kinds Of People There are only two kinds of people in the world – – – the righteous and the wicked. Interestingly, the righteous believe themselves to be wicked. That is why they need the Gospel. The wicked believe themselves to be righteous. That is why they do not need the […]
True or False Professor? There is a distinguishing difference between a true child of God and a false professor. The Bible is filled with illustrations of this truth – Mt 7:22-23; Mt 23:27; Mt 25:32; John 14:21; 1John 3:14. This discernible difference is characterized from an inward presence of the indwelling Spirit of God which […]
WHERE DO YOU STAND? Isaiah 28: 14-18 The LORD God Laid the Foundation (v16.) Christ Jesus the Son of God is the foundation (Genesis 49: 24: I Cor 3: 11.) In his eternal purpose God the Father chose his Son to manifest the triune God in a body. He was chosen of God to manifest […]
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? The prophet Isaiah asked the question every enlightened child of God wonders at. “Who hath believed our report?” When those that know the Truth consider what men believe ( and what they once believed ), they stand amazed at the lunacy of the human race. Men will believe a lie before […]
In Spirit and Truth “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him, Must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth, (John 4:24). Here are two principles of worship without which all worship of God is vain. God must be worshipped in spirit – a heart worship – as opposed to mere forms and ceremonies, […]
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 […]