TRUST IN THE NAME OF THE LORD<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet him trust in the name of the LORD\u201d (Isaiah 50:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scripture says trust in the name of the Lord because the\nname of the Lord tells us who the Lord is. If you would be saved trust all of\nyour salvation to the Lord Jesus Christ as He is revealed in the\nscriptures. The scriptures give us seven names or characteristics of the\nLord in whom we can trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-jireh: The Lord will provide.\nTrust in Christ to provide everything that God requires of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-rapha: The Lord that healeth.\nTrust in Christ to heal all of your spiritual sin sickness by His precious\nblood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-nissi: The Lord our banner. Trust\nin the Lord, look to Him, run to where He is and where He is preached and hide\nin Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-shalom: The Lord our peace. Trust\nin Christ to make peace with God for you by the blood of His cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-ra-ah: The Lord my shepherd.\nTrust in Christ to lead you, protect you, and to provide for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-tsidkenu: The Lord our\nrighteousness. Trust in Christ to be all of your righteousness without any help\nfrom you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in Jehovah-shammah: The Lord is\npresent. Trust Christ the Savior to never leave you nor forsake you so\nthat you will never stand alone before God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pastor Frank Tate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n We often know the theory of the gospel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n before we know the experience of the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We often receive the doctrines of grace into<\/p>\n\n\n\n our judgment, before we receive the grace of<\/p>\n\n\n\n the doctrines into our soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We therefore need to be . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n brought down,<\/p>\n\n\n\n humbled,<\/p>\n\n\n\n tried,<\/p>\n\n\n\n stripped of every prop;<\/p>\n\n\n\n that the gospel may be to us . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n more than a sound,<\/p>\n\n\n\n more than a name,<\/p>\n\n\n\n more than a theory,<\/p>\n\n\n\n more than a doctrine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n more than a system,<\/p>\n\n\n\n more than a creed;<\/p>\n\n\n\n that it may be . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n soul enjoyment,<\/p>\n\n\n\n soul blessing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n and soul salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel<\/p>\n\n\n\n to the poor in spirit, the humbled, stripped,<\/p>\n\n\n\n and tried–it is a gospel of glad tidings indeed<\/p>\n\n\n\n to the sinner’s broken heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Universal Redemption<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (The following is by Don Fortner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the Lord Jesus Christ poured out his life’s<\/p>\n\n\n\n blood at Calvary, he did not make salvation a<\/p>\n\n\n\n possibility, but a reality. He obtained eternal<\/p>\n\n\n\n redemption for God’s elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any doctrine which says that Christ wants to save<\/p>\n\n\n\n those who perish, tries to save those who perish,<\/p>\n\n\n\n and provides salvation for those who perish is<\/p>\n\n\n\n nonsense, theological rubbish, and blasphemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus Christ is God almighty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is not a whining wimp. What he wants to do he<\/p>\n\n\n\n does (Isa. 46:10). He never tries to do anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He simply does what he will. His grace, his power,<\/p>\n\n\n\n and even his will are irresistible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Ps. 135:6; Dan. 4:34-35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If he wanted to save everybody in the world, where<\/p>\n\n\n\n is the force that could stop him from doing so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any man who worships a god who wants to do what<\/p>\n\n\n\n he cannot do, or tries to do what he fails to accomplish,<\/p>\n\n\n\n is a fool. Such a god, if he existed, would be as useless<\/p>\n\n\n\n as a lantern without oil, or a bucket without a bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Failure is an embarrassment to man. How much more so<\/p>\n\n\n\n it would be to the eternal God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The doctrine of universal redemption- that doctrine which<\/p>\n\n\n\n says that Christ wants to save everybody, tries to save<\/p>\n\n\n\n everybody, and provides salvation for everybody, tramples<\/p>\n\n\n\n the blood of Christ under foot, despises the work of Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n robs the Son of God of all glory in salvation, and puts him<\/p>\n\n\n\n to an open shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those who say, “Jesus loves everybody and died for<\/p>\n\n\n\n everybody,” proclaim a love and a death which are<\/p>\n\n\n\n totally useless for anything more than sentimentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They preach a redemption by which no one was redeemed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Universal redemption is no redemption at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Redemption was effectually accomplished by Christ on<\/p>\n\n\n\n the cross (John 19:30; Heb. 9:12). And redemption is<\/p>\n\n\n\n effectually applied by Christ on the throne (John 17:2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n It never was our Lord’s intention,<\/p>\n\n\n\n desire, or purpose to save all men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Godly sorrow worth repentance to salvation not to be\nrepented of,<\/p>\n\n\n\n but the sorrow of the world worth death.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Cor. 7:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n These two kinds of repentance are to be carefully<\/p>\n\n\n\n distinguished from each other; though they are often<\/p>\n\n\n\n sadly confounded. Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas, all<\/p>\n\n\n\n repented. But their repentance was the remorse of<\/p>\n\n\n\n natural conscience, not the godly sorrow of a broken<\/p>\n\n\n\n heart and a contrite spirit. They trembled before God<\/p>\n\n\n\n as an angry Judge, but were not melted into contrition<\/p>\n\n\n\n before Him as a forgiving Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They neither hated their sins nor forsook them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They neither loved holiness nor sought it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cain went out from the presence of the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Esau plotted Jacob’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saul consulted the witch of Endor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ahab put honest Micaiah into prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Judas hanged himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How different from this forced and false repentance<\/p>\n\n\n\n of a reprobate, is the repentance of a child of God;<\/p>\n\n\n\n that true repentance for sin, that godly sorrow, that<\/p>\n\n\n\n holy mourning which flows from the Spirit’s gracious<\/p>\n\n\n\n operations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Godly sorrow does not spring from a sense of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n wrath of God in a broken law, but from His mercy<\/p>\n\n\n\n in a blessed gospel; from a view by faith of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n sufferings of Christ in the garden and on the cross;<\/p>\n\n\n\n from a manifestation of pardoning love; and is always<\/p>\n\n\n\n attended with self-loathing and self-abhorrence; with<\/p>\n\n\n\n deep and unreserved confession of sin and forsaking<\/p>\n\n\n\n it; with most hearty, sincere and earnest petitions to<\/p>\n\n\n\n be kept from all evil; and a holy longing to live to the<\/p>\n\n\n\n praise and glory of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe judgment seat of Christ\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Don Fortner<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read 2 Corinthians 5:1 -11<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though today God is longsuffering with men and is giving the\nfallen sons of Adam space for repentance, there is a Day of Judgment and\nrighteous retribution coming (Rev. 20:11-14). God does not delay his judgment\nbecause he lacks the will or the power to judge men, but because he has an\nelect people whom he has determined to save. As soon as he has saved the last\nof his elect, judgment will come (2 Peter 3:8-15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the revelation of Holy Scripture, the judge of all\nmen in that great day will be the man, Christ Jesus (Matt. 13:41-43; 25:31-32;\nJohn 5:22-29; Acts 10:42; 17:30-31; Rom. 14:9-12; 2 Cor. 5: 10). The Judge of\nthe world in that last great day will be the Son of man who is the Son of God.\nThis judgment of men by Christ will be both righteous and impartial. All men\nwill receive the exact penalty or reward of strict justice. The wicked will be\njudged in strict righteousness according to their works and receive in a body\nthe just reward of their evil deeds. There will be degrees of punishment in\nhell, because there are degrees of wickedness. Those who sin against greater\nlight will receive greater condemnation (Matt. 11:20-24). The righteous will\nalso be judged in strict righteousness according to their works and receive in\nbody the just reward of their righteous deeds. There will be no degrees of\nreward for the righteous, because there are no degrees of righteousness. All\nrighteous men are perfect men. These are God\u2019s elect, redeemed, justified and\nsanctified by Christ. There is no evil recorded against them because the\nrighteous obedience of Christ to the law is imputed to them (Rom. 5:19). That\nsame law and justice that demand the eternal punishment of every unbeliever\nalso demand the eternal bliss and glory of every believer, whose names are\nwritten in the book of life, because in Christ, by his righteousness and shed\nblood, every believer is worthy of heaven\u2019s eternal inheritance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The consequences of death<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the\njudgment\u201d Hebrews 9:27<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gloom must dwell in “the valley of the shadow of\ndeath.” When we consider what death really is\u2014not merely as putting a\nfinal close, and that, perhaps, with a pang of mortal agony, to all that nature\nloves, but an opening gate into endless woe\u2014our wonder is rather that men meet\nit with such stoical insensibility, instead of being more alarmed and terrified\nat its approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what is death? Is it merely what we see with our bodily eyes\nwhen we view the corpse stretched upon the bed\u2014or as we represent it to our\nimagination when we follow the coffin to the cemetery? Does death merely mean\nthat pale corpse, that funeral hearse, those weeping mourners, those gasping\nsobs of wife or husband, with all the sights and sounds of woe as the heavy\nclods, amid the still silence, fall on the coffin? To most this is all they see\nor know of death. But death, in a scriptural sense, has a far wider and more\nextensive meaning than these mere outward trappings of sorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not then so much death as the consequences of death, that\nmakes it\u2014to be so truly dreadful\u2014to be the king of terrors\u2014and invests it with\nthat terrible visage which strikes gloom\u2014to be cast into the lake of fire\u2014to be\nforever under the dreadful wrath of God\u2014to be eternally wallowing in the\nbillows of sulphurous flame\u2014to be shut up in that dreadful pit into which hope\nnever penetrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why should death be an object of fear? Because after death comes\nthe judgment! And why should judgment be an object of terror? Because judgment\nimplies condemnation, and condemnation implies an eternity of woe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The scale!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n “For what is a man profited, if shall gain the whole world,\nand lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”\nMatthew 16:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n Put your soul in one side of the scale\u2014and put all that the\nworld calls good and great in the other side. Think of everything that the\nheart of man can desire\u2014riches, honour, pleasure, power. Heap it up well! Fill\none side of the scale until there is no room for more. Put in\u2014all the gold of\nAustralia\u2014all the diamonds of India\u2014all the delights of youthful love\u2014all the\npleasures of wife and home\u2014of children and friends, of health and strength, of\nname and fame. Put in all that the natural mind of man deems the height of\nhappiness, and everything that may weigh this side of the scale down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, when you have filled this side of the scale, put your soul\ninto the other side\u2014the state of your soul for all eternity. Represent to\nyourself your deathbed\u2014hold the scale with dying hands as lying just at the\nbrink of eternity. See how the scale now hangs! What if you had the whole world\nthat you have put into the scale, and could call it all your own\u2014but at that\nsolemn hour felt that your soul was forever lost\u2014that you were dying under the\nwrath of God\u2014and there was nothing before you but an eternity of misery! At\nsuch a moment as this, what could you put in the scale equal to the weight of\nyour immortal soul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take the scale again. Put into one side, every affliction,\ntrial, sorrow, and distress that imagination can conceive, or tongue express.\nLet them all be yours\u2014distress of mind\u2014pain of body\u2014poverty of\ncircumstances\u2014contempt from man\u2014assaults from Satan\u2014Job’s afflictions\u2014Jacob’s\nbereavements\u2014David’s persecutions\u2014Jeremiah’s prison\u2014Hezekiah’s sickness. Put\ninto this side of the scale everything that makes life naturally miserable\u2014and\nthen put into the other side, a saved soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surely, as in the case of worldly honours, and riches, and\nhappiness\u2014a lost soul must weigh them all down! So in the case of afflictions\nand sorrows and troubles\u2014a saved soul must weigh them all down too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The free grace of God!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Letters of John Newton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “By the grace of God I am what I am!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Corinthians 15:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n The true Christian is sensible and mindful of<\/p>\n\n\n\n indwelling sin. He confesses that in everything<\/p>\n\n\n\n he comes exceedingly short, and that his best<\/p>\n\n\n\n services are not only defective\u2014but defiled. He<\/p>\n\n\n\n accounts himself as an unprofitable servant\u2014and<\/p>\n\n\n\n is abased in his own eyes. He knows that all that<\/p>\n\n\n\n distinguishes him from the vilest of men\u2014is the<\/p>\n\n\n\n free grace of God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n He derives all his hope and comfort, as well as his<\/p>\n\n\n\n strength\u2014from Jesus, whom he has known, received<\/p>\n\n\n\n and loved, and to whom he has committed his soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He renounces all confidence in the flesh, and esteems<\/p>\n\n\n\n all things as loss\u2014compared to the surpassing greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n of knowing Jesus Christ his Lord, for whose sake he has<\/p>\n\n\n\n lost all things\u2014considering them rubbish, that he may<\/p>\n\n\n\n gain Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Subdued by sovereign love!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (The following is by Spurgeon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n – John 6:37<\/p>\n\n\n\n This declaration involves the doctrine of election–<\/p>\n\n\n\n there are some whom the Father gave to Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It involves the doctrine of effectual calling–<\/p>\n\n\n\n these who are given must and shall come; however<\/p>\n\n\n\n stoutly they may set themselves against it, yet they<\/p>\n\n\n\n shall be brought out of darkness into God’s marvellous light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It teaches us the indispensable necessity of faith–<\/p>\n\n\n\n for even those who are given to Christ are not saved<\/p>\n\n\n\n except they come to Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even they must come, for there is no other way to heaven<\/p>\n\n\n\n but by the door, Christ Jesus. All that the Father gives to<\/p>\n\n\n\n our Redeemer must come to him, therefore none can come<\/p>\n\n\n\n to heaven except they come to Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh! the power and majesty which rest in the words<\/p>\n\n\n\n “shall come.” He does not say they have power to come,<\/p>\n\n\n\n nor they may come if they will, but they “shall come.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lord Jesus does by his messengers, his word, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n his Spirit, sweetly and graciously compel men to come<\/p>\n\n\n\n in that they may eat of his marriage supper. And this he<\/p>\n\n\n\n does, not by any violation of the free agency of man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n but by the power of his grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jehovah Jesus knows how, by irresistible arguments<\/p>\n\n\n\n addressed to the understanding, by mighty reasons<\/p>\n\n\n\n appealing to the affections, and by the mysterious<\/p>\n\n\n\n influence of his Holy Spirit operating upon all the<\/p>\n\n\n\n powers and passions of the soul, so to subdue the<\/p>\n\n\n\n whole man, that whereas he was once rebellious,<\/p>\n\n\n\n he yields cheerfully to his government, subdued<\/p>\n\n\n\n by sovereign love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n But how shall those be known whom God has chosen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this result– that they do willingly and joyfully accept<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christ, and come to him with simple and sincere faith,<\/p>\n\n\n\n resting upon him as all their salvation and all their desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reader, have you thus come to Jesus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TRUST IN THE NAME OF THE LORD \u201cLet him trust in the name of the LORD\u201d (Isaiah 50:10) The scripture says trust in the name of the Lord because the name of the Lord tells us who the Lord is. 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