Jer. 32:37 Behold, I will\ngather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and\nin my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place,\nand I will cause them to dwell safely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jer. 32:38 And they shall\nbe my people, and I will be their God:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jer. 32:39 And I will\ngive them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good\nof them, and of their children after them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jer. 32:40 And I will\nmake an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to\ndo them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not\ndepart from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jer. 32:41 Yea, I will\nrejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly\nwith my whole heart and with my whole soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jer. 32:42 For thus saith\nthe LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will\nI bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The doctrines we preach and love are not mere teachings of some\nparticular method or plan, but the doctrines of Christ, who IS our Gospel;\nChrist who is sovereign over all flesh; Christ, whose grace is both sovereign\nand free. Not to preach a sovereign Christ, is to preach another Christ. To\npreach another Christ is to preach another gospel (which is not another,\nGalatians 1:6-9). It is just that simple. Mark it down, you cannot separate\nChrist from the Gospel or the Gospel from Christ, for they are one and the\nsame. Christ is sovereign over all things and over all flesh, giving life\nfreely to whom He will. The message of life for poor guilty sinners is the\nmessage of the Christ of God, who saves sovereignly and freely, even the chief\nof sinners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pastor Maurice Montgomery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor by one offering\nhe hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.\u201d Heb. 10:14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The gospel is in this\none verse. Who did the perfecting? The Lord Jesus Christ alone! How did He\nperfect? By one offering, His blood alone! When did he perfect?\nNotice the word \u201chath\u201d makes it past tense thereby clearly declaring that the\nperfecting was done in eternity and in time, hence the word forever!\nWho did He perfect? The chosen of God the Father who were, are, and\nalways will be sanctified in Christ\nJesus! ~Caleb\nHickman<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Intercession Of Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n The believer is perfect in Christ, but in himself is a poor feeble\ncreature, ever liable to fall. Oh, the blessedness of having One who can\nmanage all his affairs for him at the right hand of the Majesty in the Heavens:\nOne who upholds him continually by the right hand of His righteousness: One who\nwill never let him go: One who is able to save to the uttermost: One who is the\nsame yesterday, today, and forever: One who will bear him triumphantly through\nall the difficulties and dangers that surround him and finally, present him\nfaultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy. Blessed\nforever be the grace that has made such ample provision for all our sins in the\nBlood of a spotless victim and the intercession of a Divine High Priest. \n \n \n Pastor Scott Richardson<\/p>\n\n\n\n The anointing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “But the anointing<\/strong> which ye have received\nof Him remaineth in you.”<\/em> 1 John 2:27<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the powers of earth and hell are combined against this holy\nanointing, with which the children of God are so highly favoured. But if God\nhas locked up in the bosom of a saint one drop of this divine unction, that one\ndrop is armour against all the assaults of sin<\/em>\u2014all the attacks\nof Satan\u2014<\/em>all the enmity of self<\/em>\u2014and all the charms,\npleasures, and amusements of the world.<\/em> Waves and billows\nof affliction<\/em> may roll over the soul\u2014but they cannot wash away\nthis holy drop of anointing oil. Satan<\/em> may shoot a thousand\nfiery darts to inflame all the combustible material of our carnal mind\u2014but all\nhis fiery darts cannot burn up that one drop of oil which God has laid up in\nthe depths of a broken spirit. Theworld,<\/em> with all its\ncharms and pleasures, and its deadly opposition to the truth of God, may stir\nup waves of ungodliness against this holy anointing\u2014but all the powers of earth\ncombined can never extinguish that one drop which God has Himself lodged in the\ndepths of a believer’s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so it has been with all the dear saints of God. Not all\ntheir sorrows, backslidings, slips, falls, miseries, and wretchedness, have\never\u2014all combined\u2014drunk up the anointing that God has bestowed upon them.\nIf sin<\/em> could have done it\u2014we would have sinned ourselves into\nhell long ago\u2014and if the world <\/em>or Satan <\/em>could\nhave destroyed it or us\u2014they would long ago have destroyed both. If our\ncarnal mind<\/em> could have done it\u2014it would have swept us away into floods\nof destruction. But the anointing abides sure, and cannot be destroyed\u2014and\nwhere once lodged in the soul, it is secure against all the assaults of\nearth, sin, and hell.<\/em> But the anointing<\/strong> which you\nhave received from Him remains in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n The penetrating light of the spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “For God . . . . hath shined in our hearts to give the\nlight of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”<\/em> 2\nCorinthians 4:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all\nthings.” <\/em>1 John 2:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only saving light<\/em> is the light of God\nshining into the soul\u2014giving us to see and know “the only true God, and\nJesus Christ whom He has sent.” A man may have the clearest light in his\njudgment, and yet never have the penetrating light of the Spirit<\/strong> producing\nconviction in his soul. He may have the soundest knowledge of the doctrines of\ngrace, and see the harmonious scheme of salvation\u2014and yet never have by divine\nteaching,<\/em> seen a holy God, nor have ever felt the spirituality of\nGod’s righteous law condemning him as a transgressor. If we do not have\nthis penetrating light of the Spirit<\/strong>, we shall be sure to go\nastray. We shall be entangled in some error\u2014plunge into some heresy\u2014imbibe some\ndoctrine of devils\u2014drink into some dreadful delusion\u2014or fall into some dreadful\nsin\u2014and have our faith shipwrecked forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A false light can but wreck us on the rocks of presumption or\ndespair. But the light of divine life in the soul is accompanied with all the\ngraces of the Spirit. It is the light of the glory of God\u2014the light of Jesus’\ncountenance\u2014and the light of the Spirit’s teaching\u2014and therefore an infallible\nguide and guard. And this infallible pilot will guide the soul to whom it is\ngiven safe into the harbour of endless rest and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n All true religion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus is our sun, and without Him all is darkness\u2014our life, and\nwithout Him all is death\u2014the beginner and finisher of our faith\u2014the substance\nof our hope\u2014the object of our love. It is the Spirit who quickens us to feel\nour need of Christ\u2014to seek all our supplies in Him and from Him\u2014to believe in\nHim unto everlasting life, and thus live a life of faith upon Him. By His\nsecret teachings, inward touches, gracious smiles, soft whispers, sweet\npromises, manifestations of Christ’s glorious Person and work, Christ’s\nagonising sufferings and dying love\u2014the Holy Spirit draws the heart up to\nChrist. He thus wins our affections, and setting Christ before our eyes as\n“the chief among ten thousand and the altogether lovely One,” draws\nout that love and affection towards Jesus which puts the world under our feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All true religion<\/strong> flows from the\nSpirit’s grace, presence and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 16:14 He shall\nglorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it<\/em> unto you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All the comfort, instruction, and\ndirection of God the Holy Spirit comes to sinners through the Lord Jesus\nChrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/strong>In\naccordance with the disposition of the covenant of grace the Holy Spirit is\nChrist\u2019s agent in this world, just as he was the Father\u2019s agent in this world.\nHe does nothing of himself, speaks nothing of himself, and receives nothing to\nhimself. It is the Spirit\u2019s delight to do Christ\u2019s bidding in this world, even\nas it has been the Son\u2019s delight to do his Father\u2019s bidding. Christ is the\nFountain of grace. The Holy Spirit is the channel through whom all the waters\nof grace flow to us from the Fountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe gifts of the Spirit are actually the gifts of Christ bestowed upon his\nchurch by the Spirit for the glory of Christ, for the furtherance of the gospel\nof Christ, and for the increase and spiritual welfare of the body of Christ. A\ncomparison of Scripture with Scripture will show this plainly (1 Corinthians\n12:11; Ephesians 4:7-12). The Holy Spirit is not in competition with Christ. He\nhas come to glorify Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nEverywhere today we hear men saying, \u201cThis is the age of the Holy Spirit.\u201d They\ntalk about the anointing of the Spirit, the baptism of the Spirit, being slain\nin the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, the filling of the Spirit, the presence\nof the Spirit, and the works of the Spirit, and say very little about the\nPerson, work, and glory of Christ. Those who tell you to seek the Spirit, those\nwho focus your attention on the Holy Spirit do not have the Holy Spirit. The\nHoly Spirit speaks only of Christ. And those who have the Spirit of Christ\nspeak of Christ. That man who preaches by the Spirit of God preaches Christ\nonly, Christ alone, and Christ always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nLet no one misunderstand me.Let us reverence the Holy Spirit,\nworship the Spirit, and honour the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God. But the only\nway to reverence the Spirit is to reverence Christ. The only way to worship the\nSpirit is to worship Christ. The only way to honour the Spirit is to honour\nChrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. To have\nthe anointing of the Spirit is to have Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. To be\nbaptised in the Spirit is to be baptised into Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. To have\nthe gifts of the Spirit is to have the covenant blessings of God\u2019s grace in\nChrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. To have\nthe filling of the Spirit is to have Christ in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. To have\nthe power of the Spirit is to have the power of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. To have\nthe presence of the Spirit is to have the presence of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. To have\nthe work of the Spirit is to have Christ formed in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. To walk in\nthe Spirit is to walk in Christ, with Christ, toward Christ, and for Christ by\nfaith in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThis is not the age of the Spirit. This is the age of the Son. This is the age\nof Christ! This is the day of grace, the gospel day, the day of Christ. It\nbegan when the Sun of Righteousness arose from the grave with healing in his\nwings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don Fortner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe Work of God the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n\n\n\n