Before we can worship in peace of conscience\nand liberty of heart, we must know, on the authority of God\u2019s Word and by the\npower of God\u2019s Spirit, the entire question of sin has been forever settled by\nthe blood of the Divine Sin offering. All of God\u2019s claims and all our\nnecessities as ruined guilty sinners have been forever answered. This gives\nperfect peace; and in the enjoyment of this peace we worship God. Because we\nhave a perfect sacrifice, we have a perfect conscience. – Maurice\nMontgomery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The greatest\nglory of God is manifest, not in Creation, not in Providence, but in\nRedemption, in the salvation of guilty, helpless sinners. God brings more glory\nto Himself in saving one \u201cdead dog\u201d sinner (II Samuel 9:8), than in the creation\nor sustaining of this world. Therefore, it is not with reluctance that God\nsaves sinners, but with joy and delight (Luke 15). I find this encouraging.\nWhat do you think? \u2013 Maurice Montgomery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each mother’s infant?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Henry Law, “The\nHealer”)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us remove the mask,\nthen, and Sin is a universal taint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No child escapes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We tread this earth diverse\n. . . But all who breathe life’s\nbreath Adam’s foul fall infused\nthe evil<\/strong> Each parent sows this seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No offspring is infection\nfree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cain was conceived in sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last babe born must be\ncorruption’s heir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reader! your cradle may have\nbeen wealth’s But all are one in oneness\nof distempered soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each mother’s infant<\/strong> is\ntransgression’s child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sin is an all\nspoiling evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a weed which overruns\nthe garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It stains all men, and every\npart in each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It enters to pervade<\/strong>.\nIts root is in the soul. The heart<\/strong> first\nsickens. This becomes harder The head<\/strong> soon\ngrows distempered. Hence error The eye<\/strong> is\nblind to see the ‘chief among The ear<\/strong> hears\nnothing but discord in the Gospel melody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The palate<\/strong> has\nno relish of healthful food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lips<\/strong>,\nthe mouth<\/strong>, the throat<\/strong>, the tongue<\/strong>, Thus the disease\nruns wildly through the whole man!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sin is the union of all\nspiritual maladies in Sin’s end is endless death.\nIts course is sure. Oh! mark those\nwrithing sufferers in the burning<\/strong> This sketch<\/strong> is\ndark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reality<\/strong> is\nfar darker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But why are these black\ncolours laid? The malady’s “I am the Lord, who\nhealth thee.” Exodus 15:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thy\nPeople<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Psalm\n110:3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\nFortner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\nare four things plainly revealed by God to the sons of men. All who believe\nrejoice in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.\nGOD HAS AN ELECT PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD. There are some men and women who were\nchosen, ordained and predestinated unto salvation by God’s sovereign, immutable\ngrace, before the world began. And those who were chosen by God before the\nworld began must be with God when the world ends. God’s elect shall be\neternally saved (II Thess. 2:13-14; Eph. 1:3-6; Rom. 8:28-30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.\nTHE LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCOMPLISHED REDEMPTION FOR GOD’S ELECT BY HIS DEATH UPON\nTHE CROSS. All those for whom Christ died as a Substitute\nat Calvary are redeemed, justified and sanctified in him. And they\nshall be glorified by him. Every person who was redeemed by Christ shall live\nforever with Christ in heaven (Rom. 5:19; Gal. 3:13; Heb. 9:12;\n10:5-14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.\nTHE HOLY SPIRIT SAVES ALL OF GOD’S ELECT BY HIS IRRESISTIBLE GRACE. All who\nwere chosen of God in eternity and redeemed by Christ at Calvary are\nregenerated, born again, called, converted, sealed and preserved in Christ unto\neverlasting life by the sovereign, effectual, irresistible power and grace of\nGod the Holy Spirit at God’s appointed time (Ps. 65:4; Eph. 1:14; 2:1-4).\n“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profitteth nothing”\n(John 6:63; 1:12-13). All who are called by the Holy Spirit to Christ\nshall come to Christ and be with Christ forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.\nEVERY SINNER IN ALL THE WORLD WHO TRUSTS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SHALL\nBE SAVED (John 3:14-16, 36; Acts 16:31; Rom. 10:9-13). You\nand I have a responsibility to trust Christ. God commands us to trust his dear\nSon. He does not invite us to do so. He commands us! And he promises salvation\nto all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. God is as good as his word. If we\nbelieve on Christ, we are eternally saved. That means, we have been chosen of\nGod, redeemed by Christ and called by the Holy Spirit. Faith in Christ is the\nfruit and evidence of these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Jesus Christ the same\nyesterday, and today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will make no advance in\nthe divine life, if your eye is ever upon yourself instead of Christ. What\nthough the experience of today is the opposite of the experience of yesterday-\nyesterday all brightness, today all cloudiness; yesterday your soul like a\nwell-tuned psalm, today every string loosed and breathing no melody; yesterday,\nJesus felt to be so near and precious, today seeming to awaken not a loving\nemotion in your heart; yesterday, communion with God so sweet, today, none\nwhatever; yesterday, desiring to walk uprightly, holily, and humbly, today\ndetecting so much that is vacillating, weak, and vile. Nevertheless, Jesus is\nnot changed. The work of Christ is the same- your acceptance in Him is the\nsame- His intercession in heaven for you is the same; then, where should you\nfly to spiritual experiences for support, strength, and consolation- rising\nwhen they rise, falling when they fall- when all your standing, joy, peace, and\nhope are entirely out of yourself, and are solely in Christ? What though you\nchange a thousand times in one day? He never changes. God may vary His\ndispensations- He may alter His mode of dealing- He may change the nature of\nHis discipline – He may vary the lesson, but His loving-kindness and His truth\nare as unchangeable as His very being. He may dry up the earthly cistern, but\nHe will never seal up the heavenly fountain! -that will flow on in grace\nthrough all time, and in glory through all eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Octavius Winslow<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The\nBlood Of The Everlasting Covenant” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hebrews\n13:20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nforce of a testament, or covenant, is the death of the testator\n(Heb. 9:16-17). Even so, with regard to the everlasting covenant, its\nbenefits and blessings flow to chosen sinners only upon the condition of\nChrist’s death as our Substitute. This was the ultimate stipulation of the\ncovenant. But once fulfilled, the covenant was ratified by blood and its\nblessings cannot, upon any grounds, be withheld from those whose names are\nwritten in the book of life from eternity. I see a fivefold connection between\nthe shed blood of Christ and the covenant of grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.\nWITH REGARD TO GOD THE SON, the shedding of his blood fulfilled everything the\nFather required and everything the Son agreed to for the salvation of his\npeople. At the close of his earthly life the Son of God had finished the work\nof establishing a righteousness to be imputed to us (John 17:4). When he died\nat Calvary, our Substitute, by the sacrifice of himself, finished the work\nof atonement and satisfaction (John 19:30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.\nWITH REGARD TO GOD THE FATHER, the shed blood of his darling Son puts the\nAlmighty under obligation, inescapable obligation, to save all the redeemed,\npardon all the ransomed, and give grace and glory to all for whom atonement was\nmade. Both the oath of God (Heb. 6:17-18) and the justice of God\n(Rom. 3:24-26) compel him to save every soul for whom Christ shed his\nblood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.\nWITH REGARD TO GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT, the blood of Christ is that which he\nsprinkles and effectually applies to the hearts of chosen sinners in effectual\ncalling (Heb. 9:12-14), by which he proclaims peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.\nWITH REGARD TO BELIEVERS, the sin-atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is the\nsolitary ground of peace and assurance before God. His blood is God’s token to\nus for good (Rom. 8:32).<\/p>\n\n\n\n “His oath, His covenant\nand His blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n Support me in the\nwhelming flood!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.\nWITH REGARD TO GUILTY SINNERS, the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the sinner’s\nSubstitute, is the only way of access to God (Heb. 10:22). But it is a sure way\nof access to him! Come to God through the blood and he cannot refuse you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\nFortner<\/p>\n\n\n\n Election! The redeemed are held and\nsecured by a threefold cord which can never be broken!<\/strong> Five devilisms!<\/strong>
\nbehold the multiform malignity of
\nthis fiend<\/strong>, SIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n in climate,
\n in station,
\n in mental power,
\n in mould of temper,
\n and in frame of body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nare spotted with this plague!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\npoison <\/strong>into human nature’s veins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ndowny pillow, or poverty’s harsh provisions.
\nYou may have intellect to command a gazing
\nworld’s applause, or you may crawl unknown
\nto an unknown grave. In these externals<\/strong> no
\ntwo may be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nBut its fibres and its branches spread through
\neach faculty of mind and body. See how it
\nmasters the whole inner frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nthan the nether millstone, the nest of every
\nunclean bird, the den of lust’s vile brood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nand ignorance expel right judgment. The world
\nis worshiped as a rightful lord. Hell is derided
\nas some weak fable. Repentance is reserved
\nfor dying moments. The glorious Word is
\nscorned as the bewildered page in which the
\nbrainsick and fanatic glean delusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nten thousand, the altogether lovely One.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nare festered with contaminating sores. Alas!
\nhow many words go forth to spread contagion
\nand to scatter death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\none compacted mass. It is no solitary evil.
\nIt comes in troops, in flocks, in swarms!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe stream flows on until the ocean’s bed is
\nreached. Thus sin’s strong bias rushes to the
\npit of hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nlake! <\/strong>Ask them what brought them to their woe.
\nOne wild shriek answers, Sin! Sin uncured, unchecked!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nmalignity is drawn to show that one Physician<\/strong>
\nalone can avail.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nRedemption!
\nCalling!
\nJustification!
\nPreservation!<\/strong>
\n>From Octavius Winslow’s, “The Divine Attributes
\nEntwining Around the Tempted and Trembling Believer”<\/em>
\n
\nThe doctrine of God’s eternal, sovereign, and
\nunconditional election<\/strong> of a people; his redemption<\/strong>
\nof them by the sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ;
\nhis particular and effectual calling<\/strong> of them by the
\nEternal Spirit; their complete pardon and justification<\/strong>,
\nand their preservation<\/strong> to eternal glory; these are
\nGod’s truths, and not to be rejected. They come
\nfrom God, and, when received in the heart, they
\nlead to God; they have their origin in him, and to
\nhim they draw the soul.
\n
\nPrecious truths!
\n
\nHow they abase the sinner!
\n
\nHow they exalt the dear Redeemer!
\n
\nHow they glorify God!
\n
\nHow they empty, humble, and sanctify the soul!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n1. By God the FATHER, who . . .
\n has loved them with an everlasting love,
\n has chosen them in Christ,
\n has secured them in the covenant of grace,
\n has given them saving grace,
\n keeps them by His power,
\n and will give them eternal glory!
\n
\n2. By the SON, who . . .
\n has undertaken the work of salvation for them,
\n has redeemed and purchased them,
\n prays and intercedes for them,
\n makes preparations in Heaven for them.
\nThey are built on Him, united to Him, and are His jewels<\/em>, whom He\ncherishes and will preserve.
\n
\n3. By the HOLY SPIRIT . . .
\n whose grace is incorruptible,
\n whose personal indwelling is forever,
\n who Himself is the pledge and seal of their heavenly inheritance,
\n who having begun, will finish the good work of grace. (John\nGill)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n
\nPreached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London,
\non Tuesday Evening, July 30, 1850, by J. C. Philpot
\n
\nAs regards sin in its workings<\/strong>, we may say
\nthere are five devilisms<\/strong> from which we need
\nto be saved . . .
\n
\n1. The GUILT of sin.
\n
\n2. The FILTH of sin.
\n
\n3. The LOVE of sin.
\n
\n4. The DOMINION of sin.
\n
\n5. The PRACTICE of sin.
\n
\n1. We need the application of Christ’s precious blood
\nto our conscience, to take away the guilt <\/strong>of sin.
\n
\n2. We need the Spirit of Christ to sanctify and
\nto wash the soul in the fountain, to cleanse
\nfrom the filth <\/strong>of sin.
\n
\n3. We need the love of Christ shed abroad in
\nour hearts, to take away the love <\/strong>of sin.
\n
\n4. We need the power of Christ, to rescue
\nus from the dominion <\/strong>of sin.
\n
\n5. We need the grace of Christ, to preserve
\nus from the practice <\/strong>of sin.
\n
\nIt is feeling sin <\/strong>in its various workings, which
\nmakes us value Christ! <\/strong>Strange mysterious way!
\nO, strange path! that to be exercised with sin,
\nis the path to the Saviour!<\/strong>
\n
\nVery painful, very mysterious, very inexplicable
\n\u2014that the more you feel yourself<\/strong> a wretched,
\nmiserable sinner; the more you long after Jesus<\/strong>,
\nwho is able to save you to the uttermost!
\n
\nThus, we shall find that we need all that Christ is.
\nFor we are no little sinners<\/strong>; andHe is no\nlittle Saviour!<\/strong>
\n
\nWe are great sinners!
\n
\nHe is a Saviour\u2014and a great one!
\n
\n“He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by\nHim!” Hebrews 7:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n