Monthly Archives: June 2013
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole… Read More
“Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” (Romans 9:13) The LORD God declares, in language that cannot be misunderstood, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Yet, men everywhere tell us, “God loves all men alike.” Some, seeking to avoid such a plain contradiction of Divine Revelation, say, “God loves his elect with a special love, though he loves the whole human race with a general love of… Read More
“For the transgression of my people was he stricken.” (Isaiah 53:8) If the Lord Jesus Christ shed His blood for all alike, if He died to redeem and save all men and some go to hell anyway, what does the blood of Christ have to do with anyone’s salvation? — Absolutely nothing! If, as will-worshipping rebels assert, Christ died to save all men and some are not saved, then that blasphemous absurdity… Read More
“So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” (Romans 9:16) It is almost universally believed that God wills the salvation of all people without exception, that He wants to save all, that He has done all He can to save the whole human race. If that is the case, if the LORD God wills the salvation of all and some are not… Read More
“If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.” (Psalm 130:3-4) “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven… Read More
I received a letter yesterday from one of God’s saints that expressed a concern and a matter of much confusion to many. She asked, “Will there be one judgment or two? Will we be judged first by Christ for our sin and second for our works as believers?” I want to answer that dear lady’s questions and hopefully some of your own perplexities with regard to the day of judgment. May God the… Read More
“It is high time to awake out of sleep.” (Romans 13:11) Have you ever noticed how often in the Book of God we are given “wake up calls”? Repeatedly, the LORD God commands us to wake up. He commands sinners He has awakened from death to wake up, because we are all inclined to the shameful sleep of indifference. Our blessed Saviour lavishes His mercy, love and grace upon us. He gives… Read More
“The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.” (Isaiah 21:13-15) Protecting His elect, preserving His chosen, God uses His most implacable… Read More
The gift of God the Holy Spirit in the new birth is the gift of life; and the life given is Christ Himself. The life of the Lord Jesus Christ begins in us. Every heaven born soul can say with the inspired Apostle, “Christ liveth in me” (Galatians 2:20). Paul asks, in 2nd Corinthians 13:5, “Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you?” Our Saviour says to… Read More
“I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: But without thy mind would I do nothing; that… Read More
“Must yet be accomplished.” (Luke 22:37) Here the Son of God, our all-glorious Saviour, declares the absolute necessity of His sin-atoning death upon the cursed tree as our Substitute. — “This that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors.” The LORD of Glory was compelled to die as He did because the Scriptures must be fulfilled. The particular passage He quotes here is Isaiah… Read More
Though it does not bear his name, it is evident that this epistle was written by the apostle John. When we compare its language (2nd John 1:5-9) with that of 1st John (1st John 2:7-8; 1st John 3:23; 1st John 4:1-3; 1st John 5:3), we see that the language used here is the same. John’s purpose in writing this brief epistle is to exhort and encourage us to continue in truth and faith of… Read More
“…The end of all men…” (Ecclesiastes 7:2) Jeremiah wrote “My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me” (Lamentations 3:18-20). — “The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!… Read More
Often, in modern translations of the Scriptures, the translators have been content to give us the “dynamic” meaning of the original text, while still claiming “commitment to the authority and infallibility of the Bible as the Word of God.” With those words, the translation committee that gave us “The New International Version” of the Bible, while never speaking of inerrancy or verbal inspiration, seeks to assure their readers that they have been… Read More
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” (Luke 16:10-12) If… Read More
“When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places,… Read More
Do you sometimes feel yourself trapped in hopeless despair at the end of a dead end street, with no place to go? If so I have a message for you, a word of instruction from the God of Glory that is designed to give you clear direction in every dilemma you may face in this world. The instructions are clear. — “Stand still!” A Furious Foe God hardened Pharaoh’s heart against the… Read More
“Children that will not lie.” (Isaiah 63:8) In this passage of Holy Scripture the Lord Jesus assures us that those who are saved by His grace are “children that will not lie.” You may think, “That is not me;” and you are right, if you look at yourself in Adam. From the womb we went astray, speaking lies, and our hearts are altogether deceitful. The man in the pulpit and those in… Read More
I am often asked, “Which translation of the Bible do you recommend?” My response is always the same, “Stick with the King James Version. God has given us his Word in our language; and you will not find a better English translation than the King James.” Isn’t it strange that people are always seeking a “more readable,” “more understandable,” “more modern” translation of the Bible? I have no idea how many translations… Read More
“Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.” (1st Corinthians 15:24) When everything has run its predestined course, when time shall be no more, when this earth is dissolved in fire, the resurrection is past, and the judgment is over, we read, “Then cometh the end.” Though creation has revolted… Read More
“The great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.” (Isaiah 63:7) The great goodness of our God is seen in the objects upon which His goodness is bestowed. It is goodness bestowed upon the house of Israel, upon us, a sinful, ever rebelling, people. God’s infinite love is love for people infinitely beneath Him. When… Read More
“Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.” (Leviticus 25:9) The most important and most instructive of all the typical ceremonies of the Old Testament was the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement pictured, foreshadowed, and typified the sin-atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our… Read More
“And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands the head of the bullock for the sin offering. And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.” (Leviticus… Read More
“And the priest shall see him: and behold, if the plague be turned into white then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.” (Leviticus 13:17) In Leviticus 13 and 14 the LORD God gives us ceremonial laws regarding uncleanness. Chapter 13 is all about the ceremonial uncleanness and ceremonial cleansing of the leper. The unclean leper represents fallen man in his uncleanness before God. The leprosy… Read More
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