Monthly Archives: June 2023
Believers are sanctified through the one offering of Christ (Hebrews 10:10-14). They are holy brethren, partakers of the Heavenly calling, sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ, once for all. This is the Foundation of their conformity to God; the more they are under the teaching of the Spirit, the more they know of the things that are freely given to them of God. The more are they renewed in the spirit… Read More
“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God-speed; for he that biddeth him God-speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” (2nd John 10-11) In these days of boasted liberality, it may appear critical and contentious to oppose with zeal the errors of men who have acquired a name in the Christian world. The mantle of charity, it will be said,… Read More
“Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together.” (Deuteronomy 22:11) As Christ was preached under types and figures through the whole Law, we may reasonably suppose that not a single command was then given but what had an eye to Him and His great salvation. But if we find the LORD so strict respecting the outward dress of the body, what may we conclude the LORD… Read More
There is a kind of charity prevalent among us, a spurious charity which rejoiceth not in the truth. It is now though an evidence of a bigoted spirit, to contend earnestly for the peculiar doctrines of grace; and it is considered the mark of a candid disposition to bear with doctrines opposed to truth, and to cover such opposition with the mantle of charity and forbearance. But how often does it occur… Read More
The word “satisfaction” has at least two meanings. First, it has to do with meeting and filling up that which is required. Secondly, with pleasing or making content the one satisfied. Christ is both to God and His believing people! He has satisfied all that God’s law and justice required and because of this, also satisfies the one who is brought by the Spirit to believe on Him. He pleased God and… Read More
“Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken on for a memorial of her.” (Mark 14:9) The words, “Verily I say unto you,” are to get our attention and cause us to listen. A woman approaching Christ to anoint Him with precious ointment, moved by the Spirit of God, is here commended by our Lord because… Read More
“For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.” (Psalm 74:12) In our day men speak constantly of liberty, democracy and freedom (all illusions). They exalt self-rule, independence and individual rights. However, God’s believing elect rejoice that they were made willing in the day of His power to behold Jesus Christ as their God and King. Now we gladly bow before Him, submit to His Kingship… Read More
“Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” (Mark 9:23) If you can believe on Christ you are saved. If you can believe on Christ it is because God loved you and chose you in Him before the foundation of the world. If you can believe on Christ it is because God predestinated you to be conformed to the image of His Son. If… Read More
This was a part of the high priest’s dress, which he wore when performing his office in the temple service. On this breastplate were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and it was called, “the breastplate of judgment.” (Exodus 28:15) The design of it seems to have been to typify the Lord Jesus Christ, the great and almighty High Priest of His redeemed, who going in before YAHWEH, bears… Read More
“The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?” (John 4:28-29) The woman that Christ met at the well in John 4 came to know Christ only when He intercepted her on her path to eternal ruin and revealed Himself to her. Immediately, “the woman… Read More
“The second death” will be an endless witness to all, that man is a sinner, that God is just, that God’s threats were as true as His promises, that only the Lord Jesus Christ could satisfy God’s law and justice and save men, that God really did hate all workers of iniquity, and that being shut out of God’s presence forever is the very hell of hell! G. Shepard
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.” (1st John 2:15) The believer loves relatives and friends in the world, he loves and pities all people of the world, he loves the blessings of fellowship and the good things that God gives to us and enables us to enjoy in the world; but he does not love the world nor the things of the world ABOVE GOD AND… Read More
When the Hebrew servant’s liberty was proclaimed, he was delivered from his master, from the command of his master, from the threatening of his master, and from the service of his master, he was a free man; and yet this man, that went out at the year of jubilee, is, says God, my servant. “For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be… Read More
“Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.” (Hosea 4:17) In these words, there is a word from God to the prophet and therefore a word from the prophet to the people of Judah. The tribes of Israel, here called Ephraim, after many words and rebukes, are likened by God to a stubborn cow that will not be restrained or bear the yoke. They obstinately persist in a backward course away from… Read More
Philip, who had preached Jesus unto the Eunuch, and no doubt in so doing had declared to him His true and proper Sonship, refused to baptize him till he was assured of his faith. In answer to that appeal, what was his confession? “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God” (Acts 8:35-37). Now, can we for a moment think that this new-born believer in the Son of God viewed… Read More
“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?” (John 7:48) The standard by which many in Christ’s day measured His claims and His doctrine was this: “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?” (John 7:48) It is the same today. There are always “the rulers.” The “fear of man brings a snare” and many are kept from believing the truth as it is… Read More
“Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” (Isaiah 43:24-25) …least people should think, that when the LORD proclaims this grace in the… Read More
We are often making statements that need to be qualified. Does the bible make this statement, “God loves sinners”? I could not find it. What it does says is that God loved a people whom He chose and gave to Christ in the covenant before the foundation of the world. It does says that He “in love…predestinated them unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good… Read More
Keep all other things in their own places that are to be kept low, that nothing may have the preeminence of Christ, He being the Head and beginning of all things; that the people of God may go with their buckets to the wells of salvation, and draw waters of life from thence, and not run to muddy puddles. The zeal of the Lord Christ, who has so manifested the riches of… Read More
“For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?” (Isaiah 14:27) To say that God is sovereign, is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in heaven and earth, so that none can defeat His counsels, thwart His purpose, or resist His will. Whatever takes place in time is but the outworking… Read More
Faith is not the impulsive or moving cause of Justification. It is an act of pure and free grace, without any motive in the creature: Therefore the Apostle saith, “being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 1:7). But this benefit would not be of grace, but of works, was our faith the impulsive cause of it: because faith is a work or act of… Read More
“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3) Almighty God asks this question through the prophet Amos: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3) I have heard this verse used to suggest that the only way for men to be in fellowship or to walk together is for them to be in total agreement. The problem with this is that fallen men are never and can never… Read More
“We love him, because He first loved us.” (1st John 4:19) Almost everybody claims to love God. Surely the great number of folks associated in some way with religion do. But according to the word of God, the people of God love Him for a particular reason. “We love him, because he first loved us.” (1st John 4:19) Did you hear that? “Because He first loved us!” Yet most of these professing religionists do not know or either… Read More
No man has a true desire for the salvation of men’s souls who does not first have a desire for God to the honoured and glorified above all things. The individual who believes or preaches a gospel in which God is not glorified, one in which His justice is not fully satisfied as His grace is shown, not only doesn’t truly desire to see men’s souls saved but most likely is not saved… Read More
“He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.” (John 5:23) Faith in Christ honours God. Those who truly believe on Christ honour God in His character, His attributes, His purpose, His holiness, His justice and His faithfulness. That which does not honour God will not save. All men are commanded to honour God by believing on His Son. True faith follows Christ and serves Him and all who believe shall… Read More
When we become Christians, it is very natural for us to say to ourselves, “We don’t want to be second-rate, or half-hearted Christians; or prove to be like the Laodicean professors, neither cold nor hot; or like those of whom the apostle John wrote, “They went out from us, but they were not of us.” We all said that we had a holy ambition to bring forth fruit to the glory of… Read More
It is an exercise in futility to try to convince the natural man by various apologetics which appeal to human logic that God exists or that he needs salvation. None become “Christians” that way. I am a “Christian” but in the Bible sense of that word. Furthermore, the reason I am can be stated in simple one word answers! I am a Christian because of GOD! Because of GRACE! Because of CHRIST! What do I mean… Read More
“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” (John 6:67-69) As it was with Peter and the rest of the disciples, so it is with all sensible sinners and true believers who see there… Read More
My first principle in religion is what the Scripture teaches me of the utter depravity of human nature, in connection with the spirituality and sanction of the law of God. I believe that we are by nature sinners, by practice universally transgressors; that we are dead in trespasses and sins; and that the bent of our natural spirit is enmity against the holiness, government and grace of God. Upon this ground, I see, I… Read More
I remember hearing a saying once that went something like this: “Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events and small minds talk about other people.” I know that last part is true! Talking about people is simply gossip and tale bearing. I believe the Bible teaches that those who have the “mind of Christ” talk about Christ! This is what the Psalmist says in Psalm 29:9: “in His temple doth every one speak of His… Read More
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