Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
“Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34) In the Sermon on the Mount our Lord taught His disciples, “Love your enemies, bless them that...
Some time ago we received the following inquiry from one of our readers, “Do you think it possible to be too critical of Christians (?) nowadays?” The reason I put a question mark after ‘Christians’...
“He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.” (Proverbs 13:3) “A guard upon the lips is a guard to the soul—he who is careful, who thinks twice...
At the very beginning of human history, God Himself declared, “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). He was not made for solitude, but society, not...
“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7) This brings before us an aspect of the truth concerning which many christians are largely ignorant. Oftentimes they are unaware...
“Remove from me the way of lying.” (Psalm 119:29) How we should be humbled by such a prayer as this, for it is evidently an appropriate one for all the LORD’s...
“Why is there so much about enemies in the Psalms?” is a question sometimes raised. One responds, “Because in the covenant, God put enmity between the wicked and the righteous.” Undoubtedly that is...
“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”...
However men may wrestle and quibble with the Scriptures, one thing is certain: The atonement is no failure! God will not allow that precious and costly sacrifice to fail in accomplishing...
“They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.” (Romans 8:5) To “walk after the flesh” (Romans 8:1) or to “live after the flesh” (Romans 8:13) – both terms have the same...
The doctrine of Divine Grace is unique. It is a truth peculiar to Divine Revelation, a concept to which the unaided powers of man’s mind could never have risen. Proof of...
“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...
“That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.” (1st Thessalonians 3:3) The abounding grace of God does not preclude trials and afflictions, but...
“They kept shouting—Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” (Luke 23:21) The Word of Truth declares that “the carnal mind is enmity against God” (Romans 8:7). Men do not believe it—in fact most of...
“Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part...
One of the principal designs of our gracious heavenly Father in the ordering of our path, in the appointing of our testings and trials, in the discipline of His love, is...
What is the central thing in biblical prophecy? It is the description supplied of the Messiah many centuries before He came to this earth. A full portrait of Him was drawn...
“But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the...
One of the most flagrant sins of our age is that of irreverence, the failure to ascribe the glory which is due the august majesty of God. Men limit the power and activities...
It is our deep conviction that the vital question most requiring to be raised today is this: Is man a totally and thoroughly depraved creature by nature? Does he enter the...
How perversely man reverses the order of God’s truth. They urge dead sinners to come to Christ, supposing they have the power of will to do so. Whereas Christ has plainly...
Without a doubt a world-crisis is at hand, and everywhere men are alarmed. But God is not! He is never taken by surprise. It is no unexpected emergency which now confronts...
If lustful looking is so grievous a sin—then those who dress and expose themselves with desires to be looked at and lusted after, are not less, but even more guilty. In...
A true recognition of God’s sovereignty, will avow God’s perfect right to do with us as He wills. The one who bows to the good pleasure of the Almighty—will acknowledge His...
With few exceptions, all the notes and comments in the Scofield Bible are unreliable and unsound. Arthur Pink
It is no light thing to reject any part of eternal truth—such as sovereign election. Nay, it is a most solemn and serious matter so to do. God’s Word is not...
Oftentimes God’s chastenings instead of being retributive, are corrective. They are sent to empty us of self-sufficiency and self-righteousness. They are given to discover to us hidden transgressions, and to teach...
What strange methods God sometimes employs in teaching His Children much needed lessons! This has recently been the writer’s experience. I have been approached by a “university” to accept from them...
The sovereignty of God. What do we mean by this expression? We mean the supremacy of God, the kingship of God, the godhood of God. To say that God is sovereign...
“Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen…for the customs of the people are vain.” (Jeremiah 10:1-3) ——————– Christmas is coming! Quite so; but what is “Christmas”? Does...
The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of His supremacy. Being infinitely elevated above the highest creature, He is the Most High, Lord of heaven and earth. Subject...
Of old, God complained to Israel, “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself” (Psalm 50:21). Such must NOW be His indictment against an apostate Christendom. Men imagine that the Most...
When the solemn and blessed subject of Divine foreordination is expounded, when God’s eternal choice of certain ones to be conformed to the image of His Son is set forth, the...
Because God is holy, acceptance with Him on the ground of creature-doings is utterly impossible. A fallen creature could sooner create a world than produce that which would meet the approval...
The preaching of Christ is much more than making frequent use of His name in our discourses, or even talking of His wondrous love and work for sinners. The preaching of...
“Be anxious for nothing.” (Philippians 4:6) Worrying is as definitely forbidden as theft. This needs to be carefully pondered and definitely realized by us, so that we do not excuse it...
The sovereignty of God. What do we mean by this expression? We mean the supremacy of God, the kingship of God, the godhood of God. To say that God is sovereign...
The following article by A.W. Pink was taken from his book “The Holy Spirit” chapter 11. ——————————————————————————– We shall now confine ourselves to the initial operation of the Spirit within the...
Ah, it is a great thing when once the Holy Spirit teaches a soul—that it is power which is lacking from the lifeless preaching of dead professors. It is power which...
How diligently should they scrutinize their motives, who think of entering the ministry; for thousands have abused this Divine institution through love of ease, desire for authority and reputation, or love...
It may be shown from scripture that the CAUSE of salvation is not a single one, as so many suppose. Here, too, it is necessary to distinguish between things which differ....
“That Worthy Name!” (James 2:7) “Yours in the name of Jesus.” How many who owe their all, both for time and eternity, to the peerless One, refer thus to Him who was...
How wondrous is God’s patience with the world today. On every side people are sinning with a high hand. The Divine law is trampled under foot and God Himself openly despised....
Love is the Queen of the Christian graces. It is a holy disposition given to us when we are born again by God. It is the love of God shed abroad...
The “god” of this twentieth century no more resembles the Supreme Sovereign of Holy Writ than does the dim flickering of a candle the glory of the mid-day sun. The god...
Does it lie within the province of man’s will to accept or reject the Lord Jesus as Saviour? Granted that the Gospel is preached to the sinner, that the Holy Spirit...
“Rejoice in the Lord alway” (Philippians 4:4) ——————– Why should I, who am by nature no different from the careless and godless throngs all around, have been chosen in Christ before...
“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about. He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.” (Deuteronomy 32:10)...
Once a man makes the conversion of sinners his prime design and all-consuming end and NOT THE GLORY OF GOD, he is exceedingly apt to adopt a wrong course. Instead of...
“But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the...
God can only be known by means of a supernatural revelation of Himself Apart from the Scriptures, even a theoretical acquaintance with Him is impossible. It still holds true that ‘the...
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Proverbs 1:7) —————————— Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of god’s majesty, that has had a vision...
It may appear to some of our readers that the exposition we have given of John 3:16 in the chapter on “Difficulties and Objections” is a forced and unnatural one, inasmuch...
“I am a companion of all that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.” (Psalm 119:63) ————— In the above verse we have a description of God’s people according...
Alas, how very little real Christianity there is in the world today! Christianity consists in being conformed unto the image of God’s Son “Looking unto Jesus” constantly, trustfully, submissively, lovingly, the...
To come to Christ for life, is for the sinner to feel and acknowledge that he is utterly destitute of any claim upon God’s favor; is to see himself as “without...
A. The need for regeneration lies in our natural degeneration. In consequence of the fall of our first parents, all of us were born alienated from the divine life and holiness,...
One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that it is so popular vith all classes ought to be enough to...
What ought to be our attitude toward the sovereignty of God? It has been well said that “true worship is based upon recognized greatness, and greatness is superlatively seen in Sovereignty,...
It is sad indeed to find so many professing Christians who appear to regard the wrath of God as something for which they need to make an apology, or who at...
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret...
Test All Things 