Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
Our birthplace is recorded—Psalm 87:6. Your steps are counted (Job 31:4). Your days are determined; the number of your months are with God. He has appointed your bounds that you cannot...
“For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.” (Romans 4:2) Nearly every religious group admits that salvation is not by works, but at the...
Believers need to be under regular preaching of the Word and in fellowship with other believers. Not to be so is asking for trouble. Sometimes for a few it is impossible...
People who argue about whether salvation is by grace or works are wasting their time. It is obvious that the only way a sinner can be saved is by God’s sovereign...
False preachers today have made a beggar of the LORD of Lords. No, my proud religionist, you are the beggar. God is not obligated to do anything but damn you to...
“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours.” (1st Corinthians 3:21) If you are a Christian, “all things are yours.” You have an everlasting Father, the mighty...
Where is the fear of God today? Is this not what is wrong with us? Is not this the whole story? This present generation is so taken up with the idea...
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he...
“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” (Matthew 6:7) True faith is not receiving what...
God cannot have a blemished priest at His altar or a blemished sacrifice thereon. Both the priest and the sacrifice must be perfect (Leviticus 21-22). Now we have both the perfect...
Much of what is called worship today has to do with touching stories, stirring appeals, or a thrilling oratory of a religious character. Beautiful anthems by a well-trained choir, rendered in...
“The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.” (Luke 18:11) No person is less likely to be saved than...
Paul wrote that God afflicts us “for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness” (Hebrews 12:10). “It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn...
Nothing changes God’s affection. Whom He loves and how He loves, He loves to the end. His love is like Himself…“the same yesterday, today and forever.” If you love Him as...
If I reason from what I am in myself, instead of from what I am in Christ, I must of necessity arrive at a wrong conclusion. The moment the sinner comes...
SALVATION is as free as a look. Christ says, “Look unto me and be ye saved!” (Isaiah 45:22). Without performance! Without payment! Without preparation! LOOK TO CHRIST AND LIVE! “Look unto...
If I measure a crooked wall with a perfect plumb line, it reveals the crookedness of the wall, but does not remove it. If I take out a bright light on...
God’s righteousness is received by trusting in His Son. It is not a righteousness which we earn but a righteousness which we receive as a gift. The means of receiving it...
If you are under the load of sin, burdened down by your guilt, and troubled over your relationship with the Holy God of Heaven, may I give you this advice? SEEK...
Mark 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: Mark 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of...
“Loosed from the law” (Romans 7:2) ——————– Like the woman whose husband has died is “loosed from the law of her husband” (Romans 7:2), so the believer, having been crucified with...
Before we can worship God in peace of conscience and liberty of heart, we must know, upon authority of God’s Word and by the power of God’s Spirit, that the entire...
It is hard to say which is worst — the atheist who says, “There is no God” or the religionist who maintains that God cannot do as He pleases. Since all...
“Look every man on the things of others.” (Philippians 2:4) ——————– The failure of most preachers is traced not to the fact that they do not have a pastor’s head, voice,...
There is not a living sinner who would not like to be delivered from torment in Hell, but apart from Grace, he does not want to be delivered from his sins...
“Thy People Shall Be Willing.” (Psalm 110:3) ——————– God’s elect worship and serve Him with willing hearts. We willingly believe, willingly worship, willingly give, and willingly do what we can for...
The Scriptures distinctly teaches us that we are not justified by the law nor is the law a rule of life. That which can only curse can never justify and that...
All my salvation — sin pardoned, my person justified and accepted in all the acceptability of His person, washed from all impurity, put among the children of God with an “I...
Most of us don’t know God well enough to trust Him. Are you persuaded that God has complete control in reference to the things which excite our anxiety? Are you persuaded...
The believer is perfect in Christ, but in himself is a poor, feeble creature, ever liable to fall. Oh, the blessedness of having One who can manage all his affairs for...
Based upon the Word of God, human nature, and from personal experience; I conclude that many people who attend “church services” are merely RELIGIOUS. The Lord said to a group of...
“No man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” (John 10:29) ——————– Here we have final perseverance, and not just the perseverance of the Holy Trinity; it is...
“…And lost his own soul.” (Mark 8:36) ——————– No man can describe the loss of the soul as he should. No man can paint this dreadful picture in true colours. You...
MY RESUME: “I am a sinner saved by the grace of God, trusting only in the Lord Jesus Christ.” MY STANDING: “In Christ.” (Romans 3:24; Romans 8:1-2; Romans 8:39; 2 Corinthians...
“Noah planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was naked in his tent.” (Genesis 9:20-21) Some condition for Noah, the only righteous man, the...
How can a believer doubt when he knows that he is represented before the throne of God by an advocate, even ― Jesus Christ the Righteous? It is the privilege of...
In vain do we claim to be saved if the world still rules our heart. Divine grace not only delivers from the wrath to come, but even now effectually “teaches” its...
The sovereignty of God is absolute. To acknowledge this truth is at once to acknowledge that God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass; that nothing else can come to pass; that...
There are many ways to waste precious time other than by evil living. There are: Books not worth reading. Television not worth watching. Thoughts not worth thinking. Places not worth going....
“These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before...
Our sins can never come into God’s presence, inasmuch as Christ, who bore them all and put them away is there instead. But if we sin, conscience will feel it, must...
It is hard to say which is worse – the atheist who says, “There is no God” or the religionist who maintains that God cannot do as He pleases. Since all...
God’s elect worship and serve Him with willing hearts. We willingly believe, willingly worship, willingly give, and willingly do what we can for the glory of God. It is God who,...
There is an Advocate and Intercessor waiting to present the prayers of those who come to God through Him. That Advocate is the Lord Jesus Christ. He mingles our prayers with...
Please take the following words of wisdom to heart: One reason why the church of Christ at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world...
Before we can worship God in peace of conscience and liberty of heart, we must know, upon authority of God’s Word and by the power of God’s Spirit, that the entire...
“Noah planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was naked in his tent.” (Genesis 9:20-21) Some condition for Noah, the only righteous man, the...
“Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to...
“For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” (I Corinthians 1:21)...
How good does one have to be to get to heaven? Will God accept sincerity? Will God accept you if you do the best you can and lead a good life?...
I defy anyone to find a solitary text of Scripture in the New Testament that uses the law to motivate, inspire, regulate or even guide the believer. Believers are motivated by...
When the Holy God and a ruined sinner meet on a blood-splattered platform, all is settled once and for all, settled in such a way as to perfectly honor and glorify...
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice.” (I Peter 4:12-13) If God has given...
Jesus Christ came into the world not only to reveal the Father, but to redeem the sinner. He came not as the President of our country would go into a disaster...
I’ve come across something that helped me and I want to pass it on to you. We understand more about what heaven is and will be to us, by what it...
“It shall be well with the righteous.” (Isaiah 3:10) In spiritual things all your temptation, all your darkness, all your wanderings God will overrule. It shall be well with you. There...
How can a believer doubt when he knows that he is represented before the throne of God by an advocate, even ― Jesus Christ the Righteous? It is the privilege of...
Since all men by nature have stony hearts, all the threatenings in the world will do no good. The stony heart of natural man must be pierced by the POWER OF...
A naked sinner can be clothed, but a sinner covered with his own righteousness must be stripped. This is always true. We must be stripped of all that has to do...
“Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people.” (Psalm 3:8) ——————– When a righteous God and a ruined sinner meet on a blood-splattered platform, all is settled once...
The Scriptures distinctly teaches us that we are not justified by the law nor is the law a rule of life. That which can only curse can never justify and that...
If I measure a crooked wall with a perfect plumb line, it reveals the crookedness of the wall, but does not remove it. If I take out a bright light on...
Test All Things 