Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the...
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will...
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and...
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on...
Some good men who, in grievous error, would impose the law as a rule of life for the believer means very well by it (for they strive to be pious); but...
Christ is the mystery of the scripture–grace the mystery of Christ. Believing is the most wonderful thing in the world. Put anything of your own to it, and you spoil it. Christ will...
“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...
I believe there are many ministers who labour often at the law, for fear that the pure liberty of the Spirit of God (which David calls a free spirit) should lead...
Some people would have us believe that if we preach pure grace it will lead people to licentious living. They say if we remove the law as a guide or motivation...
I am convinced that one would have to approach the scriptures with a mindset of Sabbath-keeping in order to arrive at the conclusions and interpretations that are set forth in these...
I have felt so much of the spirit of legal bondage since I could call Jesus my Lord and my God, that I declare in the presence of God, I would...
From a Letter by William Huntington I have watched narrowly to see what good effects this doctrine of yours produces among those where it is perpetually enforced, and I can see...
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in...
Like all other aspects of the Mosaic Law, the Old Testament sabbath day was but “a shadow of good things to come” (Hebrews 10:1). We often hear Sunday referred to as “the...
If thou aim at holiness by the law, remember thou must be perfect in the flesh as well as in spirit. The law is perfect; it will allow of no infirmities,...
“Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.” (Zechariah...
Every few days I receive letters and tracts from men, trying to persuade me that, though we are free in Christ, we are yet under the bondage of the law. Some...
“Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump....
Another of my well-meaning friends has written to me, trying to persuade me that, though I am redeemed by Christ, justified by His blood and saved by His grace, I am...
“And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there...
We do not believe in tithing. We do not preach tithing. And we do not practice tithing. Tithing was required under the law as a tribute to God, acknowledging His supremacy...
Recently I received a letter from a friend in another state asking me this question, “Are we under the ten commandments as a principle in our lives?” The answer to that...
“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” (Romans 6:15) I have been asked repeatedly, “What place does the law have in...
There are many who begin the race, but never finish, — many who run well for a season, but in time fall by the wayside, — many who, like Judas, Demas,...
“They that keep the commandments of God.” (Revelation 14:12) There are many who pretend to live by the rule of God’s holy law and hope, by their imperfect obedience to the law, to...
“As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.”(Leviticus 7:7) God gave the children of...
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness....
A Sabbatarian is a person who insists that one day of each week is to be reserved for religious observance as prescribed in the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, or Ten...
“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9), but it is not found in a 24 hour day, on each Friday evening to Saturday evening at sundown,...
“We which have believed do enter into rest.” (Hebrews 4:3) ——————– Sabbath keeping is not a matter of indifference. It is not one of those areas about which the Scriptures give...
Fashionable as the doctrine of legal, conditional justification is, we may say to every individual who embraces it, “There is one that accuseth (condemns) you, even Moses, in whom you trust,”...
“Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which...
Our Lord Jesus has given us freedom to come into the presence of God! Freedom as Priests of God to offer sacrifices of praise, thanksgiving, and worship. Freedom from fear 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...
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath...
The believer’s relationship to the law of God has been a long debated subject and a point of division among those who claim to believe the Gospel. Some claim that God’s...
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...
Test All Things 