Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
“But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.” (Job 23:13) Some think they do God a favor or make...
In 2 Peter 2:4-7; several times the word of the LORD says, “God spared not;” the righteous and holy judgment of God fell without any mixture of mercy on many. The angels that fell...
“For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different...
“And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. Snd he slew it;...
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.” (1st Corinthians 15:3) The gospel is not just...
Passover (a type of Christ) was not killed for any uncircumcised, but only for the Israelites, and those that were joined unto them (Exodus 12). Neither were the priests to offer...
“For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different...
“And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for...
“To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” (Romans 3:26) Without a doubt it can be said...
The doctrine of indefinite redemption is greatly injurious to the comforts and joys of believers. 1. The notion that the death of Christ is conditionally sufficient for all mankind, that is if...
There is nothing negative about those glorious truths concerning God’s electing love and Christ’s particular atonement for the elect. Although men sometimes dwell on the fact that some won’t be saved,...
In 1st Corinthians chapter 10 God gave us these examples to warn us that we should not fall into the same sins of rebellion against those whom God has appointed to...
“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall...
This term “particular redemption” is familiar to most, if not all of us. It simply means that the Lord Jesus Christ redeemed a certain number of individuals whom his Father gave...
“As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:...
Do you really believe that when Christ died, that he died for every man on the planet? If you do you have some really big explaining to do. How are you...
Which exalts Christ more? Which demonstrates more the value and efficacy of Christ’s atonement: That which effectually secures the actual salvation of every one for whom it was made – OR...
Salvation is wholly of God. God from eternity past chose to save some from this fallen mass of humanity. Ephesians chapter 1 clearly shows this. Even the sacrifices in the Old...
Modern day religion makes the eternal God a pathetic failure! Preachers everywhere tell us that God is trying to save multitudes who are not saved. They tell us that God wants...
We rejoice in Christ Jesus and His accomplished work of redemption. By His substitutionary death, He finished the work the Father gave Him: secured the forgiveness of His people, made an...
“Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold...
I’m truly sorry for people who are being lied to by preachers who compromise the truth of God, speak smooth things, brag on the flesh, make God a doddering old grandfather...
What a person believes that our Lord Jesus ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHED at Calvary will determine (in that person’s mind) for whom Christ suffered and died! The Scriptures say, “He PUT AWAY SIN...
One great truth which has ever been emphasized by the faithful church of Christ is the truth of the atonement. To define further the Scriptural idea of “atonement,” churches of Reformed...
A “pastor” once declared to a friend, “I want you to know that I no longer believe in particular redemption.” When I heard this, I was shocked, but I was not...
Redemption work belongeth to our anointed Priest, and He only could effect it. The priests under the law required the redemption price to be brought to them by the people, but...
We do not believe that the Son of God laid down His precious life a sacrifice for the sins of the non-elect, but for His sheep. We believe His sacrifice was...
In 1st Corinthians chapter 10 God gave us these examples to warn us that we should not fall into the same sins of rebellion against those whom God has appointed to...
This, is a most precious doctrine! How great is the need for a feeling sinner to be at peace with God? And to ever be at peace with God, in some...
“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful (propitious) to me a sinner.”...
Salvation from sin through Jesus Christ is entirely of God’s grace. This is something that Jonah learned when he was in the belly of a whale. We read in Jonah 2:9,...
This is an audio message by Carl Haak titled: “Limited Atonement” The scripture text that brother Carl is teaching from is John 10:15, and the audio is 20 minutes long.
What exactly was the cost of REDEMPTION? Before we can answer this question we need to understand what is meant by the term “REDEMPTION”. In the original language the word “redemption”,...
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship Him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (Revelation...
We believe the Scriptures teach that all of those for whom Jesus died shall be brought to the knowledge of the truth, and not one shall be lost. “For I came...
To believe that Jesus Christ died, or tasted death, for the entire race of Adam is very natural to the Universalists, or Arminians. In fact such a theory is in all...
Note: The following is edited from a personal letter written to a young believer on March 4, 1969, and drafted into an article format. By particular redemption we mean that Christ’s...
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on HIM the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6) We...
The spirit of liberty, gospel freedom, sweet peace in the conscience, pardon and redemption is all in Christ, my friends. And if we are blessed with these spiritual blessings in the...
The Ground Of Salvation Established There are so many misconceptions concerning the Gospel truths of ELECTION and DEFINITE ATONEMENT fostered mostly by man’s own natural and sinful prejudices of these truths...
Dear Sir: – There are some who say that the atonement is general and that redemption is particular, and others who say that both the atonement and the redemption are general....
“Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.” – John the Baptist. WHILE in the faithful discharge of that duty to which he had been divinely...
One of the absolute essentials concerning the death of Christ is the following question: Who Did the Lord Jesus Die For? (John 14:7, Amos 9:11-12, Acts 15:13-18, Acts 11:26) The Lord...
From Signs of the Times-June 1, 1869 By Gilbert Beebe An aged and esteemed brother has, through sister C.M. Johnson, desired our views on the great atonement made by our Lord...
“The Father imposed His wrath due unto, and the Son underwent punishment for, either: 1. All the sins of all men, or 2. All the sins of some men, or 3....
The truth of the Bible that we declare in this article today is found in the prophecy of Jeremiah 50:20. There we read these words of the living God: “In those...
The Lord Jesus Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. As man dies but once, Christ was offered but once, or He suffered and died but once. And...
We draw assurance from the death of Christ, because we realize that it is not possible for Christ to have died in vain (Isaiah 53:9-10). It is blasphemy to imagine that...
Probably you have been told at some time or other that God loves you and that Christ died for you. You may then have even decided that things cannot be so...
Today we will look at Isaiah 53:5. But we must remember the context. And thus, we shall read the first six verses of Isaiah 53. As you know, this is a...
This is an audio sermon titled: “For Whom Did Christ Die?” The scripture text is from Hebrews 2:10-13, and the audio is 27 minutes long.
This is an audio sermon titled: “Saved By The Blood” The scripture text is from Hebrews 9:13-38, and the audio is 28 minutes long.
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on December 13, 1857, by J. C. Philpot “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That...
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last...
Many see the cross of Jesus Christ (His sacrificial death) as a tragedy that shouldn’t have happened, if only the Jewish nation had believed on Him. Such a view is contrary...
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) What a glorious...
MY soul, no obedience of thine, before faith in Christ, can make thee righteous! Obedience after faith doth not make thee righteous; so then thou art made righteous by the one...
God caused the (sinless) Christ to become sin. He caused Him to become what He was not, NOT by imparting sin to Him, or infusing sin in Him, BUT by imputation....
O how Satan would triumph if any saint ever fell out of the embraces of the good Shepherd; if he could point his derisive finger up to heaven’s gate and to...
Many today believe and teach the Arminian heresy of universal atonement. A universal atonement means that Christ must have died for Esau whom God hated (Romans 9:13); Judas, “the son of...
Derek Dunn in the Ballymena Times (15 February, 2006) repeated the myth that God loves everybody. God loves the world, but in Scripture that rarely means the entire human race (John...
He has “put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself,” Hebrews 9:26. He has “finished transgression and made an end of sin,” Daniel 9:24. He has “redeemed us from all iniquity;”...
Christ and Him crucified is the heart of the Gospel. Everything in a sinner’s salvation points back to the glorious Person and finished work of Christ on the cross. God’s electing...
“The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many,” (Matthew 20:28) When the Lord Jesus laid down His...
I have felt the power of those blessed truths in my soul of which you have written from time to time in the Gospel Standard, particularly the short scrap last month...
According to some people, Christ died to give all a chance of being saved! I do not know that I hate anything more in my soul than to hear that. It...
Redemption work belongeth to our anointed Priest, and He only could effect it. The priests under the law required the redemption price to be brought to them by the people, but...
If God the Father has predestined only a limited number to be saved, if God the Son died to redeem only those given to Him by the Father, and if God...
What exactly was the cost of REDEMPTION? Before we can answer this question we need to understand what is meant by the term “REDEMPTION”. In the original language the word “redemption”,...
When most religious people speak about the death of Christ, their words reveal they have little or no respect for the holiness, justice, or the grace of God. They speak of...
Our Lord and His Apostles were careful to place significant emphasis on the perfect satisfaction He would offer to God on behalf of all those He represented. John 6:38 For I...
Sermon preached by J.K. Popham at Galeed, Brighton – 1910 __________________________________________________________ “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,...
“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love,...
This is an audio sermon titled: “The Day of Atonement” The scripture text is from Leviticus 16:1-19, and the audio is 45 minutes long.
In this article we will consider the first parable in Luke Chapter 15. This is the Parable of the Lost Sheep. Even though the Lord Jesus is speaking about sheep, He...
“And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” (Romans 5:11) This chapter contains eternal principles. It...
There are so many misconceptions of the Gospel truths of election and definite atonement. These misconceptions are fostered mainly by natural prejudices and misunderstandings concerning what the Bible teaches about these...
A study of 1 John 2:2 THERE is one passage more than any other which is I appealed to by those who believe in universal redemption, and which at first sight...
Limited Atonement (Isaiah 53:8-11) “He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for...
Test All Things 