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Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
The Philistine Mind (Psalm 115:3-8, 1st Samuel 5:1-12, Isaiah 55:9, Isaiah 45:7) Of the example we will consider in 1st Samuel chapter 5, God did not cause any destruction in the Philistine...
When God told Noah to fill up the ark with animals, He distinguished between the “clean and unclean.” Clean animals were designated as those which “parteth the hoof. . . and cheweth...
“I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to...
Men do not need the Holy Spirit to feel guilt and shame when they transgress God’s moral law. For that, they have a conscience (Romans 2:14-15). What we need the Holy...
Dead Works are those things men do and look to for the hope of their salvation. Good Works are those things believers do when they are looking to Christ alone for...
“…whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:33) There are many who profess to be followers of Christ based on...
“Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.” (Matthew 26:75) There has been much...
“The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” (Galatians 2:20) There is no way except by being spiritually immersed into...
One who believes he cannot be saved due to the severity of his sins is hardly closer to the kingdom of God than the man who believes that his own righteousness...
This topic is one of the most important doctrines in the Bible and a forgotten one at that. It is one of the hardest if not the hardest task a believer...
When the Holy Spirit shows us the necessity, the beauty and the sufficiency of the death of Christ, we repent of our own foolish works of self-righteousness, we forsake every other...
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” (2nd Corinthians 7:10) There is a vast difference and stark contrast between...
Repentance Unto Life is a grace of the Holy Spirit, whereby a sinner, under a true sense of his sin, and an experimental acquaintance with God’s pardoning mercy in Christ, does,...
Pharaoh, David, and Judas all confessed, “I have sinned.” Yet the confessions of Pharaoh and Judas brought them no saving benefit while David’s confession met with the response, “The LORD has...
True repentance has something to do with changing a man’s HEART! When his heart is broken toward God, his habits will conform to his state of heart. True repentance produces a...
How many poor souls are struggling against the power of sin—and yet never get any victory over it! How many are daily led captive by the lusts of the flesh, the...
The grace of God that bringeth salvation cannot be known or enjoyed, but by supernatural and divine manifestation. It cannot be apprehended but by the faith of God’s elect. It cannot be...
The Grace of the Doctrines My dear Friends, It is with much fear, I trust godly fear, and trembling of heart that I venture to speak to you on such...
Recently, a friend asked me, “Do you not believe I was saved when I was in fundamentalism, freewillism, and Arminianism?” My answer was given without hesitation – “No, you were not...
“And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins...
“And be found In Him…” (Philippians 3:9) When the Apostle talked about being found in Christ he described himself as at one time being without Christ. How did he know what...
True mourning for sin has a distinct and constant reference to the Lord Jesus. If I hate sin because I am exposed, I have not repented; I merely regret that I...
I have never cared much for the term “reformed.” First of all, it is not a prominent Bible word, nor is it ever used to refer to God’s elect. They are...
“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.” (2 Corinthians 7:10) These two kinds of repentance are to be carefully distinguished from...
True repentance is not merely pressed, squeezed, or extorted by the workings and violent struggles of guilt and wrath, fear and torment; but it flows out under the sin-pardoning operations of...
Although we should all strive to love our neighbor as ourselves, it’s imperative that we derive no confidence from that, but rather that we flee to Christ and plead His righteousness...
Satan’s attacks are always aimed against God’s glory in salvation. It is in this context that we understand the wiles of Satan. Satan’s goal is to keep sinners in a state...
When sinners become convinced by the Spirit in Regeneration that Christ “put away sin”, “abolished death”, and Eternally Justified EVERY sinner He lived and died for, they WILL HEED the Spirit’s...
When it comes to the true obedience of a justified sinner, motive is everything. Think about Saul of Tarsus. What religious activities did he perform while in a state of lostness?...
“Fruits meet for repentance:”(Matthew 3:8) The command of Scripture to sinners is to repent, Luke 13:3. The word means to have a change of heart, mind, will, and affection toward God,...
The third chapter of Philippians is one of the most profound and theologically rich passages in the Bible. Here we have a clear description of the doctrine of justification based on...
Gospel repentance is a repentance which comes as the gift of God by the Holy Spirit as He enlightens our minds to the Gospel — God’s promise to save guilty, defiled,...
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God...
What’s wrong with the question, “when did you come to the doctrines of grace?” Before exposing the eternally fatal flaw of such a question, let me say uncategorically that I love...
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