The Sunday school class in Romans was really good this week, it was one of those bible studies that I will remember for a very long time. We continue to make our way through the book of Romans at a very slow pace, digging into all the nooks and crevices, all the twist and turns, so what often happens is I turn right down rabbit trail lane and we found ourselves into an apparent…
Christmas is coming! Quite so; but what is “Christmas”? Does not the very term itself denote its source—”Christ-mass.” Thus it is of Romish origin, brought over from Paganism. But, says someone, Christmas is the time when we commemorate the Savior’s birth. It is? And who authorized such commemoration? Certainly God did not. The Redeemer bade His disciples “remember” Him in His death, but there is not a word in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation…
“The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day “evangelist”. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire, who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness! The very first thing said of Christ in the New Testament is– “You shall call His name…
“The writer has met many people who profess to be Christians, but whose daily lives differ in nothing from thousands of non-professors all around them. They are rarely, if ever, found at the prayer-meeting, they have no Family Worship, they seldom read the Scriptures, they will not talk with you about the things of God, their walk is thoroughly worldly; and yet they are quite sure they are bound for heaven! Inquire into the…
Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46) “You call me the way and walk me not. You call me the life and live me not. You call me master and obey me not. If I condemn you, blame me not. You call me bread and eat me not. You call me truth and believe me not. You call me Lord and serve me not. If…
First, it is evidently something very blessed and joyous, for our text speaks of the “good news of the grace of God.” Secondly, it is the opposite of Law: Law and grace are antithetical terms: “The law was given by Moses-but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). It is significant that the word “Gospel” is never found in the Old Testament. Consider a few contrasts between them: The Law manifested what…
The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone. (The Doctrine of Sanctification) A.W. Pink
There are two sides to a Christian’s life: a light side – and a dark one; an elevating side-and a depressing one. His experience is neither all joy – nor all grief; but a mingling of both. It was so with the apostle Paul: “As sorrowful – yet always rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:10). When a person is regenerated, he is not immediately taken to heaven. Nor is sin then eradicated from his being, though…
“No sinner ever comes to Christ until the Holy Spirit first comes to him.” —A. W. Pink (1886–1952) HT:The Bororean
“How may I know I’m elect? First, by the Word of God having come in divine power to the soul so that my self-complacency is shattered and my self-righteousness is renounced. Second, by the Holy Spirit convicting me of my woeful, guilty, and lost condition. Third, by having had revealed to me the suitability and sufficiency of Christ to meet my desperate case and by a divinely given faith causing me to lay hold…
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