But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to…
Free-will doctrine – what does it? It magnifies man into God; it declares God’s purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God’s will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent upon human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice it holds God to be a debtor to sinners, so that if He gives grace to one He…
I love this from the folks at I’ll Be Honest. How can a sinner be right with God on judgment day? What is the only way to heaven? How Can A Man Be Right With God? Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From Thy wounded side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure; Save from wrath and make me pure. Not the labor…
“Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him… To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong…
“A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.”~ C.H. Spurgeon and that’s a beautiful thing! Soli Deo Gloria Lenny
Here are two important truths. (And I want you to take it and the next time you hear a professor or a preacher say otherwise, go to him and remind him of this.) The first truth is that no one ever was saved, no one is now saved and no one ever will be saved except by grace. Before Moses nobody was ever saved except by grace. During Moses’ time nobody was ever saved…
Romans 6 is now complete, we finished up Romans 6:21-23 this past Sunday and it was truly a wonderful time in the word of God. This is not an exhausted study, but a brief overview in what we learned. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to…
This morning my post is about one man, two ponds and a bunch of fish and one giant lesson learned. I was going to write about what I’m thankful for like I do every year around this time. Normally I would write something like this… The word says “in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18″ So I’m thankful for my wife of 30 years,…
Paul says in the very first words Romans 6:3 Or do you not know? (Know what?) …. that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. We learned last week that Paul anticipated…
I was thinking about my post yesterday and grace, this grace that saved me is also continuing to work in me through sanctification that leads me to holiness and ultimately glory Philippians 1:6. But we have work to do as Paul points out in Philippians 2:12, 13 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with…
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