Satan is a very subtle enemy, and never spreads his snare in your sight. I hope you will not be induced to value any knowledge which does not cause you to love Christ more, and to live more decidedly as a member of His kingdom. Satan does not care how much knowledge you have in […]
The Gospel of the Bible Salvation of sinners is all about the glory of God (Rom 11:36, Col 3:11, 2 Thess 2:14) and it is in this salvation of sinners that all the divine attributes of God are gloriously revealed. The reconciliation of fallen sinners to a Holy God requires the infinitely powerful work of […]
The Life Giver You may take a corpse, you may dress it in all the garments of eternal decency; you may wash it with the water of morality; yes, you may adorn it with the crown of profession, you may put on its forehead a tiara of beauty, you may paint its cheeks, until you […]
Nothing can tame savage hearts! (John MacDuff) Oh, the human heart is deep in its corruptions, deep in its self-deceptions. “The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9 Nothing can tame savage hearts, but the regenerating power of the blessed Gospel. “I will cleanse you from […]
One continued dream and delusion (Thomas Boston, “Human Nature in its Fourfold State“) “There is no one who understands.” Romans 3:11 “They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” Ephes. 4:18 The natural man’s apprehension of divine […]
Reader! marvel not that you must be born again! (From Octavius Winslow’s, “The Restored Sheep”) Alas! the life of an unconverted person is one entire, unbroken, departure from God! What hue sufficiently dark can portray the life of an unrenewed man? He may be…. upright and honorable as a man of the world; faithful in […]
A god to himself? (adapted from Winslow’s, “The Soul Before Conversion”) The unsaved man is a god to himself, and he has many other gods as well. Whether it be…. self righteousness, self gratification, the world, wealth, family, in whatever form it appears, “other lords have dominion over him,” to the exclusion of the […]
Before and after… by Alleine Before conversion man seeks to cover himself with his own fig-leaves, and to make himself whole by his duties. He is apt to trust in himself, and set up his own righteousness, and to reckon his counters for gold, and not to submit to the righteousness of God. But conversion […]
THE FIRST ACT OF REGENERATION? Coming to Christ is the very first act of regeneration. No sooner is the soul quickened,than it at once discovers it’s lost estate, is horrified thereat,looks for a refuge, and believing Christ to be a suitable one, flies to him and reposes in him. –Spurgeon
Old Adam put in a better dress (Thomas Watson, “A New Creature”) “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” John 3:3 Natural honesty, moral virtue, prudence, justice, liberality, temperance–these are not the new birth. These make a glorious show in the eye of the world—but […]