FOR WHOM DID CHRIST DIE? – THE CHILDREN OF GOD John11:52 Our great, sin-atoning Substitute laid down his life and died for the children of God. According to the prophecy of Caiaphas, Christ was to die, not for the nation of the Jews only, but to “gather together in one the children of God that […]
No Condemnation No condemnation? Here we are, unable to do even the good, that, because of the new birth, we desire to do. The new nature desiring to refrain from sin, not wanting to dishonour our Lord, and yet so wicked that we cannot help but commit the vilest evil with our hearts, hands and […]
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 LORD’S JEWELS by Spurgeon- Goldsmiths make exquisite forms from ‘precious materials’. They fashion the bracelet and the ring from gold. But God makes His precious things out of ‘base materials’. From the black pebbles of the defiling brooks He has taken up stones which He has set in the golden ring of His immutable […]
The Robe! From Spurgeon’s, “The Treasure of Grace” God’s children are wrapped around with a robe, a seamless robe, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of it, were it once lost. For texture it excels the fine linen of the merchants; for whiteness it is purer than the driven snow; no looms on earth […]
THE DISTINGUISHING GRACE OF GOD by Don Fortner “ For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” 1 Cor. 4:7 The only difference between the believer and the unbeliever, between the righteous […]
“…NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH…” II Peter 3:9 In this passage of scripture Peter is comforting the children of God with the assurance of Christ’s second advent. If you will read the chapter carefully, you will observe that the apostle makes a clear and deliberate distinction between “us” who believe and the scoffers who […]
“WALKING IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD” Acts 9:31 Believers are men and women who walk in the fear of the Lord. God’s people do not have a slavish dread of God. We are not afraid to speak to him and about him. We are not afraid that he will become angry with us, disinherit […]
The Kingdom of Heaven The Lord declares his kingdom, his church, is like a grain of mustard seed. The church began from very small beginnings; so small that it came without observation (Luke 17: 20-21). The King and his children born of his Spirit is the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God has been […]
The BROTHERLY Spirit of the Lord’s Prayer (extract) “Our Father.” Matthew 6:6 But the Lord Jesus came to gather together His people of all nations and tongues around one mercy-seat, teaching them to say–”OUR Father;” thus uniting in the one “household of faith” Jew and Gentile, male and female, bond and free–all one in Christ, and […]