Christ Our Substitute. “He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” II Corinthians 5:21 This is a day of new beginning for us all. As your pastor, I sense that you are all as full of anticipation regarding our ministry […]
I Plead the Merits of Christ Remember, Lord, the blood and sweatOf Him Who more than paid my debt.Remember Christ upon the tree,And now be merciful to me. Remember how that Jesus bledIn this poor, guilty sinners stead.He bore your wrath and curse for meIn His own body on the tree. A perfect righteousness He […]
There Is A Prescribed Means Of Worship. Cain came to God with a bloodless sacrifice, the fruit of his own effort, and God rejected him. Abel came to God with the blood of an innocent lamb, a type of Christ, the Lamb of God, and God accepted him. Blessed be God, it is possible for […]
There are some words that describe things that cannot be unsuccessful. For example, one can have an unsuccessful medicine, but one cannot have an unsuccessful cure, for a thing can be called a cure unless and until is successful. The words used to describe our Lord and His saving work are such words. For example, […]
SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.” (Heb. 7:22) The Father made His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be the surety of the covenant of grace. The covenant of grace is better than the covenant of the law in every way. The law can […]
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:for I am God, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:22 Octavius Winslow A true spiritual beholding of the Lord Jesus, in the great matter of our eternal salvation, requires that we look from every other object that would divide our attention, to Him alone. We must look […]
A Sad but Evident Fact Down through the years there have been many men and women who have heard the truth, and have apprehended the truth, but who have never been apprehended by the truth. They have “gotten hold of the truth,” but the truth has never “gotten hold of them!” This is evidenced by […]
“Grace for Grace” — John 1:16 In Christ we have received, from his boundless fulness, grace because of grace. — We have received redeeming grace because of electing grace, — regenerating grace because of redeeming grace, — sanctifying grace because of regenerating grace, — believing grace because of sanctifying grace, — persevering grace because of […]
Fully, Entirely and Perfectly! The following is from Spurgeon’s book, “Christ’s Incarnation, the Foundation of Christianity” “You Shall Call His Name Jesus: For He SHALL SAVE His People From Their Sins.” Matthew 1:21 JESUS is nothing at all if He is not a SAVIOUR. He is anointed to this very end. His very Name is […]
His master-purpose! (Charles Spurgeon, “Christ’s Incarnation, the Foundation of Christianity”) Let us gather with grateful boldness around the infant in the manger, and behold our God! “Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins!” Matthew 1:21 The great object of our Lord’s coming here was not to live, […]