PRAY ONE FOR ANOTHER The Spirit of God tells us in James 5:16 to "pray one for another" and I try to do just that. I pray for the saints of God individually as He calls them to mind. I pray for their individual afflictions, trials and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
ARE YOU RIGHTEOUS LIKE ABEL? Cain rose up and killed his brother Abel for a reason revealed to us by the Spirit of God. “And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” (1 John 3:12)...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD” The apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians said, “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for you.” (I Cor. 5:7) He is speaking of that type of Christ which God established in Egypt in Exodus 12 where a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
FORGIVENESS “But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.” Psalm 130:4 No more wonderful words could ever be spoken than these to sinners like us. Let them sink deep into our minds, “There is forgiveness with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS” I do not know how many times I have used the phrase “blood and righteousness” in referring to the one way in which God saves His people from their sins in Christ. But I got to thinking...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE PERFECT WORK OF THE GOSPEL The gospel of the free and sovereign grace of God in Christ is perfect in every sense. It is truly the wisdom of God and shall accomplish that purpose to which He has sent it. It does truly prove to be a "savor...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE SINNER GOD LOVES We are often making statements that need to be qualified. Does the bible make this statement, "God loves sinners"? I could not find it. What it does say is that God loved a people whom He chose and gave to Christ in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9 If you notice, our Lord speaks of “peacemakerS” in the plural. He is not talking about peacemaking between men and God. That sense would be...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE ANVIL OF TRUTH The truth is like an anvil. A man came into a blacksmith’s shop one day and noticed a pile of broken hammers in the corner. He asked the blacksmith about them and the blacksmith told him that he had broken many...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"JUSTICE CANNOT TWICE DEMAND PAYMENT AT MY BLEEDING SURETY'S HAND...AND THEN AGAIN AT MINE" Augustus Toplady It is an amazing characteristic of grace that the justice of God which once stood against us as sinners alienated from God, now stands...[ abbreviated | read entire ]