FORGIVENESS

Every child of God is very interested in forgiveness. We should be very interested in forgiveness because we are great sinners. Believers love to hear the gospel cry that there is forgiveness of sin in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:7).

Those who are forgiven must also be interested in being forgiving. From time to time a brother or sister will offend us. What should we do in that situation? Forgive them (Eph 4:32). We may have to give up some right or cast aside some pride, but do what it takes to forgive. We are to forgive as Christ our Savior has forgiven us. “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye” (Col. 3:13). It cost the Lord Jesus Christ His life to forgive my sin. Then I should be willing to sacrifice something of my own feelings and pride to forgive someone else.

Regeneration makes no alteration on the flesh, but the spirit. There is nothing in the flesh made holy. And there is nothing in the spirit left unholy.

Robert Hawker

“Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;” (2 Corinthians 1:10)

Our Lord has already saved us!... "Who delivered us from so great a death”! Our Lord saves us every day!... "and doth deliver"! One day our Lord will physically come back, and eternally save us!... "in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us”!

But, the emphasis of our salvation is not WHEN... It's WHO! ("WHO delivered us")... (In WHOM we trust")! We are not saved on a DAY, we are saved on a PERSON! We don't cling to a DAY, we cling to a PERSON! If God ever opens a sinner's eyes to see his own sin; for the rest of his days on this earth he will continually cry with the apostle Paul: "O wretched man that I am!" And he will continually cry with the apostle Peter: "Lord, save me"!

Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

Many are confused when we try to distinguish between Christ and doctrine. They always stress the importance of doctrine and that you cannot know Christ without doctrine. I agree that you cannot know Christ without the scriptures, but what you call doctrine may not be the scriptures. Also, even if you know the scriptures, there is still a need for this vital distinction. The Pharisees knew the scriptures, but refused Him of Whom the scriptures teach (John 5:39-40). So, of course, we make vital distinction between merely knowing doctrine and knowing the Son of God. The question is not, “do you believe in the doctrines?” But, “do you believe on the Son of God?”

Pastor Chris Cunningham

If you persist in working with the hope of being saved by your working you are going down a dead-end street. You are running after a plan which God has declared He will never accept. “By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight.” Your flesh or mine, it makes no difference!