THE LESSON LEARNED AT THE POTTER’S HOUSE

“Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.” (Jeremiah 18:2)

When Jeremiah went to the potter’s house the Lord taught him that all men are in the hand of God to do with as He pleases. If any of us will be saved we must learn that same lesson. God is not in our hand to decide if we will let Him save us or not. We are in God’s hand. He decides what He will do with us. God does not have to have mercy on you or me. If God saves me He will be just in doing it. If God damns me He will be equally just in doing it. God is sovereign so does as He pleases. Thank God He has been pleased to have mercy on sinners and save them by His grace through the glorious Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

True love for Christ in the heart will always show itself in faithfulness to Christ and acts of love for others.

Salvation of God Alone

A man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of another - God alone.

Martin Luther

Your Responsibility

While it is clear in God’s Word that salvation is God’s work alone, it is also evident that man is responsible for the light that God gives. And the fault of your damnation, if you perish, will be your own obstinate unbelief. You cannot give yourself life and faith in Christ. But you are responsible, while you have light, to believe in the light, in order that you may be a child of light (John 12:36). If God has mercy on you and saves you by his grace, it will be according to his own will through the light of his Word (James 1:18). But if you die and go to hell, it will be the result of your own willful unbelief and rejection of Christ, God’s Marvelous Light (Acts 13:38-41). Walk in the light, taking this sure promise of God as your beacon of hope: “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David” (Isaiah 55:3).

Pastor Eric Richards

Our Assemblies

“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” (Heb. 10:25).

By God’s all-wise appointment, our assemblies are the life, the food, and the nourishment of our souls. It is the main way whereby we publicly identify with Christ and His Gospel. We evidence our love for Christ by our loyalty and support of one another in opposition to all false worship. Many things will rise up in competition to the diligent attendance of our assemblies. We must recognize and refuse to give in to anything that is opposed to what Christ commands. The total falling away of a graceless professor always begins with this neglect, this disassociation with God’s people.