Psalm 5:1-4

“For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord”

(Leviticus 16:30 ).

My dear friends read this verse of scripture and humble yourself before the Lord and believe it. Christ Jesus, the priest of God's own choosing has already made atonement for you if you believe on him for it. Would you be clean from all your sins before God? (Oh! My soul, think of such a thing!) Jesus has already made the atonement, believe Him, simply believe him. Don't move a muscle until you believe Jesus Christ. He made atonement by pouring out his own blood. Read this verse and re-read it until your spirit is illuminated with the light of it and you are made to know you live through this atonement.

Pastor Bruce Crabtree

You Must Know the Disease to Find the Cure

We won’t make much headway in finding a solution if we do not understand the problem. A cure is not likely to be found if we have no knowledge of the disease. In the matter of salvation, the problem is man’s sin; the solution is God’s grace. The disease is moral depravity and spiritual inability; the remedy is God’s mercy in Christ. If a man is nearsighted, he only needs corrective glasses; but, if he is blind, he needs the miracle of sight! If a man is sick, he only needs medicinal aid; but, if he is DEAD, he needs the miracle of life! If man has only strayed from the way, he only needs directions; but, if he is COMPLETELY LOST, he needs to be found!

Here is the question to be settled by preachers and people; “What happened in the garden?” When one feels obliged to come to some conclusions on the subjects of election, irresistible grace, and particular redemption, it would be wise for him to first determine the CONDITION of the sinner who is to be saved. If man was only wounded by the fall, he needs assistance; if he is dead in sins, he needs to be resurrected and that by the purpose and power of the God of life.

If fallen man still has his moral ability and power of choice, then let us wait for him to choose and seek God; but, if he loves darkness and will not come to Christ, then Christ must love and come to him.

Pastor Henry T. Mahan (bulletin 1984)

Condemned Or Justified

There are just two kinds of people in this world; those who justify themselves before God and those who are justified by God in Christ. Those who justify themselves are always condemned before God. Those who condemned themselves are always justified before the Lord by His grace (Rom. 3:24; Titus 3:7).

In Luke 18 the Pharisee justified himself and was condemned. The publican condemned himself and was justified (Luke 18:13-14). Which one are you! Grace is for the guilty!

“And he said unto them, (the Pharisees) Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God”(Luke 16:15).

The Lord Jesus had the sharpest rebukes and the strongest warnings to those who went about to seek salvation by the deeds of the law. He never had a kind word of mercy or a word of grace to those Pharisees who stood on the ground of their merit and self-righteousness. He called them on another occasion, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” (Matt. 23:33).

But oh how kind, longsuffering and gentle the Lord is to sinners who are seeking mercy through Him and in Him; I have never read in scripture of the Lord Jesus Christ turning a mercy beggar away empty or disappointed (Heb. 4:16). He always encouraged sinners to come to Him for rest (Matt. 11:28). He always pointed to Himself as the way of salvation (John 14:6). The Lord always declared and commanded the thirsty to come to Him and drink (Isa. 55:1; John 4:14: John 7:37). The scripture even declares that the Lord Jesus Christ healed all those that had need of healing (Luke 9:11).

Now by the Lord’s grace let us seek mercy where it is found (Micah 7:18). Let us seek comfort from the God of all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3-4). Let us seek grace from the God of all grace (1 Peter 5:10). Let us seek forgiveness from all our sin from the only one who has power to forgive sin (Luke 5:24; 1John 1:7).

Oh, may God be pleased to bless us to see the Lord Jesus Christ as all our salvation, righteousness and redemption before God (1 Cor. 1:30-31). Everything else is an abomination in His sight; everything else that is highly esteemed among men is filthy rags (Isa. 64:6); everything else is smoke in His nose (Isa. 65:5); everything else is nothing but dung.