I constantly try to drive home this point to our hearts: Go to Christ! Yet there are many who still will not go to Christ. I ask you this question: where else can you go? Where else can you go for forgiveness of your sin? It is “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (I John 1:7) Where else can you go for salvation? “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Where else can you go for righteousness? “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” (Gal. 2:21) Where else can you go for the water of life? “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” (John 7:37) Where else can you go for the way of salvation, the truth of God, and eternal life? “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6) Where else can you go to receive the promises of God’s grace? “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” (II Cor. 1:20) Where else can you go for comfort of salvation and defense for your soul? “He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.” (Psalm 62:6) My friend, go to Christ because Christ is ALL. Christ is all to the Father and Christ is all you will ever need. Now go to Him. Where else can you go?
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Recently I was reading a history book about men of the past who did great works by which they saved others. In each case the historian reported who the person was and what work they did. But not only that, the historian also reported that they actually saved a particular person or group. I begin thinking that I have never read a history book about the heroic works of men that left out the fact that by their works they actually saved the particular person or group for whom they did the work. It would be meaningless to speak of a person’s work as a saving work while leaving out that they actually accomplished the salvation of the person or group they set out to save. So it is with the gospel. It ceases to be good news when men declare Christ’s person and work only to leave out that our Redeemer knew that he was come to save “his people” from their sins; it ceases to be good news to leave out the truth that Christ actually accomplished the redemption of God’s elect and God’s elect alone. This is why we must preach God’s free and sovereign electing grace as well as the atonement which Christ accomplished for his particular people, which is limited to only those for whom Christ laid down his life, every time we preach. By this we declare Christ victorious and we do not leave the choosing or the justifying in the sinner’s hand. In other words, by this we declare the message we are sent to declare, all flesh is grass and thy God reigneth!
Pastor Clay Curtis
Sound doctrine, as described in the Scriptures, is teaching that sets forth the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ—in other words, nothing more or less than the Gospel. Mere orthodoxy for the sake of being right, is nothing more or less than self-righteousness.
Pastor Chris Cunningham
Believer, never forget that the fact that your sin is forgiven in the blood of Christ the Savior is no excuse for sin. The fact that we cannot change our nature of sin is no excuse for outward sin. Strive always to live a holy, honest, and upright life before men because you also have a new nature that is holy, loves the Lord, and desires to live in His ways and to honor Him who gave Himself to save your sorry soul. (Romans 6:12-13)
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