Thank God that salvation is by grace. Thank God that He saves His people by grace without any consideration of their actions. Their sin never makes them less savable and their religious activity never makes them more savable. Thank God salvation is by grace alone!

Faith is not believing that God will do what I want Him to do, or what I think I need Him to do. Faith is believing that God will do what He said He would do. Faith in Christ is an abandonment of our own thoughts and ways, and a complete, unreserved trusting of Him as our righteousness, sin-offering and Sovereign.

Pastor Chris Cunningham

GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT

The thing that makes a believer happy and a cheerful giver in God’s house is godliness with contentment. By God’s free abundant grace in Christ, God has freely given the believer all things that pertain to eternal life and godliness. Having eternal life in Christ, the believer is content that “God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” (2 Cor 9: 8) Covetous hearts suppose that gain is godliness but it is not so. “Godliness with contentment is great gain.” (1 Tim 6: 5-6)

Pastor Clay Curtis

LEARN CHRIST

It is of the utmost importance that we learn Christ, not the doctrine of our denomination, not how to live a better life, but to learn Christ, for He is salvation. The only way we will learn our lost, dead condition is by learning Christ. Then and only then will we come to Christ for salvation.

• When we learn Christ our Righteousness, then we will learn our unrighteousness and run to Christ “that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (II Cor 5:21).
• When we learn Christ the Just, then we will learn that we are unjust and run to Christ, who died “the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God” (I Peter 3:18).
• When we learn Christ the Way, then we will learn that we are lost and come Christ the only way of salvation.
• When we learn Christ the Life, then we will learn that we are dead and come to Christ that we might have life in Him.
• When we learn Christ the Truth, then we will learn that we, and all men, are liars and come to Christ who is the Truth of God.
• When we learn Christ is “that bread of life” (John 6:48), then we will learn that we are empty and come to Christ who “filleth all in all” (Eph 1:23).

May we be taken up with learning Christ and not be as those the apostle Paul warned of who are “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Tim 3:7)

IGNORANCE LEADS TO ERROR

“Jesus answered and said unto them, ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God” (Matthew 22:29)

Our blessed Lord answers the question of the Sadducees about the resurrection by telling them their problem. The problem is not with Christ and the truth of the resurrection, it is with the sinner. Here our Lord declares to us the root cause of all error and unbelief; it is ignorance of the Scriptures and not knowing the power of God. These two truths are inseparable, there is no way of knowing and understanding the power of God apart from the revelation of Holy Scripture (Rom. 15:4; John 5:39; 20:31), nor is there any way of knowing and understanding the Holy Scriptures apart from the power of God revealing them unto us (John 16:13-15; I Corinthians 2:9-14).