LOOK TO CHRIST

The cry of every gospel preacher is look to Christ. John the Baptist cried, “Behold the Lamb of God” (John 1:36). My friend, my cry to you is look to Christ for everything. Don’t look for salvation in your obedience to the law. Look to Christ who kept the law for His people. Don’t look for salvation in your religious ceremonies. Look to Christ who is “the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth” (Rom. 10:4). Look for atonement in Christ our Passover. Look for rest from all of your works in Christ our Sabbath. Don’t look for salvation in your doctrine. Look to Christ who is our doctrine. Believer, look to Christ for your comfort, peace, and assurance. LOOK AND LIVE and never take your focus and attention off of Christ who is our all and in all.

I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil (Jn. 17:15).

The Lord Jesus, who prays for the elect, asks the Father that they be kept from the evil of this world. Because of the merit of the One who asks, the sheep shall be “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Pet. 1:5).

Pastor Marvin Stalnaker

In My Flesh, Dwelleth No Good Thing.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Charles Spurgeon once said, “Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.” Has God shown you that you are you are your own worst enemy? Our worst enemies are most often found within us.

We live in a world that teaches men, women, boys and girls, to love themselves. Interview after interview with the “rich and famous” and even the “not so famous” reveal people to say things like, “I could not find true happiness and contentment until I first learned to love myself.” This way of thinking is completely contrary to the scriptures. Job said, “I have heard of thee (God) by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:5-6) When God shows a man his horrific state and condition in sin before a thrice Holy God, I can assure you that he will not love himself. If and when God reveals Himself to a sinner, if that sinner does not abhor, hate and find themselves repulsive in their own eyes, they have yet to truly see the true and Holy God of the Bible. When God shows sinners their sin and depravity they will confess the same thing that the apostle Paul did. “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.” (Romans 7:18) “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24) True sinners, hate their sin, repent of it and beg God to deliver them from the body of death in which they live. They certainly do not love themselves. They love the Lord Jesus Christ who loved them, gave Himself for them and dwells in them.