I am saddened when I think of the myriads of people who, in earnestness and sincerity, will meet today and listen to useless, graceless, Christless sermons. They will be admonished about morality and human kindness, but they will not hear of God’s free and sovereign grace. Be thankful that God has put you where you can hear about mercy for the sinful through the redemption that is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every child of God realizes that without Christ, he is nothing. Christ is our peace, our hope, our joy, our preservation, our life, our wisdom, our sanctification, our righteousness and our redemption; He is our all. Should He forsake us or...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Lord instructed Jeremiah to visit the potter’s house and there he learned that the Lord not only has the right to do what He wills with His own, but He exercises that right. "O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
An old writer said "Christ burst forth from the tomb, which could no longer hold Him. He broke out of the prison which could not confine Him." There is no doubt but what the almighty Savior could have pulverized the stone that lay across the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Some say that "God has a wonderful plan for your life but that plan will never come to fruition unless you give Him permission to do what He wants to do." What kind of a god requires your cooperation before he can act? What kind of a god has a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Every person is directed by God to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. "This is His commandment that we should believe on the name of His Son" (1 John 3:23). Yet, the unregenerate have no ability to do what is required. "No man can come to Me except...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
4/1 False Religion Jim Byrd What is false religion? It is any teaching that lessens the person of God, takes away or adds to the Word of God and detracts from the glory of God. False religion always makes the salvation of sinners ultimately...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
3/13 Merit or Mercy? Jim Byrd Merit is sought by the self-righteous, but mercy is craved by those who have been convinced by the Holy Spirit of their unrighteousness. An old servant of the Lord was desperately ill and teetered on the brink of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
2/28 Divine Restoration Jim Byrd The first man sinned against God in the garden and, as the federal head of mankind, he plunged us into a state of separation from our Creator. Let it be known, however, that the fall of Adam, far from ruining...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
1/26 Sin: Not Remembered – Remembered Jim Byrd "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more" (Hebrews 8:12). The sins of God’s elect are not remembered by the Lord...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
