Why Did God Do It?It was my plan and intention to be in Almont, Michigan this weekend attending the wedding of my good friends Bryant Martin and Susannah Byrd, and preaching at the First Baptist Church there in Almont, where my good friend Jim...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The following is an article, by Abraham Booth, I received in a bulletin. “Justification is a forensic term, and signifies the declaring, or the pronouncing a person righteous according to law. Justification is not the making a person...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
- Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Forgiven, Covered, Not Imputed 'Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
People love to be preached to about their sins and told to quit smoking, drinking, cussing, and to be kind to their neighbor, tithe, and go to church, etc. It's because when they are able to manage these outward things, they can feel good about...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." 2 Corinthians. 11:3 The word here does not mean "shallowness" or "easiness." Though the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Some say that to speak of the eternal aspect of justification is blasphemous because (they say) it makes void the work of Christ on the cross. This is like saying our eternal election makes void the work of regeneration by the Holy Spirit in time....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth . . . There is a sense in which we do consider ourselves servants of Christ. Paul identified himself not by high titles or attainments, but as a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Proverbs 27:6 When God reveals to us the spiritual nature of his law and thereby convicts (convinces) us of our sin, then he uses the law to give us a knowledge of our sin. This is what caused Paul to say, “O wretched man that I am!” It was by...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
