Anomianism/Antinomianism has spread like wildfire through Reformed, Predestinarian, Sovereign Grace, and related circles. It is on my heart deeply, due to my own state, and due to the state of the church as a whole, to put forth an even clearer refutation of it. 1 John 3:4 in the KJV reads as follows: “Whosoever committeth…
Category: Divine Love
Knowledge: On Knowledge, Pride, Grace, and Agape Love
Sad Reality Picture the majority of people operating within the inner square of knowledge. The farther out from center you are, the more apt you are to be proud (puffed up) in your knowledge and to be impatient with (and irritated by) those closer to the center. Contrarily, the closer you are to the center,…
Divine Love: The “Harsh” Reality
THE “HARSH” REALITY GOD’S LOVE IS FOUND ONLY IN JESUS CHRIST Romans 8:38-39 “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God,…
Divine (Agapē) Love Is *Righteously* Holy, Jealous, Intolerant, and Self-Sacrificial.
The following is humbling, needful, and even more pressing in our day than it was at the time it was preached. May God give us grace, mercy, and effectual strength to walk in accordance with the truths set forth herein. Divine (Agapē) Love Is Righteously Holy, Jealous, Intolerant, and Self-Sacrificial An Excerpt From “The Straitness…
Romans 8:16: The Key to Understanding, Obtaining, and Retaining the Assurance of Salvation (In The Proper Context)
Romans 8:16 The Key to Understanding, Obtaining, and Retaining the Assurance of Salvation (As Considered In Its Proper Immediate, Lexical, and Systematic Context) By Curt Wildy Introduction Dear reader, please understand that in writing what I am about to write, I have no desire to puff myself up, gain a following, force my opinions on…
The True Nature Of Agapē Love: How Love & Obedience Are One And The Same
The True Nature Of Agapē Love How Love & Obedience Are One And The Same -or- How Agapē Love Literally Is God-Wrought Obedience To God’s Extant Law Introduction The following is one of the most important doctrines that I have researched/written about, concerning the Christian’s walk before God in light of their justified state. Why is it so…
It Is Far Too Easy…
John 14:15, 23 “If ye love me, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS… 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will KEEP MY WORDS: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole…
Every One That Is Godly – Part Two
EVERY ONE THAT IS GODLY Part Two THOMAS BRADBURY Preached In Grove Chapel, Camberwell, On Sunday Evening, September 16TH, 1877 For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Psalm 32:6 Return…
Every One That Is Godly – Part One
EVERY ONE THAT IS GODLY Part One THOMAS BRADBURY Preached In Grove Chapel, Camberwell, On Sunday Evening, September 16th, 1877 For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Psalm 32:6 IF…
God Is Love To The Heaven-Born Children of God
God Is Love To The Heaven-Born Children of God The Gospel Standard or, Feeble Christian’s Support August 1835 Beloved of the Lord,— It is your blessedness to prove, by the divine teaching of God the Holy Ghost, that God is Love,— eternal, immutable Love. This precious truth you will not deny; but then you may…
Spiritual Wrestlings 