Note: This is truly one of the most important sermons that I’ve come across from a modern pastor/preacher. Election, predestination, righteousness imputed, sovereign grace, etc., are all absolutely blessed doctrines. However, this type of message (or warning) is no less important, seeing that it identifies the scriptural evidences of true spiritual life, and true spiritual…
Tell Me Then… Who, or What, Makes You Different? Curt Wildy 1 Corinthians 4:7 [KJV] “For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?” 1 Corinthians 4:7 [LITV] “For who…
Introduction The Christian must labour to rightly divide the word, so as not to misrepresent God and His truth. If we put forth anything as doctrine, we must strive to ensure, as God enables, that our words are truly in accordance with Holy Scripture, with the whole counsel of God found therein. Yet, we all…
Sin or Disorder? The Two Are Not Mutually Exclusive Curt Wildy All sin amounts to sickness and disorder in the spiritual sense; hence the common term sin-sick souls. We read in Isaiah 1:4-6 (italics added) “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the…
What Does It Mean To Be The Light of the World and the Salt of the Earth For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: Walk as children of Light (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the…
What Is Salvation? When Were We Saved? I. SALVATION ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GOD. 2 Timothy 1:8-9 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 9 Who HATH SAVED…
What Is Salvation? What is It To Believe the Gospel? I. SALVATION Salvation is not a single act in time but the entire process by which God brings His lost sheep back into the fold; this is borne out by all of Scripture and by the verb tenses God uses in His word for the…
Regeneration What is it, When is it, and Why Does it Matter? I. INTRODUCTION: Some may wonder concerning regeneration (what it is, when it occurs, etc.) why it even matters. It matters because God took the time to speak extensively about this subject in His word. It also matters because the wrong understanding of it…
Four Faithful Facts Concerning Regeneration and Gospel Proclamation (1) The True Gospel always accompanies true salvation (i.e. regeneration and conversion). (2) Salvation only and always occurs in the light of true Gospel revelation (either previously or contemporaneously received). (3) Where there is no revelation of the Gospel, there is no true salvation (no true regeneration,…
What Is The Inner Man? By Curt Wildy Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Colossians 3:9-10 And the LORD God formed man [of] the…
Spiritual Wrestlings 