Comfort In The Midst Of Great Difficulty “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain…” Acts 2:23 “For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For the thing which I greatly feared is…
-Or- Can It Ever Be Said That Righteousness Is Imparted, By God, To The Christian, Or Is Righteousness Only Imputed? Definitions: Before we answer, let us first ask the question, “what does the verb “impart” mean?” 1828 WEBSTER: “IMPART” 1. To give, grant or communicate; to bestow on another a share or portion of something;…
The true Gospel is good news and glad tidings for true sinners; not for pretend ones, not for those in the legal/judicial sense only, but for true (experimental/felt) sinners. The true Gospel is not good news to half-sinners who confesses that they are basically a “good person” despite having sinned here or there. The true…
The Organism vs. The Cell Can We Hate What God Hates and Still Love Those Whom God Commands Us To Love? Consider the following passages, amongst many: Psalm 139:21-22 “Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them…
The Lord’s People Hidden By William Gadsby Preached at Bedworth, on Wednesday Evening, Aug. 24th, 1842. Isaiah XXVI. 20. I am about to read a portion of God’s Word, which I thought I could find very easily. Indeed, I thought it was in the 40th chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah; but I cannot find…
The Glorious Majesty of Christ’s Person (Part Two) William Skelton, S.S. Published in The Earthen Vessel: and Christian Record & Review, 1846 – Volume II Return to Part One, Is there a conscience burdened sore with sin? We say, and say the truth, this blood makes clean, so efficacious is it in itself, that it…
What Does It Mean To Be The Light of the World and the Salt of the Earth (Part Two) 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…
The Sufferings of Christ Absolutely Unintelligible If Not an Ample and Special Atonement Samuel Cozens 1858 Of all the great truths of the gospel respecting which a diversity of opinion exists in the church of God, probably none, either in ancient or modern times, have occasioned more numerous and more lengthened controversies than the great doctrine…
The Literal Transfer of Sin & Righteousness “Holding the mystery of the Faith in a pure conscience” I Timothy 3:9, “One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism” Ephesians 4:5 It is a favourite assertion of those who deny the doctrine of a definite, and maintain a general atonement, who tell us that Christ did not die…
Adam with Eve as a Type of Christ with His Elect I. ADAM CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD / CHRIST IS THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF THE TRIUNE GODHEAD: Of the first man, Adam, “God said, Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness” (Gen 1:26). God the Word incarnate, The Lord Jesus…
Spiritual Wrestlings 