Man’s Inability to keep the Moral Law by Thomas Watson An Excerpt From His Work Titled: The Ten Commandments Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but does daily break them, in thought,…
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John Flavel on the Particulars of How Christ is Received by His Elect
An Excerpt From The Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption By John Flavel The Particulars of how Christ is Received By His Elect First, The gospel offers Christ to us sincerely and really, and so the true believer receives and accepts him, even with a faith unfeigned; 1 Tim. 1: 5. If ever the…
The Gospel Is Only Good News For True (Experimental) Sinners
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…
“Trust Your Heart!” Is The Advice Of Fools….
“Trust Your Heart!” Is The Advice Of Fools…. Many encourage others to trust not God, nor the Bible, nor men, nor even their own mind, but to “trust their heart” — this is great deception, even strong delusion, and only sin, wrath, and eternal damnation result from such madness (unless God steps in and turns…
Fail To Understand The Spiritual Aspect And You Will Fail To Understand The Threat
Listening to GBC Men’s Study: The Biblical View Of Angels Part Two, especially as it related to the spiritual hierarchy and warfare aspects, reinforced many of the thoughts that I have been having on the topic of so-called “conspiracy theories.” Many find it hard to believe that our governments, mass media, academia, and other such institutions,…
Spiritual Inability
Spiritual Inability By George Wright, Beccles, U.K. Published January, 1847 I Am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 What man can do, and what he cannot do, are points which have…
What Does It Mean To Be The Light of the World and the Salt of the Earth (Part Two)
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…
Some Thoughts On Balance and Maturity (Part One)
Some Thoughts On Balance and Maturity Not As One Who Has Arrived But As One Desiring To Be Led More Deeply In The Way I. THE CHRISTIAN’S OBEDIENCE TO THE WILL OF GOD After the inner man, the Christian absolutely desires to be obedient to all of the exhortations, commands, and verbal imperatives of God.…
O Wretched Man That I Am!
O Wretched Man That I Am! Brother Ian Potts Audio sermon 10/27/2013 Romans 7:24 Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Comment: We see in this blessed sermon the two separate extremes of the Christian reality; we see both the vile and devastating nature of sin in…
The Spiritual Battlefield
The Spiritual Battlefield Curt Wildy For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and…
Spiritual Wrestlings 