Those who oppose the “Calvinistic” interpretation of election and predestination often argue that these truths “are not fair.” They say that it doesn’t allow everyone a “chance” to choose Christ (as if anyone, in and of themselves, would ever choose Christ). Those who think this way reveal their belief that they are somehow “good enough,”…
Category: Work of Christ
False Gospels: On Blindness > Antics > Compromise
These debates were quite difficult to endure (so much misrepresentation, non sequiturs, and other logical fallacies). Whether “Church of Christ” or “Oneness Pentecostal,” and as with many other such organizations, pathos far exceeds logos in these discussions. Emotional conviction, strong emphatic passion, and (not so) “witty” antics, cannot make up for the inability to follow…
Sovereignty: Comfort In The Midst Of Great Difficulty
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…
Venture Your Soul Upon Christ by Tobias Crisp
Venture Your Soul Upon Christ By Tobias Crisp Oh, forget every thing that seems worthy in you, or done by you; and let all your triumphing and glorying be in the free grace of God, in Christ, and look upon yourselves only in that and all things coming to you, receive as flowing from that…
A.W. Pink On Limited/Effectual Atonement
Spiritual Law: Gilbert Beebe on John 14:21
Source: http://asweetsavor.info/egb/john14_21.php “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” On that solemn and eventful night in which our Lord was betrayed, and but a little while…
Sermons: Ian Potts: He Giveth Power To The Faint
He Giveth Power To The Faint Brother Ian Potts Audio sermon The Lord’s Day – 10/12/2014 54 min | Isaiah 40:29 Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Comment: Powerful and needful. Listen: He Giveth Power To The Faint Alternative link: He Giveth Power…
Tell Me Then… Who, or What, Makes You Different?
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…
Man’s Inability to Keep the Moral Law by Thomas Watson
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,…
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…
Spiritual Wrestlings 