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…
Category: Work of Christ
What Is Salvation? What is It To Believe the Gospel?
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…
Propitiation: An Advocate with the Father
Brother Beebe: Will you please give your views on 1 John ii. 1,2? “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only,…
The Death Knell of Water Baptism
The Death Knell of Water Baptism [Colossians 2:8-23] Colossians 2:8-23 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him,…
The One Spiritual Baptism
The One Spiritual Baptism Our Baptism ἐν (in/with/by) Christ on the Cross Made Applicable and Effectual in Time via Our Baptism ἐν (in/with/by) the Spirit into Christ Being the One Baptism That Doth Now Save Us And The End/Cessation of (John’s) Water Baptism (Which is Still Practiced by Most Churches in Our Day and Age)…
Election & Predestination: “Left”
Spiritually speaking, I cannot begin to describe my view of this word. From the vantage point of both eternity (as it relates to the non-elect) and temporally (as it relates to the saints of God) “left” is one of the most troubling, distressing, and humbling words that I can think of. For the reprobate, to…
Divine Light: So Very Close To The Truth
Jesus said unto her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live John 11:25 In the book of John, the last miraculous act that the Lord Jesus engaged in before the Pharisees conspired to kill Him (with Caiaphas stating “Ye know nothing at…
Scripture: As With the Water, The Word
Previous to today, over the last few days, I was thinking about how water in the Bible represents both life/salvation and death/judgment. The same element is associated with both eternal life (e.g. “the fruit producing “rivers of water” in Psalm 1:2-3; “the washing of water by the word” in Ephesians 5:26, etc.) and eternal judgment (the flood,…
Four Faithful Facts (Regeneration & Gospel Proclamation)
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,…
Speak To The Rock
Speak To The Rock Pastor Jesse Gistand Audio sermon 11/05/2006 – 67m Numbers 20:1-13 Numbers 20:1-13 Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation:…
Spiritual Wrestlings 