“Where God works, he always does so consistently with his own Word. What I mean is this: when he raises up, equips, and sends forth one of his servants, that servant will necessarily preach the Word, and denounce all that is opposed to the Word: hence, his message is bound to be unpopular, in fact,…
Sad Reality Picture the majority of people operating within the inner square of knowledge. The farther out from center you are, the more apt you are to be proud (puffed up) in your knowledge and to be impatient with (and irritated by) those closer to the center. Contrarily, the closer you are to the center,…
Sanctification: The Believer’s Transformation Part Two John MacArthur Biblical Passages: Colossians 3:1-17 “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life…
Sanctification: The Believer’s Transformation Part One John MacArthur (with associated passages and a personal note) Biblical Passages: Philippian 2:12-16 “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always OBEYED, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh…
“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…
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…
An Excerpt From Eight Years’ Labour in the Ministry at Leicester By A Watchman On The Walls (William Garrard) Leicester, March 29, 1850 BRETHREN— The apostle saith “In all things I am instructed.” And if we watch the Lord’s hand, in providence, without, and the work of His Spirit within, and see the end of…
Charity, Christ, and the Benefit of the Doubt Or Else: Judge, Jury, and (Ministry/Character) Executioner Hard Lessons Learned; Hard Lessons Still Learning Months back, I left Facebook mainly because of a growing, and powerful, sense of contention, arguing doctrine for doctrine’s sake, a spirit of judgmentalism and condemnation, and due to an increasing sense of…
What is of Christ and What is of the Devil… or, Striving to Forsake the Things of This Sin-Cursed World These last few months for me were quite cold and carnal; I wasn’t going about sinning openly in some notorious sense but such mental (and yet spiritual) sin as disdain, murmuring, pride, lust, rebellion, indifference,…
The Potential Idolatry of Self-Abasement We are wretched men in light of this body of death; we are unprofitable servants as a result of it. We know the plague of our own heart (as it relates to the ever-presence of the outer man and not to the new heart the Lord has given us). We…
Spiritual Wrestlings 