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…
Category: 09. Wildy, Curt
Adam with Eve as a Type of Christ with His Elect
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…
Love…Even In The Midst Of Sin
LOVE… EVEN IN THE MIDST OF SIN OUR INDWELLING SIN, THOUGH VILE, IS NO BARRIER TO THE LOVE OF GOD Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even…
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…
God, Please Don’t Be A Gentleman
God, Please Don’t Be A Gentleman The Arminian God: A Wolf in Gentleman’s Clothing As I was driving home this evening, listening to the radio, I heard the statements of a man named Ron Jones (an apparent four-point Calvinist / Calminian “pastor, church planter, and radio Bible teacher”). The statement that caught my attention was…
What is of Christ and What is of the Devil…
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 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…
Spiritual Wrestlings 