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“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
What was your first thought when you read the title of this article? This is the question the jailer rushed to ask Paul and Silas as we read in Acts 16. If we go back in the story, Paul and Silas had been thrown in jail by the local rulers because Paul, in the name of Jesus Christ, had ...
The Life of Moses (10)
God’s leading with Israel was mysterious. Why did He lead them about through the wilderness instead of straight to Canaan? It was His wisdom.a) They were not prepared to fight the Philistines.b) He also wanted them to discover their enmity—often they ...
God’s Sovereignty
Of all doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God’s sovereignty. To be told that God is great and just, holy and pure, man can bear; but to be told that “He hath mercy on whom He will have mercy,” that “He giveth no account of His matters”, that ...
Waiting for Rain
In Job 5 we read that Eliphaz the Temanite admonished his friend to seek unto God and unto God to commit his cause. Why unto God? He “doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number.” Also, He “giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields.” What i ...
Election – Calling – Coming
The doctrine of particular redemption should not be taken as a discouragement to weaken the hopes of any in their coming to Christ for salvation any more than Luke 13:24 should keep men from striving: “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter ...
What Election Is Not
• Does not discourage convicted sinners but welcomes them to Christ. “Let him that is athirst come” (Revelation 22:17b). The God who convicts is the God who saves. The God who saves is the God who has elected men unto salvation. He is the same God who invites.• Does n ...
The Fruits of Holy Baptism (4)
The Adoption as Children Christ is the Tree of Life. This Tree is always bearing fruit, even from month to month as we read in Revelation 22. The leaves of that Tree are for the healing of the Gentiles. One of the branches of that Tree i ...
In Conflict with Our Confession of Faith
Beloved Congregation:The wiles of Satan are becoming increasingly greater the older the world gets, the nearer the end approaches. Everything shows plainly that Satan has only a short time left. He is doing everything in his power to draw people away from God and from ...
The Man Born Blind (6)
The blind man has made the journey to the pool of Siloam. He came there through obedience by faith which God had planted. The life of faith is a life of strife, yet it is a strife because of faith. The apostle could say, “I have fought the good strife.” So, the blind man in his way goi ...
The Conversion of Joseph Irons
The Lord brought Joseph Irons to a saving knowledge of divine things soon after he left home at the age of sixteen. His hearing of Mr. Alphonsus Gunn, an able servant of Christ, was the means the Lord used. In speaking of this circumstance, Mr. Irons has said: “And while listening to t ...
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