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Christ JESUS is Our Only Hope

"...and take the helmet of salvation." - Ephesians 6:17 [KJV]   It is excellently said, “Resolve for hardships, or lay down thine arms.   Few come at the beat of Christ’s drum to His standard. Many that list by external profession under Him, after a while drop away and leave His colours. It is suffering work they are sick of. Many men are more tender of their skin than of their conscience. They had rather the gospel had provided armour to defend their bodies from death and danger, than their souls from sin and Satan.” -Gurnal’s Christian Armour   All this is, because they have not on the helmet of salvation. What is this? “For an helmet, the hope of salvation” (I Thessalonians 5:8.) Do not all naturally hope to be saved? Yes, some in one way, and some in another. But all natural hopes are false hopes. Therefore they die and perish. But this helmet is a supernatural and divine hope. All men have not faith. Therefore they have not Christ, who is the helmet of...
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Eternal Comfort & Rest in Christ JESUS Alone

"And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work, and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD our God hath cursed ." -Genesis 5:29 [KJV]   I still think, and believe that I always shall think, that holy men of old possessed great superiority of faith to new testament believers, in the attention they paid to the choice of names given to their children. Our choice, for the most part, is from caprice, or respect to our relations or earthly connections; they had an eye to heaven. Thus, in the instance before us, Lamech evidently called his son, Noah, which signifies rest, in reference to "the rest which remaineth for the people of God;" and, as such, had an eye to Christ, the promised seed, in whom alone that rest was to be found. I do not presume to suppose that Lamech thought this child to be himself the promised seed, as our first mother Eve did at the birth of Cain, when she said, "I have gotten...
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Substance & Reality in the Things We Believe

"The substance of a diligent man is precious." -Proverbs 12:27 [KJV] If the Lord has done anything for our souls by His Spirit and grace, and given us anything to taste, handle, realise, and enjoy for ourselves, we know there is a substance and reality in the things that we believe. Religion is our chief employment; our daily meditation or exercise—the main concern of our thoughts and what lies with the greatest weight upon our minds. And justly so; for it is our all. If we have religion, the religion of God's giving, it will be uppermost in our heart. It is true we are surrounded with and often hampered by a body of sin and death; we have many worldly cares and anxieties which will intrude upon our minds; and those engaged in business have many things especially to drag them down from heaven to earth. Still, religion will be for the most part uppermost in a man's soul, where God has begun and is carrying on a gracious work. Not but what he is often very...
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What Characters Christ JESUS Came to Save!

     "Evangelical repentance is the gift of free Grace. Faith is the Gift of God. What is God’s, as a gift to bestow, cannot be man’s duty to perform as a condition of salvation. Those who are summoned to look to Christ, to come to Him for salvation, are very minutely described – they are the weary and heavy laden with sin, the penitent, the hungry and thirsty soul. These are the characters who are called to come to and believe in Christ"  ( Matthew 11:28 ; Isaiah 55:1 ; Mark 2:17 .)     —preacher Christopher Ness (1621-1705 A.D.)
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"The Common Faith"

       The faith of the justified is that “common faith” binding together every true believer.  Titus 1:4 – “To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.” It is common in one sense only. It is found only in and exercised by those whom the Father sent the Son to redeem. It is wrought of God in the believer and is fixed on its object, the Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness imputed as all the sinners’ salvation. All other faiths are counterfeit. There are three qualities common in the common faith:   (1) It sees no merit in the sinner. By nature, even God’s elect are all too ready to boast in  their faith. This “common faith” looks away from the sinner to another for salvation. God given faith never commands the sinner to look to himself for any part of salvation.    (2) It sees all merit in the Savior. God given faith looks only to “the LORD our...
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To Worship God

     To worship God is an awesome privilege that only His true people, saved by His grace in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, can enjoy. It is only through Christ as our Redeemer and Mediator that we can worship God acceptably. It is on the basis of Christ’s merits that God accepts our praise, our prayers, and our obedience. We meet with our heavenly Father at the mercy-seat, and Christ is our true Mercy-Seat.    True worship is not just “going to church,” singing hymns, and listening to morality messages. True worship is, first and foremost, acknowledging the living and true God as He reveals Himself through the Lord Jesus Christ according to His Word, the Bible. As we who know Him savingly as the God Who justifies the ungodly by His grace through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord, we worship Him in spirit and in truth. Whatever He says of Himself in His Word we believe to be true. Much of what God reveals of Himself astounds our minds so t...
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Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 07 May, 2026 A.D.

  Sing aloud this hymn of praise, Hallelujahs let us raise; Bless the Lord of earth and skies, Let our praises ever rise, Let our praises ever rise.   View His great creative might, In the morning’s glor’ous light; Study providence and see Proofs of His great sovereignty, Proofs of His great sovereignty.   Yet a greater work appears, What relief to all our fears! God for sinners gave His Son, Jesus, the Anointed One, Jesus, the Anointed One.   Lo He came the lost to save, His own life He freely gave; God was fully satisfied, When Christ Jesus bled and died, When Christ Jesus bled and died.   From His throne Christ reigns on high, By His grace He brings us nigh; He our sin has washed away, Turned our darkness into day, Turned our darkness into day.   So this song of praise we sing, Unto Christ our God and King; We are filled with thankfulness, For the Lord our Righteousness, For the Lord our Righteousness.     -Tune:  “Take My Life and Let it ...
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