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The Heart of the Gospel

“My times are in Thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.” -Psalm 31:15 [KJV]   In 1825 A.D., Wm. Freeman Lloyd wrote the following words based on this verse of scripture. My times are in Thy hands; my God, I wish them there; My life, my friends, my soul I leave entirely to Thy care. My times are in Thy hands, whatever they may be; Pleasing or painful, dark or bright, as best may seem to Thee. My times are in Thy hands; why should I doubt or fear? A Father’s hand will never cause His child a needless tear. My times are in Thy hands, Jesus the crucified; Those hands my sins had pierced are now my guardian and my guide.   My times are in Thy hands, grant faith to trust in Thee; For after death at Thy right hand, I shall forever be. -----------------   I read an article by a preacher where he took great pains to try to prove that Christ was not “made sin for His people” by imputation but by some other “mysterious way” that ...
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ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE UNITY

     Let us not set ourselves up as critics and judges of the conduct and lives of other believers.  Let us not spend our time finding fault with one another, picking out weaknesses and exaggerating differences of opinion and practice.  Rather, let us spend our time endeavoring to help one another and to avoid doing and saying things that may cause others to stumble.           We can do this by making our fellowship to be in Christ ( not in form and traditions ), by loving one another in spite of differences, and by avoiding collisions on the points wherein we differ.  I am not suggesting for a moment that we compromise the Gospel or the fundamentals of our faith; but, as there are no two snowflakes exactly alike, there are no two people exactly alike; therefore, the foundation of our fellowship is our love for Christ and our love for one another, not perfect agreement on every point .      ...
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REDEEMED! ~ How I Love to Proclaim It

     Redemption is one of the great themes that runs like a scarlet thread through all of Scripture.  It begins in Eden, where God slew an animal and covered the nakedness of Adam and Eve.  Afterward, Abel offers a better sacrifice than Cain – Abel brings a blood offering, while Cain brings what grew from the cursed ground. When Israel was delivered from Egyptian bondage, a lamb had to be slain, and its blood applied to the doorposts and lintel.   One cannot read the Bible with open eyes and fail to see the unfolding story of redemption on every page.  When Christ, the Lamb of God, died on Calvary’s tree, He shed His blood as the price of our redemption – “The precious blood of Christ” (I Peter 1:18-19).   Paul declares, “Ye are bought with a price” (I Corinthians 6:20; 7:23).   Everyone whom God saves has been Redeemed by the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Lamb .           ...
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The Proof of Discipleship

Revive Thy work, O LORD Thy mighty arm make bare Speak with the voice that wakes the dead And make Thy people hear.   Revive Thy work, O LORD Create soul-thirst for Thee And hungering for the Bread of Life Oh may our spirits be.   Revive Thy work, O LORD Exalt Thy precious Name And by Thy Holy Ghost Divine Our love for Thee enflame.   Revive Thy work, O LORD And give refreshing showers The glory shall be Thine alone The blessings, Lord, be ours.     -Gospel hymn: “Blest Be the Tie That Binds”     *******0******     “By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples,  if ye have love one to another.”   -John 13:35 [KJV]     I am sure there are other marks of discipleship.  You will believe the Truth, and you will confess Christ before men.  You will hate that which is contrary to the Truth of the Gospel.  I am sure there are many other things that could be said to be marks of discipleship.  But th...
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What Every Believer Sees by Faith

  “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”    -Hebrews 2:9 [KJV]   "But we see Jesus." How do we see Him? Not by dreams and visions or by the visualization of movies or pictures. We see Him as He is declared throughout the pages of Holy Scripture, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself" (Luke 24:27). True God-given faith believes the record of Holy Scripture (I Thessalonians 2:13). Someone said, "Faith is the eye of the spirit, which views and enjoys what the Word of God presents to its vision." As Job said, "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee" (Job 42:5). This verse gives to us some key points as to how we see the Lord Jesus Christ.   1). We see Him as God our Saviour, i...
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Enjoying the Life of God in Our Soul

"JESUS said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you ."   - John 6:53 [KJV]   Ignorant persons, who sit under unenlightened teachers, are taught to apply these words to the sacrament. Hence they think, if they do but receive the sacrament, they surely eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ; their sins are pardoned; all is well; and they shall go to heaven at last. O, how horridly is that sacred ordinance prostituted! “The wicked, such as be void of lively faith, do carnally and visibly press with their teeth the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ; yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ: but rather, to their condemnation, do eat and drink the sign or sacrament of so great a thing,” says St. Austin. What doth our Lord here mean?    (1st.) That naturally we have no spiritual life in us. We are dead, under the sentence of the law: as dead to all knowledge of, lo...
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Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 26 May, 2026 A.D.

"Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things." -Ephesians 4:9, 10 [KJV]   My soul! Thy morning portion led thee to the contemplation of a risen and ascended Saviour; and by faith and love, I hope thou didst find thyself ascending with Him, and art now still looking to Him on the throne of the Majesty on high. And while thy thoughts are thus occupied in the most blessed of all subjects, listen to this word of God's grace, as of a voice behind thee, to remind thee, that He who is thus gone up, first came down! He that is now in heaven, first came down from heaven; He is only returned, as a rightful Lord, to His own kingdom.    He hath, indeed, both by His Father's gift, and His own purchase, obtained a mediatorial crown, to add to His crown of the Godhead, which He had before in common with the Fa...
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