"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

“For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”   -I Corinthians 1:21 [KJV] Throughout the years I have met many men and women who objected to this.   Their basis for objecting was that each claimed to have been saved by some means other than the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and Him crucified.   But I have never met one person who God gave faith through the preaching of the Gospel of Christ who objected that the preaching of Christ crucified is the means by which it pleased God to save.       - preacher  Clay Curtis

“And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”   - I John 2:1 [KJV]   This Scripture recognizes our frail, sinful, human nature.   A believer does not love sin, does not excuse nor justify sin, but grieves over sin and desires to be without sin.   Yet he owns and confesses his sin!   As Spurgeon once said, “Sin is my name, sin is my nature; and to deny it is to deny the Word, deceive myself, and call God a liar.   My old nature is such that I will sin until I die, for sin even pollutes the best thing I do.”   The Scripture encourages the believer to trust and hope in the mercy of God at all times!   It does not say, “If any man is holy, prayerful, and always faithful, he has an advocate,” but it says, “If any man SIN, he has an advocate with the Father.”   It does not say, “If any man sins, he forfeits his right to Christ’s advocacy.”   Grace that can be forfeited because of human failures is not...

     "Let it never be forgotten that when a person is down, he has a grand opportunity for trusting the Lord.   A false faith can only float in smooth waters but true faith, like a life-boat, is at home in storms.   If our faith in Christ does not bear us up in times of trial, what is the use of it?   We cannot trust a thief as far as we can see him; shall we dare to treat our God in that fashion?"          -preacher C. H. Spurgeon

     Anytime a preacher presents the grace of God as an offer on God’s part to anybody who is willing to receive it, he has not preached grace as the Bible does.   The Bible does not say, ‘But God, who is rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins has offered us His grace ’ … it says, God hath, “quickened us together with Christ, by grace are ye saved.”   Grace is not offered; grace is given!   And when grace is given, it always saves and is always received!   We do not have a choice as to whether or not we will accept God’s offer of grace.   Grace saves!   Grace is not something we use to aid in our salvation - Grace saves us! -copied

  How sweet and blessed is the time With Christ within this place When everlasting love reveals The treasures of His grace. While all our hearts and all our songs Join to enjoy the feast Each of us ask, with thankful hearts Lord why am I a guest? Why was I made to hear Thy voice And come before Thy throne While others make a wretched choice And rather starve than come? ‘Twas the same love that spread the feast That sweetly called us in Else we would still refuse to taste And perish in our sins. We now desire to bless Thy Name   And in our hearts record And with our thankful tongues proclaim The goodness of the Lord!   -old Gospel hymn, “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?”     =================     Why I Believe In Eternal Justification   Eternal justification means the elect have always, eternally been justified before God.   Why do I believe this?   Because Scripture teaches that all we savingly possess was given us in Christ Jesus before the...

"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end that the promise might be sure to all the seed."   - Romans 4:16  [KJV] Men come to earthly inheritances, either by heirship, gift, or purchase. Each one can tell how he came by his estate, and by what right he holds it. Come, Christian, examine thy heavenly inheritance to-night. See how thou camest possessed of it, and by what means thou dost hold and enjoy it.    (1st.) It is thine by purchase. Not that thou didst ever contribute one mite to buy it; but Christ thy elder Brother paid the full price for it. Therefore it is called “the purchased inheritance , ” (Ephesians 1:14.)     (2d.) It is thine by gift: “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom , ” (Luke 12:32.)    (3d.) It is thine by heirship: thou wast born to inherit it: not by thy natural, but by thy spiritual birth. Now thou art “an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ , ” thy elder Bro...