"The
eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous,
and His ears are
open unto their cry.
The face of the LORD is against them
that do evil,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the
earth."
-Psalm
34:15-16 [KJV]
STONY
HEARTS
Since
all men by nature have stony hearts, all the threatenings in the
world will do no good. The stony heart of natural man must be pierced
by the POWER OF GOD in order to be tender! One with a tender heart
desires to know the will of God, has a readiness for spiritual
things, has a disposition to obey revealed truth and has a desire to
make the things of God his chief business. –preacher
Scott Richardson
THE
LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
Rolfe
Barnard made an interesting observation many years ago. "Sixteen
hundred years ago the church was adopted by Rome. Millions of pagans
flooded its membership; and they brought with them their pagan
culture, tradition and faith. It took that ‘successful church’ a
thousand years to recover from that brilliant success. Something like
that has happened in our day. In this century, the church and
religion have been adopted by society, politicians, entertainers and
popular persons. All of a sudden ‘Jesus’ and ‘the gospel’
have become quite popular. Millions have joined up to swell the
membership to an all-time high. Results:
a church that bears no resemblance to the church of our Lord Jesus
Christ. ‘Religion’ has become man’s chief defense against
the true gospel! If there is one place that a man does not dare to
preach the gospel of God’s sovereign grace, it is in the average
church."
–excerpt
from Thirteenth Street
Baptist Church bulletin
A
RIGHTEOUSNESS PLEASING TO GOD
By
the grace of God I believe the gospel of God’s sovereign grace, and
I have been a believer for many years, but I still remain, in myself,
a helpless sinner and in my flesh dwells no good thing. And yet, I am
not filled with despair for I have a blessed Redeemer Who ever lives
for me in glory. In Him I have no sin, my conscience has no sting of
guilt and I have no fear of condemnation. Without a doubt, I remain a
sinner as touching this present life, but "THE
LORD MY RIGHTEOUSNESS"
is Jesus Christ, and He is my Prophet, High Priest and King.
-preacher
Jim Byrd
DIVINE
ELECTION
Sinners
are unable to save themselves so if anyone is to be delivered from
the curse of the law, from sin and from Satan, God must do it.
You will concur with that, will you not? Since it is clear from
Scripture and from experience that some are indeed saved, then God
must have saved them. You are still in agreement with me, aren’t
you? And, it being true that sinners are unable to save themselves
and yet some are indeed saved and God must have saved them, then is
it not evident that the Lord made a distinction between those who are
saved and those who are not? That distinction is called divine
election. "For God
saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy"
(Romans 9:15). -copied
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