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

"Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins." - ACTS 13:38 [KJV] Forgiveness and pardon from all sin will only interest you if you consider yourself to be guilty before God. Our Lord said, "they that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick" [MATTHEW 9:1 2] . There is but one exclusive method by which God pardons sin, "through this Man." God will pardon sin, but not apart from this Man, Jesus Christ our Lord and His appointed, suitable sacrifice for sin [HEBREWS 2:17 ] . All of the sin of God's elect were so charged to Christ Jesus [II CORINTHIANS 5:21 ] and He so completely made satisfaction for them [I PETER 3:18 ] , that all who receive Him by God given faith shall never perish [JOHN 10:27-30; R OMANS 8:1 ] . Here are four important Biblical facts about the pardon of sin in Christ. 1). It is full and complete pardon. His precious blood does no...

"Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." - I PETER 1:2 [KJV] Peter declares that we are "elect unto obedience." Election unto eternal life, unto salvation, unto the blood of sprinkling many gladly hear of, receive, and profess. This, they say, is sweet and precious doctrine. And so indeed it is. But do they find or feel any similar sweetness and preciousness in being chosen and ordained to know and do the will of God? Do they see and feel the blessedness of the precept being secured by divine decree, as well as the promise; and that there is a constraining power in the love of Christ under which they experience a holy and sacred pleasure in no longer living unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again, similar in kind, if not in degree, to the pleasure which they experience i...

To be occupied with thoughts about God as He is revealed in the Scriptures will increase our faith. Much that passes for faith today is either sentiment or presumption. Faith must be based upon a true revelation of God, and we have this revelation in the Bible. The way to have a strong faith is to have a great and mighty God. Nobody’s faith can be stronger than he believes his God to be. I cannot have strong faith in a God who, I think, is weaker than men. If my God is weak, my faith, of necessity, will be correspondingly weak. I cannot have much faith in God if I believe He is being defeated on most battlefields. I cannot have much faith in God if I believe He is trying and failing, if I believe He is doing the best He can to accomplish as much good as He can and to save as many as He can. But if, like Job, I believe that “ What His soul desireth, even that He doeth” [JOB 23:13 ] , then with Paul I can say that “ He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or thin...