True and unimagined peace comes only as we understand God’s character. If we erroneously envision that God is always angry and frowning then we will never know perfect peace. If we falsely picture that we have to perform to gain His approval, then we will be in a continual uproar. If we mistakenly imagine that [...]
There is nothing quite so stupid as someone attempting to do good works in order to earn God’s favor and acceptance (Matt 7:27, Job 9:20). Such behavior is unbelief in its worst form and also a severe form of ‘spiritual lunacy’ (Luke 24:25). Religious un-believers think God‘s standards are so low that He will accept [...]
The only reason it is safe for us to draw near to God is because of something that has happened entirely outside of ourselves in history (Gal 3:13). There’s no point in looking within ourselves for something to qualify us for God’s favor as everything pertaining to us, that is everything outside of Christ, is [...]
No matter how many religious things we do or feel, whether praying, generous giving or abstaining from our ideas of worldliness, we cannot find, in any of them, a qualification by which we can approach God. Religious activity provides no resting place on which to discover the smile of God. If sin were a simple [...]
I am so thankful for the ministry of the Holy Spirit in relation to the gospel. He gives us faith (Eph 2:8) and then persuades us of impossible things, the most unfeasible of these being the gospel itself!
Have you ever considered the unlikeliness of the whole gospel story? Here we are on a tiny, insignificant [...]
There are many great and wonderful truths taught in the Bible, but which of them do we primarily need to rest in order to receive acquittal before God? Take the ‘Second Coming ’, for example, (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18): that Christ will one day return to this earth in great glory is an excellent truth. In [...]
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The great sin of the religious, self-righteous man is not his pride; it is that he does not believe, rest on and love the Lord Jesus (John 3:18; 1 John 5:10; 1 Cor 16:22). This is his sin of sins. This is his most severe sin, carrying with it a more concentrated condemnation than all [...]
2 Cor 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
False teachers will always try to take us away from Christ Crucified. They offer formulas for success in the Christian life but, although they tip [...]
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Some folks get too mystical with the gospel and as a result never come to understand the grace of God. They often, in their thinking, join the work of the Spirit in us with the work of Christ for us making this combination of both the basis of acceptance before God. However, it is the [...]
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Heb 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
The Eternal Word became flesh in order to redeem us. Indeed, our verse says that, “He [...]
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