I don't have any patience with these who write articles on "easy believism" as if God intended it to be hard to get saved. They claim that preachers who preach it is all free and you can have it in a moment by trusting Christ, teach a false doctrine.
Don't run with that crowd. Don't read that kind of literature. Don't be guilty of thus frustrating the grace of God or playing down the grace of God. - John R. Rice
The more you study the Word of God in detail, the more it proves that it could not have been written by men. The more you study the fulfillment of prophecies, the more it becomes certain that God inspired the prophecies with His great wisdom and that He insures their fulfillment with His mighty power.
Marvelous Book! Marvelous Saviour! - John R. Rice
John was preaching at the Jordan River and when scribes and Pharisees came out to be baptized John Said, "You bunch of snakes." What did he mean? "You are bitten by the serpent of sin, still with the old nature, still without being born again. You generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance." John refused to baptize those who did not give good indications they were saved. - John R. Rice
Baptism then is immersion, is a burial.
You say, "Well, maybe it isn't always convenient." Oh, yes, it is convenient for people who want to be baptized the Bible way. Immersion is not only convenient but has a meaning. It may not be convenient to bury people, but when they die you bury them anyway. And so the baptism of people when they are saved and changed. Let's bury the old sinner now; he will live a new life, and that is the Bible plan, immersion. - John R. Rice
Another Bible rule about baptism is that nobody is to be baptized before salvation, and baptism is not essential to salvation.
You say, "Can one be saved without baptism?" Yes. You ought never be baptized without salvation. You get salvation first. It would be foolish to be proclaiming yourself saved before you are. Baptism is a public profession, a public declaration of what has already happened in your heart. Baptism doesn't change the heart; it just gets the outside wet. - John R. Rice
You say you are "pretty much of a free thinker." Now if you mean what the word "free thinker" means, then you are open-minded and have a free will, ready to accept the truth wherever you find it properly supported. If free thinker to you means that, then you will seek to know what God's Word says and to know the evidence for its veracity.
If, on the other hand, it means that you are an enemy of God and of the Bible, then you will not read any evidence with an open mind that I shall give and you are not really a free thinker at all, but a slave to a blind prejudice, with animosity against the God of the Bible, the God who made you; a devotee of sin and not willing to repent. - John R. Rice
You had better take to heart my clear statement in the book, Our God-Breathed Book--THE BIBLE, of not trusting the liberal. A liberal is an enemy of God when he is an enemy of the Bible and one who is an unconverted infidel in his theology need not be expected to always tell the truth. People who would spit on the blood of Christ and take the crown of deity from the head of Jesus Christ, would not mind lying if they thought they could thus defend themselves. - John R. Rice
Friday, September 06, 2019
Monday, September 02, 2019
THE COMFORTER & HIS WORK
Isaiah 40:1-3 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith
your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare
is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the
LORD's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy
Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I
will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth
from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is
expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Pastor Rick Jackson
I. THE COMFORTER TESTIFIES (bears witness) [Jn 15:26]
1. He was Sent by Jesus [v. 26]
2. He was Sent from the Father [v. 26]
3. He was Sent as the Spirit of Truth to Testify of Truth [v.
26, Jn. 14:6, 17:17; Heb. 10:14-17]
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he
had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those
days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds
will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
II. THE COMFORTER TEACHES [Jn. 14:26]
1. As a Member of the Trinity [v. 26, Mt. 28:19, 2 Cor.
13:14, Eph. 4:4-6]
2. As Omniscient (all knowing) [1 Corinthians 2:10]
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
3. As the Author of the Holy Bible [2 Peter 1:21]
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. [also 2 Tm.
3:16 proving the Holy Spirit is God]
III. THE COMFORTER TARRIES [Jn. 14:16]
1. Like Jesus, the Spirit Loves us [1 John 2:1]
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye
sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous
2. Like Jesus, the Spirit comes from the Father [James 1:17]
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.
3. Unlike Jesus's Ministry, the Spirit's Ministry is to
Tarry [Jn. 16:17]
Sunday, September 01, 2019
THE UNCOMMON COMMON DENOMINATOR
Hebrews 12:1-4
Pastor Rick Jackson
In the Football Hall of Fame, the common denominator of all
the people represented is football, in the Baseball Hall of Fame its baseball,
and so on. In Hebrews 11, the chapter sometimes called “the Hall of Faith”, you
might think the common denominator of all the people represented therein is
faith, but you would be wrong, the common denominator of all the people
represented in the Hall of Faith is the Lord Jesus Christ! Without Him there
would be nothing.
Your name may not be in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews but
if your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life you can be an all-star for
Jesus. Don’t believe me? How about believing the Holy Spirit? Daniel 12:3
declares, “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and
ever”.
I. OUR RESPONSIBILITY [v. 1]
1. Lay aside Every Weight [1 Corinthians 6:12, 10:23]
All things are lawful
unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I
will not be brought under the power of any.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not
expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
2. Lay aside Every Sin [Romans 13:12, Ephesians 4:22, 25;
Colossians 3:8, James 1:21, 1 Peter 2:1]
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old
man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
neighbour: for we are members one of another.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to
save your souls.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
3. Run with Patience [1 Corinthians 9:24, Galatians 2:2,
5:7; Philippians 2:16]
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that
gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of
reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey
the truth?
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the
day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
II. OUR SAVIOUR [v. 2]
1. Jesus is the Author of our Salvation [2:10]
2. Jesus is the Finisher of our Salvation [John 19:30]
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It
is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
3. Jesus is the Intercessor at the Right Hand of the
Father [Hebrews 1:3, 7:25, 8:1, 10:12, Acts 7:55-56, Romans 8:34]
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of
God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on
the right hand of God.
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
III. OUR INSPIRATION [v. 3-4]
1. Contemplate what Jesus Did [v. 3a, Is. 26:3-4]
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the
LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
2. Conquer weary Thoughts [v. 3b, Is. 40:30-31]
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
3. Consider the Ultimate [v. 4, Revelation 2:10]
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Question of the Week: Is faith the absence of reason and evidence?
From: Answers in Genesis <www.answersingenesis.org>
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