Trials Are Medicines!

Consider it pure joy my brothers when you face trials of various kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything!

- James 1:2-4

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them. He proportions the frequency and weight of them--to what our case requires. Let us trust in His skill--and thank Him for His prescription!

- John Newton

Preach With Your Sword!

It is the job of all God's men to take the sharp two edged sword of the word of truth and plunge it deep into the heart of man. If man is to die to self before he can be born again, then let us with steady hand, aim straight and with all our loving might, sink in the blade up to the hilt!

Fancy A Cruise?

The church of Jesus Christ is not a cruise ship on the way to heaven, but a battleship stationed at the very gates of hell. We should not be contenting ourselves with a pleasent afternoon walk on the deck of our own salvation, but manning the guns and fighting for souls!

Bad Or Dead?

Jesus did not come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people live!

- Ravi Zacharias

Why Unbelievers Should Be Afraid!

Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy.

- Charles Spurgeon

What Are You Living For?

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

Peace With God!

I have peace with God,
I'm not afraid,
Without a doubt my debts been paid,
By faith I trust,
His Son He Gave,
I do not fear death or the grave,
Died once for all,
It is complete,
His blood upon the mercy seat,
Amazing grace,
A wretch like me,
Saved from death, in Him, set free!

You will never have the peace of God until you have peace with God through his Son Jesus Christ!

Fellowship

Do you have real fellowship with God, or just fellowship with others about a real God?

Regeneration Fact #5

I can recall the very day and hour when first I received those truths in my own soul... that I had made progress in Scriptural knowledge, through having found, once for all, the clue to the truth of God. One week-night, when I was sitting in the house of God, I was not thinking much about the preacher's sermon, for I did not believe it. The thought struck me, How did you come to be a Christian? I sought the Lord. But how did you come to seek the Lord? The truth flashed across my mind in a moment—I should not have sought Him unless there had been some previous influence in my mind to make me seek Him. I prayed, thought I, but then I asked myself, How came I to pray? I was induced to pray by reading the Scriptures. How came I to read the Scriptures? I did read them, but what led me to do so? Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that He was the Author of my faith, and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me, and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make this my constant confession, ‘I ascribe my change wholly to God.’

- Charles Spurgeon

Comfortably Afflicted?

A preacher of the Truth has two ministries, that is, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable! That is all.

Regeneration Fact #4

God absolutely interposes in the salvation of every man to makehim regenerate. In the salvation of every person there is an actual putting forth of divine power, whereby the dead sinner is quickened, the unwilling sinner is made willing, the desperately hard sinner has his conscience made tender; and he who rejected God and despised Christ, is brought to cast himself down at the feet of Jesus. There must be a divine interposition, a divine working, a divine influence, or else, do what you may, without that you perish, and are undone; "for except a man be born again, be can not see the kingdom of God." This change is radical--it gives us new natures,it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public. 'If any man be in Christ he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.'

- Charles Spurgeon

Sinners Dependent On A Sovereign Grace

I will be saved by grace, or I will not be saved at all! And what is grace? It is none other than God's unmerited favour freely given to us at Christ's expense!

The following sermon titled 'Sinners Dependent on a Sovereign Grace' is well worth a listen when you get time.



Don't have time to listen online, download it here!

Regeneration Fact #3

When a man is converted to God, it is done in a moment. Regeneration is an instantaneous work. Conversion to God, the fruit of regeneration, occupies all our life, but regeneration itself is effected in an instant. A man hates God-- the Holy Spirit makes him love God. A man is opposed to Christ, he hates his gospel, does not understand it and will not receive it-- the Holy Spirit comes, puts light into his darkened understanding, takes the chain from his bondaged will, gives liberty to his conscience, gives life to his dead soul, so that the voice of conscience is heard, and the man becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus. And all this is done, mark you, by the instantaneous supernatural influence of God the Holy Spirit working as he wills among the sons of men.

- Charles Spurgeon

Regeneration Fact #2

A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

- Charles Spurgeon

Teach A Man To Fish

Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime. Share not the gospel with him and he will still go to hell, but on a full stomach!

Rejection of the Gospel

Sirs, if you would be saved you must have the blood of Jesus sprinkled upon you. He that believes not in Christ Jesus, in Jesus the atoning sacrifice, must perish. The eternal God must repulse with infinite disgust the man who refuses the loving sacrifice of Jesus. Inasmuch as he counted himself unworthy of this wondrous sacrifice, this marvelous expiation there remains no other sacrifice for sin, and nothing for him but that eternal blackness and darkness and thunder which were foreshadowed at Sinai. Those who refuse the atonement which wisdom devised, which love provided, and which justice has accepted, have signed their own death-warrant, and none can wonder that they perish.

- Charles Spurgeon

Am I Saved?

The assurance of imputed righteousness is the evidence of imparted righteousness!

Fools Despise Wisdom!

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

- Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom produces Humility
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. James 3:13

Knowledge produces Pride
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God. 1 Corinthians 8:1b-3

What is your motive for searching the scriptures? Is it to gain knowledge or become more like Christ?

Two Kinds Of People!

There are two kinds of people. Those who say to God "Thy will be done", and, those to whom God says "Alright then, have it your way!"

- C.S Lewis

There are no other choices! The former leads to a place of brokenness and repentance, the second to destruction. Or do you think that the Lord says without reason in Matthew 21:42-44

"Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes'? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him."

When it is all said and done we DO NOT want to have it our way! Our way is one of darkness. Our way leads to death. Apart from the light of God man can but grope around in the darkness. Lost as a blind man in a dark forest on a night with no moon! He may promote himself to a blind leader of the blind, but they will both fall into the pit.

But, the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. He will give light to those who seek him. He will save those who call upon His name! Question is, will you?

Lay Hold of Him!

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

- Jim Elliot