That the people of Acts 2 had faith is certain because the scriptures say the message "pricked their heart." They would not have asked Peter what to do if they did not believe the message. They had the essential quality of faith that every person wanting to be saved must have (John 8...
I have seen and heard many Christians struggle with “what should I be doing given the circumstances in the world right now?” I offer encouragement that God’s desires for us in this has not changed, and that scriptures remain the same for our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows. ...
The Scriptures simply do not support the inference that there are two stages of salvation and that our putative “future salvation” is contingent upon sanctification. Saying that our future sanctification is “decisively” wrought by God does not alleviate the problem. The whole construct rests on...
Expository study of Evangelism: God saves us apart from any human works by grace through faith, resulting in a life of good works.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope… but hope. 2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which ...
This kind of deceptive ambiguity was not so from the beginning, in the traditional teaching of the Scriptures for centuries, but now , under Antichrist Francis, and the other priests and bishops who willingly submit to this UNORTHODOXY in doctrine, we see nothing but Judas Priests who for a ...
and that need not be. God has given us the tool of rightly dividing the scriptures we read for situations just like this. Paul says we are saved by grace through faith,andhe says that repentanceisnecessary in the salvation of a sinner. The question becomes then, whattypeof repentance is ...
We read the exhortation in the Scriptures,“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”In my early days, when I trust the Lord was beginning to teach me, I used often to dwell on that passage, and I used to think that growing in grace meant that I...
Reading scriptures singing songs Love I've not felt before Heard a knocking at the door Someone calling my name First a whisper then a roar And my heart bursts into flame Hallelujah thank you lord Where would I be today Hallelujah thank you lord By your grace I've been saved In our mind...
Yea, he has, moreover, in these, his blessed bills, the holy scriptures I mean, inserted the very names of persons, the places of their abode, and the great cures that, by the means of his salvation, he has wrought upon them to this very end. Here is, Item , such an one, by ...