Day: March 11, 2018
Salvation Leads to Better Things
The Bible describes the concept of salvation as one of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and soundness. It can mean saving in a bodily sense in some instances from some peril. More importantly though it refers to spiritual salvation from the judgment of God which is reserved for God’s enemies, including unbelievers. Salvation is the great inclusive word of the Gospel. It is a collective word embracing all the redemptive acts and processes associated with it. Included within it are: justification, redemption, grace, propitiation, imputation, forgiveness, sanctification, and glorification. Salvation associated with the Gospel is presented in three tenses; 1) The …
Whose Battle?
Whose Battle? “And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give you into our hands” (1 Samuel 17:47). Let this point be settled, that the battle is the LORD’s, and we may be quite sure of the victory, and of the victory in such a way as will best of all display the power of God. The LORD is too much forgotten by all men, yea, even by the assemblies of Israel; and when there is an opportunity to make men see that the …
PRAISING THE LAMB OF GOD
PRAISING THE LAMB OF GOD Revelation 5:1-14 5 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon. 4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, …