More About Cheap Grace Luke 14:25-33 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sister, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. . . So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he hasContinue reading “SAFE SIN, CHEAP GRACE, OR HOOKED – Part 4”
Category Archives: Repentance
SAFE SIN, CHEAP GRACE, OR HOOKED – Part 2
More on Safe Sin Numbers 32:23; Proverbs 28:13 “. . . and be sure your sin will find you out.” Num. 32:23 Recently there has been a great furor over a very popular and really excellent basketball player who proved to have the Aids Virus. Apparently, there was no question of it having been acquiredContinue reading “SAFE SIN, CHEAP GRACE, OR HOOKED – Part 2”
THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF THE WORD OF GOD – Part 2
1 John 1:6-10 “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, andContinue reading “THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF THE WORD OF GOD – Part 2”
THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF THE WORD OF GOD – Part 1
1 John 1:6-10 “If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”Continue reading “THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF THE WORD OF GOD – Part 1”
JUSTIFICATION MUST BE MAINTAINED
Hebrews 3:7-14 “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if weContinue reading “JUSTIFICATION MUST BE MAINTAINED”
OVERCOMING SETBACKS – III
Joshua 7:13; 1 John 2:1 “Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”’” Following Israel’s defeat at Ai, JoshuaContinue reading “OVERCOMING SETBACKS – III”
THE SECRET OF SOUL WINNING
Psalm 51:1-13; 1 Timothy 4 “For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. . .Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you willContinue reading “THE SECRET OF SOUL WINNING”
“BEGINNING AND CONTINUING” – Part 1
Philippians 1:6 “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Vance Havner – that great preacher from the south once said, “As wonderful as it is to have the ‘grace’ of getting started, how about having theContinue reading ““BEGINNING AND CONTINUING” – Part 1”
WHAT ABOUT REPENTANCE – Part 2
And What About The Repentance Of Believers? Mark 1:1-15 “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15 In the development of John Wesley’s thought on entire sanctification, as a work of God’s grace subsequent to regeneration, two of his sermons are crucial. TheContinue reading “WHAT ABOUT REPENTANCE – Part 2”
WHAT ABOUT REPENTANCE – Part 1
But What About Repentance? Romans 7 “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15 (ESV) In recent months my wife and I have listened to a number of prominent preachers, with varying reactions on our part. Much of what we heard was veryContinue reading “WHAT ABOUT REPENTANCE – Part 1”
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