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A Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:
"If thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved" Romans
10:9. There must be confession with the mouth. Have I made it? Have I
openly avowed my faith in Jesus as the Savior whom God has raised from the
dead, and have I done it in God's way! Let me honestly answer this question. There must also be belief with the heart. Do I sincerely believe
in the risen LORD Jesus? Do I trust in Him as my sole hope of salvation? Is
this trust from my heart? Let me answer as before God. If I can truly claim that I have both confessed Christ and
believed in Him, then I am saved. The text does not say it may be so, but it
is plain as a pikestaff and clear as the sun in the heavens: "Thou shalt be saved." As a believer and a confessor, I
may lay my hand on this promise and plead it before the LORD God at this
moment, and throughout life, and in the hour of death, and at the Day of
Judgment. I must be saved from the guilt of sin, the power of sin, the
punishment of sin, and ultimately from the very being of sin. God hath said
it -- "Thou shalt be saved." I believe
it. I shall be saved. I am saved. Glory be to God
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A Thought For The Week: Not Worthy of the Righteous Chapter eleven in the book of Hebrews is referred
to as the “Hall of Faith.” It contains
a brief highlighted list of men and women who walked by an unwavering faith
in the eternal living God of the heavens and the earth. It was not that they were not subject to
human imperfections, but that their faith was firmly anchored in the one true
God. They were determined to believe
and to obey God. Thus, they were found
to be righteous (right with God) in the eyes of the Father. Then, as revealed under the inspiration of
the Spirit, God proclaims: “(Of whom the world was not worth:)”
(Heb.11:38) We look back through the portal of history and
assume that these patriarchs of the saints’ past had some superhuman
abilities to live the lives they did.
In reality, however, their human characteristics, weaknesses, and
temptations were no different than our human nature of today. The fact of the matter is there have been
millions of righteous believers that have walked upon the face of the earth
throughout the ages. Mankind was
certainly not worthy of them in Abel’s time, in Noah’s time, in Abraham’s
time, in Moses’ time, in the Apostles’ time, in early and middle church age
times, and they are still not worthy to have the righteous living among them
in this age. This is not to say that
the righteous have any room for conceit or arrogant pride; it is simply
stating that the wicked are not worthy to have the sons of God living among
them. True righteousness is not
tainted with arrogance and pride, but is blessed with the humility of
thankfulness towards the Lord Jesus and God. The thing about righteousness is that it is not a
self-honoring award of merit. The
righteous are righteous because they have been clothed upon by the
righteousness of Christ “through faith in his blood.” As the Apostle Paul wrote: “And be found in
him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which
is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”
(Phil. 3:9) He also wrote: “I am crucified
with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Gal. 2:20) The wicked are not worthy to have among
them the ones who have an active living faith fixed in the blood and
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
By: Dr.
M. J. Seymour, Sr. |
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"WE ARE BAPTISTS" WE ARE BAPTISTS, not Protestants, not
reformed, just Baptists. Protestants are people belonging to churches that
came out of papal darkness. Reformed churches are those Protestant churches
holding to Calvinistic, as opposed to Arminian doctrine. Baptist churches
were not born out of Romanism. We did not spring from the Protestant
Reformation. While we appreciate and profit from our Protestant brethren,
past and present, who are reformed in doctrine, we
trace our history and our doctrine not to the Reformation, but to the New
Testament. The first preacher of this gospel age was not John the Reformed,
but John the Baptist! |
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Food For Thought, SEVEN EVILS OF THE
HEART: I find to this day seven evils in my
heart: 1. Inclining to unbelief. 2. Suddenly forgetting the love and
mercy that Christ has shown to me. 3. A leaning toward the works of the
law. 4. Wanderings and coldness in prayer. 5. To forget to watch for my prayers
to be answered. 6. Aptness to murmur because I have no
more, and yet ready to abuse what I have. 7. I can do none of those things which
God commands me without sinning. Even though these things cause me great
distress, the knowledge of them is good for me because I am inclined to look
to my Lord where I find relief. By: John Bunyan |