How Can The Dead Believe In Christ?

A Brief Look At Salvation And The Doctrine Of Total Depravity

Introduction

 
In this study, we are looking at how God saves sinners (not how sinners get themselves saved). Much of the material this study is based on comes directly from Scripture as well as from John Gill’s commentary on the Bible [1] which has got to be one of the most extensive and most scholarly of all English Bible commentaries in… Continue reading →

Do you get it?

Muslims don’t get it.
Hindus don’t get it.
Buddhists don’t get it.
Atheists certainly don’t get it.
Catholics don’t get it.
Many Protestants don’t get it.

 
Do YOU get it?
 
Get what?
 
The fact that God is SO HOLY that no amount of YOUR good deeds could ever remove even a single sin from your record.  Spending time in a place of purging in the afterlife won’t fix your sin problem either.… Continue reading →

Remember Lot’s Wife

A Solemn Warning From Jesus About Lost Souls

by J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)

 
There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than this. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us (in Luke 17:32) “Remember Lot’s wife.”
 
Lot’s wife was a professor of religion: her husband was a “righteous man” (II Peter 2:8). She left Sodom with him on the day when Sodom was destroyed; she looked back towards the city from behind her husband, against God’s… Continue reading →

Are You Good?

By Dr. Ken Matto

Your answer to that question may be an unequivocal “yes”. You may support a children’s hospital or you may volunteer for something and by worldly standards you probably are good, but God has a different standard. Does the Bible teach something different about the description of “good?”
 
Romans 3:12 says: “They are ALL gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is NONE that doeth good,… Continue reading →