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How Can The Dead Believe In Christ?

How Can The Dead Believe In Christ?

A Brief Look At Salvation And The Doctrine Of Total Depravity

how can spiritually dead believe in Lord Jesus Christ

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

Roman Catholicism By Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Roman Catholicism By Martyn Lloyd-Jones

(1899-1981, Welsh Protestant Minister)

Martyn Lloyd Jones Christian pastor theologian on Roman Catholicism

 

“Roman Catholicism”

by Martyn-Lloyd Jones
 
There are certain things happening at the present time which make it imperative that every intelligent Christian should know something about Roman Catholicism. There are movements afoot, and meetings taking place which are trying to bring a kind of rapprochement between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; and there are people who rejoice in this and say that it is a wonderful thing that we are… Continue reading

Why JESUS, not MARY is the ark of the New Covenant

Why JESUS, not MARY is the ark of the New Covenant

 
After Jesus died, they took His body and placed it in a tomb. On the third day Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. John 20:11-12 tells us: “But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, And seeth two angels in white SITTING, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body… Continue reading

A Rusty Tool In The Hands Of The Lord

A Rusty Tool In The Hands Of The Lord

A Prayer Of Reflection On The Life Of A Christian

Rusty tool in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ

 
Dear Lord, I know I’m a rusty, broken tool for You but please don’t stop using me. I know I don’t work as well as other tools in your tool shed but please don’t stop using me. I admit that the fault is mine and not the Gardener’s. It has taken me a very long time to learn that my… Continue reading

The Love Of God And The Depravity Of Man

The Love Of God And The Depravity Of Man

A Look At How 1John 4:19 Relates To The Sovereignty Of God In Salvation

 

“We love Him, because He first loved us.” – 1John 4:19

 
Notice: this profound text is a clear statement about the sovereign power of God’s love. It is a lesson about the sovereignty of God’s saving purpose. It is a celebration of the glory of sovereign love.
 
The verse, despite its brevity, also turns… Continue reading

Featured Gospel Message

Christ Died For The Ungodly

by Horatius Bonar

The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that "there is none righteous, no, not one"; that there is "none that doeth good"; none "that understandeth"; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will "by no means clear the guilty." <continued>