by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Salvation
“Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” (Genesis 18:12) Sarah’s life-changing experience recorded in Genesis 18 appears quiet and even benign on the surface. Sarah doesn’t laugh aloud. She...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Salvation
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.” (2 Peter 2:4) Angels, mighty creatures of great power and dignity, were not spared when they sinned but were cast down...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Bible Reading, Covenant, Faith, Man's Nature, Salvation, Word of God
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.” (Isaiah 10:20) The promise in this...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Law of God
“Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?” (Romans 11:35) It is impossible to do anything to place God in our debt. We cannot initiate a move toward Him in any way that would obligate Him to respond. Indeed, salvation does not arise...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Law of God, Man's Nature, Spiritual Warfare, Total Depravity
“But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?” (Acts 5:3) The sin of Ananias is a solemn warning that though Satan tempts, man himself sins. In this passage Peter does not excuse...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Salvation
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.” (Titus 3:5) Scripture declares time and again that salvation does not arise from works of righteousness that we...
