by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature
“I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Faith, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Total Depravity
“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” (Mark 9:43-44) In this passage in...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Worship
“Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” (Psalm 2:11) While the believer has much to rejoice about in God, that rejoicing must be holy and reverential, “with trembling.” For we must also fear God, though never in terror. The right frame of the Christian...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Faith, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Total Depravity, Word of God
“Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Faith, Jesus Christ, Word of God
“He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.” (Psalm 50:4) The coming judgment of God is one of the most sobering realities in Scripture. We are told that heaven and earth themselves will be summoned as witnesses before the...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Church, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Word of God
“For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.” (1 Thessalonians 1:5) The gospel of Jesus Christ is the appointed means through which God...
