by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Faith, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation, Total Depravity
“The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.” (Proverbs 16:1) This verse in Proverbs lays the whole work of grace at the feet of God. It states that even the inward preparations of the heart, as well as the outward expressions...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Total Depravity
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6) Scripture declares with sobering clarity that my nature, from the moment of my birth, is corrupted by sin. Psalm 51:5 says that I was “shapen in iniquity” and...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Salvation, Total Depravity
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) The Apostle Paul’s declaration in Romans 3:23 stands as one of the clearest summaries of humanity’s universal condition before God: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” In...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Attributes of God, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Repentance, Total Depravity
“Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.” (Romans13:8) Genuine Christianity embodies the love of God. And not just as one virtue among many, but the root from which all other Christian graces grow. This love...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Covenant, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Total Depravity
“The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.” (Psalm 58:3) Scripture makes it patently clear that those who persist in their sin cannot stand before a holy God … that is, they cannot be counted among the redeemed. And...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Faith, Law of God, Total Depravity
“And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.” (John 8:9) The scene described in this passage presents one of the most...
