"Your Justification"

My dear Sister, I always loved you as my sister; now I love you much more than ever. I trust in God that you will soon stand related to me by a more close and dearer bond than nature can tie. Only go on, and you will be happy. God has begun His work; let Him finish it. 

All my prayers shall be offered for your speedy experience of His pardoning love. And until you taste of it, let me entreat you to be earnest in the careful use of all the means of grace. Be much in prayer, and in reading and meditating on the Word of God. But then take care that you do not build your salvation on these duties. You are not to imagine that anything you can do is able to justify you in the sight of God. 

Your justification is a free act of God's grace, without works,

 William Romaine

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How You Treat Others ...

Cain killed his brother and still did not become the accepted one.

Those that continue to pull people down will never be raised up!!

Genesis 4:5-11 ... But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.  And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.  And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; ❤

That Dagger!!

We never know the full evil of our iniquities until we see what it cost our precious Redeemer to put them away. The true Christian looks upon sin, as we would regard a knife rusted with gore with which some villain had killed our mother, our wife, or our child. Could we play with it? Could we wear it as a jewel hung around our necks? Could we even endure it in our sight? 

Accursed thing, stained with the heart's blood of my beloved, I would gladly fling you into the bottomless abyss! Sin is that dagger which stabbed the Savior's heart to death! Henceforth it must be the abomination of every man who has been redeemed by the sin-atoning sacrifice of Jesus. "A bleeding Savior I have viewed, and now I hate my sin!" 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

Ephesians 3:18-19 ...  May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

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Consummate April Fool!

He who looks up to the heavens and then writes himself down as an atheist, brands himself at the same moment as an idiot or a liar! The Atheist is the fool preeminently, and a fool universally! To say there is no God is to belie the plainest evidence, which is obstinacy; to oppose the common consent of mankind, which is stupidity; to stifle consciousness, which is madness. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

The world we live in, is a world of fools! 

[John Jamieson] 

Who in the world is a greater fool, a more ignorant, wretched person than he who is an atheist? 

[Jeremy Taylor]

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Psalm 94:8 ...  Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Psalm 14:1 ...The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Psalm 19:1-3 ... The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. ❤

The Sword

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Hebrews 4:12 ... For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Precious Faith ~

Worldly men dote upon riches and prestige, and power, and pleasures, and possessions but however highly they may be prized, the Christian possesses something infinitely more valuable. He has "precious faith" in Christ, which secures him a saving interest in the "favor of God which is life," and in his "loving-kindness which is better than life." 

Earthly honors, dignities, grandeur, estates, etc. are but fleeting vanities, and unsatisfying in their nature. Man will soon be taken from them forever or they may elude his grasp before his death. But that which "precious faith" gives to the Christian, shall exist forever. That faith looks not at the things which are seen, which are temporal but at the things which are not seen, which are eternal.  

The statesman may glory in his eloquence, as the instrument of his success; the legislator may glory in his wise regulations, to promote the benefit of his country; the warrior may glory in his sword, his skill and valor, as the source of his mighty achievements; the sensualist may glory in his carnal pleasures and pursuits, as the only source of his enjoyment; the rich man may glory in his gold, his vast domain, his equipage of splendor, as the very fountain of his bliss but, says the Christian, I will glory in my faith, for that faith is precious. It is more precious than rubies!

 [William Nicholson]

2 Corinthians 4:18 ... While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Ephesians 1:13 ... In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Hebrews 12:2 ... Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. ❤

A Deity of Their Own Making

There are many idolaters in the world, besides those who worship blocks of wood and stone. There are men who would scorn to be called idolaters, who, nevertheless, are not worshipers of the true God, but votaries of a deity of their own making. They have not made him with wood, or clay, or gold, or silver but they have fashioned him out of their own conceptions. They believe in a god such as they think God ought to be and according to the general rule and fashion now-a-days, the god whom men invent for themselves, is a being entirely devoid of justice. 

They say that the God of the Bible, who is the real, living and true God is vindictive, because He punishes all rebellion against His law; because, being at the head of all moral government, He will not allow His law to be trampled on with impunity and will by no means spare the guilty. The God who executes vengeance upon sinners, is not the God for men of the modern school. They want an easier deity, a far more lenient governor, a soft God for themselves. 

The God of Scripture never was loved by proud and carnally minded men. They set up an effeminate deity of their own, who is like themselves, who cares nothing about the evil of sin, and will simply overlook sin, and will allow sinners to go unpunished a god who does their bidding, for he quenches the fire of Hell, or renders it only a transient punishment for a few years. They set up a god who gives them license to think as they like and treat His Word as a scroll of cloth for them to cut according to their own fashion. 

The god of modern thought is not the God of the Bible, neither is he any more the true God than Baal or Ashtoreth, Jupiter or Apollo. The true God is the God who is revealed in the Scriptures and manifested in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is known only to those to whom He sovereignly reveals Himself and the rest, by their own carnal wisdom, are blinded, so that they have not seen Him, neither known Him. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

Psalm 50:21-22 ... These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

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Got Jesus?

Following Jesus is about more than a moment of conviction. It's about a lifetime of commitment, love, sacrifice, and obedience.  It's about where you will spend eternity. Got Jesus?

John 14:6 ... Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1 John 5:11 ... And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

John 3:16 ...  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Arise and Speak!!

Love knows no bounds. With Him all things are possible. He opens doors according to His will. Doors swing wide open in His perfect timing. Your obedience to that point brings you to its opening. Exchange your natural vision for eyes of faith to see its path. Speak to your mountains to be removed. Speak to the dry bones of your visions, that they be wrapped in His life. They will all rise up a vast army by His Spirit. ARISE AND SPEAK! 

[Troi Nelson Cockayne]

Matthew 19:26 ... But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Ezekiel 37:4 .... Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Romans 4:17 ... (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. ❤

Entangling Things!

Around us are a thousand entangling things! I see all around me a crowd of alluring, fascinating, pleasurable and dazzling things. Pleasure calls to me; I hear her siren song. Philosophy and learning charm me; gladly would I yield my heart to them. This world is very much like the pools we have heard of in India, in which grows a long grass of so clinging a character that, if a man once falls into the water, it is almost certain to be his death, for only with the utmost difficulty could he be rescued from the meshes of the deadly, weedy net, which immediately wraps itself around him. In the same way, this world is entangling. 

All the efforts of grace are needed to preserve men from being ensnared with the deceitfulness of riches, and the cares of this life the ledger demands you, the shop requires you, the warehouse bell rings for you; the theater invites you; the ballroom calls you. You must live, you say, and you must have a little enjoyment and consequently, you give your heart to the world. These things, I say, are very entangling; but we must be disentangled from them, for we cannot afford to lose our souls. "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" (Mark 8:36)

If a ship is going down, and a passenger has his gold in a bag, see how he acts. With regret he flings his bag of treasure down upon the deck, for his life is dearer than gold. If he may but save his life, he is willing to lose all else besides. Oh, sirs! For the one thing needful the salvation of your eternal soul all entangling things must be given up. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

Hebrews 12:1 ... Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

1 John 2:15 ... Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ❤

"The Savior!"

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the lack on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another and not because it contributes anything to that salvation. 

Faith is not our Savior. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing the Savior is another. 

Faith is one thing and the cross is another. Let us not confound them, nor ascribe to a poor, imperfect act of man that which belongs exclusively to the Son of the Living God. 

[Horatius Bonar]

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Romans 5:10 ...  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Ephesians 2:16 ... And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Galatians 2:20 ...  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. ❤