"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." [Mt 3:10] In Isaiah, one of the effects of Jesus’ salvation upon a soul is, “that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting …
Category: Testing Salvation
Preface: That Ye May Be Saved
This short book’s purpose is to explain the simple gospel, “the simplicity, [which is] in Christ.” [2 Cor 11:3] To bring to the reader an understanding of that simple gospel which provokes childlike faith, (of which Jesus said, “except you are converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of …
Today is the Day of Salvation
Paul once wrote to the Corinthians, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” [2 Cor 11:3] The gospel is to be as Paul also says we should live: “in simplicity and godly sincerity, not …
The Resurrection of Jesus from the Dead
The most important aspect to the gospel, that is to the good news of God, is that Jesus has risen from the dead. Jesus did not stay dead, as other men do, but He rose, and through this resurrection, as Romans says, Jesus has been declared to be The Son of God indeed. As Paul …
The Deep, Boundless Love of Jesus
Thus far we have not only learned of man’s natural condition and deserved punishment, but also how God has sent a solution to our doleful problem – a Savior, Jesus Christ God’s Son. It has been revealed through scripture that Jesus was made into a sacrifice for our sins; that for each of us individually, …
The Spiritual Sufferings of Christ
Though the physical torments of Jesus’ sacrifice are clearly seen, and can be looked at with a degree of biological certainty, His spiritual sufferings are not so. There are pictures in The Bible, which we shall observe, metaphors based on actual happenings, which can offer some way of comparison: but much like the internal afflictions …
The Physical Sufferings of Christ
In Galatians we read, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” [Gal 4:4-5] God’s sending forth of His Son Jesus to earth was by …
Salvation Has Come
From the beginning of time, God has promised man a Savior. The LORD has not left us without witness, for “surely The Lord GOD will do nothing, but He reveals His secret unto His servants the prophets;” [Amo 3:7] and from the beginning of creation, The Messiah was promised when God said to Satan, “And …
Man’s Condition
It should come as no surprise to any man that reads these words, whosoever you are, that the world around us is filled with wickedness and evil. It is full of that which is broken, that which is cursed, that which is, by any human means, utterly and completely unfixable. The writers to The Bible, …
The Holy Spirit’s Assurance
"…And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by The Spirit which He hath given us." [1 Jn 3:24] We have seen before how The Holy Spirit is necessary for salvation. But if we have forgotten, let us be reminded of what Paul said: “now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, …