The Work of God In Us Worked Out

O how we need to get this straight.  Salvation by grace continues to work in us following our regeneration or justification in Christ and God.  How the churches today need regenerated people sitting in the pews, in our places of employment, our recreation,  working out their salvation with fear and trembling. “Wherefore, my beloved, as …

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God’s Debt to Adam’s Race…

The title is catchy, but I fear that is how many people feel; that God owes every person a chance for grace and salvation. Folks, this whole deal of grace is about Him; not us.  It is indeed about... …God; not you or me. “But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love …

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The Fruit We Bear

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not …

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Come Out, Be Separate

Yokes are a farming tool from years past where the farmer or wagoneer even would place two animals; for a yoke, it would most generally have been oxen.  The cart, wagon, or plow was usually teamed with an equally powered pair of the animals.  Consider this as we look at the following passage of Scripture. …

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