Acts 10:1
Ver. 1. There was a certain man in Caesarea,…. This was the Caesarea formerly called Strato’s tower, not Caesarea Philippi; for the former, and not the latter, lay near Joppa:
called Cornelius; which was a Roman name, and he himself was a Roman or an Italian:
a centurion of the band called the Italian band; which [...]
Archive for March, 2008
28 Mar
Cornelius
25 Mar
God’s Glory – His Ultimate Purpose
Everyone who believes the Gospel, every sinner in whose heart God has been glorified, has been given by God the Holy Spirit a threefold desire:
1. An honest zeal for the glory and honor of God.
2. A sincere concern for the preeminence of Christ.
3. A fervent desire for the salvation of sinners.
God’s foremost design in all [...]
25 Mar
God’s Glory – The Provision Of Salvation
“God is love” (1 John 4:10), and the greatest evidence of God’s love is His sending His Son to die to honor His character in the salvation of guilty sinners. By nature all men are “dead in trespasses and sins,” guilty, depraved, without spiritual life, incapable of thinking, feeling, choosing, acting, enjoying, or loving communion [...]
25 Mar
God’s Redemptive Character
God’s redemptive character, how God reveals Himself in salvation, is His chief glory. We cannot properly identify the God of redemption, and, therefore, call on sinners to believe unto salvation, until we preach the particulars revealing how He justifies the ungodly based on the righteousness of Christ. Everything we preach by way of encouragement, warning, [...]
24 Mar
God’s Glory – The Defeat Of Satan
Satan’s attacks are always aimed against God’s glory in salvation. It is in this context that we understand the wiles of Satan. Satan’s goal is to keep sinners in a state of condemnation, and his main weapon is deceit concerning the glory of God and the ground of salvation. Satan’s attacks are always aimed against [...]
24 Mar
God’s Glory – The Standard Of All Judgment
We who believe the Gospel must judge all things by the standard of God’s glory, and we must seek to be motivated in all our desires by that same glory. It is our love and compassion, therefore, for lost sinners and our desire to see them saved that keeps us from compromising the truth concerning [...]
13 Mar
The Loosing Of Satan
We will begin in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Revelation 20:6.
We have come to that section of Revelation where Satan is loosed out of the Bottomless Pit. This is the moment in time that is called:
The End of the Thousand Years
It is the end of the period of time that is symbolically called the [...]
13 Mar
The Binding Of Satan
A study of Revelation 20:1-3
The Binding of Satan
We have come to a passage in Revelation 20 from where theologians have derived the theory of the Jewish Millennium. The Latin word Millennium means “one thousand”. It is the theory that before the end of the world comes there will be a glorious thousand years where the [...]
12 Mar
A Study Of The Word Baptism In Mark 16:16
A study of Mark 16:16
What Baptism?
The Lord Jesus has risen from the grave, and before He left them to go to heaven He gave them the great commission to evangelize the world. This is usually read from the last chapter in Matthew, but today I wanted to read this great commission from the [...]
12 Mar
What Baptism?
A study of Mark 16:16
What Baptism?
The Lord Jesus has risen from the grave, and before He left them to go to heaven He gave them the great commission to evangelize the world. This is usually read from the last chapter in Matthew, but today I wanted to read this great commission from the [...]
11 Mar
The World
In John 17 we read what is known as the High Priestly Prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why is it called the High Priestly Prayer?
It is because this is the prayer that the Lord Jesus prayed to intercede for His people just before He went to the Garden of Gethsemane to endure the [...]
10 Mar
What Does The Bible Say About Rewards For Believers?
What does God say about Rewards?
Well, God has said a great deal about rewards. There are more than 100 verses in the Bible containing the noun “reward”, or the verb “to reward”, and there are many more verses that speak about rewards without actually using the word “reward” in them. Just in the Old Testament [...]
10 Mar
Which God Are We Serving?
Today I want to talk to you about: “Which God are we serving?”
Do we bow down to the One and Only Almighty God who is described by the Bible alone, or do we serve another god whom our Church says we should be worshipping?
Of course, you all know the answer to that question.
We must worship [...]
10 Mar
The Great Prince
We have here in Revelation 12:7-12 a continuation of the first 6 verses in this chapter. What I mean to say is that we should see the sentences in Revelation 12 in a chronological sequence. This war in heaven follows the event of Ascension Day, in verse 5, when Christ was caught up unto God [...]
10 Mar
“All The Fowls Were Filled With Their Flesh”
A study of Revelation 19:17-18
All the Fowls Were Filled With Their Flesh
Revelation chapter 19 verse 11 begins a new vision that the Lord Jesus gave to the Apostle John. Here John saw the Lord Jesus Christ come out of heaven riding on a white horse, and all the armies which were in heaven followed Him [...]
8 Mar
A Story Of Redemption
In Ruth chapters 1-4 we read about the story of:
Ruth the Moabitess (Ruth 1:1-7)
Ruth 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, [...]
7 Mar
Marriage And Divorce
In this study we are going to look at Matthew chapter 19 and it is a very controversial matter in these United States.
It is the matter of marriage and divorce.
What is God declaring about marriage and divorce?
What does the Bible say?
Remarkably, the Pharisees immediately addressed the subject of divorce.
We read [...]
7 Mar
Sun Of Righteousness
The Wisdom of Our Redeemer (2 Corinthians 4:3-4, Romans 9:21-23)
In the Bible what does it mean, “to redeem” a person?
It means to rescue from death, and most often it means to rescue from the Second Death, which is Hell.
Did the Lord Jesus Christ suffer and die on a cruel cross to redeem every human [...]
6 Mar
Jesus, The Complete Savior
This is an audio sermon by Herman Hoeksema titled “Jesus, the complete savior”
5 Mar
Judging Righteous Judgments
This is an audio sermon by Richard Warmack titled “Judging righteous judgments.”
4 Mar
For Whom Did Christ Die?
This is an audio sermon by Bill Parker titled “For Whom Did Christ Die?”
The scripture text that brother Bill is preaching from is Hebrews 2:10-13 and the audio is 27 minutes long.
4 Mar
Where Is Your Righteousness?
This is an audio sermon by Bill Parker titled “Where Is Your Righteousness?”
The audio is 43 minutes long and was preached on September 10th 2006.
Is your hope built on nothing more and nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness?
4 Mar
The Wrong Emphasis!
Once a man makes the conversion of sinners his prime design and all-consuming end and NOT THE GLORY OF GOD, he is exceedingly apt to adopt a wrong course.
Instead of striving to preach the Truth in all its purity, he will tone it down so as to make it more palatable to the unregenerate. Impelled [...]
4 Mar
“Chosen To Salvation”
“But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth”
(2 Thessalonians 2:13)
There are three things here which deserve special attention.
First, the fact that we are expressly told that [...]
4 Mar
Knowing God
God can only be known by means of a supernatural revelation of Himself Apart from the Scriptures, even a theoretical acquaintance with Him is impossible. It still holds true that ‘the world by wisdom knew not God’ (1 Corinthians 1:21).
Where the Scriptures are ignored, God is “the unknown God” (Acts 17:23).
But something more than the [...]
4 Mar
“The Fear Of The LORD Is The Beginning Of Wisdom”
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”
(Proverbs 1:7).
Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of god’s majesty, that has had a vision of God’s awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His sovereign grace.
Does someone save,”But it is only the unsaved, those [...]
2 Mar
The Meaning Of “Kosmos” In John 3:16
It may appear to some of our readers that the exposition we have given of John 3:16 in the chapter on “Difficulties and Objections” is a forced and unnatural one, inasmuch as our definition of the term “world” seems to be out of harmony with the meaning and scope of this word in other passages, [...]
1 Mar
Rest In Christ And His Finished Work Alone
When sinners become convinced by the Spirit in Regeneration that Christ “put away sin”, “abolished death”, and Eternally Justified EVERY sinner He lived and died for, they WILL HEED the Spirit’s exhortation to REST in the work of Christ ALONE.
They will heed the Spirit’s command to stop looking WITHIN for any part of their [...]
1 Mar
God’s Mercy And Grace
“Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life…”
Genesis 19:19
The religious leaders in Christ’s day on earth, falsely assumed that because they were blessed with riches, religious esteem, and were prospering in this life, that they were therefore [...]
1 Mar
Maintaining Good Works
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works,”
Titus 3:8
Context is so vital in understanding the scriptures. If you simply take and cut out the above verse, by itself, and put it under the microscope, [...]
1 Mar
The Sole Object Of Faith
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ”
Galatians 3:16
That no one is declared just before God by any personal obedience is clear from Scripture. The law requires perfect and sinless obedience, and condemns as guilty even the slightest disobedience, James 2:10.
The [...]
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