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Issue: Issue 4
LOOKING UNTO JESUS (Heb. 12. 2) Adolphe Monod Three words only: – but in three words is the whole secret of life. Looking unto Jesus in the Scriptures, to learn there what He is, what He has done, what He gives, what He demands; to find in His character our model, in His requirements our …
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE It was a wise and gracious man who said, “I want a feeling religion, not a religion of feelings,” and Joseph Hart sang the truth when he wrote, True religion’s more than notion, Something must be known and felt. True Christianity has as its foundation the great unalterable doctrines of Biblical revelation, the …
THE DYING THIEF An address by Mr. P. G. Watts at Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, Cradley Heath, W. Midlands, on 16 March, 1985 for a meeting of the Sovereign Grace Union. It has been said that there were three men crucified at Golgotha, the “place of a skull”. One of them, the Lord Jesus Christ, died …
THE ASSURANCE OF FAITH Professor R. A. Finlayson* On the assurance of faith, or the assurance of salvation as it is most often called, Christian thought is sharply divided. Some hold that it is impossible to attain to it, and that it is presumptuous either to ask for or expect it, while others have held …
Faith cannot be lost, but assurance may; therefore assurance is not faith. Thomas Brooks
Assurance says, I believe my sins are pardoned through Christ; faith’s language is, I believe on Christ for the pardon of them. William Gurnall
Assurance is a fruit that grows out of the root of faith. Stephen Charnock