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''Remember, sinner, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee - it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee - it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that is the instrument - it is Christ's blood and merits; therefore, look not to thy hope, but to Christ, the source...

People may have wondered why I have not contributed to the 'Atonement (not PSA)' thread. The reason is that @JonC has used his position as a moderator to keep me (and, I believe, @DaveXR650 ) excluded from the thread. This has not worried me unduly because I have been very busy with local...

I thought it might be interesting to discuss these three words in the light of discussions and non-discussions elsewhere. Perhaps we might start with the Hebrew verb kapar or kaphar (Strongs 3722). This is a verb with the basic meaning of 'to cover,' though not in the sense of merely...

Hebrews 11:4. ‘By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.’ In this post, I want to expound a riddle: how can a man who never spoke whilst he...

Colossians 2:13-15, ESV. 'And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the...

2 Chron 7:14. ‘If My people, called by My name will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways…….’. The final command from God is for us to turn from our wicked ways. Perhaps it is as well to remind ourselves that this instruction is not made to atheists or...

2Chron 7:14. ‘If My people, called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face…’ Psalm 27:8. ‘When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”’ The third matter to which God calls us is to seek His face. But what does it mean to seek...

2Chron 7:14. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray……...” Isaiah 64:6-7. ‘But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is no...

‘If My people called by My name will humble themselves……’ (2 Chron 7:14). So our first call is to humble ourselves. Humility has a rather bad press in Britain. People think instinctively of Uriah Heap, the repulsive character in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, who claimed to be...

I wrote this series of five articles about 16 years ago, so some of the events mentioned may appear a bit anachronistic. However, I think the subject needs to be revisited, especially in the light of comments made on this board that God's judgments are reserved for after our Lord's Return...

In the O.P. on a recently-closed thread, I posted the following: Firstly then, it needs to be shown that our Lord took and bore our sins which God laid on Him. Secondly, that He took them so as to undergo the punishment due to them, and thirdly that He did this on our behalf and instead of us...