August 17, 2025
Who then can “be” saved? And He said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Lk 18:26-27
Sometimes people will tell us about when they “got saved”. To get something is to take it as a possession. The words “got saved“ are nowhere to be found in the Bible. However, to “be saved” is found multiple times. What is the difference? To be something is far different than possessing something. Possessions are not what I am. They are simply what I have. Possessions are achieved by the hand, are held in the hand, and are displayed to the glory of their owner. I might say I got a new car. But I would never say I want to be a car. To be saved is no less impossible than for a man to become a car. It is to be changed into something you were not before. A new creation in Christ Jesus. It cannot be expressed as something we “got”. It must be testified as something we have been made to be. Truly, all things are made new to the glory of the One who created us in Christ Jesus. Turn us again, O God, and
cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Ps. 80:3. ~GE
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“That’s not fair,” is a statement that you would expect to hear from a child on a school playground. It is also a statement that we have come to expect to hear on the playground of man’s free-will works religion. But the enlightened soul knows that “fair” would find us all in hell suffering under the wrath, judgment and justice of God. I don’t want what’s fair. I don’t want what I have coming. I don’t want what I deserve. I want mercy. I am so thankful that God is not fair. God is holy, and if I am in Christ, then I will get what I have coming to me. Grace, mercy, forgiveness and salvation. ~David Eddmenson
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The Throne of God
The throne of God is threefold. (1) His throne of GLORY. Oh, how little I know of that! The majesty, holiness, and awful presence of God is beyond my comprehension. (2) His throne of JUSTICE. I want nothing to do with that! As David lamented, “Do not bring me into judgment with thee.” (3) His throne of GRACE, where the Man, Christ Jesus, my Forerunner and Mediator, sits. To this throne I boldly come and there my sins confess, knowing full well that in HIM I shall obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. ~Ebenezer Erskine
Who Can Charge Us?
Here is what every believer knows from the testimony of Holy Scripture and from the experience and conviction of his own heart (John 16:8-11). We know, recognize and confess the problem and plague of our own heart, is sin (Rom. 3:9-12; 5:12). But thank God, we also know the solution for sin, Christ and Him crucified (1Cor. 2:2), Christ our propitiation for sin (Rom. 3:25). Christ Jesus crucified (Rom. 4:25), the Substitute (2 Cor.5:21), Surety (Heb.7:22), Satisfaction (1John 4:10) and Saviour (Matt. 1:21) is our only answer to every just charge against us, “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” (Rom. 8:33-34). ~Tom Harding
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Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
~Matthew Henry
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I am often deeply grieved by all the sin and rebellion that I see in this world around me. Yet I am never so grieved by this sin and rebellion than when I see it so clearly in myself.
~David Eddmenson
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To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation. ~J. C. Ryle
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A naked sinner can be clothed, but a sinner covered with his own righteousness must be stripped. ~Scott Richardson
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“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.” Ps. 122:1.
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Upcoming Bible Conferences
Sept 19-21 Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church, Kingsport, TN
Oct 24-26 Grace Baptist Church, Lewisville, AR
CALL TO WORSHIP
The Lord God Almighty is my Refuge:
A very present help in time of need.
My vile sins come on me as a deluge.
Christ bore those sins for me on Calvary.
The everlasting Christ is my Refuge.
He is my Shield: my high and mighty Tow'r.
To Him I flee from this sinful refuse.
He is my Horn of Salvation with pow'r.
In the shadow of His wings is refuge.
I fled to that good hope set before me.
My need for protection is very huge.
His pavilion is grace, love, and mercy.
He chose His own before the world was made.
Jesus Christ has redeemed them with His blood.
The Lord is their Refuge; their only aide.
In His refuge God lavishes His love.
Tune: Abide with Me, #75
By: Gary Spreacker
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