IS YOUR GOD ABLE?

I ask you the same question that king Darius asked Daniel, “Is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?” (Daniel 6:20) Is the God you worship able to do as He pleases, when He pleases, with whom He pleases? The true and living God is. (Psalm 115:3, Daniel 4:35) Is the God you worship able to save sinners by Himself without any input from the sinner whatsoever? The true and living God is. (Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 10:14) Is your God able to give a dead sinner spiritual life in the new birth? The true and living God is. (Ephesians 2:1, James 1:18). Is the God you worship able to comfort your heart in the worst of trials? The true and living God is. (Hebrews 2:18) Is the God you worship able to keep you from falling away from Him and losing your salvation? The true and living God is. (Jude 24)

Is your God able? He is if He is truly God. “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)

Pastor

EVERYTHING that God requires, God MUST provide; and God ONLY accepts that which He provides.

Pastor Greg Elmquist

WORDS ABOUT OUR FAITH


Strange to say, the faith of Christians is a PERSON. You may ask all other religions wherein their faith lieth, and they cannot answer on this wise. Our faith is a PERSON; the gospel that we have to preach is a PERSON, and go wherever you may, we have something solid and tangible to preach. If you had asked the twelve apostles, in their day, "What do you believe in?" They would not have needed to go round about with a long reply, but they would have pointed to their Master and they would have said, "We believe in HIM." "But what are your doctrines?" "There they stand INCARNATE." "But what is your practice?" "HE is our example." "What, then, do you believe?" Hear ye the glorious answer of the apostle Paul, "We preach Christ crucified." Our creed, our body of divinity, our whole theology is summed up in the PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST. The apostle preached doctrine, but the doctrine was Christ. He preached practice but the practice was all in Christ. There is no summary of the faith of a Christian that can compass all he believes, except that word - CHRIST; and that is the Alpha and Omega of our creed, that is the first and last rule of our practice - Christ, and Him crucified. To spread the faith, then, is to spread the knowledge of Christ crucified; it is in fact, to bring men, through the agency of God's Spirit, to feel their need of Christ, to seek Christ, to believe in Christ, to love Christ, and then to live for Christ.

C. H. Spurgeon

As Becometh The Saints

“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not once be named among you, as becometh saints.” Eph.5:3

Sin is so unbecoming, unseemly in a saint of God. Sin is the reason Christ died! Sin is the reason there is a hell! No sin is acceptable in the life of the believer! And it is even uglier to excuse sin or fail to take responsibility for it. It is equally true we must say with David, “My sin is ever before me” (Psalm 51:3). There is never a time when that is not the cry of our heart! How thankful we are for the prayer the Lord taught us to pray. “Forgive us our sins; for we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil” (Luke 11:4).

All of these words have to do with sin!