Have You Ever Really Wept & Grieved Bitterly for Your Sin?

In the past couple of days I've been listening to a message on "Brokenness" preached by Voddie Baucham Jr. The sermon made such an impression on my soul, so much so that I labor to continually burn into my heart the same words Voddie uttered: May I never get over the fact that God saved a sinner like me. Indeed, as Dr. Baucham said, Brokenness is an appropriate response to sin! Have you ever been truly broken ...

Deeper than the Stain Has Gone! | Lord’s Day Quotes

For this Lord's day, along with today's Lord's Day Hymn, let me share to you some choice quotes shared to me by some of my friends in facebook. I have nothing to add to what is said, but I beseech you to take heed to these timely exhortations. We must in a solemn manner devote ourselves to God on this day; we must spend the whole day with God. Some will hear the word—but leave ...

Biblical Repentance; Test Yourselves, Lest be Lost!

. . .Repentance consists in two things: humiliation and transformation. [1] Humiliation. ‘If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled.’ Lev 26:41. There is, as the schoolmen say, a twofold humiliation, or breaking of the heart. (1) Attrition; as when a rock is broken in pieces. This is done by the law, which is a hammer to break the heart. (2) Contrition; as when ice is melted into water. This is done by the gospel, which is as ...

Counterfeits of Repentance.

‘Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.’ Acts 11:18. Repentance seems to be a bitter pill to take, but it is to purge out the bad humour of sin. By some Antinomian spirits it is cried down as a legal doctrine ((That is to say in more familiar terms, "Legalism.")); but Christ himself preached it. ‘From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent,’ &c. Matt 4:17. In his last ...

Seeing Ourselves Ready to Perish…

"Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood." - Romans 3:25 The great privilege in the text is, to have Christ for a propitiation; which is not only to free us from God’s wrath, but to ingratiate us into his love and favour. The means of having Christ to be our propitiation is, ‘Faith in his blood.’ There is a twofold faith, Fides quae creditur [the faith which is believed], which ...