Take Heed: Christ Is Watching You

Christ forever sees us! Christ always knows us! Christ daily reads and observes our acts, words and thoughts! The recollection of this should alarm the wicked and drive them from their sins! Their wickedness is not hidden, and will one day be fearfully exposed, except they repent. It should frighten hypocrites out of their hypocrisy. They may deceive man, but they are not deceiving Christ. It should quicken and comfort all sincere believers. They should remember that a loving Master is looking at them, and should do all as in His sight. Above all, they should feel that, however mocked and slandered by the world, they are fairly and justly measured by their Savior’s eye. They can say, “You, Lord, who know all things, know that I love You.” (John 21:17)

~ J.C. Ryle

H.T. Erik Kowalker

“To be a Christian” by Martin Luther :

"To be a Christian is to have received the Gospel and believe in it. This belief brings the forgiveness of sins and God’s grace. It came alone from the Holy Spirit, which works through the Word, without our help or assistance. It is God’s work alone, and not with any power from us or our free will.

It just endures and lets itself be prepared and shaped by the Holy Spirit, like clay or loam is made into a vessel by the potter. Such a person, who knows and believes in Christ, believes that through Him sins are forgiven, that eternal life and everlasting bliss come from pure grace and mercy, without being earned by us and without any good works or being deserving of it, this person will certainly be tortured and tormented by the world.

But the Holy Spirit will stand by him, give him comfort and strengthen him, and give him a joyful heart so that he may disdain everything, for He will not abandon us.”

–Martin Luther

H.T. Tolle Lege

Paid in Full :

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” —John 19:30.
“It is finished!” said the Lord Jesus just before He died. Those three little words in English, translated from one Greek word, tetelestai, makes an impact upon history like no other words in any language for all eternity; at least as far as the eternal souls of men are concerned. “Fulfilled” is one way this term may be translated. What has been fulfilled? Why, the Law and the Prophets, of course. Jesus observed the law both actively and passively in utter and complete perfection. He also fulfilled all righteousness to the very end, taking on “the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:7, 8). Jesus Christ was fully man with flesh and bone as we have, and we are glad because by His incarnation, He is the righteous representative for mankind; yet, we are also glad that His humanity was much more unique than yours and mine. He was perfectly complete as a man, lacking nothing for righteousness, neither faltering nor failing in virtue and goodness, for He is very Truth. The blood that coursed through His veins was the untainted blood of the Son of the Most High God.
“Paid in full” is another way this may be translated. What was paid in full? Redemption for the soul saved by grace! The debt owed to God by each and every one of us for sinning against His holiness and infinitude! Jesus Christ satisfied the penalty owed by each and every soul elected by God to salvation because He paid it to the last mite with His shed blood, in His suffering and enduring God’s holy wrath for sin, and by laying down His life because of His love for His friends and, most especially, for His love for the heavenly Father. This utterance declares that Jesus Christ is Almighty God, because the sufficiency of the penalty payment must come from the Judge that was offended. Jesus of Nazareth is very God!
H.T. Justification by Grace

Spurgeon, The Human Will :

"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him."—John 6:44.

"This inability of man lies in the obstinacy of the human will. "Oh!" saith the Arminian, "men may be saved if they will." We reply, "My dear sir, we all believe that; but it is just the if "they will" that is the difficulty. We assert that no man will come to Christ unless he be drawn; nay, we do not assert it, but Christ himself declares it—"Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life;' and as long as that "ye will not come' stands on record in Holy Scripture, we shall not be brought to believe in any doctrine of the freedom of the human will." It is strange how people, when talking about free-will, talk of things which they do not at all understand. "Now," says one, "I believe men can be saved if they will." My dear sir, that is not the question at all. The question is, are men ever found naturally willing to submit to the humbling terms of the gospel of Christ? We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful. supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ. You reply, that men sometimes are willing, without the help of the Holy Spirit. I answer—Did you ever meet with any person who was? "

Payment for Sins :

The Source of your Satisfaction :

Do we know anything of spiritual hunger? Do we feel anything of craving and emptiness in conscience, heart and affections? Let us distinctly understand that Christ alone can relieve and supply us, and that it is His office to relieve. We must come to Him by faith. We must believe on Him, and commit our souls into His hands. So coming, He pledges His royal word we shall find lasting satisfaction both for time and eternity. It is written–“He that comes unto me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst.”
~ J.C. Ryle

H.T. Eric Kowalker

“Dear is the treasure who lies in them” by Martin Luther :

“What is the New Testament but a public preaching and proclamation of Christ, set forth through the sayings of the Old Testament and fulfilled through Christ? In order that those who are not more familiar with it may have instruction and guidance for reading the Old Testament with profit, I have prepared this preface to the best of the ability God has given me.
I beg and really caution every pious Christian not to be offended by the simplicity of the language and stories encountered there, but fully realize that, however simple they may seem, these are the very words, works, judgments, and deeds of the majesty, power, and wisdom of the most high God.
For these are the Scriptures which make fools of all the wise and understanding, and are open only to the small and simple, as Christ says in Matthew 11:25.
Therefore, dismiss your own opinions and feelings, and think of the Scriptures as the loftiest and noblest of holy things, as the richest of mines which can never be sufficiently explored, in order that you may find that divine wisdom which God lays here before you in such simple guise as to quench all pride.
Here you find the swaddling cloths and the manger in which Christ lies, and to which the angel points the shepherds (Luke 2:12). Simply and lowly are these swaddling cloths, but dear is the treasure, Christ, who lies in them.”

–Martin Luther, “Preface to the Old Testament (1523/1545),”

H.T. Tolle Lege

The One, Non-Repeatable Sacrifice of the Cross :

He Himself was the sacrifice; His body the altar, Himself the priest, Himself also the victim. On Calvary’s tree He presented Himself a substitute for Human guilt, and there he bore the crushing weight of Jehovah’s wrath in His own body, on the behalf of all His people. On Him their sins were laid, and He was numbered with the transgressors; and there He, in their stead, suffered what was due to the righteousness of God, and made atonement to divine justice for the sins of His people. This was done, not by many offerings, but by one sacrifice, and that one alone. Jesus offered no other sacrifice: He had never made one before, nor since, nor will he present another sacrifice in the future. His sin offering is one.

H.T. The Daily Spurgeon

The Flood Came :

H.T. Grace Gems

**Must See**: Rob Bell the Heretic :

Mat 7:15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves."

My Hope is Not in Myself but in Christ :

Rom 6:11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Dr James White on Rob Bell :

Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

H.T. Alpha and Omega Ministries

Let us not sleep :

“Let us not sleep, as do others.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:6

The Savior, as I see him throughout the whole of his ministry, appears to me on his knees pleading, and before his God agonising — laying out his life for the sons of men. But, brethren, do I speak harshly when I say that the disciples asleep are a fit emblem of our usual life? As compared or rather contrasted with our Master, I fear it is so.

Where is our zeal for God? Where is our compassion for men? Do we ever feel the weight of souls as we ought to feel it? Do are ever melt in the presence of the terrors of God which we know to be coming upon others? Have we realised the passing away of an immortal spirit to the judgment bar of God? Have we felt pangs and throes of sympathy when we have remembered that multitudes of our fellow creatures have received, as their eternal sentence, the words — "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire in hell, prepared for the devil and his angels?" Why, if these thoughts really possessed us, we should scarce sleep; if they became as real to us as they were to him, we should wrestle with God for souls as he did, and become willing to lay down our lives, if by any means we might save some.

~C.H.Spurgeon

Possessing a Deep Concern for Lost Souls :

We know but little of true Christianity, if we do not feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. A lazy indifference about the spiritual state of others, may doubtless save us much trouble. To care nothing whether our neighbors are going to heaven or hell, is no doubt the way of the world. But a person of this spirit is very unlike David, who said, “rivers of waters run down my eyes, because men keep not your law” [Psalm 119:136]. He is very unlike Paul, who said, “I have great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart for my brethren” [Rom. 9:2]. Above all, he is very unlike Christ. If Christ felt tenderly about wicked people, the disciples of Christ ought to feel likewise.
~ J.C. Ryle

H.T. Erik Kowalker

Scripture, by C.H. Spurgeon :

Authority of :

"Always stand to it that your creed must bend to the Bible, and not the Bible to your creed, and dare to be a little inconsistent with yourselves, if need be, sooner than be inconsistent with God’s revealed truth"

Canon closed :

"I have little confidence in those persons who speak of having received direct revelationsfrom the Lord, as though he appeared otherwise than by and through the gospel. His word is so full, so perfect, that for God to make any fresh revelation to you or me is quite needless. To do so would be to put a dishonour upon the perfection of that word."

Criticism of :

"He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him."

Neglect of :

"There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write “damnation” with your fingers"

~C.H. Spurgeon