God offers the forgiveness of sins only in the Gospel, the good news that we are freed from the guilt, the punishment, and the power of sin, and are saved eternally because of Christ's keeping the Law and His suffering and death for us (John 3:16; Romans 1:16; Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:13; Colossians 1:13-14).
I believe in...
Christ rose from the dead, glorious and immortal, on Easter Sunday, the third day after His death.
By his resurrection, Jesus overcame death and opened for us the way of eternal life.
Christ's resurrection proves that
God did not abandon man after he fell into sin, but promised him a Redeemer, who was to satisfy for man's sin and reopen to him the gates of heaven.
Christ had to be true God in order that
Justification is an act of God’s free grace (Romans 3:24), wherein he pardoneth all our sins (Romans 4:6-8; 2 Corinthians 5:19), and accepteth us as righteous in his sight (2 Corinthians 5:21), only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us (Romans 4:6, 11; 5:19), and received by faith alone (Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9).
Adoption is an act of God’s free grace (1 John 3:1),...
Only by true faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:21-28; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Philippians 3:8-11). Although my conscience accuses me that I have grievously sinned against all God’s commandments, have never kept any of them (Romans 3:9-10), and am still inclined to all evil (Romans 7:23), yet God, without any merit of my own (Deuteronomy 9:6; Ezekiel 36:22; Titus 3:4-5), out of mere grace (Romans 3:24;...
Redemption is the act of God which sets us free from the power of evil, sin, and death.
God sent the prophets to call us back to himself, to show us our need for redemption, and to announce the coming of the Messiah.
God, out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, having chosen a...
By grace I mean a supernatural gift of God bestowed on us, through the merits of Jesus Christ, for our salvation.
There are two kinds of grace, sanctifying grace and actual grace.
Sanctifying grace is that grace which makes the soul holy and pleasing to God.
Actual grace is that help of...
Repentance to life is a saving grace (Acts 11:18), whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sins (Acts 2:37) and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ (Joel 2:13), does with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it to God (Jeremiah 31:18-19), with full purpose to strive after new obedience (Psalms 119:59).
It is the dying of the old nature and...
To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life (Mark 1:15; Acts 20:21), with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption (Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 11:24-25; Colossians 3:16).
Faith...
A covenant is a relationship initiated by God, to which a body of people responds in faith.
The Old Covenant is the one given by God to the Hebrew people.
God promised that they would be his people to bring all the nations of the world to him.
God required...
