Posts from January 2024
What Does It Take to Believe? (part 2)
Resisting of Satan Natural men have insurmountable obstacles to their believing. First of all, they are dead in sins (Ephesians 2:1), separated from God who is life. As “alienated from the life of God,” their understanding is darkened, and they are ignorant, because of the blindness of their heart” (4:18). Besides the blindness of a dead man, they…
What Does it Take To Believe? (part 1)
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:31 To the Philippian jailer’s clear-cut question: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (v.30), Paul and Silas answered with the clear-cut answer above. He had only to “believe upon”[i] the Lord Jesus Christ as the only object of trust. The clear-cut promise: “You will be…