Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

_Looking into the Word
Mar 31st, 2020
Weekly CommentaryArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;Apostasy;The Church

Apostasy of Christendom

Apostasy is the rejection of the teaching of God's word, rebellion against God. We are told that in the last days there will be a great apostasy by Christendom. Those days are surely upon us.

The Archbishop of Canterbury made the following statement, "Christian doctrine offends Muslims." His comments came in a highly conciliatory letter to Islamic leaders calling for an alliance between the two faiths for the common good. He went on to say, "The Christian belief in the trinity is difficult, sometimes offensive to Muslims".

The essence of what he said was that we need to abandon God's Word to have peace in the world, that is apostasy, and that is the program and goal of the coming harlot church.

A week prior to that, Anglican Archbishop Alan Harper said, Homosexuality is "natural" for homosexuals and must be accepted by the Church. Again the word of God is set aside and the opinions of men usurp it, that is apostasy. The spirit of the hour says the Word of God must be set aside to bring the world together.

Pope Benedict made the following statement, "We must guard against any temptation to view doctrine as divisive and hence an impediment to the seemingly more pressing and immediate task of improving the world in which we live." The truth is that doctrine, God's Word does divide, to turn away from it is apostasy. To believe nothing is a sure formula for a world church and a formula to unite a world church to a world government.

The days of the great apostasy are surely upon us.

That He Might be Just, and the Justifier - Romans 3:26
Mar 31st, 2020
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational;Book Study

This verse is often quoted as though the word yet must be inserted to bring out its meaning. "Just, and yet the Justifier." The marvel of a just God justifying sinful men is thus strongly accentuated. Of course, this is a true thought and marvellous. But it is not the precise idea of the apostle, when he says that the just God is the Justifier of those that have faith in Jesus. He means that the very justice of God has come on our side, and that His love may have its unhindered way, not only consistently with His justice, but because of it.

This is the heart of the Gospel. Jesus has stood as our representative. He has borne our sin, in its curse and penalty; has met the claims of a broken law, and satisfied the demands of infinite righteousness. To have done this in our name and on our behalf not only makes us free from any penalty which might otherwise have accrued, but gives us a claim--the claim of the righteous--on all those blessings which the righteous government of God has to bestow.

Directly we become one with Jesus by a living faith, we stand possessed of all that He has done and is. In Him we have already suffered all that the holy law of God could demand as the just penalty of our sins. In Him we have laid in the grave, paying the uttermost farthing that could be exacted. In Him we have been liberated from the prison-house, and have passed into the presence and welcome of God. We may claim, therefore, that the law of God should make for us, as once it made against us. We are saved not only by the grace, but by the justice of God. He is faithful to His Son and just to the law, when He forgives us our sins.