Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!
I'm not good at posting a prayer, but I pray everyday for President Bush. We are in some very testing times and I'm thankful we have President Bush as our POTUS during these times of trouble
AMEN KAYAK!
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved."
- Mark 16:16
Mr. MacDonald asked the inhabitants of the island of St. Kilda how a man
must be saved. An old man replied, "We shall be saved if we repent, and
forsake our sins, and turn to God." "Yes," said a middle-aged female, "and
with a true heart too." "Aye," rejoined a third, "and with prayer"; and,
added a fourth, "It must be the prayer of the heart." "And we must be
diligent too," said a fifth, "in keeping the commandments." Thus, each
having contributed his mite, feeling that a very decent creed had been
made up, they all looked and listened for the preacher's approbation, but
they had aroused his deepest pity. The carnal mind always maps out for
itself a way in which self can work and become great, but the Lord's way
is quite the reverse. Believing and being baptized are no matters of merit
to be gloried in-they are so simple that boasting is excluded, and free
grace bears the palm. It may be that the reader is unsaved-what is the
reason? Do you think the way of salvation as laid down in the text to be
dubious? How can that be when God has pledged his own word for its
certainty? Do you think it too easy? Why, then, do you not attend to it?
Its ease leaves those without excuse who neglect it. To believe is simply
to trust, to depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus. To be baptized is to
submit to the ordinance which our Lord fulfilled at Jordan, to which the
converted ones submitted at Pentecost, to which the jailer yielded
obedience the very night of his conversion. The outward sign saves not,
but it sets forth to us our death, burial, and resurrection with Jesus,
and, like the Lord's Supper, is not to be neglected.
Reader, do you believe in Jesus? Then, dear friend, dismiss your fears,
you shall be saved.
Are you still an unbeliever, then remember there is but one door, and if
you will not enter by it you will perish in your sins.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!