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John Piper

The Covenant of Abraham

John PiperOctober 18, 1981 THE COVENANT OF ABRAHAM In the beginning God the Father, through the agency of his eternal Son, created out of nothing all that is not God by the word of his command; and moment by moment he holds in being all things by that same word of power so that everything which comes into exi... Read More
John R. Rice

Assurance of Salvation

John R. Rice"They that gladly received his word. . . . " - Acts 2:41. Here are some lessons in the Christian life. Every Christian starts out as a baby Christian. One has to learn after one is saved. One has to grow in grace after being saved. A good example is in the book of Acts, after Pentecost, when they ha... Read More
John R. Rice

Backsliders; Saved or Lost?

John R. RiceEverywhere people want to know whether the backslider is saved or lost. After one has sinned, is he still a child of God? When he has lost the joy of salvation, does he still have the salvation? Well, the answer to this question is that the backslider does not deserve to be saved but deserves to go ... Read More
John R. Rice

BAPTISM DOES NOT SAVE-DOES NOT HELP SAVE

John R. RiceA favorite device of the Devil is to have men look to their works for their salvation instead of looking to Christ. He leads some to trust in their morality, some to depend upon lodge membership, some to depend upon confessions to priests; some he leads to trust in baptism. That is a fatal mistake. ... Read More
John R. Rice

BAPTISM IS CHRISTIAN, NOT JEWISH; NEW TESTAMENT, NOT OLD TESTAMENT; GRACE, NOT LAW

John R. RiceDown through the centuries till modern times all Bible students and theologians agreed that baptism was a New Testament practice exclusively, that it went with the gospel of salvation through faith in Christ, and was not a part of the Old Testament ceremonial law. However, those who sprinkled unconv... Read More
John R. Rice

Fullness of the Spirit

John R. RiceThis pamphlet is chapter 11 in The Scarlet Sin, a book of sermons taken down word for word as given before great audiences all over America. It was in Seattle in a union campaign with sixty churches that this sermon, "Fullness of the Holy Spirit" was preached by Evangelist John R. Rice. That campaig... Read More
John R. Rice

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival

John R. RiceTHE God whom some people worship is old and tired. The present-day civilization is entirely too much for Him! Maybe He could one time give great revivals, but He cannot any more. Mankind has simply gotten to be worse than that old-fashioned God can handle the God of some people's faith. The only thi... Read More
John R. Rice

Six Pressing Reasons Why You Should Be Saved Today

John R. Rice"Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, "Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. "Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do ... Read More
John R. Rice

The Seven Saddest Sayings for Sinners

John R. RiceThe Bible deals with the most heart-moving themes that ever entered the mind of man; with the deepest woes of human misery and the highest heights of blessedness and ecstasy; with eternities, not time alone. It centers not on food and drink, nor houses and jobs, but on sin and salvation, Heaven and ... Read More
John R. Rice

The Seven Saddest Sayings for Sinners

John R. RiceThe Bible deals with the most heart-moving themes that ever entered the mind of man; with the deepest woes of human misery and the highest heights of blessedness and ecstasy; with eternities, not time alone. It centers not on food and drink, nor houses and jobs, but on sin and salvation, Heaven and ... Read More

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