A Voice from the Past: Life Received

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JAMES H. BROOKES[1] This article is excerpted from Chapter V of From Death Unto Life (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, n.d.), 55-66. Scripture text has been changed from the KJV to NKJV for ease in reading. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
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Galatians: God’s Antidote to Legalism

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Galatians: God’s Antidote to Legalism By Ron Merryman. (Duluth, MN: Merryman Ministries, 1999), 130 pp. Paper, $13.00. “Galatians is God’s antidote for legalism. As no other book, it clarifies the issue of the believer’s relationship to Old Testament Law and the grace provision for sanctification clearly expressed in the New Testament…Thank God for the Epistle
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Saved and Safe

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By Stan Nelson Eternal security is the biblical doctrine that God guarantees our eternal salvation from beginning to end. Therefore, a saved person—someone who has trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for eternal salvation—can never lose that salvation. “Once saved always saved,” is another way of saying it. To many people this is unthinkable.
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Banking on Eternal Security

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By Scott Mosley I was raised in a type of Baptist church that taught a works-plus-faith method of achieving salvation. My father was a ranking minister in this denomination and through self-study began discovering the error of his teaching. About ten years before his resignation, he began teaching his seven children that he had mistakenly
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Is Assurance Possible Without Perseverance

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This article, which has been slightly modified, was printed originally in The Reign of the Servant Kings: A Study of Eternal Security and the Final Significance of Man (Hayesville, NC: Schoettle Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 258–60, and is used by permission. by Jody Dillow According to the Reformed Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints,
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Absolutely Free—or Not?

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By Curt Nelson I couldn’t believe it—I was sitting in my very first class at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary and the professor was teaching some strange doctrine I had never heard before. He was telling us that the only condition for salvation is belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I knew immediately what I
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