Grace in Focus – June 1989
Why Don’t Some People “Go on for the Lord”?
By Larry Moyer* Angry. Frustrated. Confused. Disappointed. Discouraged. All of these adjectives and more describe the feelings of many Christian leaders and lay people as they observe the lives of those who have supposedly come to Christ but then have not gone on for the Lord. Are they or are they not saved? If they
Did H.A. Ironside Teach Commitment Salvation?
One writer has recently suggested that H. A. Ironside’s view of repentance is the same as that of modern Commitment Salvation (i.e., Lordship Salvation) advocates (John F. MacArthur, Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus, p.160). The impression was given that Ironside taught Commitment Salvation. This surprised me. I read Ironside’s work Except Ye Repent as
Are Believers Worthy of Entering the Kingdom?
Recently, while doing a word study on the New Testament theme of worthiness (axios, anaxios, axioo, kataxioo), I ran across something in Luke 20:35 that had never caught my attention before: “But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.” I
Letters to the Editor
“Thank you for your wonderful assurance letters. I wonder if you might address the statement, ‘To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of his flesh’ (1 Cor. 5:5) and ‘. . . whom I have delivered unto Satan’ (1 Tim. 1:20). I have heard and read various views, but would be interested