The Word Pure and Simple

The inspired Word of God is our spiritual food!
The Word teaches us to be holy!
The Word of God, through His commandments, convicts of sin!
To those who will believe it leads to eternal life through Christ and His death and Resurrection!
To those that deny God, an eternity of separation, in hell, is their choice!
The Word teaches of the avoidance of sin!
You must repent!
The Word warns of Satan and his cunning ways, of his manipulation of the heart because man is selfish and is easily fooled by the things of this world.
The Word teaches us to stand on the power of God's promise at all times and in every trial!
There is an element called faith which allows man to believe in God or allows him not to believe!
That believing faith is in all mankind, for the belief of God as sovereign Lord and Savior for all eternity or for the belief that He is non-existent and that death is the final outcome of life!
There is no magic bullet, there is only Christ crucified!!
The power is in the atoning blood of Christ!
Christ alone, by faith in His redeeming blood alone, period!!!
There is no work, no other god, nor any amount of following the law that will and can deliver your soul from hell!
God has granted Him power to save whom He wills!
Salvation is dependent on Christ being able to save to the uttermost!
We present the gospel and Christ crucified is the message!

I heard a very foolish person this morning commenting on the gospel. He was talking about a well know radical bible scholar preacher in Alabama and stated that he had visited this church and that they were presenting a different doctrine or gospel. I did not fully understand the verse about seeing and hearing and not understanding until I heard this young man speak! He absolutely did not have a clue!!


Mark 4:12
so that “they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.”
Ezekiel 12:2 
"Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.
Matthew 13:14 
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
John 12:40 
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn--and I would heal them."
Isaiah 44:18 
They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

Lord God most high, we ask for the nations, by Your power alone! We want to set the captives free and bring them into Your precious light! Open eyes and ears to see, hear and hearts to understand the power of Your gospel. Amen