Author Archives: Matt Jury
Your Unchangeable Friend
You may greatly comfort yourself that you have an unchangeable friend in Christ Jesus. From the unchangeableness of your Savior, you may be assured of your continuance in a state of grace. As to yourself, you are so changeable, that, if left to yourself, you would soon fall utterly away. But Christ is the same, and therefore, when he has begun a good work in you he will finish it. As he has been the author, he will be the finisher of your faith.
When once you have entered on the happiness of heaven, it never shall be taken from you, because Christ, your Savior and friend, who bestows it on you, and in whom you have it, is unchangeable. He will be the same forever and ever, and therefore so will be your happiness in heaven.
Underestimating God
Holy Scripture, when it depicts God’s wrath against sin, never uses hyperbole; it would be impossible to exaggerate it.
The Character of God
The character of God is a sea, every drop of which should become a wellhead of praise for His people.
C. H. Spurgeon in notes from Treasury of David on Psalm 33.5
What Sweeter Music
Don’t Confuse Knowledge with Maturity
Theological arrogance devalues grace. It confuses knowledge with maturity, so it doesn’t treasure the grace that alone causes you to grow.
How Should I Think of Myself?
What every man is in the eyes of God, that he is, and no more.
How Is the Church To Be Evangelistic?
In the church today the tendency is to look at the world all the time and to see the tragedy of the world. That is perfectly right, of course; the church is to be evangelistic. But the question is, how is the church to be evangelistic? And I contend that what the New Testament itself tells us, is that the church is most successful evangelistically when she herself is as she ought to be. Why are the masses of the people outside of the church? I do not hesitate to say that the reason is that they fail to see in us anything that attracts them, anything that creates within them a desire to receive what we have, or anything that rebukes them and condemns them for their way of living. Not that we should necessarily put that into words, but it should be seen.
Martin Lloyd-Jones in sermon titled The Possibilities of the Christian Life
Salvation Is All of Grace
Salvation is necessarily all of grace. Man’s fall is so complete, God’s justice so inexorable, heaven so holy, that nothing short of Omnipotent love can lift the sinner, magnify the law which he has mutilated, and make him pure enough to dwell in light. The thought of saving sinners is God’s, born in the secret places of His great, loving heart.
God’s Purpose for You
God’s purpose for the men and women He redeems is not simply to have them believe certain truths but to transform them in a lifelong process that stretches toward heaven.
D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1992), 190.
Life Is Worship 