To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, “God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.” And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God’s right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, “If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins”
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
Faith is to rest, not in the best of God’s servants, but in His unchanging Word.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, ‘Adam, where art thou?’ on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
Godliness has ‘promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.’ But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say, ‘I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.’ It does not say, ‘Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,’ but it does say, ‘Whosoever believeth in him.’ What is it to believe in Him? It means to put your soul’s confidence in Him, to trust in Him, God’s blessed Son.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)
Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
H.A. Ironside (Author, 1876 – 1951)