I do not know what you feel, but I never cease to be grateful to these disciples. I am grateful for the record of every mistake they ever made, and for every blunder they ever committed, because I see myself in them. How grateful we should be to God that we have these Scriptures, how grateful to Him that He has not merely given us the gospel and left it at that. How wonderful it is that we can read accounts like this and see ourselves depicted in them, and how grateful we should be to God that it is a divinely inspired Word which speaks the truth, and shows and pictures every human frailty.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

CONFESSING Christ

CONFESSING Christ

CONFESSING Christ

  1. Influences of the Holy Spirit necessary to # 1Co 12:3 1Jo 4:2
  2. A test of being saints # 1Jo 2:23 4:2,3
  3. An evidence of union with God # 1Jo 4:15
  4. Necessary to salvation # Ro 10:9,10
  5. Ensures his confessing us # Mt 10:32
  6. The fear of man prevents # Joh 7:13 12:42,43
  7. Persecution should not prevent us from # Mr 8:35 2Ti 2:12
  8. Must be connected with faith # Ro 10:9
  9. Consequences of not # Mt 10:33
  10. Exemplified 10a) Nathanael

    # Joh 1:49

10b) Peter # Joh 6:68,69 Ac 2:22-36 10c) Man born blind # Joh 9:25,33 10d) Martha # Joh 11:27 10e) Peter and John # Ac 4:7-12 10f) Apostles # Ac 5:29-32,42 10g) Stephen # Ac 7:52,59 10h) Paul # Ac 9:29 10i) Timothy # 1Ti 6:12 10j) John # Re 1:9 10k) Church in Pergamos # Re 2:13 10l) Martyrs # Re 20:4