Month: May 2023

Believers, as they grow in grace, are made to feel more and more acutely the evil of their old nature. You will find that those who are most like Christ have the deepest knowledge of their own depravity, and are most humble while they confess their sinfulness. I think, throughout eternity, if we had this […]

The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Gospel’s Power in a Christian’s Life”  No. 640 Oh! the great thing the Church needs is more holiness. The worst enemies of the Church are the hypocrites, the formalists the mere professors, the inconsistent walkers. It is shocking to think how persons dare to remain members of Christian […]

I hope you have a blessed Memorial Day, which to me, is a very somber day… Every Memorial Day, I struggle to find the right words to say, as I don’t think there are any words that can do this day justice. I have angry swell up in me over the many that have gave […]

LETTER THREE BY MRS. MARJORIE Bond  1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta December 7, 1959 Dear Dr. Cole: Since writing my Christmas card to you, I have received your books, “The Heavenly Hope” and “Divine Doctrines”. Thank you very much indeed. I am thoroughly enjoying the magnificent study on the doctrine of God. How it magnifies […]

LETTER TWO BY MRS. MARJORIE BOND 1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta November 6, 1959 Part 11 Dear Dr. Cole: 2. The sovereignty of God justifies it–He has the same rights over us as the potter with the clay, etc., emphasising such qualities of God as His absolute Righteousness, Holiness, Omniscience, Self-Existence, etc. which entitles Him […]

My Dear Dr. Cole: LETTER TWO BY MRS. MARJORIE BOND 1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta November 6, 1959 Dear Dr. Cole: Do you think you can stand another letter from me? I shall try not to be so verbose this time! Your wonderful and most helpful letter came two weeks ago tomorrow, so you can […]

MRS. MARJORIE BOND 1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta October 5, 1959 Dr. C.D. Cole 746 W. Noel Rt. 2 Madisonville, Kentucky Part 9 My Dear Dr. Cole: 2. There are passages like John 3:16; I John 2:2 which seem to teach that Christ died for every individual. However, the word “world” rarely ever means every […]

746 West Noel Madisonville, Kentucky October 20, 1959 Mrs. Marjorie Bond 1505 Scotland Street Calgary, Alberta Canada My Dear Mrs. Bond: Greetings in the Name of His whose Name is above every name! Your good letter under date of the 5th, was duly received. And it could not have reached me at a busier time, […]

4b) REPRESENTATIVE PREACHERS AND WRITERS! John A. Broadus, former president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: “From the divine side, we see that the Scriptures teach an eternal election of men to eternal life simply out of God’s good pleasure.” A.H. Strong, former president of Rochester Theological Seminary: “Election is the eternal act of God, […]

Objections Considered and Answered Many are the objections brought against this doctrine. Sometimes the objectors are loud and furious. Alas! that so many of these objectors are in Baptist ranks. To preach this old-fashioned doctrine of our faith as did Bunyan, Fuller, Gill, Spurgeon, Boyce, Broadus, Pendleton, Graves, Jarrell, Carroll, Jeter, Boyce Taylor and a […]

Part 5 The Doctrine Defined, Explained and Proved What is election as the term is used in the Bible? Election means a choice–to select from among-to single out-to take one and leave another. If there are a dozen apples in a basket and I take all of them there has been no choice; but if […]

Part 4 Some False Views Examined and Refuted Many professing Christians really have no view of election. They have not given it enough thought and study to even have any opinion about it. Many have erroneous views. We shall notice some of them. 1. The view that men are elected when they believe–This view is […]

Part 3 4. Election does not prevent the salvation of anybody who wants to be saved. But the distinction needs to be made between a mere desire to escape hell and the desire to be saved from sin. The desire to be saved from hell is a natural desire–nobody wants to burn. The desire to […]

Part 2 General Remarks to Disarm Prejudice There is no doctrine so grossly misrepresented. Brother A.S. Pettie’s complaint against the enemies of total depravity is equally applicable here, when he says, “From hostile lips a fair and correct statement of the doctrine is never heard”. The treatment that the doctrine of election receives from the […]

Election! –What a blessed word! What a glorious doctrine! Who does not rejoice to know that he has been chosen to some great blessing? Election is unto salvation–the greatest of all blessings. And strange to say, this is a neglected truth even by many who profess to believe it, and others have a feeling of […]