Pulpit Magazine

(By John MacArthur)
In light of the discussion on Hebrews 6, we will be running several articles this week on eternal security. Today’s article comes from a booklet John wrote entitled, Is Your Salvation Secure? The entire booklet can be read here.
For many years people have debated the issue of whether a Christian can lose his […]

(By John MacArthur)
It’s a heartache to me as a pastor to realize that so many Christians lack the assurance of their salvation. They lack the confidence that their sins are truly forgiven and that their place in heaven is eternally secured.
In 1654 the Puritan Thomas Brooks wrote,
“Assurance is the believer’s ark where he sits, […]

(By John MacArthur)
No doctrine is more despised by the natural mind than the truth that God is absolutely sovereign. Human pride loathes the suggestion that God orders everything, controls everything, rules over everything. The carnal mind, burning with enmity against God, abhors the biblical teaching that nothing comes to pass except according to His eternal […]

(From a sermon by Charles Spurgeon)
“But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in […]

(By John MacArthur)
The idea that God does what He wants, and that what He does is true and right because He does it, is foundational to the understanding of everything in Scripture, including the doctrine of election.  
In the broad sense, election refers to the fact that God chooses (or elects) to do everything that […]