Dr. Helen Roseveare was an English Christian missionary to the Congo from 1953 to 1973.
In 1964, Dr. Helen Roseveare was taken prisoner by rebel forces and remained a prisoner for five months, during which time she endured brutal beatings and rape.
In her own words:
They found me, dragged me to my feet struck me over head and shoulders, flung me on the ground, kicked me, dragged me to my feet only to strike me again—the sickening searing pain of a broken tooth, a mouth full of sticky blood, my glasses gone. Beyond sense, numb with horror and unknown fear, driven , dragged, pushed back to my own house—yelled at, insulted, cursed…
Through the brutal heartbreaking experience of rape, God met with me – with outstretched arms of love. It was an unbelievable experience: He was so utterly there, so totally understanding, his comfort was so complete – and suddenly I knew – I really knew that his love was unutterably sufficient. He did love me! He did understand!
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Jay Dharan is the theological editor at ROE, and also the founding contributor at Beacon of Truth, an Evangelical ministry aimed at promoting the supremacy and sufficiency of the gospel.
The apostle John used to call himself the disciple whom Jesus loved, a title every child of God can use to describe himself. I know I can say that I am a disciple whom Jesus loves. However in this article, I prefer to call myself the rebel whom Jesus loved. For I am hoping to document the manifold mercies poured upon me by the Father on virtue of His Son Jesus Christ, namely my conversion and introduction to His grace through faith. In the past seven years of my Christian pilgrimage, I have been asked by many of my conversion. Many are curious to hear a dramatic story of God doing some physical healing or some external miracle that led to my repentance. But to their dismay I have no such stories. I got saved in rather a strange manner. No man ever preached to me any gospel, I never went to any meetings, no one approached me with any tracts, but still I got converted. I used to consider it as a matter of great pride that the Lord saved me in this unique and special manner, until the Lord made me hear a parable from a preacher. I heard about a hospital, where the best surgeon is called in when the patient is extremely critical. The Lord caused me to think that He did not use any of the above mentioned means to bring forth my conversion, but took my case into His hands and single handedly dealt with me because I am that utterly hopeless and critically sinful. This by the way is no way unique to me. It is the way anyone who is saved gets saved.
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Tags: Jay Dharan, Jay M Nair
As all real religion begins and is carried on by the Holy Spirit, who renews, sanctifies, and makes us fit for glory — it is a question of the greatest importance, “Have we received the Holy Spirit?” All primitive Christians had, and they knew it, otherwise they could not have been filled with joy and peace — as they were expressly told, that if any man had not the Spirit of Christ, he was none of his. The Spirit comes to claim us for Christ, takes possession of us in the name of Christ, fits us for the service of Christ, and trains us up for the everlasting enjoyment of the presence of Christ. The Spirit is not only in the Church as a body — but he is in every member of that body. Let us therefore press home the solemn question, “Have you received the Holy Spirit?” Acts 19:2.
Consider the CHARACTERS in which the Holy Spirit is to be expected.
He is the QUICKENER. The life-giving Spirit. All spiritual life flows from him. He quickens the dead in sin — quickens us together with Christ. Every divine emotion flows from him. Every holy desire is from him. Every acceptable prayer is from him. He is to the soul, what the soul is to the body; as therefore the body without the soul is dead, so the soul without the Holy Spirit is dead also. Nor is the body more dead to temporal things — than the soul is to spiritual things.
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Tags: James Smith
The Father imposed His wrath due unto, and the Son underwent punishment for, either:
All the sins of all men.
All the sins of some men, or
Some of the sins of all men.
In which case it may be said:
That if the last be true, all men have some sins to answer for, and so, none are saved.
That if the second be true, then Christ, in their stead suffered for all the sins of all the elect in the whole world, and this is the truth.
But if the first be the case, why are not all men free from the punishment due unto their sins?
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Tags: John Owen, Owen
“World’s Largest Church” – “World’s Fastest Growing Church” – “America’s Fastest Growing Sunday School”- “Fastest Growing Church in the State.”
These are frequently heard and seen slogans in these modern days.
But, isn’t it a little silly to brag or boast about numbers (either large or small ones)? Where in all of God’s Word does it tell us to gimmick people into attending church services or Sunday School, like many “fundamental” churches are doing today? The answers to these questions are obvious to all Bible readers. The modern “gimmick gospel” is a fakery, faulty in its desired results, and foolish in the light of Scripture.
The Fakery Of The Gimmick Gospel
That so-called “gospel” which centers around man primarily, and either excludes entirely or partially the glory of God in the saving of men’s wretched souls, must of necessity be nothing but a fakery. In other words, the “gimmick gospel” is not a gospel at all. It is an imitation, a counterfeit, and not the glorious gospel (good news) of God’s Word.
Tags: W.F. Bell
Note from ROE: Weeds are terrible nuisances. They grow in the least desired places and replicate and prolong their irritation for many years. Some have thorns and steal the nutrients from the soil of good plants. Some, whose roots have been left unattended, are the most difficult to remove.
What are the weeds that we must pay careful attention to in our lives? What is it that can be so destructive that it could actually steal the true Word of God from our hearts?
False doctrine.
False doctrine is a destructive weed. Once it seeds upon the heart, it has a tendency to replicate and prolong for many years. Even after this weed has been rooted out, the effects of its theft reveal much damage to our hearts.
The only purpose in this posting (and perhaps future ones) is that God may be pleased to use it to shake the true Christians which find themselves in this camp and flee to the truth of the gospel. This is ROE’s solemn prayer to God for our friends and family still held within its grip…
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Question: “Is the Word of Faith movement Biblical?”
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Tags: WoF, Word of Faith
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification.” (1Thessalonians 4:3)
What Does the Bible Mean When It Speaks of a “Sanctified” Man?
Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit, when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world. The instrument by which the Spirit effects this work is generally the Word of God, though He sometimes uses afflictions and providential visitations “without the Word” (1 Pet. 3:1). The subject of this work of Christ by His Spirit is called in Scripture a “sanctified” man.
The subject of sanctification is of such vast importance that it requires marking out on every side. To clear away the confusion between doctrines and doctrines, I shall therefore not hesitate to lay before my readers a series of connected propositions or statements, drawn from Scripture, which I think will be found useful in defining the exact nature of sanctification.
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Tags: J.C. Ryle, Ryle
The apostle John used to call himself the disciple whom Jesus loved, a title every child of God can use to describe himself. I know I can say that I am a disciple whom Jesus loves. However in this article, I prefer to call myself the rebel whom Jesus loved. For I am hoping to document the manifold mercies poured upon me by the Father on virtue of His Son Jesus Christ, namely my conversion and introduction to His grace through faith. In the past seven years of my Christian pilgrimage, I have been asked by many of my conversion. Many are curious to hear a dramatic story of God doing some physical healing or some external miracle that led to my repentance. But to their dismay I have no such stories. I got saved in rather a strange manner. No man ever preached to me any gospel, I never went to any meetings, no one approached me with any tracts, but still I got converted. I used to consider it as a matter of great pride that the Lord saved me in this unique and special manner, until the Lord made me hear a parable from a preacher. I heard about a hospital, where the best surgeon is called in when the patient is extremely critical. The Lord caused me to think that He did not use any of the above mentioned means to bring forth my conversion, but took my case into His hands and single handedly dealt with me because I am that utterly hopeless and critically sinful. This by the way is no way unique to me. It is the way anyone who is saved gets saved.
