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Results from: Notes On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: DocTrinsograce Ordered by Date |
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461 | ...Lest you forget the Lord your God | Deut 8:11 | DocTrinsograce | 242719 | ||
Thank you, Ed... I am praying that you and your family will have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving. | ||||||
462 | ...Lest you forget the Lord your God | Deut 8:11 | DocTrinsograce | 242717 | ||
Have a blessed Thanksgiving, but keep in mind: "For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, fa land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. "Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." Deuteronomy 8:7-14 |
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463 | Constrained | Ps 119:21 | DocTrinsograce | 242716 | ||
"Therefore, they err in defect who acknowledge no authority or a very slight authority in confessions [creeds]; such are the neutrals and Libertines, who, to consult their own interests, profess nothing certain and determinate, but amid the conflicts of contradictions are undecided and fluctuate and, falling in with the winds of fortune, bend their sails to their influence. Their religion, consequently, you would properly call (if they have any) a monthly faith; nay, even a daily (hemerobion) or hourly. Unorthodox persons and heretics are such who, seeing that they are checked by such formulas as by a bridle that they may not scatter their errors to the winds, endeavor in every way, either openly, or secretly and by cunning, to destroy their authority." --Francis Turretin (1623-1687) |
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464 | Of Communion | 1 Cor 11:22 | DocTrinsograce | 242712 | ||
"Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this ordinance, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of His death; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses. (1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)" --1689 LBCF 30.7 |
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465 | The Holiness of Their Pastor | Rom 6:19 | DocTrinsograce | 242711 | ||
Thank you for the encouragement, Ed. Let us, though we be many and diverse (2 Corinthians 6:2; Ephesians 2:13), yet pray for one another (James 5:16). May our sanctification be ever increasing, (Hebrews 2:11) while yet we live our God will be glorified (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12). |
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466 | Manumission | Rev 17:17 | DocTrinsograce | 242708 | ||
"Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace." --Charles H. Spurgeon |
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467 | The Holiness of Their Pastor | Rom 6:19 | DocTrinsograce | 242707 | ||
"When asked what he felt was the greatest need of his congregation, Robert Murray McCheyne, beloved Scottish pastor of the 1800s, replied, 'The holiness of their pastor.' Such holiness requires a continuous consecration. But the danger of a careless handling of consecration extends to the layman as well: We are all more susceptible to any form of temptation when we have failed in consecration. Ongoing consecration is preventive medicine and a great deterrent of sin." --Clyde Cranford, from his book "Because We Love Him: Embracing a Life of Holiness" |
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468 | The Word which You Have Heard | 1 John 2:7 | DocTrinsograce | 242705 | ||
"We believe the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God, and are the only Rule of Faith, and Practice; all things being contained therein that are necessary for us to know concerning God, and our Duty unto Him, and also unto all Men. That all Persons ought to read, hear, and understand the holy Scriptures. That the Light of Nature [our reason], and Works of Providence [the observable creation], though they declare plainly there is a God, yet not so effectually as the holy Scriptures; nor can we know without them how, and in what space of time God created all things. Neither came we any other ways but by the holy Scriptures to the Knowledge of Christ the blessed Mediator; which indeed none can savingly know but by the Word and Spirit of God." --Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) |
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469 | Biblical Christianity | Rom 11:2 | DocTrinsograce | 242700 | ||
"Reformed Theology is just the nickname for Biblical Christianity." --Charles H. Spurgeon |
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470 | Lay it Forth! | Jer 12:16 | DocTrinsograce | 242699 | ||
"The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections. Study is like a winter sun, that shines, but warms not: but meditation is like a blowing upon the fire, where we do not mind the blaze, but the heat. The end of study is to hoard up truth; but of meditation to lay it forth in conference or holy conversation." --Thomas Manton (1620-1677) |
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471 | Sabbath to Sunday Worship? | NT general | DocTrinsograce | 242693 | ||
Hi, Justme... In the absence of anything to the contrary, either Scriptural or even apocryphal, an appropriate answer would be: all of them. See Ephesians 2:19-22. The church was built on the kerygma (the teachings of Christ and the Apostles). We would be in grievous error to assume that there were contradictory views handed down to His church (see Ephesians 4:7-14). The Judaizers of Paul's time continued to plague the church -- despite the explicit instruction in Galatians and Hebrews. This issue became such a problem that in 364 AD a council was convened in Phrygia Pacatiana, called the Council of Laodicea. Article 29 states the following: "Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ." Throughout the Reformation this was affirmed with the same language of Sunday as being the "Lord's Day." You can also read similar affirmations by the old divines in the Heidelberg Catechism, the Synod of Dort, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Savoy Declaration, etc. Various commentators also affirm this, often citing early church fathers (e.g., John Calvin, John Gill, Robert Jamieson, etc.). In Him, Doc |
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472 | Acquiring the Righteousness of God | 1 Tim 6:18 | DocTrinsograce | 242669 | ||
“25. He is not righteous who does much, but he who, without work, believes much in Christ. “For the righteousness of God is not acquired by means of acts frequently repeated, as Aristotle taught, but it is imparted by faith, for ‘He who through faith is righteous shall live’ (Romans 1:17), and ‘Man believes with his heart and so is justified’ (Rom. 10:10). Therefore I wish to have the words ‘without work’ understood in the following manner: Not that the righteous person does nothing, but that his works do not make him righteous, rather that his righteousness creates works. For grace and faith are infused without our works. After they have been imparted the works follow. Thus Romans 3:20 states, ‘No human being will be justified in His sight by works of the law,’ and, ‘For we hold that man is justified by faith apart from works of law’ (Romans 3:28). In other words, works contribute nothing to justification. “Therefore man knows that works which he does by such faith are not his but God's. For this reason he does not seek to become justified or glorified through them, but seeks God. His justification by faith in Christ is sufficient to him. Christ is his wisdom, righteousness, etc., as 1 Corinthians 1:30 has it, that he himself may be Christ's vessel and instrument (operatio seu instrumentum).” –Martin Luther (from the Heidelberg Disputation) |
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473 | An Essential Connection addendum | Job 34:2 | DocTrinsograce | 242663 | ||
I rather like these sort of pithy aphorisms... this one is even better than the last one! "Mastering the Bible is not the same thing as being mastered by the Bible." --Douglas VanderMeulen |
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474 | An Essential Connection | Job 34:2 | DocTrinsograce | 242659 | ||
I rather like these sort of pithy aphorisms: "If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible." --Alistair Begg |
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475 | The Minister's Bible | Eph 5:13 | DocTrinsograce | 242656 | ||
O God of truth, I thank thee for the holy Scriptures, their precepts, promises, directions, light. In them may I learn more of Christ, be enabled to retain his truth and have grace to follow it. Help me to lift up the gates of my soul that he may come in and show me himself when I search the Scriptures, for I have no lines to fathom its depths, no wings to soar to its heights. By his aid may I be enabled to explore all its truths, love them with all my heart, embrace them with all my power, engraft them into my life. Bless to my soul all grains of truth garnered from thy Word; may they take deep root, be refreshed by heavenly dew, be ripened by heavenly rays, be harvested to my joy and thy praise. Help me to gain profit by what I read, as treasure beyond all treasure, a fountain which can replenish my dry heart, its waters flowing through me as a perennial river on-drawn by thy Holy Spirit. Enable me to distil from its pages faithful prayer that grasps the arm of thy omnipotence, achieves wonders, obtains blessings, and draws down streams of mercy From it show me how my words have often been unfaithful to thee, injurious to my fellow-men, empty of grace, full of folly, dishonouring to my calling. Then write thy own words upon my heart and inscribe them on my lips; So shall all glory be to thee in my reading of thy Word! |
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476 | The Measure | Deut 18:19 | DocTrinsograce | 242650 | ||
"The true Christian was intended by Christ to prove all things by the Word of God, all churches, all ministers, all teaching, all preaching, all doctrines, all sermons, all writings, all opinions, all practices. These are the marching orders. Prove all by the Word of God; measure all by the measure of the Bible; Compare all with the standard of the Bible; weigh all in the balances of the Bible; examine all by the light of the Bible; test all in the crucible of the Bible. That which cannot abide the fire of the Bible, reject, refuse, repudiate, and case away. This is the flag which He nailed to the mast. May it never be lowered!" --John Wycliffe (1320-1384) |
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477 | October 31, 1513 | Heb 4:16 | DocTrinsograce | 242644 | ||
I used to be good with dates. Went to my pastor's home and saw his address (1066) and immediately thought "Battle of Hastings." Nonetheless, this week, I keep thinking 1513 as Reformation Day. Oy. I'm getting old. It's actually 1517. In two years it will be an even 500 years! |
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478 | October 31, 1513 | Heb 4:16 | DocTrinsograce | 242643 | ||
Have a blessed and happy Reformation Day! (Don't forget to turn your clocks back!) |
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479 | is eating on graves a sin ? | Bible general | DocTrinsograce | 242642 | ||
Dear Ed, When I was a young lad, we would occasionally visit the graves of some of the family who had passed. I remember quite clearly getting my ears boxed for walking on a grave. It was quite confusing for a little guy, because the demarcation around graves is often not so obvious. Years later I asked my mother why we avoided walking on graves. She told me that she didn't know; but that every time she did as a little girl her mother would hit her. :-) Years later I found out that it was something to be avoided for very practical reasons. Apparently it was not uncommon for the grave to collapse. I have to admit, though, that your reasons make a lot more sense. After all, we know that the bodies of the dead will one day be resurrected. Thus, the body, a gift from God, is to be cared for in a proper and dignified manner. Thank you for your comments. In Him, Doc |
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480 | Lack of Knowledge of God | 1 Cor 15:34 | DocTrinsograce | 242632 | ||
"Listen to yourself speak, saying, 'The knowledge of God has no practical application.' Do you know why all your Christian bookstores are filled up with self-help books, and five ways to do this or that, and six ways to be godly, and 10 ways not to fall? -- because people don't know God! And so they have to be given all sorts of trivial little devices of the flesh to keep them walking as sheep ought to walk! 'Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame' (1 Corinthians 15:34). Why the rampant sinning even among God's people? It is a lack of the knowledge of God!" --Paul Washer |
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