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Results from: Notes On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: DocTrinsograce Ordered by Date |
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521 | With Lovingkindness Have I Drawn Thee | Jer 31:3 | DocTrinsograce | 242346 | ||
"In the very beginning, when this great universe lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in the acorn cup; long before the echoes awoke the solitudes; before the mountains were brought forth; and long before the light flashed through the sky, God loved His chosen creatures. Before there was any created being --- when the ether was not fanned by an angel's wing, when space itself had not an existence, where there was nothing save God alone --- even then, in that loneliness of Deity, and in that deep quiet and profundity, His heart moved with love for His chosen. Their names were written on His heart, and then were they dear to His soul. Jesus loved His people before the foundation of the world --- even from eternity! and when He called me by His grace, He said to me, 'I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.'" --Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
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522 | An Old Puritan Prayer | 2 Cor 4:14 | DocTrinsograce | 242342 | ||
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be delivered from it with gratitude to Thee, acknowledging this as the highest testimony of Thy love. When thy Son, Jesus, came into my soul instead of sin He became more dear to me than sin had formerly been; His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. Teach me to believe that if ever I would have any sin subdued I must not only labor to overcome it, but must invite Christ to abide in the place of it, and He must become to me more than vile lust had been; that His sweetness, power, life may be there. Thus I must seek a grace from Him contrary to sin, but must not claim it apart from Himself. When I am afraid of evils to come, comfort me by showing me that in myself I am a dying, condemned wretch, but in Christ I am reconciled and live; that in myself I find insufficiency and no rest, but in Christ there is satisfaction and peace; that in myself I am feeble and unable to do good, but in Christ I have ability to do all things. Though now I have His graces in part, I shall shortly have them perfectly in that state where Thou wilt show Thyself fully reconciled, and alone sufficient, efficient, loving me completely, with sin abolished. O Lord, hasten that day. |
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523 | Sanctify yourself... | Ezek 44:24 | DocTrinsograce | 242326 | ||
"Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society." --Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) |
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524 | Why Jesus came | Bible general | DocTrinsograce | 242322 | ||
Hi, Wash... Fortunately, God has gifted us His Word (Deuteronomy 29:29; Hebrews 1:1-2). It is the "only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience." What a blessing! It is all right there! In Him, Doc |
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525 | Why Jesus came | Bible general | DocTrinsograce | 242318 | ||
Hi, Wash... I think the first reference to the necessity and the promise of His coming was Genesis 3:15. In fact, there is a fancy theology term for that verse: the protoevangelium; which literally means the first formed message of the gospel. Wouldn't it have been wonderful to be on the road to Emmaus to have heard our Lord discuss all the references to His advent (Luke 24:27)? I wonder how many we Christians have missed over these two millennia? Thank you for drawing our attention to this food for thought. In Him, Doc |
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526 | Who am I in the Bible story? | Luke 5:32 | DocTrinsograce | 242308 | ||
"Corollary to the RC Sproul Jr. Principle of Hermeneutics: if you want to know who you are in a Bible story, you're the sinner." --RC Sproul Jr. (2015) |
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527 | Prepare the Way! | Is 40:4 | DocTrinsograce | 242304 | ||
Prepare the way, O Zion, your Christ is drawing near! Let every hill and valley a level way appear. Greet One who comes in glory, foretold in sacred story. O blest is Christ that came in God's most holy name. Christ brings God's rule, O Zion; He comes from heaven above. His rule is peace and freedom, and justice, truth, and love. Lift high your praise resounding, for grace and joy abounding. O blest is Christ that came in God's most holy name. Fling wide your gates, O Zion; your Savior's rule embrace. And tidings of salvation proclaim in every place. All lands will bow rejoicing, their adoration voicing. O blest is Christ that came in God's most holy name. --Frans Mikael Franzen (1771-1847) |
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528 | Where Saints and Angels Glorify His Name | Ezek 3:12 | DocTrinsograce | 242303 | ||
"[In His Place] i.e., from heaven, where saints and angels glorify His name without ceasing or satiety. Monica, after a discourse with her son Augustine about the happiness of heaven, concluded thus: 'As for me, what make I here, since I take no more pleasure in anything that is here to be had?' ... 'To be with Christ is far better,' is a Christian's emblem, and should be his ambition." --John Trapp (1601-1669) |
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529 | Discerning the Leading of Holy Spirit | Ps 143:10 | DocTrinsograce | 242301 | ||
As I thought about the implications of this teaching, I began to list the following corresponding counter-points: 1. Resistance to the Holy Spirit is, therefore, my rebellion to God's command. (Acts 7:51) 2. Resistance to the Holy Spirit is my taking the heavy yoke and my refusing the light yoke. (Matthew 11:29-30) 3. Resistance to the Holy Spirit is my embracing the devil's chaos and my refusing rest. (cf Luke 11:24) 4. Resistance to the Holy Spirit is pride, setting myself above the authority of God, and drawing to myself all that is due by sin. (Romans 7:25) My default state is to resist (Acts 7:51) rather than yield -- except by God's grace and mercy (1 Peter 1:2-3). Plus, He has kindly given to us the Word, so that we need not be untaught and unstable and unstable (2 Peter 3:16). |
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530 | Discerning the Leading of Holy Spirit | Ps 143:10 | DocTrinsograce | 242300 | ||
I appreciate the encouragement, sister Azure. | ||||||
531 | Discerning the Leading of Holy Spirit | Ps 143:10 | DocTrinsograce | 242297 | ||
1. The leading of the Spirit, he says, is regular, that is, according to the regulum: the rule of Scripture. The Spirit does not work in us to give us a new rule of life, but to help us understand and apply the rule contained in Scripture. Thus, the fundamental question to ask about any guidance will be: Is this course of action consistent with the Word of God? 2. The commands of the Spirit are not grievous. They are in harmony with the Word, and the Word is in harmony with the believer as new creation. The Christian believer consciously submitted to the Word will find pleasure in obeying that Word, even if the Lord’s way for us is marked by struggle, pain, and sorrow. Christ’s yoke fits well; His burden never crushes the spirit. 3. The “motions” of the Spirit are orderly. Just as God’s covenant is ordered in all things and secure, (2 Samuel 23:5) so the promised gift of that covenant, the indwelling Spirit, is orderly in the way in which He deals with us. Restlessness is not a mark of communion with the Spirit but of the activity of the evil one. 4. The “motions,” or promptings of the Spirit always tend to glorify God according to His Word. He brings Jesus’ teaching into our memories; He glorifies the Savior; He pours into our hearts a profound sense of the love of God for us. --Sinclair Ferguson (2015), summarizing John Owen (1615-1683) |
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532 | 'Tis not that I did Choose Thee | John 6:69 | DocTrinsograce | 242296 | ||
'Tis not that I did choose thee, For, Lord, that could not be; This heart would still refuse thee, Hadst thou not chosen me. Thou from the sin that stained me Hast cleansed and set me free; Of old thou hast ordained me, That I should live to thee. 'Twas sovereign mercy called me And taught my opening mind; The world had else enthralled me, To heavenly glories blind. My heart owns none before thee, For thy rich grace I thirst; This knowing, if I love thee, Thou must have loved me first. --Josiah Conder (1836) |
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533 | The Kingdom of God | Luke 8:1 | DocTrinsograce | 242291 | ||
"For if we inquire whence it [Kingdom of God] is, God created it; or whence its wisdom, God illumined it; or whence its blessedness, God is its bliss. It has its form by subsisting in Him; its enlightenment by contemplating Him; its joy by abiding in Him. It is; it sees; it loves. In God’s eternity is its life; in God’s truth its light; in God’s goodness its joy." --Augustine of Hippo (354-430) |
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534 | I Lost not One | John 18:9 | DocTrinsograce | 242290 | ||
"The words thus referred to are those of John 17:12. There they primarily apply to spiritual and eternal safety; here to what is, in the first instance at least, temporal deliverance. It is impossible to imagine that the Evangelist did not understand this: but the powers of the world and of evil are so identified in his eyes that oppression by, or deliverance from, the one is oppression by, or deliverance from, the other. The temporal is the shadow of the eternal, and the principles working out upon man's stage here stretch into the long hereafter. In addition to this, however, it is to be noticed that the temporal deliverance thus afforded was really a means to secure the spiritual safety of the disciples. Seized by the Roman guard, they would in all probability have denied their Master even more faithlessly than Peter was so soon to do." --Phillip Schaff |
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535 | A Life Founded on Doctrine | 1 John 3:18 | DocTrinsograce | 242285 | ||
"The issue in the Church of the present day is not between two varieties of the same religion, but, at bottom, between two essentially different types of thought and life. There is much interlocking of the branches, but the two tendencies, Modernism and supernaturalism, or (otherwise designated) non-doctrinal religion and historic Christianity, spring from different roots. In particular, I tried to show that Christianity is not a 'life,' as distinguished from a doctrine, and not a life that has doctrine as its changing symbolic expression, but that -- exactly the other way around -- it is a life founded on a doctrine." --J. Gresham Machen (1923) |
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536 | the SBF what can we do? | John 17:17 | DocTrinsograce | 242283 | ||
Hi, justme... I did not mean to disparage your question, or to imply that it was not an important one. As a believer I have come to understand the necessity of prayer in every endeavor. As Solomon put it, "Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain." (Psalms 127:1) We are here about His work, His purpose, and His plan, His word. If the SBF is man's work, man's purpose, man's plan, or man's word, then it will fade. See Psalm 33:16-18. Our brother Hank knew these things very well, for it was about these things that I spoke to him in his final weeks. I am certain that he now knows them certainly than ever in this life. Our final conversation was about 2 Corinthians 1. See how that passage fits in the SBF effort? Nonetheless, do not assume that because there are few who post, that this is not something entirely under God's control. Our faith is rooted in things that are more certain than what we see, more concrete than what we feel, and more secure than what we know. Shall we demonstrate our confidence in the God we serve by petitioning Him to magnify Himself, even though we diminish? Shall we not evidence our hope by continuing even when our numbers are few? Hank even asserted to us once that the greatest battle of the believer was perseverance and endurance (post #60800). What is more, he affirmed a call to prayer (post #21177). Why shan't we do both? In Him, Doc |
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537 | Women in Obedience to God | Acts 17:4 | DocTrinsograce | 242278 | ||
"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God." --Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) |
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538 | Truth at all costs! | Is 42:21 | DocTrinsograce | 242274 | ||
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” --Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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539 | Let God be God | Acts 7:32 | DocTrinsograce | 242270 | ||
"Let God be God." --Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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540 | I, the LORD, do not Change | Mal 3:6 | DocTrinsograce | 242259 | ||
"To some the phrase 'without body, parts and passions' appearing in a Christian confession, matters not. What's in a phrase? Isn't this just rhetoric? No. it isn't. This phrase compresses a whole theology, in the narrow sense of a doctrine of God. ... [it] expresses the purest theism, the theism of catholic Christianity." --Paul Helm |
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