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Results from: Notes On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: DocTrinsograce Ordered by Verse |
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5681 | Did Jesus Spend Saturday in Hell? | 1 Pet 4:6 | DocTrinsograce | 241478 | ||
"I would say, therefore, that there is no textual basis in the New Testament for claiming that between Good Friday and Easter Christ was preaching to souls imprisoned in hell or Hades. There is textual basis for saying that he would be with the repentant thief in Paradise 'today' (Luke 23:43), and one does not get the impression that he means a defective place from which the thief must then be delivered by more preaching." --John Piper (2012) http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/did-jesus-spend-saturday-in-hell--2 |
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5682 | how be better emphasized vaue of prayer | 1 Pet 4:7 | DocTrinsograce | 182334 | ||
John Bevere: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/bevere.html |
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5683 | Treasures in Heaven | 1 Pet 4:9 | DocTrinsograce | 219855 | ||
"Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling lose by keeping it; so while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it." --Joseph Hall | ||||||
5684 | A SIN TO FILE BANKRUPTCY | 1 Pet 4:10 | DocTrinsograce | 130173 | ||
Looks like Ed has found the way that doesn't involve the sinister thought or deed! But Hank... Borneo? I wouldn't think of that as a place with a "Shangri-la." Anyway... with the credit limits I'd probably get, though, we'd only make it as far as Pflugerville, Texas. :-) |
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5685 | Understanding Scripture | 1 Pet 4:13 | DocTrinsograce | 160352 | ||
"There are three rules for understanding Scripture: praying, meditating and suffering trials. The 'trials,' Luther said, are supremely valuable: they 'teach you not only to know and understand but also to experience how right, how true, how sweet, how lovely, how mighty, how comforting God's word is: it is wisdom supreme.'" John Piper (quoting Martin Luther) | ||||||
5686 | Command, not a Life-Style Option | 1 Pet 4:17 | DocTrinsograce | 186296 | ||
"Should we say, 'perhaps you should try Jesus as you savior' ...almost with a consumer market oriented mentality'?. 'There are lots of religious options and if you try this particular religious option you might like it.' No ... rather, Jesus is Lord and He will soon be invading with His armies. He is offering pardon in advance of His invasion and should you receive the pardon and ally yourself with Him now before He invades, when He comes you will be considered His ally and He will raise you to Kingship. The alternative is to be under the wrath of the king. It is not some kind of religious option. It is an announcement that a new king is on the throne and he'll be invading. The gospel is not an invitation to an array of a buffet style choices, it is a command. Will you heed the command? Jesus is Lord, repent and believe." --William Wilder | ||||||
5687 | Impacting the Culture | 1 Pet 4:17 | DocTrinsograce | 196625 | ||
"All the calls to 'reclaim America for Christ' leave me cold. Our real need is to reclaim the church for Christ. When Christ is exalted in His church, when He is loved and revered and cherished with passion by those who bear His Name -- in other words, when the church starts living like the church -- then His body cannot help but make an impact on culture." --Tony Ascol | ||||||
5688 | Endurance | 1 Pet 4:19 | DocTrinsograce | 162868 | ||
"God whispers to us in health and prosperity, but, being hard of hearing, we fail to hear God's voice in both. Whereupon God turns up the amplifier by means of suffering. Then His voice booms!" --C. S. Lewis "If in fact we believe that our sin properly deserves the wrath of God, then when we experience the sufferings of this world, all of them the consequences of human rebellion, we will be less quick to blame God and a lot quicker to recognize that we have no fundamental right to expect a life of unbroken ease and comfort." --D. A. Carson |
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5689 | Examples to the Flock | 1 Pet 5:3 | DocTrinsograce | 242032 | ||
"We believe that the Holy Spirit is greater than man's spirit, and that our Lord and Master was a better judge of what is right and good than any of us can be. Our place is at His feet: we are not cavillers, but followers. Whatever Jesus does and says, we regard with deepest reverence; our chief desire is to learn as much as we can from it. We see great mysteries in His simplest actions, and profound teaching about His plainest words. When He speaks or acts, we are like Moses at the bush, and feel that we stand on holy ground." --Charles Spurgeon (1889) |
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5690 | Abasing Man's Pride | 1 Pet 5:6 | DocTrinsograce | 170133 | ||
"Those who understand the nature of the Gospel, and live under its power, can enter into its blessed design. All its doctrines, precepts, and promises, are calculated to abase the pride of man, to exalt the glory of Christ, to reveal the malignity of sin, the beauty of holiness, the vanity of the world, the bliss of heaven; to show the sinner his utter helplessness, to reveal to Jesus an all sufficient Savior. "Pride wants its share of merit in the work of redemption, but Truth levels the proud pretension in the dust. "Proud man must be humbled, the idol self must be dethroned!" --Thomas Reade (1835) |
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5691 | No Vague Piety | 1 Pet 5:7 | DocTrinsograce | 243640 | ||
"The Christians of Asia Minor were being tested under difficult circumstances. They were being challenged and even harassed because of their Christian faith. We know that some of them were slaves and faced the temptation of disobeying unjust masters. It is not difficult for us to imagine how Christians were regarded by a surrounding culture that was largely pagan because that is the world in which you and I now live. We know that the Christians were misunderstood as being arrogant because they refused to go along with established Greco-Roman religious worship. They could not acknowledge Caesar (just now, Nero) as a deity. Their worship was misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misrepresented. ... We are entitled to think that the Lord, the Kyrios, the Yahweh, upon whom we are to cast our cares is he who became incarnate for us, who obeyed for us, who, as the God-Man, in his humanity suffered in our place, who was raised for us, and is now seated at the right hand. He is God. He is Son and our Mediator. "Thus, when Peter quotes Ps 55:22, calling us to cast our cares, our worries upon the Lord because he cares for us, this is not a vague piety but a specific reminder of the greatest of all of God’s concrete saving acts in history: the cross. Our God cannot abandon us because he has committed himself to us in his Son. As the Psalmist says, he will sustain us, because he saved us. He will not allow his righteous to be shaken." --R. Scott Clark (2016) |
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5692 | Does he still have access to heaven? | 1 Pet 5:8 | DocTrinsograce | 197441 | ||
Hi, Michael... Thank you for pointing me to this verse. A critical issue relative to our discussion is the "when" of this passage. Perhaps my familiarity with various eschatological positions is lacking, I certainly haven't invested a lot of time in studying the question. I think I understand how Revelation 12 is dealt with by Preterism and Amillenialism. Is your exegesis of this passage rooted in one of those perspectives? I don't want to argue the eschatology point... but I would like to know about it if the other views see Revelation 12 as being described as having already come to pass. In Him, Doc |
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5693 | Not for the Timid | 1 Pet 5:9 | DocTrinsograce | 236876 | ||
"The life of the disciple is not for the timid. Most would rather give in to sin than go through the painful work of picking up a cross and nailing their flesh to it." --Kris Lundgaard, from The Enemy Within (1998) | ||||||
5694 | Dumbing Down the Gospel | 1 Pet 5:10 | DocTrinsograce | 199912 | ||
"Some modern divines whittle away the Gospel to the small end of nothing; they make our Divine Lord to be a sort of blessed nobody; they bring down salvation to mere possibility; they make certainties into probabilities and treat verities as mere opinions. When you see a preacher making the Gospel smaller by degrees, and miserably less, till there is not enough of it left to make soup for a sick grasshopper, get you gone with him! As for me, I believe in an infinite God, an infinite atonement, infinite love and mercy, an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, and of which the substance and reality is an Infinite Christ." --Charles H. Spurgeon | ||||||
5695 | The Theology of the Cross | 1 Pet 5:11 | DocTrinsograce | 243787 | ||
"Most of the errors and heresies that have plagued American Christianity have been re-runs of earlier errors. Most such errors have been reflections of the surrounding culture and the most distinctive American error is no exception: the health and wealth theology. It teaches that if we do x (have the right quality of faith or write a sufficiently large check), God will be obligated to reward us with prosperity. "American civil and economic life has offered a remarkably successful path to social and economic mobility. Dirt-poor farmers and the sons of alcoholics have become presidents, memorialized on currency and in statues. One of our great temptations, however, has been to turn the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Triune God, who spoke creation into existence ex nihilo (from nothing) and into nothing, who out of His free, sovereign grace, has redeemed his people from destruction, into a cosmic slot machine. "Because Americans are so industrious and busy we are not great readers of history. After more than 50 years of chipping away at the American educational system, most of us probably lack a strong sense of the uniqueness of the American political, social, and economic experiment. We also probably lack a clear sense that the prosperity and civil liberties that we have enjoyed are quite unique in human history. To the degree we lack the sense of the uniqueness of the American experience, we might assume that Christians have always enjoyed the sorts of freedoms that we enjoy (most of the time). Such an assumption would be false. Certainly when the Apostle Peter wrote these two epistles to the churches of Asia Minor, those believers enjoyed none of the liberties that we know and may take for granted. The believers to whom Peter wrote were largely made up of the underclass of Greco-Roman society. They were not prosperous. Many of them were not free. They were not influential. They were objects of misunderstanding, derision, and hostility. ...they were likely aware that some of their brothers and sisters had been covered with pitch and set afire in Rome simply because Caesar needed a scapegoat and the Christians, a despised, powerless minority, were to hand. "Here Peter begins to conclude the epistle just as he began it: with a stirring reminder that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. For Christ’s sake God is favorable toward believers. This is Peter’s understanding of grace. It is not a medicinal substance with which we are infused. It is only God’s favor, his approval, his unconditional reception of his people, through faith alone, for Christ’s sake alone." --R. Scott Clark (2016) |
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5696 | True Grace of God | 1 Pet 5:12 | DocTrinsograce | 243047 | ||
"'By the grace of God I am what I am.' (1 Corinthians 15:10) "What but sovereign grace -- rich, free and superabounding grace -- has made the difference between you and the world who cannot receive Him? But [except] for His divine operations upon your soul, you would still be of the world, hardening your heart against everything good and godlike, walking on in the pride and ignorance of unbelief and self-righteousness, until you sank down into the chambers of death!" --J. C. Philpot (1802-1869) |
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5697 | All Who are in Christ | 1 Pet 5:14 | DocTrinsograce | 240486 | ||
"Union with Christ is a very inclusive subject. It embraces the wide span of salvation from its ultimate source in eternal election of God to its final fruition in the glorification of the elect. It is not simply a phase of the application of redemption; it underlies every aspect of redemption both in its accomplishment and its application. Union with Christ binds all together and insures that to all for whom Christ has purchased redemption He effectively applies and communicates the same." --John Murray (1898-1975) | ||||||
5698 | The error addressed in 2 Peter | 2 Peter | DocTrinsograce | 224810 | ||
You said that so much more succinctly than did I! :-) | ||||||
5699 | Doctrine of the Sufficiency of the Word | 2 Pet 1:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243738 | ||
"Just before her martyrdom [July 1553], Lady Jane Grey inscribed a few words in her copy of the New Testament that she was leaving for her sister. She wrote of how outwardly it was not trimmed in gold, as some of the finer books in her library were, but 'it is inwardly worth more than precious stones.' Peter speaks of God's granting us 'all things that pertain to life and godliness' in the 'precious and very great promises' of His Word (2 Peter 1:3–4). God's Word is sufficient to tell us what we must believe to be saved and how we can please God." --Stephen Nichols (2016) |
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5700 | Epinosis -- Deep, Sanctified, Knowledge | 2 Pet 1:2 | DocTrinsograce | 199773 | ||
"Let us beware of an unsanctified knowledge of Christianity. It is a dangerous possession, but a fearfully common one in these latter days. We may know the Bible intellectually, and have no doubt about the truth of its contents. We may have our memories well stored with its leading texts, and be able to talk glibly about its leading doctrines. And all this time the Bible may have no influence over our hearts, and wills, and consciences. We may, in reality, be nothing better than the devils. "Let it never content us to know religion with our heads only. We may go on all our lives saying, 'I know that, and I know that,' and sink at last into hell, with the words upon our lips. Let us see that our knowledge bears fruit in our lives. Does our knowledge of sin make us hate it? Does our knowledge of Christ make us trust and love Him? Does our knowledge of God’s will make us strive to do it? Does our knowledge of the fruits of the Spirit make us labor to show them in our daily behavior? "Knowledge of this kind is really profitable. Any other religious knowledge will only add to our condemnation at the last day." --Bishop J. C. Ryle |
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