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5781 | Loving Christ | 1 John 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 186173 | ||
"First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His Father; and if the Head is in heaven, where should the members be but where the Head is? Shall Christ our Head be in heaven, and shall our hearts, which are His members, lie groveling on the ground and panting after the dust of the earth, making all our inquiry and labor after these? 'If Christ our Head be risen, seek those things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand.'" --Christopher Love | ||||||
5782 | Prayer, Meditation, and Obedience | 1 John 2:21 | DocTrinsograce | 233550 | ||
"The knowledge of divine things to which Christians are called is more than a formal acquaintance with biblical words and Christian ideas. It is a realizing of the reality and relevance of those activities of the triune God to which Scripture testifies. Such awareness is natural to none, familiar with Christian ideas though they may be (like 'the man without the Spirit' in 1 Cor. 2:14 who cannot receive what Christians tell him, or the blind leaders of the blind of whom Jesus speaks so caustically in Matthew 15:14, or like Paul himself before Christ met him on the Damascus road). Only the Holy Spirit, searcher of the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2:10), can bring about this realization in our sin-darkened minds and hearts. That is why it is called 'spiritual understanding' (spiritual means 'Spirit-given,' Colossians 1:9; cf. Luke 24:25; 1 John 5:20). Those who, along with sound verbal instruction, 'have an anointing from the Holy One... know the truth' (1 John 2:20). "The work of the Spirit in imparting this knowledge is called 'illumination,' or enlightening. It is not a giving of new revelation, but a work within us that enables us to grasp and to love the revelation that is there before us in the biblical text as heard and read, and as explained by teachers and writers. Sin in our mental and moral system clouds our minds and wills so that we miss and resist the force of Scripture. God seems to us remote to the point of unreality, and in the face of God's truth we are dull and apathetic. The Spirit, however, opens and unveils our minds and attunes our hearts so that we understand (Ephesians 1:17-18; 3:18-19; 2 Corinthians 3:14-16; 4:6). As by inspiration He provided Scripture truth for us, so now by illumination He interprets it to us. Illumination is thus the applying of God's revealed truth to our hearts, so that we grasp as reality for ourselves what the sacred text sets forth. "Illumination, which is a lifelong ministry of the Holy Spirit to Christians, starts before conversion with a growing grasp of the truth about Jesus and a growing sense of being measured and exposed by it. Jesus said that the Spirit would 'convict the world' of the sin of not believing in Him, of the fact that He was in the right with God the Father (as His welcome back to heaven proved), and of the reality of judgment both here and hereafter (John 16:8-11). This threefold conviction is still God's means of making sin repulsive and Christ adorable in the eyes of persons who previously loved sin and cared nothing for the divine Savior. "The way to benefit fully from the Spirit's ministry of illumination is by serious Bible study, serious prayer, and serious response in obedience to whatever truths one has been shown already. This corresponds to Luther's dictum that three things make a theologian: oratio (prayer), meditatio (thinking in God's presence about the text), and tentatio (trial, the struggle for biblical fidelity in the face of pressure to disregard what Scripture says)." --James I. Packer |
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5783 | Abiding Truth | 1 John 2:24 | DocTrinsograce | 241997 | ||
"Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by His Spirit." --Thomas Boston (1676-1732) |
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5784 | Theological Term: Eternal State | 1 John 2:25 | DocTrinsograce | 152928 | ||
The theological term "eternal state" refers to the condition of human beings after the resurrection. The Scripture speaks of two resurrections, one for the elect and another for the reprobate (cf. Revelation 20:4-5). This is a series of observations by Dr. Terry Chrisope of Missouri Baptist University: I. The eternal state will involve bodily existence (see in particular Paul's explanation in 1 Corinthians 15) "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." (1 Thessalonians 4:14) "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:23) Christ's resurrection is the pledge and model of our own: "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself." (Philippians 3:20-21) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming." (1 Corinthians 15:20, 23) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." (1 John 3:2) We cannot speak particularly about resurrected bodies, except that it is clear that they will be well suited to the environments that human beings will occupy for eternity. However, if we want to know what God is going to do with us in the future, look to the resurrection of Christ; His bodily resurrection argues for a bodily future for us. II. The eternal state will be earthly (see in particular Revelation 21 and 22) "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain." (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22) "Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." (2 Peter 3:13) "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." (Revelation 21:3-4) "And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God." (Revelation 21:10) 1. Redemption restores and renews creation, it does not destroy it or provide an escape from it "And Jesus said unto them [the disciples], 'Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'" (Matthew 19:28) "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." (Acts 3:21) (Theologians refer to this as the palingenesis; i.e., the restoration. Note: This is not to be confused with the word as used in pagan and New Age teachings.) 2. Redemption is from sin, not from creation "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21) "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our BODY." (Romans 8:23, my emphasis) |
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5785 | Big Differences | 1 John 2:26 | DocTrinsograce | 149552 | ||
"The idea that there are really no substantive differences between religions needs to be held up to careful scrutiny and declared fraudulent. For example, Islam says that Jesus was not crucified. Christianity says He was. Only one of us can be right. Judaism says Jesus was not the Messiah. Christianity says He was. Only one of us can be right. Hinduism says God has often been incarnate. Christianity says God was incarnate only in Jesus. We cannot both be right. Buddhism says that the world's miseries will end when we do what is right. Christianity says we cannot do what is right. The world's miseries will end when we believe what is right" --Alistair Begg (from, "Made for His Pleasure") | ||||||
5786 | Pharisees of the New Millennium | 1 John 2:28 | DocTrinsograce | 238410 | ||
"We desire experience more than knowledge. We prefer choices to absolutes. We embrace preferences rather than truths. We seek comfort rather than growth. Faith must come on our terms or we reject it. We have enthroned ourselves as the final arbiters of righteousness, the ultimate rulers of our own experience and destiny. We are the Pharisees of the new millennium." --George Barna (1998) | ||||||
5787 | Actual bodies in heaven? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 213874 | ||
Dear Beja, Theologians call the period of time after death and before resurrection as the "interim state." "The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption; but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them. The souls of the righteous being then made perfect in holiness, are received into paradise, where they are with Christ, and behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies; and the souls of the wicked are cast into hell; where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day; besides these two places, for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none. (Genesis 3:19; Acts 13:36; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 5:1, 6,8; Philippians 1:23; Hebrews 12:23; Jude 6, 7; 1 Peter 3:19; Luke 16:23, 24)" --1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (chapter 31, paragraph 1) Note that the interim state is an abnormal state. Men were not meant to be beings separate from their bodies. Nor were men meant to dwell eternally in heaven. After glorification, when God restores His creation, men will again dwell upon the earth in the state for which they were created. There is an erroneous teaching that is common today that believers will receive "new bodies" in glory. We believe in the resurrection of the body, not the creation of a brand new body. Certainly these resurrected bodies will be renewed in some distinctly unique ways. Even the resurrected bodies of the lost will have characteristics that will differ from how they were while they lived on the earth. In Him, Doc |
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5788 | Actual bodies in heaven? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 213901 | ||
Sorry... I am wont to pontificate! :-) Besides which, I was thinking this week about that error, which is being promulgated by Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel. |
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5789 | Actual bodies in heaven? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 214091 | ||
Hi, Keliy... Interesting, that Smith says, "it is unwise to speculate upon the true nature of our resurrected bodies" given that post #213934 has so much of that. So, were those his unwise speculations, or your own? You wrote, "Can I ask you to give one verse to support that our bodies will be unchanged, or the same as we know them in this life?" Yes, you can. Let's not use straw men arguments, though. In Him, Doc |
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5790 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 214125 | ||
Hi, bibleman12... I've read at least two of Watchman Nee's books, although not the one you were citing... Reading them did, indeed, help me make the decision to reject them. Of course, if I had had the wisdom to hear the criticisms of Nee by those more learned than myself, I'd have been able to spend my time reading things of a more doctrinally sound nature. Proverbs 18:13 experimentally borne out, I guess. Nonetheless, given my experience with "The Normal Christian Life," I think I'm safe in preemptively rejecting "The Spiritual Man." In Him, Doc |
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5791 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 214215 | ||
Hi, Bibleman12... We need to take care that we don't put words into people's mouths. Our Lord Jesus tells us that we will give account for every idle word (Matthew 12:36), but none of us will be required to give account for something we've not said. We who take the name of our Lord, will want to properly reflect His character by highly regarding truth, explicitly and tacitly. After all, we care little about being personally justified, but we care a great deal about searching out and clinging to that which is true. Therefore, I will rephrase your question, "Could you share a bit of what you found in the book that caused you to reject it?" I'm afraid that I can share but little. I have a difficult enough time remembering those things that are good, true, honest, pure, just, etc. Consequently, I can recall a lot more from Jonathan Edward's "The Freedom of the Will" than I can of Watchman Nee's "The Normal Christian Life" -- even though I read the former before I read the latter. I seem to recall that Nee's exegesis of Romans didn't jibe with orthodoxy. I seem to recall some dualism in his teaching as well. The last thing I recall, is that he stretched his trichotomism into his soteriology in a way that was certainly heterodoxical. Sorry, but that's about all. A sufficient amount though, that I'd not bother with Nee. Time's too precious. In Him, Doc |
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5792 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 214216 | ||
Dear Bibleman12... You wrote, "While I would agree that denominations have done more to divide the body of Christ than most demons have done..." (sic) Baptists are, historically, congregational rather than denominational -- a position we've suffered much from over the years -- but even I find that assertion of yours to be painting with a mighty broad brush! Please demonstrate that the Spirit leading you is divine by refraining from such clearly divisive statements. Aside from being contrary to the explicit wishes of our gracious host -- to which you promised when you joined the forum -- comments like that serve no constructive purpose, nor can they be supported from Scripture. In Him, Doc |
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5793 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | DocTrinsograce | 214249 | ||
Hi, Bibleman12... Hmmm... I thought I did give some specific reasons. Yes, counting ourselves dead to sin is an important principle. You might find Jerry Bridge's "The Pursuit of Holiness" even more pertinent to progressive sanctification. In addition, his works always contain sound, Biblical doctrine. In Him, Doc |
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5794 | The effects of Repentance | 1 John 3:6 | DocTrinsograce | 178929 | ||
Amen, brother Tim! Thank you for this post that pictures the nature of true repentance for us! | ||||||
5795 | The effects of Repentance | 1 John 3:6 | DocTrinsograce | 178939 | ||
If you don't mind, I'd like to add a quote from another Baptist. :-) It fits hand in glove with your post, I think. "True repentance is always accompanied by sorrow. "Repentance is a deep, radical, fundamental, lasting change; and you will find that, whenever you meet with it in Scripture, it is always accompanied with sorrow for past sin. And rest assured of this fact -- that the repentance which has no tear in its eye, and no mourning for sin in its heart, is a repentance which needs to be repented of. In such false repentance, there is no evidence of conversion, and no sign of the existence of the grace of God. "The man who knows that his sin is forgiven, does not cease to mourn for it. No, brethren, his mourning becomes deeper as his knowledge of his guilt becomes greater. His hatred of sin grows in proportion as he understands that love of Christ by which his sin is put away. "In true believers, mourning for sin is chastened and sweetened, and, in one sense, the fang of bitterness is taken out. "But, in another sense, the more we realize our indebtedness to God's grace, and the more we see of the sufferings of Christ in order to effect our redemption, the more do we hate sin, and the more do we lament that we ever fell into it. The man who has led the purest life, when he is brought before God by the humbling influence of the Holy Spirit, is the man who almost invariably considers himself to have been viler than anybody else." --Charles H. Spurgeon |
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5796 | The effects of Repentance | 1 John 3:6 | DocTrinsograce | 178941 | ||
Great addition, Brother Brad! Thank you! | ||||||
5797 | False Sources of Assurance | 1 John 3:7 | DocTrinsograce | 190450 | ||
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'" (Matthew 7:21-23) "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves … If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless." (James 1:22, 26) "Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:17-18) "I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked." (Revelation 3:15-17) |
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5798 | One born of God cannot sin? | 1 John 3:9 | DocTrinsograce | 144376 | ||
Hi, brother/sister Head... I have appreciated your posts. I hope you continue to participate on the forum. A couple of comments: I used to think that Galatians 2:20a ("I am crucified with Christ") was expressing something very specific happening as part of our justification; i.e., that the "old man" was actually crucified in some real sense. Now, however, I tend to think that Paul was using a metaphor here. Of course, I could be wrong. :-) With regards to Romans 6, I find that a lot of error creeps in from quoting Romans out of context. Romans is best read in the full context of Romans. Especially, chapters 6 through 8 must be understood as a unit. What do you think? In Him, Doc |
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5799 | 1st John 3:9 | 1 John 3:9 | DocTrinsograce | 180576 | ||
Nice, simple, and clear... I should have just waited for you to answer, Brother WOS! :-) | ||||||
5800 | 1st John 3:9 | 1 John 3:9 | DocTrinsograce | 180626 | ||
Don't confuse sheer volume with eloquence! (Proverbs 10:19) :-) | ||||||
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