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181 | TRUE HEART OF WORSHIP | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 212797 | ||
Dear Keliy, Thank you for the encouragement. There's tension in Scripture for which Scripture makes no apologies. What God has accomplished, let us go do. Because He has done it already, we are to pursue it. We resist sin, because He has delivered us from sin. We pursue sanctification, because He has sanctified us. God has hallowed His name, therefore let us strive to think, speak, act, and feel the hallowing of His name. Good thoughts. Thanks again. In Him, Doc |
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182 | TRUE HEART OF WORSHIP | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 212798 | ||
Hi, Val... Yes, contrition and repentance are manifestations of those transformed and being transformed by the Gospel (Matthew 5:3-10). As Augustine prayed so long ago, "O, God, command what You will, and grant what You command." Kay Arthur gave the broader assertion, but along the same lines, "God's provision always precedes our need." In Him, Doc |
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183 | Is this stealing? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 212888 | ||
Thank you for the encouragement, ma'am. May the Lord make His will clear to you, as you seek to walk in the light. To the end that God might be glorified, may your new year be a blessed one as well. |
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184 | Searching for the truth | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 212988 | ||
Thank you, Tim... actually you said it better than I'd have done! :-) | ||||||
185 | The United Stated in the Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213019 | ||
Hi, Keliy... No, I'm sorry, but I cannot. The leaps in logic are too numerous for me to even begin to be comfortable with their final conclusions. There's a lot of prophecy mongering out on the Internet and television. That's where you might find folks who deem themselves capable of making such connections. In Him, Doc |
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186 | The United Stated in the Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213020 | ||
Hi, Cheri... Just think about it. Identifying the US in the Bible's apocryphal writings because she is allied with the modern state of Israel... is built upon what assumptions? Now think: What happens when you build multiple, unverified assumptions into an interdependent chain? I think we've talked about this several times on the forum. In Him, Doc |
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187 | The United Stated in the Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213023 | ||
Dear Cheri, In mathematical proofs we used to use the abbreviation QED for a Latin phrase meaning "that which was to be demonstrated." In a proof it was not acceptable to build a conclusion on premises that had not yet been proven. Your string of assumptions make the point quite well. If the assumptions themselves haven't been proven, any conclusion stemming from them is doubly uncertain. In logic we call this the fallacy of presupposition; or, more familiarly, a loaded question. Justme's question committed this breach. You see, I cannot honestly answer the question if I am not persuaded that the modern Israel is equivalent to the Biblical Israel. I cannot honestly answer the question if I am not persuaded that the modern Israel is implied in passages like the latter half of Matthew 24, etc. I cannot honestly answer the question if I am not persuaded that Matthew 24 and Daniel 9 have contemporary literal relevance. I cannot honestly answer the question if I am not confident of a dispensational hermeneutic of Scripture. Etc. Etc. Etc. In Him, Doc |
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188 | The Prettiest "New American Bible"? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213505 | ||
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189 | The Prettiest "New American Bible"? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213506 | ||
...and by its quantity (Mark 4:20; John 15:8). | ||||||
190 | many are called but only few are chosen | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213511 | ||
Hi, itiswritten... God's choosing for ministry is not a matter of merit. Rather He prepares those called by making them pure in heart (Matthew 5:8), grateful (Colossians 2:7), repentant (2 Timothy 2:25), obedient servants (Romans 6:17), and lovers of the Word (1 John 2:4-5). I'm unsure as to how you might derive the call to ministry as applying to Matthew 22:14. After all, those not chosen are bound hand and foot and thrown into outer darkness per verse 13! All is written in context, itiswritten. In Him, Doc |
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191 | The Prettiest "New American Bible"? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213512 | ||
Yes, don't criticize... But, and most especially, do not leave people in their immaturity... Discern the degree of their maturity... then love them enough to encourage, exhort, correct, and reprove (2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 1:9). | ||||||
192 | many are called but only few are chosen | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213516 | ||
Dear itiswritten, There are slways two ditches alongside every road. Regeneration is entirely an act of God, it is not a cooperative act (John 3:5-8). Although the mechanisms are utterly beyond our probing, we can at least comprehend this minor point. After all, to what degree did we contribute to our own physical conception and birth? We had no say in the matter. In the same way, God's grace is not a response to meritorious repentance. Repentance itself is a gift (Acts 11:18). Instead, repentance arises in response from a people made alive. The lost cannot muster faith and muster repentance. They are dead. Dead men don't need encouragement, they need a miracle! "If anyone makes the assistance of grace depend on the humility or obedience of man and does not agree that it is a gift of grace itself that we are obedient and humble, he contradicts the Apostle who says, 'What have you that you did not receive?' (1 Corinthians 4:7), and, 'But by the grace of God I am what I am' (1 Corinthians 15:10). If anyone affirms that we can form any right opinion or make any right choice which relates to the salvation of eternal life, or that we can be saved by assent to the preaching of the gospel through our natural powers without the effectual work of the Holy Spirit, who makes all whom He calls gladly and willingly assent to and believe in the truth, he is led astray from the plain teaching of Scripture by exalting the natural ability of man, and does not understand the voice of God who says in the Gospel, 'For apart from me you can do nothing' (John 15:5), and the word of the Apostle, 'Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God' (2 Corinthians 3:5)." --Council of Orange (529 AD) In Him, Doc |
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193 | many are called but only few are chosen | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213537 | ||
Hi, Beja... The historic Baptists defined the church this way: "In the execution of this power wherewith He is so intrusted, the Lord Jesus calleth out of the world unto himself, through the ministry of His word, by His Spirit, those that are given unto Him by His Father, that they may walk before Him in all the ways of obedience, which He prescribeth to them in His word. Those thus called, he commandeth to walk together in particular societies, or churches, for their mutual edification, and the due performance of that public worship, which He requireth of them in the world. (John 10:16; John 12:32; Matthew 28:20; Matthew 18:15-20) The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly manifesting and evidencing (in and by their profession and walking) their obedience unto that call of Christ; and do willingly consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of God, in professed subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel. (Romans. 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Acts 2:41, 42; Acts 5:13, 14; 2 Corinthians 9:13)" Furthermore, they affirmed that: "A particular church, gathered and completely organized according to the mind of Christ, consists of officers and members; and the officers appointed by Christ to be chosen and set apart by the church (so called and gathered), for the peculiar administration of ordinances, and execution of power or duty, which He intrusts them with, or calls them to, to be continued to the end of the world, are bishops or elders, and deacons. (Acts 20:17, 28; Philippians 1:1) " Of the elders in particular they wrote: "The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person, fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in a church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of the church itself; and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be any before constituted therein; and of a deacon that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like imposition of hands. (Acts 14:23; 1 Timothy 4:14; Acts 6:3, 5, 6) " In other words, the normative practice of the church -- the local congregation -- is to discern a man's selection by God and calling by Christ. (The phrase "common sufferage" speaks to the church operating as a collective.) It isn't that the church has the power to ordain, so much as it is searching out what God has already done, and gets behind that. It also prevents the individual who is misled from operating autonomously, lest they find themselves working at cross purposes to our Lord. Our Lord has graciously given us in the Scriptures the qualifications of ministers in the church. We further believe that He providentially prepares those ministers for service according to those qualifications. As Kay Arthur put it so aptly -- though in a different context -- "God's provision always precedes our need." In Him, Doc PS The above quotes are drawn from the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, chapter 26. |
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194 | many are called but only few are chosen | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213569 | ||
Dear itiswritten, The potter makes each vessel for the purpose to which he intends (Romans 9:21). The problem is this fundamental presupposition that God is either enabled or stymied by man's will. God is not only the author of our faith, He is the finisher of it as well (1 Corinthians 1:7-8; Hebrews 12:2). This thing of "yielded personalities" is not a Biblical concept. The Christian is one chosen by the Father (Ephesians 1:4), regenerated by the the Holy Spirit (John 1:13), made righteous through the substitutionary atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 3:24-26). The image of God is restored in the believer (Colossians 3:10). Christ is not savior one day, and then becomes -- optionally -- Lord on some other day. That is false teaching called -- pejoratively, but I think, appropriately -- "easy believism." The church is being built actively by the Lord (Matthew 16:18). We aren't lucky because the disciples decided to toss in with Jesus. No, the Lord says, "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain..." (John 15:16a NASB) Redemptive history is all about what the Lord God has done. He has made dead men living (Ephesians 2:1) and brought estranged men together (Ephesians 2:15), building them together as a temple, made without hands, of which they are living stones, with Christ as the corner stone (Ephesians 2:20). This isn't a matter of man's doing, but entirely a matter of God's doing. In Him, Doc |
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195 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213648 | ||
Dear fcs375, Don't forget that the Holy Spirit teaches and guides through Godly, learned, faithful men. Many of them have passed on to glory. Loving the leading of the Holy Spirit often means loving how He has led others! See Ephesians 4:1-24... It is through this means that He has explicitly worked to equip you. In Him, Doc |
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196 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213681 | ||
Dear fcs375, You wrote, "I firmly believe that one must study God's word first and foremost, asking the Holy Spirit to teach them and meditate upon it, and sometimes may require one to read over and over again. Good sound commentary has it's proper place in study but should be secondary" (sic) Yes, secondary, but not utterly neglected -- so that we won't "be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men" (Ephesians 4:14b). (Remember that one of the worst trickster's we'll face is our own heart.) Sadly, most people who make these kinds of assertions of divine solidarity really mean that they will neglect orthodoxy for some kind of pious, personal walk with God. It is no surprise, therefore, that being "untaught and unstable [they] distort the Scriptures" with dire consequences (2 Peter 3:16). Nor should it surprise us, therefore, to discover that we have gotten what the Spirit warned us about in Ephesians: Long after the Lord helped the church deal decisively with heresies like Arianism, Manichaeism, Pelagianism, Monarchianism, Montanism, Gnosticism, etc. etc. we are up to our ears in all those things. They go by different names, of course -- if they bother to be named at all; but such teachings are now more commonly espoused than is sound doctrine (2 Timothy 4:3-4). And they are espoused by people who claim to have the Spirit's teaching. We will repeat history if we fail to learn from it; or, perhaps in this instance, by lightly esteeming the gifts plundered by Christ for the church (Psalm 68:18; Ephesians 4:8) of the past, we will fail to repeat it. As my pastor often says: there are two ditches on either side of the road. Let's take care lest we fall into one ditch, while striving to avoid the other. In Him, Doc |
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197 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213703 | ||
...and a good commentary so you can track back to make sure that the warm feeling you're getting isn't from the Pizza you had for dinner. "In order to be able to expound the Scriptures, and as an aid to your pulpit studies, you will need to be familiar with the commentators: a glorious army, let me tell you, whose acquaintance will be your delight and profit. Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think or say that you can expound Scripture without assistance from the works of divines and learned men who have laboured before you in the field of exposition. If you are of that opinion, pray remain so, for you are not worth the trouble of conversion, and like a little coterie who think with you, would resent the attempt as an insult to your infallibility. It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others. My chat this afternoon is not for these great originals, but for you who are content to learn of holy men, taught of God, and mighty in the Scriptures. It has been the fashion of late years to speak against the use of commentaries. If there were any fear that the expositions of Matthew Henry, Gill, Scott, and others, would be exalted into Christian Targums, we would join the chorus of objectors, but the existence or approach of such a danger we do not suspect. The temptations of our times lie rather in empty pretensions to novelty of sentiment, than in a slavish following of accepted guides. A respectable acquaintance with the opinions of the giants of the past, might have saved many an erratic thinker from wild interpretations and outrageous inferences. Usually, we have found the despisers of commentaries to be men who have no sort of acquaintance with them; in their case, it is the opposite of familiarity which has bred contempt. It is true there are a number of expositions of the whole Bible which are hardly worth shelf room; they aim at too much and fail altogether; the authors have spread a little learning over a vast surface, and have badly attempted for the entire Scriptures what they might have accomplished for one book with tolerable success; but who will deny the preeminent value of such expositions as those of Calvin, Ness, Henry, Trapp, Poole, and Bengel, which are as deep as they are broad? and yet further, who can pretend to biblical learning who has not made himself familiar with the great writers who spent a life in explaining some one sacred book? Caryl on Job will not exhaust the patience of a student who loves every letter of the Word; even Collinges, with his nine hundred and nine pages upon one chapter of the Song, will not be too full for the preacher's use; nor will Manton's long metre edition of the hundred and nineteenth Psalm (Psalm 119:1-176) be too profuse. No stranger could imagine the vast amount of real learning to be found in old commentaries like the following: Durham on Solomon's Song, Wilcocks on Psalms and Proverbs, Jermin on Ecclesiastes and Proverbs, Greenhill on Ezekiel, Burroughs on Hosea, Ainsworth on the Pentateuch, King on Jonah, Hutcheson on John, Peter Martyr on Romans, etc., and in Willett, Sibbes, Bayne, Elton, Byfield, Daille, Adams, Taylor, Barlow, Goodwin, and others on the various epistles. Without attempting to give in detail the names of all, I intend in a familiar talk to mention the more notable, who wrote upon the whole Bible, or on either Testament, and I especially direct your attention to the titles, which in Puritan writers generally give in brief the run of the work." --Charles H. Spurgeon |
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198 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213750 | ||
Um... that was Charles Hadon Spurgeon, actually -- the Prince of Preachers. But he's just one of those secondary sources, probably not one of those Ephesians 4:11 guys. :-) | ||||||
199 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213752 | ||
Dear Beja, Fortunately, the Lord has provided us with the means of discerning sound instruction. The great and godly teachers have stood the test of time. While most of those who taught heterodoxy have faded over time. Believers through time have come to recognize their merit. I seem to recall placing here some suggestions for choosing a good commentary. I'll see if I can resurrect that old post, perhaps tomorrow. I believe I touched on a number of similar things to those that you mention. In Him, Doc |
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200 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 213784 | ||
Dear Tim, Yes... keyword: "then" Exercise the sweat to study, pray, seek, knock, and know... Then -- not neglecting all the gifts of Christ to the church -- but validating where we stand to insure that we've not lost our way. No leaps of faith into self sufficient, independent inspiration here, I am happy to see. Sometimes I wonder how those that teach lone-ranger Christianity think that their hearers will depend on them long enough to do what they say! :-) In Him, Doc |
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