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5981 | Our Holy Weapon | Rev 12:11 | DocTrinsograce | 181902 | ||
"Some, I fear, use the precious blood of Christ only as a quietus to their consciences. They say to themselves, 'He made atonement for sin, therefore let me take my rest.' This is doing a grievous wrong to the great sacrifice… A man who wants the blood of Jesus for nothing but the mean and selfish reason, that after having been forgiven through it he may say, 'Soul, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry: hear sermons, enjoy the hope of eternal felicity, and do nothing' -- such a man blasphemes the precious blood, and makes it an unholy thing. We are to use the glorious mystery of atoning blood as our chief means of overcoming sin and Satan: its power is for holiness. See how the text puts it: 'They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb': these saints used the doctrine of atonement not as a pillow to rest their weariness, but as a weapon to subdue their sin. O my brothers, to some of us atonement by blood is our battle-axe and weapon of war, by which we conquer in our struggle for purity and godliness -- a struggle in which we have continued now these many years. By the atoning blood we withstand corruption within and temptation without. This is that weapon which nothing can resist." --Charles H. Spurgeon | ||||||
5982 | Satan's flood. Want some info. | Rev 12:15 | DocTrinsograce | 219582 | ||
Dear orinvee, Welcome to the forum! I just wanted to point out that the question you were responding to was past over seven years ago. That was Taratoon's first and last post. I doubt you will get an answer. In Him, Doc |
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5983 | True Worship | Rev 14:7 | DocTrinsograce | 240073 | ||
"Every true minister of the Gospel is a watchman, as well as a pastor, and all Christians are bound to defend truth and purity, to endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, and to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, When men act on other principles, Christianity is but a name, a 'salt that has lost its savour.' Still men trifle with religion. Amidst hollow professions some would, in a bad sense, make 'the best of both worlds,' and instead of coming into collision with sin and ungodliness, they would fain [rather] run quietly on opposite rails so as to avoid collision. Even true Christians sometimes seek to anticipate the rest of heaven by resting unlawfully here. The wise as well as the foolish virgins sometimes 'slumber and sleep,' forgetting the solemn warning, 'Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers of the false prophets." --Dr. James Begg (1875) from his work, "Anarchy in Worship" | ||||||
5984 | Ignoring a Decision to Capitalize | Rev 14:16 | DocTrinsograce | 149489 | ||
Hi, brother Mark! Albert Barnes states that it is Christ because of Revelation 14:14 where it uses the phrase "like unto the Son of man." This is the same phrase used to identify Jesus in Revelation 1:13. In Him, Doc |
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5985 | Define wine, please? | Rev 17:2 | DocTrinsograce | 204304 | ||
Tim is one of the only members of our forum -- to my knowledge -- who is able to read Greek. Consequently, he is able to render assistance to us directly from NT Greek texts. | ||||||
5986 | Calvin's Letter to Men Facing Martyrdom | Rev 17:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243229 | ||
"My very dear brethren, hitherto I have put off writing to you, fearing that if the letter fell into bad hands, it might give fresh occasion to the enemy to afflict you. And besides, I had been informed how that God wrought so powerfully in you by His grace, that you stood in no great need of my letters. However, we have not forgotten you, neither I nor all the brethren hereabouts, as to whatever we have been able to do for you. As soon as you were taken, we heard of it, and knew how it had come to pass. We took care that help might be sent you with all speed, and are now waiting the result. Those who have influence with the prince in whose power God has put your lives, are faithfully exerting themselves on your behalf, but we do not yet know how far they have succeeded in their suit. Meanwhile, all the children of God pray for you as they are bound to do, not only on account of the mutual compassion which ought to exist between members of the same body, but because they know well that you labour for them, in maintaining the cause of their salvation. We hope, come what may, that God of His goodness will give a happy issue to your captivity, so that we shall have reason to rejoice. You see to what He has called you; doubt not, therefore, that according as He employs you, He will give you strength to fulfil His work, for He has promised this, and we know by experience that He has never failed those who allow themselves to be governed by Him. Even now you have proof of this in yourselves, for He has shown His power, by giving you so much constancy in withstanding the first assaults. Be confident, therefore, that He will not leave the work of His hand imperfect. You know what Scripture sets before us, to encourage us to fight for the cause of the Son of God; meditate upon what you have both heard and seen formerly on this head, so as to put it in practice. For all that I could say would be of little service to you, were it not drawn from this fountain. And truly we have need of a much more firm support than that of men, to make us victorious over such strong enemies as the devil, death, and the world; but the firmness which is in Christ Jesus is sufficient for this, and all else that might shake us were we not established in Him. Knowing, then, in whom ye have believed, manifest what authority He deserves to have over you. "As I hope to write to you again, I shall not at present lengthen my letter. I shall only reply briefly to the point which brother Bernard has asked me to solve. Concerning vows, we must hold to this rule, that it is not lawful to vow to God anything but what He approves. Now the fact is, that monastic vows tend only to corrupt His service. As for the second question, we must hold that it is devilish presumption for a man to vow beyond the measure of his vocation. Now, the Scripture declares, both in the nineteenth of St. Matthew and in the seventh of the First to the Corinthians, that the gift of continence is a special grace. It follows, then, that those who put themselves in the position and under the necessity of renouncing marriage for the whole of their life, cannot be acquitted of rashness, and that by so doing they tempt God. The question might very easily be spun out to a greater length, by stating that we ought to consider, first, who HE is to whom we vow; secondly, the nature of that vow; and thirdly, the party making the vow. For God is too great a Master for us to trifle with, and man is bound to consider his own capabilities; for to present a sacrifice without obedience, is nothing but thorough pollution. However, this one point may suffice you to prove to them that the gift of continence is a special gift, and in such-wise special, that for the most part it is only for a season. So that he who possessed it for thirty years, like Isaac, may not do so for the remainder of his life. Hence you may conclude, that the monks, in binding themselves never to marry, attempt without faith to promise what is not given to them. As for their poverty, it is quite the reverse of that which our Lord enjoined upon his followers." End of Part 1 |
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5987 | Calvin's Letter Part 2 | Rev 17:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243230 | ||
"Concerning the nature of a glorified body, true it is, that the qualities thereof are changed, but not entirely. For we must distinguish between the qualities which proceed from the corruption of sin, and those which belong to and are inseparable from the nature of the body. St. Paul, in the third chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, says that our vile or weak body shall be made like to the glorious body of Christ. By this humble expression or Tapinosis, he points out which of the qualities that we at present bear about with us in our bodies are to be changed; those, namely, which are of the corruptible and fading nature of this world. And on this subject St. Augustine says, in the Epistle to Dardanus, which in number is the 57th, “He shall come again in the same form and substance of the flesh, to which certainly he gave immortality; he hath not taken away the nature. In this form he must not be supposed to be everywhere diffused.†This argument he follows out at greater length, showing that the body of Christ is contained within its own dimensions. And in fact our glorified bodies will not be ubiquitous, although they will have that likeness of which St. Paul speaks. As for the passage of the Apocalypse, the words are these in the fifth chapter: “And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing,and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.†Now you see that it is a childish cavil to apply this to souls in purgatory; for St. John, by the figure which is called Prosopopœia, rather conveys that even the fishes blessed God. And in regard to the passages of the Doctors, refer your people to the 27th Epistle of St. Augustine, To Boniface, where he states, towards the end, that the sacraments have a certain similitude of those things which they represent. From whence it comes to pass, that after some fashion the sacrament of the body of Christ may be the body of Christ. Item, that which he treats of in the third book, Of Christian Doctrine, where he says, among other things in the fifth chapter, “Such is the completely miserable bondage of the soul in conceiving of the signs in place of the things signified, and never lifting up the eye of the understanding above the corporeal creature to breathe eternal light.†Item, in the ninth chapter. -- 'The believer knows by experience, and understands [agnoscit] to what the mystery of baptism, and the celebration of the body and blood of the Lord, may be referred, so that the soul can offer religious worship, not in the bondage of the flesh, but rather in the liberty of the spirit. So to follow the literal sense, and in suchwise to conceive of the signs instead of the things sealed or signified by them, is a slavish weakness; that mere symbols should be so unprofitably interpreted, is the result of vague error; I do not heap up quotations, because these will be quite enough for your purpose. In conclusion, I beseech our good Lord that He would be pleased to make you feel in every way the worth of His protection of His own, to fill you with His Holy Spirit, who gives you prudence and virtue, and brings you peace, joy, and contentment; and may the name of our Lord Jesus be glorified by you to the edification of His Church! From Geneva, this 10th of June 1552, John Calvin |
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5988 | Calvin's Letter to Men Facing Martyrdom | Rev 17:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243233 | ||
Hi, Ed... Servatus beliefs are still recognizable in your Oneness Pentecostals, Russellites, Mormons, Unitarians, and others etc. He denied that Christ was the eternal Son of God; he is still well known as one of the most significant figures of Non-Trinitarianism. When the Romanists couldn't get hold of him, they burned him in effigy. His views on Baptism were unique to all parties. Torquemada would probably not have been so kind to him. (Now there was a fellow that would take some real inventiveness to make so pure of intention and teaching as Servetus.) I am surprised that people in our forum would take an elevated view of Servetus' doctrine. Well, Lockman is kind to let us have our say about our doctrines so tolerantly. You know, probably Servetus would have been ignored, had he not insisted on drawing attention to himself. It is still a mystery why he showed up there. Anyway, Geneva didn't look at things in a kindly way. Just as when we deal severely with a man who steals lives, they agreed with the early churches assertion that no less kindness ought to be dispensed to those who steal souls. Nowadays we would be in agreement that any slander of God, His Word, or His children, will be a matter that God Himself will inevitably settle. So, enjoy a researched explanation of the events in mid 16th century in France, below. (Sorry, I couldn't find anything right away that was an historic account without the ad hominem abusive.) In Him, Doc PS I wonder how historians will treat the stuff that Mbewe talked about in post #243228 in another 400 years? Will they bash the perpetrators? Or be kind and considerate of their unstable and unlearned ways? If Servatus causes gnashing of teeth, what will all those who have lost lives in those groups in Africa. Let us pray that God will have mercy. http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue02/c_vs_s.htm I read yours... You owe it to me to read mine... Our forum must allow for tolerance. Even tolerance for Reformed Baptists. |
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5989 | 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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5990 | A Message without a Difference? | Rev 18:4 | DocTrinsograce | 167551 | ||
"When I look into the New Testament, and read what a Christian should be, and then look into the church of God, and see what Christians are -- I am painfully affected by observing the dissimilarity! "That worldly spirit to which our age of growing selfishness and luxury gives rise, is exceedingly adverse to Christianity, whose elements are faith, hope, love. "The church of Christ at present, is sadly mixed up with both the spirit of the world, and many of its customs. The great bulk of professing Christians are not markedly different from the 'followers of pleasure' and the 'worshipers of Mammon'." --J. A. James (1837) |
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5991 | It is the Power of God | Rev 18:24 | DocTrinsograce | 178070 | ||
"A martyr is going to the stake; the men with their axes are around him; the crowds are mocking, but he is marching steadily on. See, they tie him, with a chain around his waist, to the stake; they heap sticks and twigs all around him; the flame is lighted; listen to his words: 'Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.' "The flames are burning around his legs; the fire is burning him even to the bone; see him lift up his hands and say, 'I know that my redeemer lives, and though the fire devour this body, yet in my flesh I will see the Lord.' Look at him clutch the stake and kiss it, as if he loved it, and hear him say, 'For every chain of iron that man tied me with, God will give to me a chain of gold; for all these sticks and twigs, and this disgrace and shame, He will increase the weight of my eternal glory.' "See all the lower parts of his body are consumed; still he lives in the torture; finally he bows himself, and the upper part of his body falls over; and as he falls you hear him say, 'Into Your hands I commend my spirit.' Sir, what wondrous magic was on him? What made that man strong? What helped him to bear that cruelty? What made him stand unmoved in the flames? It was the thing of power; it was the cross of Jesus crucified. For 'unto us who are saved it is the power of God.'" --Charles H. Spurgeon |
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5992 | Making Salvation a Mere Possibility | Rev 19:1 | DocTrinsograce | 238006 | ||
"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." --Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1902) | ||||||
5993 | God's Love for His Perfect Character | Rev 19:2 | DocTrinsograce | 200380 | ||
"God is loving, but a major part of what He loves is His own perfect character, with a major aspect being the importance of maintaining justice and righteousness. Though God pardons sinners and makes great provision for expressing His mercy, He will never negotiate His justice. If we fail to understand that, the cross of Christ will be utterly meaningless to us." --R. C. Sproul | ||||||
5994 | Who is the Bride of the Lamb? | Rev 19:9 | DocTrinsograce | 239256 | ||
Hi, Searcher... You asked, "What that who do you believe the metaphor 'bride of the Lamb' is ... and why?" (sic) Considering passages such as 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:27 and 32; etc. then, metaphorically, the bride are the called out ones, the chosen ones (1 Peter 1:2). They are the sheep (John 10:14-15), the salt of the earth, the light of the world (Matthew 5:13-14), the fruitful branches (John 15:5), the good soldiers (2 Timothy 2:3), the good tree (Matthew 7:18-19), an holy nation (1 Peter 2:9), the children of Abraham (Galatians 3:7), the children of light (Ephesians 5:8), obedient children (1 Peter 1:14), offspring of God (1 John 3:9), the children of the free woman (Galatians 4:31), a dwelling place of God (Ephesians 2:22), the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27), the violent (Matthew 11:12), living stones (1 Peter 2:5), a fragrant aroma (Philippians 4:18), and so on. In Him, Doc |
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5995 | The Word of God | Rev 19:13 | DocTrinsograce | 236322 | ||
"An evangelical believes that God humbled Himself not only in the incarnation of the Son, but also in the inspiration of the Scriptures. The manger and the cross were not sensational. Neither is grammar and syntax. But that is how God has chosen to reveal Himself. "A poor Jewish Peasant and a prepositional phrase have this in common, that they are both human and both ordinary. Therefore, if God humbled Himself to take on human flesh and to speak human language, woe to us if we arrogantly presume to ignore the humanity of Christ and the grammar of Scripture." --John Piper (2009) |
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5996 | Rapture | Rev 20:1 | DocTrinsograce | 214126 | ||
Well, at least no one in the current thread is using Luke 17 as a Rapture proof text. Having just attended a conference where Dr. Sam Waldron spoke, I am reading his book, "The End Times Made Simple." Good book. |
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5997 | Do they who reign live 900 years? | Rev 20:1 | DocTrinsograce | 224893 | ||
Told by whom, Ariel? We always cite our sources here on the forum. | ||||||
5998 | Do they who reign live 900 years? | Rev 20:1 | DocTrinsograce | 224897 | ||
I see... thank you. | ||||||
5999 | Are we ready for meet the criteria? | Rev 20:4 | DocTrinsograce | 187381 | ||
Dear Matron, Great and encouraging words! Yes, we need to be about the Master's business right now! None of us can gaurantee even the next few minutes! Jonathan Edwards emphasizes this in his famous evangelistic message from the Second Great Awakening: http://www.biblebb.com/files/edwards/JE-sinners.htm In Him, Doc |
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6000 | First resurrection happens twice | Rev 20:5 | DocTrinsograce | 239291 | ||
It is good for us to be certain that the single word in question has sufficient strength to adequately carry the weight of our thesis -- for the sake of the clarity of our own thinking, let alone to form the basis of our pedagogy. | ||||||
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