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101 | True fact of future sin | Heb 6:4 | DocTrinsograce | 243812 | ||
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102 | Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee | Ps 130:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243811 | ||
Out of the depths I cry to Thee; Lord, hear me, I implore Thee! Bend down Thy gracious ear to me; I lay my sins before Thee. If Thou rememberest each misdeed, If each should have its rightful meed, Who may abide Thy presence? Thou grantest pardon through Thy love; Thy grace alone availeth; Our works could ne’er our guilt remove; Yea, e’en the best life faileth. For none may boast himself of aught, But must confess Thy grace hath wrought Whate’er in him is worthy. And thus my hope is in the Lord, And not in my own merit; I rest upon His faithful Word To them of contrite spirit. That He is merciful and just, Here is my comfort and my trust; His help I wait with patience. --Martin Luther (1523) who wrote the lyrics and the tune "[This] is a verÂsion of Psalm CXXX, which LuÂther called a PaulÂine Psalm, and greatÂly loved. He took speÂcial pains with his verÂsion. It was sung on May 9, 1525, at the funÂerÂal of FriedÂrich the Wise, in the Court Church at WitÂtenÂberg. The people of Halle sang it with tears in their eyes as the great ReÂformÂer's cofÂfin passed through their ciÂty on the way to the grave at WitÂtenÂberg. It is wovÂen into the reÂliÂgious life of GerÂmaÂny. "In 1530, durÂing the DiÂet of AugÂsburg, LuÂther's heart was oftÂen sore trouÂbled, but he would say, 'Come, let us deÂfy the deÂvil and praise God by singÂing a hymn!' Then he would beÂgin, 'Aus tiefÂer Noth schrei ich zu dir.' ['Out of the depths I cry to Thee' Psalm 130:1] It was sung at his funÂerÂal." http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/d/i/odicthee.htm |
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103 | Teach Me Your Way, O Lord | Ps 86:11 | DocTrinsograce | 243809 | ||
"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
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104 | Reverence of the Law... | Luke 16:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243806 | ||
"Furthermore, the reverence of the law is sung, and the grace of the prophets is recognized, and the faith of the gospels is established, and the tradition of the apostles is preserved, and the joy of the church exults." --Ad Diognetum (150 AD) |
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105 | Forgiveness of Future Sins | Ps 130:4 | DocTrinsograce | 243805 | ||
"God does continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified, and although they can never fall from the state of justification, yet they may, by their sins, fall under God's fatherly displeasure; and in that condition they have not usually the light of His countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance." --1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 11.5 |
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106 | Primary Categories of Scripture | Luke 24:27 | DocTrinsograce | 243804 | ||
"Christ is... the principal end of the whole of Scripture... This principle is always to be retained in our minds in reading of the Scripture, -- namely, that the revelation and doctrine of the person of Christ and His office, is the foundation whereon all other instructions of the prophets and apostles for the edification of the church are built, and whereunto they are resolved... So our Lord Jesus Christ himself at large makes it manifest, Luke 24:26-27, 45, 46. Lay aside the consideration hereof, and the Scriptures are no such thing as they pretend unto, -- namely, a revelation of the glory of God in the salvation of the church..." --John Owen (1616-1683) |
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107 | Good Works Rooted in Commandments | Matt 19:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243803 | ||
"The first thing to know is that there are no good works except those works God has commanded, just as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden. Therefore, whoever wants to know what good works are as well as doing them needs to know nothing more than God's commandments. Thus in Matthew 19[:17] Christ says, 'If you would enter life, keep the commandments.' And when the young man in Matthew 19[:16–22] asks what he should do to inherit eternal life, Christ sets before him nothing else but the Ten Commandments. Accordingly, we have to learn to recognize good works from the commandments of God [John 14:15, 21; 15:10], and not from the appearance, size, or number of the works themselves, nor from the opinion of men or of human law or custom, as we see has happened and still happens because of our blindness and disregard of the divine commandments." --Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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108 | Righteousness Imputed! | Dan 9:7 | DocTrinsograce | 243802 | ||
"Christ gives His own all that Moses demands of his own." -- Petrus Dathenus (1531-1688) |
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109 | Primary Categories of Scripture | Luke 24:27 | DocTrinsograce | 243800 | ||
"The Old and New Testaments are reducible to these two primary heads. The Old promises Christ to come and the New testifies that he has come." --William Ames (1576-1633) |
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110 | The Power of God Available to His Own | Ps 118:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243799 | ||
"Saints should consider the power of God as available for them. They should impress it upon their souls until all their doubts and fears are silenced…. The apostle teaches: 'I will never leave you nor forsake you' (Hebrews 13:5). Every believer may boldly say, 'God will help,' not 'perhaps He will.' We may boldly assert it before men and devils because the Almighty said it. Our obedience and comfort become strong or weak according to our faith in this principle... He who sees himself folded in almighty arms, O how he mounts up before the wind with his sails filled with joy and peace! Let storms arise, this one may sing merrily with the sharpest thorn at his breast." --William Gurnall (1617-1679) from his "The Christian in Complete Armor" |
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111 | The Centrality of Worship | Lam 3:41 | DocTrinsograce | 243794 | ||
"What are the specific prescriptions for worship found in Scripture? There are five key elements. First, the Bible is to be read (1 Timothy 4:13). Second, and very significantly for the Reformers, worship must include the preaching of the Word (2 Timothy 4:2; Romans 10:14–15). In the medieval Roman Catholic Church, preaching was diminished as the Mass was elevated in priority in worship. The Reformers insisted that preaching is central and a means of grace to strengthen believers in their sanctification. Third, prayers are to be offered in worship (Matthew 21:13; Acts 4:24–30). Fourth, the sacraments are to be rightly administered (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11: 23–26). Remember, the Reformers determined that the Bible teaches only two sacraments: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Finally, singing is also included as an element of worship (Ephesians 5:19)." --Dr. Jeffery Jue from his article "The Centrality of Worship" http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/centrality-worship/ |
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112 | 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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113 | The Church Visible and Invisible | Acts 12:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243785 | ||
Dear Ed, Nothing that is spiritual is visible; so your terminology of physical/spiritual is perfectly coincident with Reformed theology. The world is utterly dull to any spiritual things (1 Corinthians 2:14); nonetheless, they appear to me to have a hypersensitivity to sin! I think they gain that ability from the spirit of the age. When we hear them put their finger on hypocrisy (as you used for an example), then we can be sure that it may very well be something for which we ought to be concerned. We shall always have the trares and the goats in our midst until the perousia of Christ. Thus our efforts individually, congregationally, and liturgically -- by the laity as well as the clergy -- is to make the physical church look as much as possible as the spiritual church. The promise that we will one day be like Him is an awesome promise of the final cleansing of the church. Yes, the spiritual church is pure... again, we have the many promises that we will be like Him (1 John 3:2). When we die, our sanctification will sky rocket, such that we will be purified by the consummation of redemption! For the Reformed, we rejoice that God always fulfills His promises. We even speak of hope as "a confident expectation" not a wistful wish. So I agree entirely... let us persevere in walking in those things that God has accomplished. What a joy that we can do so, for He has already done it. Consequently, we ought to make every effort to walk in Him! "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." (John 14:21) Thank you for sharing concerning the doctrine that you hold. It is informative and helpful. In Him, Doc |
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114 | The Covenant with Father Abraham | Luke 1:73 | DocTrinsograce | 243783 | ||
Dear Pastor Ed, I didn't quote all of Charles Hodge's article. Covenant by its very definition -- some 280 times mentioned in the Bible -- is sealed in blood. Interesting, Hodge was actually make a counter credobaptist assertion. Indeed, the essay was entitled "Review of The Tecnobaptist [paedobaptist]: A Discourse, Wherein an Honest Baptist, by a Course of Argument to Which No Honest Baptist Can Object, Is Convinced That Infant Christians Are Proper Subjects Of Baptism." He was a Presbyterian theologian, arguing against what you and I call "believer's baptism." I appreciate your comments on the New Covenant; i.e., the Covenant of Grace. Do your comments reflect the general understanding of Pentecostals? I apologize, for being ignorant, but I have not read an article/document on covenant from the Pentecostal perspective. Would you be able to point me to a book or two? In Him, Doc |
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115 | The Covenant with Father Abraham | Luke 1:73 | DocTrinsograce | 243780 | ||
"Although the Church existed from the beginning, it was, before the calling of Abraham, for the most part in a state of dispersion. Too little is recorded of it, prior to that event, to give us definite knowledge of its nature and requirements. Our written constitution, so to speak, dates from the father of the faithful. God made a covenant with Abraham. By covenant is meant, a contract between two or more parties, in which there are mutual stipulations and promises. The transaction with Abraham was of this kind. God promised certain blessings to the patriarch, and he promised faith and obedience to God. Not only, therefore, in the Old Testament is this transaction called a covenant, but in the New Testament the same designation is applied to it. And, further than this, the New Testament writers, referring to the transaction with Abraham, not only call it a covenant, but they argue from its nature as such, to show that its original stipulations can be neither annulled nor altered. Romans 4:13, 14; Galatians 3:15–18. 'The covenant,' says the apostle, 'that was confirmed before (to Abraham) of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul.' It is of importance, therefore, that this word [covenant] should be retained, not only because it is scriptural, but because the idea which it expresses is essential to a proper understanding of the case. Many modern theological writers discard the word entirely, and stigmatize the system of the Reformers as the federal theology. In discarding the word, the truth which it was intended to convey is almost always discarded with it. If we would retain the truth, we must retain the forms in which God has seen fit to reveal it. God then formed a covenant with Abraham. The question is, What was that covenant, and who were the parties to it? We answer, in common with all Christendom, the covenant was the covenant of grace, and the parties were Abraham and those whom Abraham represented. Of course this does not mean that the covenant of grace originated in this transaction, or that none are included in it but Abraham and those whom Abraham represented. Nor does it mean that all represented by Abraham were savingly interested in its benefits. It only means that the covenant in question was a reenactment or renewed revelation of the covenant of grace in relation to Abraham, and that those represented by him were to be regarded and treated as included in it." --Charles Hodge (1797-1878) |
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116 | The Church Visible and Invisible | Acts 12:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243779 | ||
Dear Pastor Ed, Thank you for your comment! That is a very pertinent comment, indeed. As I posted Martin Luther's comments to his students, I thought about this. Reformed people see the church as referring to two separate entities: The visible and the invisible. The visible are all that is seen with the eye of the flesh. As we drive down the street, or as we look out at the congregation, etc. The visible church covers a wide spectrum of faults. Indeed, all of them have a mixture of truth and error -- to the point that some have become the synagogue of Satan (cf Revelation 3:9). The invisible church consists of all those who have gone on to be with the Lord, as well as those who are truly saved upon the earth. While we yet live, we pursue the same purity as those of our member who have gone on (we call that progressive sanctification), assured of the promise of God (cf Ephesians 2). Here is how one of the Baptist divines, Benjamin Keach, put it: "We believe a true Church of Christ is not National, nor Parochial, but doth consist of a number of godly Persons, who upon the Profession of their Faith and Repentance have been baptized, and in a solemn manner have in a Holy Covenant given themselves up to the Lord, and to one another, to live in Love, and to endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace: Among whom the Word of God is duly and truly preached; and Holy Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and all other Ordinances are duly administered, according to the Word of God, and the Institution of Christ in the Primitive Church: watching over one another, and communicating to each others Necessities, as becometh Saints; living Holy Lives, as becomes their sacred Profession; and not to forsake the assembling themselves,as the manner of some is; or to take leave to hear where they please in other Places when the Church is assembled, but to worship God, and feed in that Pasture, or with that Church, with whom they have covenanted, and given up themselves as particular Members thereof." Just as Christ took on the sinfulness of all those that are saved (as though He had done the sins), He also placed upon His own His righteousness (as though they had done it). This is what Paul meant by imputation (see Romans 1:17; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 3:9; etc.). Our Lord is washing the church in His word (cf Ephesians 5:25-27). Thus, Luther is mindful of the following: For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. (2 Corinthians 1:5-7) It helps us to understand, further, what Paul wrote: Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. (Colossians 1:24) There is nothing else that allows us to rightly understand "what is lacking in Christ's afflictions" (cf Acts 9:5b). There will come a time when every tear shall be wiped away and all of the suffering of the church triumphant will be complete (cf Revelation 21:4). Then we shall be like Him (1 John 3:2). In Him, Doc |
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117 | God's Liberty to Punish | Jer 7:15 | DocTrinsograce | 243767 | ||
"But we may hence learn this important truth, -- that God had never bound Himself to any people or place, that He was not at liberty to inflict punishment on the impiety of those who had despised His favours, or profaned them by their ingratitude and their sins. "And this ought to be carefully noticed; for we see that it is an evil as it were innate in us, that we become elated and proud whenever God deals bountifully with us; for we so abuse His favours as to think that more liberty is given us, because God has bestowed on us more than on others. But there is nothing more groundless than this presumption; and yet we become thus insolent whenever God honours us with peculiar favours. "Let us therefore bear in mind what is taught here by the Prophet, -- that God is ever at liberty to take vengeance on the ungodly and the ungrateful." --John Calvin (1509-1564) |
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118 | The Object of Regeneration | John 5:21 | DocTrinsograce | 243764 | ||
"The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us." --Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) |
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119 | The Church Visible and Invisible | Acts 12:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243763 | ||
"The great and worldly-wise people take offence at the poor and mean form of our church, which is subject to many infirmities, transgressions, and sects, wherewith she is plagued; for they say the church should be altogether pure, holy, blameless, God's dove, etc. And the church, in the eyes and sight of God, has such an esteem; but in the eyes and sight of the world, she is like unto her bridegroom, Christ Jesus, torn, spit on, derided, and crucified. "The similitude of the upright and true church and of Christ, is a poor silly sheep; but the similitude of the false and hypocritical church, is a serpent, an adder." (Tabletalk #CCCLXVIII) "It is impossible for the Christian and true church to subsist without the shedding of blood, for her adversary, the devil, is a liar and a murderer. The church grows and increases through blood; she is sprinkled with blood; she is spoiled and bereaved of her blood; when human creatures will reform the church, then it costs blood." (Tabletalk #CCCLXX) --Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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120 | Sermon to the Birds (c1220) | Ps 104:31 | DocTrinsograce | 243753 | ||
"My little sisters, the birds, much bounden are ye unto God, your Creator, and always in every place ought ye to praise Him, for that He hath given you liberty to fly about everywhere, and hath also given you double and triple raiment; moreover He preserved your seed in the ark of Noah, that your race might not perish out of the world; still more are ye beholden to Him for the element of the air which He hath appointed for you; beyond all this, ye sow not, neither do you reap; and God feedeth you, and giveth you the streams and fountains for your drink; the mountains and valleys for your refuge and the high trees whereon to make your nests; and because ye know not how to spin or sow, God clotheth you, you and your children; wherefore your Creator loveth you much, seeing that He hath bestowed on you so many benefits; and therefore, my little sisters, beware of the sin of ingratitude, and study always to give praises unto God." --Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) |
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