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101 | To the Glory of God | 2 Cor 9:13 | DocTrinsograce | 243825 | ||
"I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the faint-hearted, the feeble, and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who believe in the forgiveness of sins, and who suffer persecution for the sake of the Word which they confess and teach purely and without adulteration." --Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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102 | 1599 Geneva Bible Found | Ps 119:144 | DocTrinsograce | 243824 | ||
!599 Geneva Bible Found http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2016/09/1599_bible.html |
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103 | You Yourself Have Taught Me! | Ps 119:102 | DocTrinsograce | 243823 | ||
"After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and led the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." --From Harvard's Founding Statement (1640) This article, by Peter Greer, is interesting as we ponder the question: What happened in the intervening 376 years? (Recently I heard someone blame the Puritans for the way that harvard is today. (?!?) I pointed out to them that the Puritans were all dead well before Harvard's change.) http://qideas.org/articles/what-happened-to-harvard/ One other note: At Harvard obtaining a law degree was almost equivalent to a seminary degree. This was because the Puritans believed that no one could rightly administer justice if they did not comprehend God's righteous justice. |
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104 | Education Advances from Sola Scriptura | John 18:20 | DocTrinsograce | 243822 | ||
"The Reformation has been an extraordinary force for global education. The Middle Ages gave birth to the first European universities that trained a select cadre of scholars. But in the Protestant Reformation, the quest for universal education was unleashed. Martin Luther, a professor at the University of Wittenberg, early on called for the magistrates to establish schools so that children could learn to read the newly translated Scriptures and benefit from the learning of the ages. Later, John Calvin, in the French context, established the Academy of Geneva that became the center of Reformed theology. "The educational methods of the Reformers reflected their theology. The goal of general literacy manifested the Reformation principle of the priesthood of all believers -- all Christians have the spiritual privilege to read and to study the Scriptures for themselves. Sola Scriptura -- the Scriptures as the only infallible source of saving knowledge and true wisdom -- was buttressed by pedagogy consistent with Scripture. For the laity, this was accomplished by biblical literacy and catechisms. For adults and church leaders, confessions of faith served as summaries and standards of biblical doctrine and practice. "The Reformation's educational reforms also affected university studies. Speculative medieval scholasticism was replaced by a biblically grounded systematic theology. A worldview shaped by a belief in a sovereign Creator who rules an orderly cosmos encouraged the investigation of the empirical sciences. Linguistic studies accelerated. Latin was dethroned as the only scholarly language, since the common tongues of Europe had become capable of scholarly discussion due to the elevation of these languages by the translation of the Bible. Nevertheless, the study of the languages of biblical scholarship -- Latin, Greek, and Hebrew—increased as a trained clergy became a reality. The Reformation's educational impact spurred the printing industry, spawning libraries and advanced study in various disciplines. Some of the renowned academic centers greatly shaped by the Reformation are the universities in Wittenberg, Geneva, Zurich, Heidelberg, Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh." --Dr. Peter A. Lillback (2016), from his article "The Reformation of and Education http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/reformation-education/ |
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105 | Discerning Spiritual Motivation | 1 John 4:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243820 | ||
"I know you, the first-born of Satan." --Polycarp (69-155 AD), pastor of the church in Smyrna (which city is today called Izmir, Turkey). These were his words to Marcion -- rightly discerning that the teachings of this heretic were not of God (Isaiah 8:20; 1 John 4:6; Romans 11:8). |
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106 | WHAT IS DISICPLESHIP? | Luke 15:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243819 | ||
Dear Mother, Welcome to the forum! Those are very good questions. Indeed, they are related questions. Our Lord tells us "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:27) First of all, remember that "bearing a cross" is a metaphor. Because of the influence of the Bible on our language, it has become a common idiom. How often have we heard someone say, "Well, everyone has a cross to bear." So as you study the question, remember that when Christ uttered these words, He did not mean it the way we use it in modern English. Nowadays we see crosses everywhere, even being used as a fashion accessory or as tattoos. But two thousand years ago, it was a word that brought shame and horror with it. It was generally not used in polite company. There were very few ways to be executed that were as awful, painful, and humiliating. So when our Lord tells us to take up our cross (Matthew 10:34-36; Mark 8:34-35), it is not meant as an easy thing. Read Luke 14:25-35. You will see that anyone who wants to be a disciple must first consider the cost of doing so. Thus, one of the first things we see, is that discipleship itself is not peaches and cream -- it is a very difficult thing; a pursuit that will yield great reward in eternity, but will be painful and difficult in this world. Now let me turn to the word "disciple." The literal meaning of the word is a pupil or student. You ask a very good question. The Great Commision given the church can be found in Matthew 28:18-20. See the command is to go out, but not just to travel. We are to go out for a purpose: to make disciples. We can do this with confidence because of Christ's authority (v18) -- that is the foundation of what we do. So we are to go out and make men disciples of Christ. These pupils enter the church through baptism and then we instruct them to do all that God has commanded (see John 14:21). I can sum up some of what it means to be a disciple with the earmarks that the Apostle John used: he is one who loves God, loves God's Word, loves God's people, and hates sin. All of these aspects, over time, should be growing in Christian. We are very blessed that God has provided very good descriptions of what a disciple looks like. We are called to examine ourselves using this mirror. That mirror is the Word itself. If I were to hope for you to rightly understand discipleship, I would point you to John chapters 14 through 16. Read through it several times. Then begin to compile a list of how disciples act and function. I did this once and came up with over 30 aspects of a disciple. I bet you could come up with more. Notice that none of it is about warm fuzzy feelings or mystical experiences, etc. Instead, it is all very practical -- and doable because He has given us all that we need (2 Peter 1:3). Even more amazing is that Christ actually prayed for us in John 17, that we would succeed in serving God and bringing God glory. With such prayers, we have enormous confidence that the work that God has begun in us He will finish (cf Hebrews 12:1-2). Now, ma'am, you cannot do this alone. God has provided a way by which He dispenses grace (i.e., the power to do His will). This includes prayer and Bible study on your own; but it also includes your participation in a congregation of Bible believers. Thus, you need to be under the teaching of the Word, in the fellowship of believers, and under the authority of a church. Not just any church. We are persuaded that the true church of Christ is one that holds to the Biblical definition of the gospel; teaches the Word expositorily; practices the ordinances of baptism and communion; and exercises discipline for all of the sheep. One last thing: If you are having genuine conviction for sin and a desire for a holy life, this can only come from the Holy Spirit. That should encourage you as seek to understand God through the Word (Hebrews 1:1-2). Ma'am, we are happy to be praying for you. We are also praising our Lord that He has drawn you to Himself. In Him, Doc |
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107 | True fact of future sin | Heb 6:4 | DocTrinsograce | 243812 | ||
Amen, brother CDBJ! | ||||||
108 | 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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109 | 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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110 | 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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111 | 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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112 | 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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113 | 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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114 | 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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115 | 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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116 | 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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117 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | DocTrinsograce | 243795 | ||
Dear Justme, There are some good response in this thread. I agree that the Scriptures do not give us a great deal to go on relative to angelology/demonology. Only with that foundation can we say anything with full authority about these non-human sentient beings who are normally invisible to our eyes of flesh. I would certainly argue that we ought to never attempt to assert anything with any degree of confidence from personal experience or observation. You see, much of the wickedness of man is not solely a consequence of demon activity; the flesh and world can originate much of the maladies that we see. We are far too prone to associate a manifestation as coming from the wrong source. Of course, all three sources can be involved in any single issue. Consequently, what the Word says, we can stand on with great confidence and the full authority of God. Anything else is, at the very best, speculation and at the worst utterly wrong. In Him, Doc PS I was interested to learn that the old Medieval images of Satan with a horned, with pitchfork, and a red suit has very interesting roots. Those folks back there never imagined anyone would see those images and think that that was really Lucifer's appearance! They would be quite shocked to find out that we would blame them for believing that. Instead, they knew from the Bible that Satan's fall was rooted in pride. Consequently, they sought to war against him by mocking him -- hence the origins of the caricature. We might fault them for thinking that Satan would be susceptible to such a thing, but we should not fault them for not thinking! |
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118 | 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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119 | 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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120 | 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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