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61 | Moralism vs Saved and Sanctified | Gal 5:10 | DocTrinsograce | 243917 | ||
"The fruit of the Spirit, then, is a description of the righteousness that is produced by the Spirit in the life of the believer in Jesus Christ, under the operation of the new covenant, which involves grace and faith. "To see this passage and the fruit of the Spirit as merely a list of vices and virtues, is to miss the point and to move in the direction of a new legalism. Paul did not envision his converts being saved from sin, freed from the law, only to become slaves to concepts of virtue and morality administered like clubhouse rules! These are not virtues we are to strive to possess, they are the naturally growing fruit of the Spirit led and empowered life. Just as the vices are a list of what flows out of the flesh as a natural outflow of a sinful heart, so the fruit of the Spirit are the overflow of a saved and sanctified, in which the Holy Spirit operates." --Paul Evans (2015) pastor of Wilmington First Pentecostal Church |
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62 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243915 | ||
The last 100 year's of liberalism sure hasn't done a stellar job. But it makes for a lot less real study of church history. Closed ears do not have to deal with challenges to what they have already chosen to believe. It is easier to focus all your energy on condemning others, than walking in the Holy Spirit by inculcating the Gifts of the Spirit (the real evidence of the redeemed.) "Tell me what the world is saying today, and I’ll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years." --Francis Schaeffer |
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63 | The Prevalence of the Liberal Low View | Heb 2:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243913 | ||
"We are sometimes told that the final authority for us as Christians should be Christ and not the Scriptures. It is suggested that Christ would only have us accept the portions of Scripture that comport with his life and teaching, that certain aspects of biblical history, chronology, and cosmology need not bother us because Christ would not have us be bothered by them. The idea put forward by many liberal Christians and not a few self-proclaimed evangelicals is that if we are to worship Christ and not the Scriptures, we must let Christ stand apart from Scripture and above it. "'But who is this Christ, the Judge of Scripture?' Packer asks. 'Not the Christ of the New Testament and of history. That Christ does not judge Scripture; He obeys it and fulfils it. By word and deed He endorses the authority of the whole of it.' "Those with a high view of Scripture may be charged with idolatry for so deeply reverencing the word of God. But the accusation is laid at the wrong feet. 'A Christ who permits His followers to set Him up as the Judge of Scripture, One by whom its authority must be confirmed before it becomes binding and by whose adverse sentence it is in places annulled, is a Christ of human imagination, made in the theologian's own image, One whose attitude to Scripture is the opposite of that of the Christ of history. If the construction of such a Christ is not a breach of the second commandment, it is hard to see what is.'" "Jesus may have seen himself as the focal point of Scripture, but never as a judge of it. The only Jesus who stands above Scripture is the Jesus of our own invention." --Kevin DeYoung (pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan) Quotes by J. I. Packer are from his book, "'Fundamentalism' and the Word of God" |
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64 | Results of a Low View of Scripture | Prov 30:12 | DocTrinsograce | 243911 | ||
"If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions." --Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) |
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65 | How should we view Christianity. | Eph 4:24 | DocTrinsograce | 243904 | ||
Dear Pastor Beja, At a church I attended we used to refer to binding the conscious of people outside the word as the "Christian Mishnah." The emphasis in congregations that hold a high view of Scripture ought always to be: "Where is that written?" In that way, the laity is taught to root everything in the Word -- the one true and certain foundation. Sorry for jumping in there. Your comment -- well said, by the way -- reminded me of this. In Him, Doc |
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66 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243903 | ||
Yes, the tares will always be amidst the wheat until our Lord comes in judgment. Sad thing is, most of the tares don't know they are tares. (Matthew 7:15-27) Let us therefore build upon the Rock; not gimmicks, shows, emotions, and prestidigitation. The Word is the greatest gift given to men. Without it, you cannot have your "dedicated, sincere, faithful..." let alone Godly! Where in the world can a man find this Godliness without the Word? I know nothing of inferences... goodness, Ed... is that really necessary for such a doctrinal stance. I stand on time tested doctrine of the church. There is no surer ground. As Martin Luther put it at the Diet of Worms, "Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me." |
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67 | Sung, Preached, Proclaimed, Written | Acts 16:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243900 | ||
"For these words (Scripture) have neither been prepared by me, nor embellished by the art of man; but David sung them, Isaiah preached them, Zechariah proclaimed them, and Moses wrote them. Are you acquainted with them, Trypho? They are contained in your Scriptures, or rather not yours, but ours. For we believe them; but you, though you read them, do not catch the spirit that is in them." --Justin Martyr from his Dialogue with Trypho | ||||||
68 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243899 | ||
Yes, there is no magisterium, there aren't even individual mystical authorities. So that's a very good comment... and the old divines addressed it very well! "The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly. "The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture." --Westminster Confession of Faith I.IX-X Isn't that cool? They even subjected themselves to Sola Scriptura! That goal is what we all must pursue, precisely as Paul instructed in Ephesians 4. I have been so grateful to our gracious host, the Lockman Foundation, for maintaining this high view of Scripture despite so much resistance to it. |
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69 | Sola Scriptura in the First Century | John 20:19 | DocTrinsograce | 243897 | ||
"And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need." --Justyn Martyr (AKA "The Philosopher") (AD 67) | ||||||
70 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243896 | ||
You got that right! Truth is objective, never subjective. Thus the need of an authority... an ultimate and single authority. Adding nothing of a subjective nature -- no Scripture plus. "Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of His will, which is necessary unto salvation. Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church; and afterwards for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the Church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing;which makes the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased." --Westminster Confession of Faith I.II |
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71 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243894 | ||
Today I read the following BBC report where they were using the word "post-truth." I do not think I have ever read anything that so clearly describes the root of the myriad problems in pop culture, especially in the strange "churches" that spread across our nation. They went on to say that "[post-truth] is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals." We are no longer in a post-modern era. Instead, that time has been replaced in our culture by what might be described as neo-barbarism. Look around... the manifestations and their nature, as Paul stated, cannot be concealed. |
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72 | Our Confident Expectation of Glory | Heb 11:18 | DocTrinsograce | 243893 | ||
"It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but to actually be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name... Come fire, cross, battling with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs, crushing of my whole body, cruel tortures of the Devil -- Only let me get to Jesus Christ!" --Ignatius of Antioch (AD 68?) |
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73 | A Righteousness from God | Phil 3:9 | DocTrinsograce | 243892 | ||
"Take note, therefore, of a new righteousness and a new definition of righteousness. For one usually says: 'Righteousness is the virtue that renders to everyone his due.' Here it is stated that righteousness is faith in Jesus Christ or the virtue by which one believes in Jesus Christ, as in Rom. 10:10: 'With the heart man believes unto righteousness;' that is, if anyone wants to be righteous, it is necessary for him to believe in Christ with his heart. And in the third chapter St. Jerome says: 'Well put is that true statement of a wise man that the believer does not live as the result of righteousness but is righteous by faith.' A beautiful statement indeed! "It follows now that the man who is righteous through faith does not through himself give to anyone what is his; he does this through Another, namely, Jesus Christ, who alone is so righteous as to render to all what should be rendered them. As a matter of fact, they owe everything to Him. But he who believes in Christ and by the spirit of faith has become one with Him not only renders satisfaction now to all but also brings it about that they owe everything to him, since he has all things in common with Christ. His sins are no longer his; they are Christ's. But in Christ sins are unable to overcome righteousness. In fact, they themselves are overcome. Hence they are destroyed in him. Again, Christ's righteousness now belongs not only to Christ; it belongs to His Christian. Therefore the Christian cannot owe anything to anyone or be oppressed by his sins, since he is supported by such great righteousness." --Martin Luther (1535) |
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74 | smile.amazon.com | Acts 3:19 | DocTrinsograce | 243891 | ||
"He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much." (Luke 16:10) |
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75 | smile.amazon.com | Acts 3:19 | DocTrinsograce | 243887 | ||
Too holy? Shucks, some can't even follow the TOU. | ||||||
76 | Made Evident in Every Way | 2 Cor 11:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243871 | ||
"We must, therefore, lay it down as a settled principle, that knowledge is good in itself; but as piety is its only foundation, it becomes empty and useless in wicked men: as love is its true seasoning, where that is wanting it is tasteless. And truly, where there is not that thorough knowledge of God which humbles us, and teaches us to do good to the brethren, it is not so much knowledge, as an empty notion of it, even in those that are reckoned the most learned. At the same time, knowledge is not by any means to be blamed for this, any more than a sword, if it falls into the hands of a madman. Let this be considered as said [460] with a view to certain fanatics, who furiously declaim against all the liberal arts and sciences, as if their only use were to puff men up, and were not of the greatest advantage as helps in common life. Now those very persons, who defame them in this style, are ready to burst with pride, to such an extent as to verify the old proverb -- 'Nothing is so arrogant as ignorance.'" --John Calvin (1509-1564) |
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77 | smile.amazon.com | Acts 3:19 | DocTrinsograce | 243869 | ||
Dear Pastor Beja, That is a very good point! How might we live today, for example, if we refused to purchase anything manufactured in communist China? Or electronics whose source material comes from oppressed peoples in Africa. If such things stain one's moral character, I would truly love to meet an American who has managed to avoid such things. In Him, Doc |
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78 | smile.amazon.com | Acts 3:19 | DocTrinsograce | 243867 | ||
You probably should communicate this directly to Lockman -- since the only way to get onto Amazon Smile is to request it and apply for it. |
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79 | Our Primary Business | Prov 4:23 | DocTrinsograce | 243862 | ||
"The call to keep your heart is a call to work on your life internally, not merely externally. ...God is first and foremost concerned with your heart, for when you are keeping your heart, the rest of life follows. "To keep your heart means that your focus and work is on maintaining communion with God and pursuing the transformation that only God can accomplish in you. It is not performance-based religion, nor the moral improvement of your life, but the ongoing work of cultivating love for God and hatred for sin. It is the unending effort of guarding ourselves against idols while resting in the promises of the gospel. "To keep your heart is your primary business as a Christian, and it cannot be done with passing interest or any small amount of energy. It requires the consistent use of all the means of grace. You must make the most of worship, Scripture, prayer, and the church gathered in all its forms with an aim at keeping your heart and growing in grace. If you are doing anything less than this, you are keeping up appearances, but not your heart. And you know that the heart is what God is primarily interested in (Ps.51:16-17) - hearts that are broken over sin, healed by God's forgiving grace, and consequently filled with love for our Redeemer God." --Joe Thorn (2011) |
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80 | All will be Revealed | Matt 10:26 | DocTrinsograce | 243861 | ||
"As we live in the conscious faith that God is the Lord, a second practical implication of his lordship is that we will be without fear and terror in the world, because we will live the tranquil assurance that all things must 'work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose' (Rom.8:28). "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who manifested his love toward us in the death of his Son and who surely will give us all things with him, is the Lord of all. He holds the reins. Whatever happens, he will surely save his church. As the church makes her voyage across the seas of the centuries, tempests may rage furiously, and the waves may rise mountain high, but we know that our God is Lord of the tempest and that the waves must do his bidding. In the world we may have to suffer tribulation, but God is the Lord of the tribulation, and we may even glory in it. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." --H. Hoeksema (2006) |
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