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61 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243927 | ||
I see. So, when you teach -- presumably something from the Scriptures -- you have utterly no authority because it is what you are saying it. I think the Quakers used to do that. But they would completely forgo having that fellow up there in front going on about things that he cannot say authoritatively. So I now see your point, Ed. I didn't realize your position applied to all those 22,000 independent preachers out there, too, along with yourself. I will keep this in mind as you trail along behind my posts. Thank you for explaining. | ||||||
62 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243924 | ||
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63 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243922 | ||
"I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." (Ephesians 4:1-6) As explained so clearly in the first portion of this epistle, God has brought dead people to life and estranged people together -- through the Gospel! Any other groups using some other means of unity are not the His body, but something else! Thus we strive for this unity... not one of our own making... but one of His making. To help us do this, He has equipped us individually: "But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift." (V7) By looting the world to give gifts to the church (vv8-10). "And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ." (vv1-12) Note that this is not based on some mystical experience of Aunt Mildred! He actually gave us men through history to help us understand clearly what God has spoken. (The liberal view always resists history.) And for what reason has God given us (the church) these gifts? "Until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge [not magic] of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ, so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming." We can actually study these gifts to the church and see to what extent they rightly interpret the Word. They are not infallible, but instruct us. The human trickery and deceitful scheming, always arises from those who will not accept this great gift of Christ to His church. They must not, lest their heretical and faulty teaching be exposed. They will even say that these gifts are all demonic. Not by study and careful analysis in the light of reason and the Holy Spirit who is creating this unity. On the contrary, the live and teach bigotry -- "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself." Watch the blanket posts down through the years here in the forum. There is a knee jerk resistance by some, despite even the efforts of Lockman to resist this denominational bias from going on and on contrary to the intentions of our Lord and His Spirit. The nature of these posters are always evident, for they seek to divide, disparage, and destroy rather than to unite, accept, and build-up the Body of Christ. Note the responses to any effort to elevate Christ, His Word, and His Holy Spirit. The evidentiary trail continues. It cannot help itself -- for such is the world and the prince and power of the air. |
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64 | Right-Minded Christians and Doctrine | 1 Tim 1:3 | DocTrinsograce | 243920 | ||
"For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians, even as one, if he would rightly consider it, would not admit that the Sadducees, or similar sects of Genistae, Meristae, Galileans, Hellenists, Pharisees, Baptists, are Jews, but are [only] called Jews and children of Abraham, worshipping God with the lips, as God Himself declared, but the heart was far from Him. But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead." --Justin Martyr (100 AD-165 AD) |
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65 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243919 | ||
The Apostle Peter tells us, about the experience on the Mount of Transfiguration (cf Matthew 17:1-6): "For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, 'This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased' -- and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain." (2 Peter 1:16-18) "So we have the prophetic word [Scripture itself] made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. (v19) Then Peter tells us with great clarity, the primary principle of Biblical interpretation: "But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." (vv20-21) God Himself is speaking to man in the Word. Who else should interpret it than the recipients of the writing? If you write to your Aunt Mildred, would you think that anyone other than Aunt Mildred should interpret what you have written with the intent of her interpretation? Clearly, thinking that sort of distortions that Peter says are symptomatic of the unlearned (those who refuse to learn from Christian teachers), unstable (those who have lives built upon something other than the Rock), and unprincipled (those who show no evidence of a Holy Spirit transformed life) (vv3:16-17). So Peter concludes with this advice to the true believers: "You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace [gifted to the believer through the Holy Spirit] and knowledge [from the Scriptures] of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen." (vv17-18) Again, thank you Lockman, for understanding the principles of Sola Scriptura so well, that you provide such a careful and learned translation for all to receive the very Word from our God and Father! |
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66 | 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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67 | 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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68 | 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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69 | 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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70 | 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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71 | 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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72 | 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 | ||||||
73 | 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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74 | 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) | ||||||
75 | 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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76 | 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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77 | 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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78 | 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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79 | 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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80 | smile.amazon.com | Acts 3:19 | DocTrinsograce | 243887 | ||
Too holy? Shucks, some can't even follow the TOU. | ||||||
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