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81 | The Battleground of the Church | 2 Tim 4:7 | DocTrinsograce | 243860 | ||
"First, if through the grace of the Lord Jesus we have been called out of darkness into his marvelous light, so that we again confess this lordship of the Most High, we will acknowledge him as our Lord in every department of life and have our delight in doing his will. Always and everywhere we will ask, 'Lord, what will thou have us do?' "Thus by faith we will fight the good fight of faith so that we may be doers of the word. We will acknowledge him as Lord in our personal lives and ask for grace that we may walk as children of light, crucify our old natures, and walk in new and holy paths. We will ask for his will and for grace to do that will in our home life in the relationship of man and wife, of parent and child. We will insist that he be Lord in the schools where our children are instructed, so that they may be thoroughly furnished for every good work. We will confess that God is Lord in the spheres of industry and commerce, over the relationship of employer and employee. "In the church and in society, in the shop and in the office, in the home and on the street, in the city and in the state, always and everywhere, it shall be our earnest desire and endeavor to walk according to the confession that God is the Lord." --H. Hoeksema (2006) |
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82 | The Law Wounds and the Gospel Heals | Rom 2:18 | DocTrinsograce | 243856 | ||
"The law is the Word in which God teaches and tells us what we are to do and not to do, as in the Ten commandments. "The other word of God is not Law or commandment, nor does it require anything of us; but after the first Word, that of the Law, has done this work and distressful misery and poverty have been produced in the heart, God comes and offers His lovely, living Word, and promises, pledges, and obligates Himself to give grace and help, that we may get out of this misery and that all sins not only be forgiven but also blotted out and that love and delight to fulfill the law may be given besides. See, this divine promise of His grace and of the forgiveness of His is properly called Gospel. And I say again and yet again that you should never understand Gospel to mean anything but the divine promise of His grace and of the forgiveness of sin. For this is why hitherto St. Paul's epistles were not understood and cannot be understood by our adversaries even now; they do not know what Law and Gospel really are. For they consider Christ a Legislator and the Gospel nothing but the teaching of new laws. This is nothing else but locking up the gospel and obscuring everything. For 'Gospel' is Greek and means 'good news,' because in it is proclaimed the saving doctrine of life, of the divine promise, and grace and the forgiveness of sins are offered. Therefore works do not belong to the gospel; for it is not laws but faith alone, because it is nothing whatever but the promise and offer of divine grace. He, then, who believes the Gospel receives grace and the Holy Spirit. Thereby the heart becomes glad and joyful in God and then keeps the Law gladly and freely, without the fear of punishment and without the expectation of reward; for [he] is sated and satisfied with that grace of God by which the law has been satisfied." --Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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83 | Post tenebras lux... | Ps 18:28 | DocTrinsograce | 243854 | ||
Few events have shaped the course of history like Martin Luther’s nailing the ninety-five theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany. But after nearly five hundred years, is the Reformation still important? In this session, Dr. Mohler reflects upon the most significant contributions of the Protestant Reformation. http://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/dawn-reformation-2016-regional-conference/reflections-499th-anniversary-reformation/ |
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84 | Commanded by Jesus | Matt 19:18 | DocTrinsograce | 243853 | ||
I wonder what would happen if a person worked as hard to bring peace and truth and love, as to justify himself, his own denomination, his own beliefs. |
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85 | Speaking badly of another Christian | Mark 9:40 | DocTrinsograce | 243852 | ||
Sound like you feel persecuted. We are also commanded to forgive and forebear, not label any and every difference as a lie. | ||||||
86 | Unity to the body of Christ | Eph 4:4 | DocTrinsograce | 243851 | ||
Which is why we read the chapter in its entirety. Context is king if interpretation is to be sound, and not just a matter of pushing one's own perspective. God gave us truth, not a lever. | ||||||
87 | Commanded by Jesus | Matt 19:18 | DocTrinsograce | 243850 | ||
Yeah... just go through the history... all hear to read... and people are known by what they have said. The Holy Spirit or some other spirit is so clear. Fruit of the Spirit or fruit of flesh. | ||||||
88 | As we vote today... | 1 Pet 2:13 | DocTrinsograce | 243845 | ||
Principles to keep in mind as we vote: 1. The Christian must trust in God, not in man. Psalm 118:8-9 says, “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.†Armed with this faith, there is no reason for Christians to support ungodly men or women as a “necessary means†to our survival and success. We have a sovereign, almighty, covenant-keeping God who cares for us. Why would we disgrace that faith by selling our support to political candidates of either party who behave in a morally contemptuous manner? Here is the question the world wants to know about us: Who do we trust, in God or in princes? 2. The Christian must aim for faithfulness, leaving the outcome to the Lord. This is not to say that Christians remain uninvolved in political or other public affairs. But being a Christian surely limits us from endorsing blatant sin and giving public support to grossly ungodly candidates. As Psalm 97:10 says, “O you who love the Lord, hate evil!†To this the pragmatists answer, “But the Supreme Court!†But the psalmist continues: “[The Lord] preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.†3. The Christian must prize the name and reputation of Jesus and think first about the spread of his gospel message of salvation. From this perspective, government persecution is not the greatest evil we should fear. The church often flourishes spiritually when under oppression. But the church is always crippled by hypocrisy and betrayals of our message. Far above any fear we should have of secularist oppression, Christians should dread a compromise to the public integrity of our witness to Christ and his kingdom. --Richard D. Phillips (2016) |
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89 | Answering Queen Elizabeth I | Heb 7:28 | DocTrinsograce | 243844 | ||
Petrus Dathenus answers Queen Beth: To set the context, Elizabeth confesses faith in Christ but finds herself with heaviness of heart due to her failures. “First of all, I feel that I am one of those who knows Gods will but does not do it (Luke 12:47). Therefore I can only expect to be afflicted with many stripes. After all, the Bible says plainly that all those who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law; for not those who hear the law but those who do the law will be justified (Rom. 2:12-13).†Dathenus on Law: The law is a declaration of the unchangeable will of God. By the threat of eternal damnation it binds everyone to complete and perpetual obedience, to fulfill all that God has commanded in His commandments (Deut. 5:6; 27:26). Wherever either the Old or New Testament teaches that this perfect obedience is required of us, there the law is emphasized and taught (James 2:10; Gal. 3:12). p. 8 All precepts that admonish us and exhort us to perform all that we owe to God and to our neighbor are law. For example, the entire fifth chapter of Matthew, where Jesus says to us, “But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause;…whosoever shall say, Thou fool†(Mat. 5:22); “whosoever looketh on a woman to lust†(Mat. 5:28); and all similar statements they are all the law, which demands of us that which we are not able to keep and requires what we are not able to perform. Just to cite another example, where Jesus says, “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.†(Mat. 19:17). There He speaks of and prods us with the law; also wherever He requires something similar of us. So also for various reasons Paul, Peter, John, and other apostles have done, in their writings and exhortations. p. 8 While it may seem unfair that the law commands perfect obedience, Dathenus in his counsel wisely directs Elizabeth to consider Adam, being created upright in the Garden. He writes, “The law had its beginning when God created Adam in His image and implanted His law in Adams heart. The law of God was there then, as the image of God in which Adam was created, made as Paul says, in true righteousness and holiness.†Elizabeth acknowledges “…Adam was created to rightly know and love his Creator, to obey Him and to do good to his neighbor in love.†Both here are echoing Heidelberg Catechism Q/A 6. From a blogger simply known as Brad. |
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90 | ... | Ex 20:16 | DocTrinsograce | 243835 | ||
Something about a Kettle? | ||||||
91 | Law and Gospel | Gal 3:23 | DocTrinsograce | 243833 | ||
"This difference between the Law and the Gospel is the height of knowledge in Christendom. Every person and all persons who assume or glory in the name of Christian should know and be able to state this difference. If this ability is lacking, one cannot tell a Christian from a heathen or a Jew; of such supreme importance is this differentiation. This is why St. Paul so strongly insists on a clean-cut and proper differentiating of these two doctrines." --Martin Luther on Galatians 3:23-24 |
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92 | Love Good and Hate Evil | Amos 5:15 | DocTrinsograce | 243831 | ||
"In all your longing to love as Christ loved, you sometimes forget that true love for one thing will, or at least should, produce a hatred for whatever stands against it. Do not neglect cultivating hatred, an intense hatred, for the right things. Authentic love and zeal for God will produce abhorrence for all that stands opposed to Him and His purposes. Genuine love for your neighbor will produce within you antipathy toward all that robs him of his dignity or leads her away from God. "Do you hate pride and arrogance? Injustice and the way of evil? Hurtful speech? Do false gospels and false teachers create a holy hostility in you? Do you hate works-righteousness and the false promise of peace with God through performance? I hope you do. "And what about your own sin? Do you see it? Is it ever before your eyes? Do you really hate it for what it is, or do you simply dislike its unpleasant consequences? If you hate your sin only because of the pain it has caused you in this life, then your hatred stems from self-love and does not come from a burning love for God. "At times you have wondered why you are so complacent, unmoved. You have grown frustrated with your lack of progress in the faith. It may be because you lack true and balanced passion – love and hatred. One will move you to recoil from sin, and the other will move you to hold on to Jesus." --Joe Thorn (2011) |
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93 | God Providing His Word to the People | Ex 24:3 | DocTrinsograce | 243829 | ||
"Wycliffe certainly was a pioneer in Bible translation, one of the greatest, but others had gone before him, even as far back as Patrick in Ireland who was translating parts of the Bible into Old Irish so he could communicate the gospel of Jesus to the tribes in Ireland, and the Venerable Bede in eight-century England was translating parts of Scripture into Anglo-Saxon even on his deathbed (see Hand of Vengeance). So there is a long history of God raising up scholars, evangelists, pastors, missionaries who were passionate about getting the Word of God in the language of the people. "But there is a great irony here. The established (Roman Catholic) church had created Latin into a sacred language and used it as a barrier to keep the people from hearing the Word of God in their own language. The constructed doctrine of papal supremacy–that the pope interprets what the Bible says and tells you what it means—made it heretical and unnecessary for you to read the Bible in your own language. But here’s the Spirit’s ironic touché: Latin actually served to unite scholars and students from all over Europe. A student could go from Bohemia or any other language group in Europe to study in Oxford and you didn’t have to sit in a cubicle for months with headphones on doing language training. No need to learn Middle English for the Bohemian student or any other. You showed up day one for lectures and tutorials delivered all in Latin. Wycliffe exploited this and created a conduit for vernacular Bible translation all over Europe, really, all over the world. That’s my kind of hero." --Douglas Bond (2016) |
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94 | Happy 499th Reformation Day! | Hos 14:4 | DocTrinsograce | 243827 | ||
"Reformation Day is the day the light of the gospel broke forth out of darkness." --Dr. Stephen J. Nichols (2016) http://www.ligonier.org/blog/what-is-reformation-day/ |
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95 | A Helpful Ambiguity | Ps 110:1 | DocTrinsograce | 243826 | ||
"Frequently in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, the covenant name of God, Yahweh (Exod. 6:3) is translated with the Greek word Kyrios. For example, in Psalm 110:1, the Hebrew text says, 'YAHWEH says to Adon, sit at my right hand...' The two characters in the dialogue are distinguished by two different titles. The Greek translation of Psalm 110:1, however, from which Peter quoted in Acts 2:34 reads: 'the Lord says to my Lord….' Our English versions reflect the fact that the same noun is used for both persons. The distinction that was clear in the Hebrew text became ambiguous in the Greek text and the apostles capitalized on this ambiguity. They did so because what distinguishes the Father and the Son is not a difference in divine essence, but a difference in their persons and it belongs to the person of the Son to become incarnate, but the incarnate Son is and remains consubstantial with the Father. Thus, to call Jesus Lord and Messiah is to say, 'When you see the LORD speaking or acting in Scripture, think of Jesus.'" --R. John Scott (2016) |
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96 | 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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97 | 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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98 | 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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99 | 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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100 | 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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