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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true. Chosen by God, p. 12
we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. "Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)
The law we are called to obey is a law that comes from Him. It is His law. It is a law that defines a relationship— the relationship between the Creator and the creature, between the sovereign and the vassal, between the King and His subjects. Not only is it His law in the sense that it comes from Him, but most significantly, it is a law that comes from and reflects His own character. It reveals and displays His righteousness, and therefore, it makes known what righteousness is. Notice that order. It is not that we first have a sense of righteousness and then we see that God conforms to it. Rather, first there is God in His perfect character, who is the standard of righteousness, and all righteousness is the revelation of who He is.How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
The fourth commandment reads, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8). Note that it does not say, "From this point on, the Sabbath should be regarded as holy." Instead, it says to remember that it is already holy; the command is simply to keep it that wayHow Does God\'s Law Apply To Me?
Most of us have heard the idea that you can't legislate morality. But this is actually a nonsensical statement. If we mean to say that the government shouldn't be involved in passing legislation that curbs, restrains, or restricts human behavior or morality, there would be nothing left for Congress to do except assign names to government buildings.How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
God is a law unto Himself. This differs from the idea that God is ex lex in that the behavior of God is never lawless. The actions of God are always in conformity to the law of God's own nature and character, which is inherently righteous and eternally holy. All of His actions come forth according to who He is.How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
Faith is not believing in God; it's believing God.
When I think I am unfairly hated, I try to remember that I am unfairly loved.
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for GodChosen by God, 107
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy. Knowing Scripture (Page 20)
The fundamental problem in our lives is the problem of sin, and sin and evil are both defined in light of the law. The fall of Adam and Eve was a transgression against the law of God. Absolute wickedness in the Scriptures is associated with lawlessness (1 John 3:4). And the supreme manifestation of evil incarnate is the man of lawlessness (2 Thess. 2:8–10). So when we deal with questions about the law of God, we are not dealing with peripheral matters or tangential questions, but something that goes to the very core of our lives as human beings who are called to live coram Deo—before the face of God.How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
It's better to lose a thousand friends or a thousand relatives than to lose the Gospel,
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
The universe is no democracy. It is a monarchy. God himself has appointed his beloved Son as the preeminent King. Jesus does not rule by referendum, but by divine right. In the future every knee will bow before him, either willingly or unwillingly. Those who refuse to do so will have their knees broken with a rod of iron.
If there is no sanctification, it means that there never was any justification.
People in awe never complain that church is boring.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
If a person who is still in the flesh, who is not yet reborn by the power of the Holy Spirit, can incline or dispose himself to Christ, what good is rebirth? This is the fatal flaw of non-Reformed views.Chosen by God (55)
A good conscience is one trained by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. When we understand God's truth clearly and are convicted by it firmly, then the governor of conscience begins to
rule us into righteousness. Mystery of the Holy Spirit (109)
Mercies come from God as returns of prayer, when they make you more to rejoice in the God that hears your prayers and gives you the mercy than in the mercy you receive from God.
It was a great mercy that Hannah had after her many prayers and long waiting, a son; but a greater that she had a heart to give up her son again to God, who gave him to her. To have estate, health, or any other enjoyment upon waiting on God for the same is mercy, but not to be compared with that blessing which sanctifies the heart to use them for God's glory.
There is a threefold mercy in God: preventing mercy, which steps between us and trouble; delivering mercy, which takes us out of the hand of trouble; and sparing mercy, which though it do not prevent nor deliver, yet it mitigates, allays, and graciously moderates our troubles. And though sparing mercy be desirable and sweet, yet it is the least and lowest sort of mercy that God exercises toward any.
Compare thy mercies and afflictions together. Have not mercies flowed in upon thee like a flood, whereas afflictions have fallen upon thee but like drops? For one affliction, thou hast had an hundred mercies.
This is certainly greater than any affliction, that you have the day of grace and salvation, that you are not now in hell. This is a greater mercy, that you have the sound of the gospel yet in your ears, that you have the use of your reason. This is a greater mercy than your afflictions, that you have the use of your limbs, your senses; that you have the health of your bodies. Health of body is a greater mercy than poverty is an affliction; there is no man that is rich but if he be wise, if he hath a sickly body, he would part with all his riches that he might have his health. Therefore thy mercies are more than thy afflictions.
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