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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. 
R.C. Sproul
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God is never, never, never obligated to be merciful to sinners. That is the point we must stress if we are to grasp the full measure of God's grace.Chosen by God (26)
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)
When we claim the Bible is unclear what we usually mean is this- we're unclear on how to get around its clear teaching.X - 1747342173224288357
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?
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
My theonomic friends are wont to drive us to one of two choices, "Autonomy or theonomy!" And of course they are precisely right. We will either have man's law, or God's law and only a fool would choose man over God. The question then rightly understood isn't whether we ought to have law as God would have us have it. The question instead is what law would God wish us to have... be careful not to heed those critics who have precious little understanding of theonomy...
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)
According to this view, the law is divided into three categories: the dietary laws, the ceremonial laws, and the moral laws. As helpful as those distinctions may be, we must keep in mind that for the Jew in the Old Testament period, all of the law was moral. It was a moral issue to Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego whether they obeyed the dietary laws of God while they were in exile. It was a moral issue for Israel whether it obeyed the ceremonial law. Yet the purpose in our day of distinguishing between the three is to communicate that there is still a substantive stratum of law in the Old Testament that seems to continue into the life of the New Testament church.How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
We might be tempted to rewrite this today and say, "Foolish is the man who delights in the law of the Lord and wastes his time meditating on it day and night." We might think that only a legalist takes delight in the law and spends more than five minutes a year meditating upon it. But God says, "Blessed is the man…."How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
Has anything changed about God that we would disregard His directives? Is His word still law? Is He still as sovereign as He was in the Old Testament? Is the God of Israel and of the New Testament church a commandment giving God? His word is law, and His law is His word, because His law expresses His will. And that will, that law, is sweeter than honey (Ps. 119:103).How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
For a Christian to say, "I once loved the law, but now I love Christ and ignore the law," is simply not to love Christ, because Christ loved the law.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,
Imagine having an unmediated, direct apprehension of the very being of God. That is what the New Testament promises will occur at the end of the Christian's earthly life.The Great Rescue, 57-58
The word beatific comes from the same root from which we get the word beatitude. Thus, the beatific vision is a vision of supreme blessedness, the blessedness we will experience when see God face to face.The Great Rescue, 57
I don't think I have ever in my life heard a sermon on the beatific vision, and I cannot fathom why. It is the ultimate prize, the ultimate goal for the Christian.The Great Rescue, 56
the grand paradox or supreme irony of the Christian faith is that we are saved both by God and from God.The Great Rescue, 21
We flatter ourselves on our performance because we judge ourselves on a curve. We compare ourselves with others, and as long as there are people who seem more sinful than we are, we congratulate ourselves on our virtue.The Great Rescue, 18
Original sin is not the sin that Adam and Eve committed. It is the result of that first sin. Original Sin has reference to our sinful condition, our sinful bent, our sinful inclination from which actual sin flows.The Great Rescue, 17-18
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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?
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?
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?
Are you saved? That question is the most important issue any person will ever face.The Great Rescue, 11
the one prison from which no one ever escapes is hell. There's no escape route. You can't dig under it. You can't climb over it. No guard can be bribed. The sentence cannot be ameliorated.The Great Rescue, 9
I think the greatest point of unbelief in our culture and in our church today is an unbelief in the wrath of God and in His certain promise of judgement for the human race.The Great Rescue, 7
The ultimate salvation that any human being can ever experience is rescue from the wrath that is to come.
God has entrusted to us the ministry of the Word, not its results.
Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we encounter him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities who will try to live forever.
The problem we face is that the word holy is foreign to all languages. No dictionary is adequate to the task.
If we despise the justice of God, we are not Christians.
The Christian life is a life of non-conformity.
God answered Job's questions not with words but with himself.
No matter how much injustice I have suffered from the hands of other people, I have never suffered the slightest injustice from the hand of God.
God does not always act with justice. Sometimes he acts with mercy. Mercy is not justice, but it also is not injustice. Injustice violates righteousness. Mercy manifests kindness and grace and does no violence to righteousness. We may see nonjustice in God, which is mercy, but we never see injustice in God.
When there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God. It's with me.
As soon as we think God owes us mercy, we're not thinking about mercy any more.
If God is not sovereign, then God is not God.
There is no greater state than to get up from your knees knowing that God has forgiven every sin you've ever committed.
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because he holds tightly to us.
There are only two ways of dying. We can die in faith or we can die in our sins.
It is not freedom that is canceled out by sovereignty; it is autonomy that cannot coexist with sovereignty (see James 4:12).Chosen by God (29)
Augustine's view is frequently said to be that God saved people who are unwilling to be saved, or that his grace operates against their wills, forcing them to choose and bringing them into the kingdom "kicking and screaming against their will." This is a gross distortion of Augustine's view. The grace of God operates on the heart in such a way as to make the formerly unwilling sinner willing. The redeemed person chooses Christ because he wants to choose Christ. The person now wills Christ because God has created a new spirit within the person. Willing to Believe (Pages 65-66)
"Here am I." Isaiah could still speak in terms of "I". He still had an identity. He still had a personality. Far from God seeking to destroy the "self", as many distortions of Christianity would claim, God redeems the self. He heals the self so that it may be useful and fulfilled in the missions to which the person is called. The Holiness of God (End of Chapter 2)
The semi-Pelagian doctrine of free will prevalent in the evangelical world today is a pagan view that denies the captivity of the human heart to sin. It underestimates the stranglehold that sin has upon us. None of us wants to see things as bad as they really are. http://www.bible-researcher.com/sproul1.html
None of us wants to see things as bad as they really are. The biblical doctrine of human corruption is grim. We don't hear the Apostle Paul say, "You know, it's sad that we have such a thing as sin in the world; nobody's perfect. But be of good cheer. We're basically good." Do you see that even a cursory reading of Scripture denies this? http://www.bible-researcher.com/sproul1.html
As sinners we are adept at searing out consciences. We are masters of rationalization by which we mute the accusing sound of the inner voice. Mystery of the Holy Spirit (108)
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)
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