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What a Difference! |
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Luke 11:47 |
DocTrinsograce |
Fri 05/24/13, 4:52pm |
237134 |
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"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified." --Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) |
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Look Upon Jesus |
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Ps 72:3 |
DocTrinsograce |
Thu 05/23/13, 6:12pm |
237129 |
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"Some of you have truly been brought by God to believe in Jesus. Yet you have no abiding peace, and very little growth in holiness. Why is this? It is because your eye is fixed anywhere but on Christ. You are so busy looking at books, or looking at men, or looking at the world, that you have no time, no heart, for looking at Christ. No wonder you have little peace and joy in believing. No wonder you live so inconsistent and unholy a life. Change your plan. Consider the greatness and glory of Christ, who has undertaken all in the stead of sinners, and you would find it quite impossible to walk in darkness, or to walk in sin. Oh, what low, despicable thoughts you have of the glorious Immanuel! Lift your eyes from your own bosom, downcast believer -- look upon Jesus. It is good to consider your ways, but it is far better to consider Jesus. Oh, believer, consider Jesus. Meditate on these things. Look and look again, until your peace flows like a river." --Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843) |
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Not how they pray, but how they think |
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Jer 17:7 |
DocTrinsograce |
Wed 05/22/13, 4:05pm |
237128 |
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"He who comes to God in prayer, comes not in a spirit of self-assertion, but in a spirit of trustful dependence. No one ever addressed God in prayer thus: 'O God, Thou knowest that I am the architect of my own fortunes and the determiner of my own destiny. Thou mayest indeed do something to help me in the securing of my purposes after I have decided upon them. But my heart is my own, and Thou canst not intrude into it; my will is my own, and Thou canst not bend it. When I wish Thy aid, I will call on Thee for it. Meanwhile, Thou must await my pleasure.' Men may reason somewhat like this; but that is not the way they pray." --Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) |
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Royal Proclamation |
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John 6:57 |
DocTrinsograce |
Tue 05/21/13, 3:46pm |
237127 |
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"If an earthly king were to issue a royal proclamation, and the life or death of his subjects entirely depended on performing or not performing its conditions, how eager would they be to hear what those conditions were! And shall we not pay the same respect to the King of kings, and Lord of lords, and lend an attentive ear to His ministers, when they are declaring, in His name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?" --George Whitefield (1714-1770) |
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Blessed Providence |
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Ps 149:4 |
DocTrinsograce |
Mon 05/20/13, 5:16pm |
237126 |
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"But a Christian is to pursue his lawful calling [as a saint] with an eye to the providence of God and with submission to His wisdom. Thus, so far as he acts in the exercise of faith, he cannot be disappointed. He casts his care upon his Heavenly Father, who has promised to take care of him. What God gives, he receives with thankfulness, and is careful as a faithful steward to improve it for the furtherance of the cause of God, and the good of mankind. And if he meets with losses and crosses, he is not disconcerted, knowing that all his concerns are under a Divine direction; that the Lord whom he serves, chooses for him better than he could choose for himself; and that his best treasure is safe, out of the reach of the various changes to which all things in the present state are liable." --John Newton (1725-1807) (the author of Amazing Grace) |
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luke 14:26 |
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Luke 14:26 |
DocTrinsograce |
Mon 05/20/13, 6:26am |
237122 |
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Yes, seek Him using good-old-fashioned study of what His Word. There is life in the Word. |
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luke 14:26 |
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Luke 14:26 |
doubledrop |
Sun 05/19/13, 7:49pm |
237121 |
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Thank-you, Doc... I never heard of the word hyperpole.........I also am going to get the book The Syrian Christ....I have a thirst to seek the face of our God and to know the truth...He promises if we keep seeking we shall find the truth and the truth shall set us free................ |
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Waging War on Sin by the Holy Spirit |
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Ps 119:47 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sun 05/19/13, 4:22pm |
237120 |
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"Justification by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone does not lead to more sinning. On the contrary, it is the only sure and hopeful base of operations from which the fight against sin can be launched. All the bombers that go out to drop bombs on the strongholds of sin remaining in our lives take off from the runway of justification by faith alone. The missiles that we shoot against the incoming attack of temptation are launched from the base of justification by faith alone. The whole lifelong triumphant offensive called 'operation sanctification' by which we wage war against all the remaining corruption in our lives is sustained by the supply line of the Spirit that comes from the secure, unassailable home-base of justification by faith alone. And it will be a successful operation but only because of the unassailable home base. " --John Piper |
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Scriptural Selectivity |
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Jude 1:17 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sat 05/18/13, 4:55pm |
237102 |
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"Heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the parts of the Scripture he wants to emphasize and lets the rest go. This is shown by the etymology of the word heresy and by the practice of the heretic. 'Beware,' an editorial scribe of the fourteenth century warned his readers in the preface to a book. 'Beware thou take not one thing after thy affection and liking, and leave another: for that is the condition of an heretique. But take everything with other.' (sic) The old scribe knew well how prone we are to take to ourselves those parts of the truth that please us and ignore the other parts. And that is heresy. --A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), from his book "We Travel An Appointed Way" |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sat 05/18/13, 4:46pm |
237101 |
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Hello, friend...
So many faulty presuppositions here, I scarce know where to begin. I guess I will just deal with a couple major ones, for the sake of the many silent readers.
Because some have fallen into the left hand ditch of an unbiblical libertinism does not require a leap into the right hand ditch of an unbiblical legalism. An unbiblical error is still an error.
When people abuse a truth, it has utterly no impact on the validity of the truth. If not, every truth would stand in jeopardy!
All religions in the world are about man finding ways to connect to God. Christianity is the opposite: It is God redeeming a people for Himself who cannot help themselves (Titus 2:11-14). Nothing we do can make God love us more or love us less. Yes, we are saved by works, but not human works. God's own work.
Look back through all those "overcome" verses you cited -- look even outside of Revelation. Who is doing the overcoming? People??? I trow not!
A few years ago I had the pleasure of hearing Conrad Mbewe speak. Many others over the centuries have expressed the same thing, but I think that Pastor Conrad says it in a very clear fashion for the modern ear. He said,
"I think that the number one principle in seeing through the subtlety of error is learning to handle truth in its biblical context. As someone has said, 'A text without a context is a pretext.' -- it is a lie! It is often pretty clear to any discerning mind when a text has been wrested our of its comfortable context in order to say what someone else wants it to say. When I listen to many preachers today and they state something which makes my hair stand on end, I will often wait for them to prove it from the Bible. I often find that all I need to do is dig around the verses they would have quoted and I find that there has been a gross misapplication of Scripture. The Holy Spirit was saying one thing when He inspired the sacred writer, and the preacher is saying something totally different.
"When the context is not able to help, the second principle is that obscure passages of the Bible must be interpreted by those passages of the Bible that are more perspicuous. In other words, Scripture does not contradict itself since its primary author is the Holy Spirit. So, if a false teacher quotes Scripture to suit his situation but it contradicts the clear teaching of another passage of the Bible, it should send all the warning signals that you are in danger and ought to tread carefully. Is that not how the Lord Jesus handled Satan when he tempted Him using the Scriptures in Matthew 4? Jesus simply referred to other Scriptures that were clearly being violated by the meaning that Satan was putting upon the Scriptures he was quoting. We should do the same!"
See post #158836.
In Him, Doc |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
Jesusfriend |
Sat 05/18/13, 3:32pm |
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Doc, I don't know how you came to that conclusion reading my post. The bible, which all Christians should take as the only means of true salvation is the only place I get my information. You will very rarely hear me quoting anybody but scripture. I have spent my life studying the bible. I have read many famous Christian authors to my utter disappointment, but on the other hand reading Christian authors gives one the assurance that following man will not lead us to God. I am not saying that reading other Christian writings outside the bible are bad, BUT! we must have our priorities straight and match every word we read about God to His loving word, not the other way around. There are many places in scripture where we are admonished to be perfect, not in a man made sense of "I will sin until I die and still be 'saved'", but in a "he that sinneth is of the devil".
I have one question for you sir, When you ask for forgiveness from God during a whole night of praying on your knees before God, or even just a short prayer of forgiveness, how many sins do you have left? Are you not sinless at that moment, if you say you are not sinless at that moment you do not believe Jesus promises and therefore your faith is presumption which has been handed down by man and not God's word.
Spurgeon was a great author, but he along with the majority of professors of Christianity are in great error on the most important subject for any Christian, which is "what must I do to be 'saved'". It matters not who preaches the error, it is still error. Jesus did say that the majority of Christians will be lost, and this is the reason. There is nowhere in the bible that tells me I can not ever stop sinning, but it does say that if I do live without sinning and brag about it then I am sinning. I will never say that I am sinless, because a Christians life is all about others not self. When self is dead, which is what baptism is all about, there is no sin. There is no half death either. Most people who are baptised are burried alive, and come out of the water the same as they went in. The thought that we can never overcome all sin in our lives is from the devil not God nor His word. Please read all the overcome verses in Revelation. What must we overcome to receive these blessings? a couple sins? or all sin in our lives. Remember only few followed Jesus when He was alive, and He promised that only few will be "saved". |
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The Truth Offends the World |
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Acts 7:54 |
DocTrinsograce |
Fri 05/17/13, 5:48pm |
237098 |
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"Jesus was not revolutionary because He said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius, and countless other religious leaders we've never heard of. Madonna, Oprah, Dr. Phil, the Dali Lama, and probably a lot of Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. 'God loves you' doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification by faith apart from works, the necessity of new birth, repentance, baptism, communion, and the future judgment, and the mood in the room changes considerably." --Michael Horton |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
DocTrinsograce |
Fri 05/17/13, 2:04pm |
237094 |
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Dear friend,
Your post makes me mindful of something I read about Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892):
Once a young Spurgeon heard a visiting preacher declare the teaching of sinless perfectionism, from the pulpit. Along with the explanation, the preacher demurely, and repeatedly, claimed that he himself had achieved this holy status.
The idea was fascinating to Spurgeon. If this doctrine were true, it was worthy of diligent study and personal application. Imagine being perfectly righteous in thought, word, deed, and nature! Imagine never sinning either by comission or omission! Imagine loving God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind! If nothing else, just imagine living in complete compliance with that great command! Spurgeon was excited but, being a thoroughly canny individual, needed to verify this teaching.
The next morning Spurgeon went to see the preacher at his hotel. Spurgeon found him dressed for the day, and sitting at breakfast. He approached the table where the preacher was eating, and -- without a word of explanation -- poured an entire pitcher of milk on the man's head.
Spurgeon was disappointed to report that the theology of the visiting preacher failed the test.
I have not authenticated this anecdote, but something I do know is that sinless perfectionism -- also known as moral perfectionism or holiness doctrine (not to be confused with Pentecostalism) -- is not a teaching held by Christendom at large. It's first appearance in church history came from John Wesley ("A Plain Account of Christian Perfection" published in 1767).
Regardless of its origins, sinless perfectionism is singularly held to by a very small percentage of Protestants. Therefore, those that hold to that position represent a very tiny fraction of Forum participants. Indeed, I can think of only one long-time Forum member who believes in sinless perfectionism. Nonetheless, I am certain that he would not have the temerity to condemn the rest of us as "liars from the devil" due to our differing position on the view. On the contrary, he is man of exceptional amicability.
Ours is a Forum comprised of diverse Bible believers. Our host, the Lockman Foundation, has spelled out the basis by which we enjoy the benefits of using our Forum accounts. (See the Terms of Use.) In that spirit we welcome you to our diversity.
It is an easy thing to affably tolerate someone coming into our midst and saying to most of us "Raka!" (Matthew 5:22). But you should be encouraged to demonstrate your position in more than just words; e.g., at least honor the terms as spelled out by our gracious host. This would prompt us all to consider the sagacity and Biblical basis of the position, rather than to quickly relegate it to the same category as Spurgeon's itinerant preacher.
In Him, Doc |
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According to Jesus, can we eat pork? |
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1 Tim 4:4 |
EdB |
Fri 05/17/13, 9:21am |
237093 |
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1 Tim 4:4 For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be thrown away or refused if it is received with thanksgiving.
1 Tim 4:5 For it is hallowed and consecrated by the Word of God and by prayer.
It says everything God has created is good. It further says prayer hallows and consecrates it.
It says nothing is to be discarded or rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
I think this is pretty inclusive! |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
Jesusfriend |
Fri 05/17/13, 7:36am |
237092 |
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I would like to bring the attention of the reader to the fact that Jeremiah is talking about God's people, not some worldly pagans who make sport of mocking God. In fact those who heal only lightly are the leaders of the church at the time, the shepherds of the flock. We as Christians are to stand firm as a rock against these false teachers, especially the ones who say that when we are "saved we can sin but it will be forgiven before we actually commit it. And also those who say that God's TEN commandments are "nailed to the cross". Why would something God wrote with His finger be "nailed to the cross". The "laws contained in ordinances" were what was "nailed to the cross". The laws that Moses wrote in a book, not those written by God Himself. There was a special place for the "book" of the law which Moses wrote. Deuteronomy 31:26 tells us: "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." Yes God gave Moses the "ceremonial law" which has all the information they needed at the time to survive the wilderness and to lead the people to Jesus through the sanctuary, until the veil was torn from top to bottom, then the sanctuary service was no longer needed, neither was the rules and ordinances that were given for their safe plight through 40 years of wilderness. 2 John tells us that the "law" that we are to obey is the one that we have had from the beginning, that we follow after His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous. Jesus also came to show man that the TEN commandments can be obeyed. Moses proved it, Daniel proved it, and a host of other examples in the bible. Anyone who says man can never stop sinning is a liar from the devil. |
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According to Jesus, can we eat pork? |
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1 Tim 4:4 |
Jesusfriend |
Fri 05/17/13, 7:35am |
237091 |
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I would like to say that before we ask a blessing over any food we need to know what it is that God did sanctify, and make for food. If we pray over something that God calls an abomination do you believe He will sanctify it to the good of our bodies? No matter what "covenant" we are living under, and no matter what science says about how healthy something is that God curses, does not change the fact that if God says something is an abomination in the OT why would He change His mind when He says over and over that He NEVER changes? Man has been trying to change God forever, along with His word that has been perverted into a thousand different translations. |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
DocTrinsograce |
Thu 05/16/13, 4:51pm |
237087 |
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"As stewards of the gospel of Jesus Christ, we do no service to men by making light of sin, skirting around the issue, or avoiding it altogether. Men have only one problem: they are under the wrath of God because of their sin. To deny this is to deny one of the most foundational doctrines of Christianity. It is not unloving to tell men that they are sinners, but it is the grossest form of immorality not to tell them! In fact, God declares that their blood will be on our hands if we do not warn them of their sin and the coming judgment. To seek to preach the gospel without making sin an issue is like trying to heal the brokenness of people superficially, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace." --Paul Washer |
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should you not eat or drink doing servic |
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1 Cor 11:34 |
wayne1 |
Thu 05/16/13, 11:34am |
237084 |
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Thank You |
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Why do bads happen to Christians? |
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Ps 12:5 |
wpalmer |
Thu 05/16/13, 4:26am |
237067 |
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Had to get my calculator out for that one and, yes, we must be very close in age...apparently I'm a bit older as am approaching my 21,500 day (darn!). I will take your suggestion and get the book "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth" and do some homework. Really appreciate your time and help!! God bless! Wade |
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Why do bads happen to Christians? |
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Ps 12:5 |
DocTrinsograce |
Wed 05/15/13, 8:10pm |
237065 |
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Hi, Wade...
If you have the time before your trip, how about getting a book like "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth" by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart. It is an inexpensive book in paperback, and easy to read. It will help you enormously in properly exegeting the Scriptures. It will be a useful reference for a long time to come. I am certain that it will give you some ideas for training others to read the Word.
We'll be praying for you!
In Him, Doc
PS I just passed my 21,000th day of life. So I'm right there around your age! |
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