It is the will of God

 "It is the will of God to have the Spirit of God use the Word of God to make the children of God look like the Son of God." – H.B. Charles Jr.

FORGIVENESS REQUIRES THE SATISFACTION OF GOD'S JUSTICE

 Forgiveness requires the satisfaction of God’s justice as an expression of God’s mercy. We are not forgiven based upon how bad we feel about our sins. -- Kevin DeYoung.

Owen on Sanctification

 

OUR FAITH DOESN'T SAVE US

 

Vocation post

Your vocation and the daily routine of work matters to God. “All phases of life should glorify God, and if a man is a carpenter or a plumber, he should and can glorify God by his trade as well as a student or professor. To serve God acceptably, one does not need to be a monk, neither does he need to be a scholar…What is required is that each should use faithfully what he has received.” ~Gordon Clark

ARMS UNDERNEATH

 

TOO MUCH EASY

 

I can be weighed

 "I can be weighed against the law, and yet sit securely, knowing that now and for ever, I am equal to the law. It hath nought against me since Christ is mine, Its terrors have no power to affright me, and as for its demands they can exact nothin...g of me for they are fulfilled to the utmost in Christ." -C. H. Spurgeon.

Rest in Him Then

 

Surely

 Surely Adam could not propagate so strong a poison but Jesus Christ could propagate as strong an antidote, and much stronger. 

Matthew Henry.

Adam’s fall was terribly effectual, it has brought death upon the human race age after age. And Christ’s death is wonderfully effectual, for on behalf of all those for whom he died, his atonement so prevails as to put their sins away for ever. 

-Charles Spurgeon.

INSTABILITY OF EARTHLY THINGS

 

Our sins stand no chance of standing safely before a Holy God.

 “The greatest guilt that ever was contracted upon a trembling, shaking conscience, can stand before the efficacy of the blood of Christ no more than the sinner himself can stand before the justice of the Lord, with all their guilt upon him. Flavel, 1.328

Paraphrased by James Dorman IV: Just as: A guilty sinner stands no chance of standing safely before a Holy God.

In similar manner: The believer's sins (no matter how large, or greatly felt) stand no chance of standing safely before the powerful, effective atoning pardoning redeeming forgiving blood of Christ.

SEEING MORE CLEARLY

There is a difference between growing worse and worse, and thy seeing more clearly how bad thou art.

—John Bunyan, Works 1.287

 We are sinful out of measure, but see it not to the full, until an hour of temptation comes. But when it comes, it does as a painter does, sketching out our heart… yet the sight of what we are should not keep us from coming to Jesus Christ.

—John Bunyan, Works 1.287

There is a difference between growing worse and worse, and thy seeing more clearly how bad thou art.

—John Bunyan, Works 1.287There is a difference between growing worse and worse, and thy seeing more clearly how bad thou art.

—John Bunyan, Works 1.287

There is a difference between growing worse and worse, and thy seeing more clearly how bad thou art.

—John Bunyan, Works 1.287

There is a difference between growing worse and worse, and thy seeing more clearly how bad thou art.

—John Bunyan, Works 1.287

Christ is glorified

 Christ is glorified, and God in and by Him, in the preaching of the Gospel, whether men receive it or not.

—John Owen, on Hebrews 4:1

Surely

 Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.

— J. Flavel

What is Prayer

 

This is a great answer;  and yet, perhaps, it can be improved;  What would be the description of prayer based upon the prayer Jesus taught His disciples.

A.  Our:  Corporate; Community,

B.  Father:  Fellowship/Family.  Love, Nurture, Instruction, Guidance, Provision, Correction.

C. who are in Heaven:  Holy, Separate, Eternal, Powerful, Pure, Creator, Aseity.

D.  Hallowed be thy name..

(unfinished article....)  

Is He Absolute