Five Answers to Five Errors

 To be very accurate, Calvinism does not have—and never has had—five points. Rather, it has five answers to the five errors of Arminianism.

-W. Robert Godfrey, Saving the Reformation: The Pastoral Theology of the Canons of Dort

A FOUNTAIN OPENED

 

Assurance

“If assurance is not of the essence of saving faith, and it can be lost because of sin, sensitive persons will inevitably scrape their consciences raw until they find clues and, as Calvin warned, there will be no satisfaction with evidences;……there will never be enough to secure the soul’s confidence.” -Michael Horton “

There is nothing then that can satisfy the conscience in respect of the guilt of sin, but the blood, and death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.” -Thomas Goodwin

Why not love the world?

 

A GRAIN OF FAITH MORE THAN A TON OF EXCITEMENT.

 

Offense and Tumult

 

Satan lies on the label.

 Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst:

He promises honor and pays with disgrace. He promises pleasure and pays with pain. He promises profit and pays with loss. He promises life and pays with death. But 𝘎𝘰𝘥 pays as He promises. —Thomas Brooks, Works 2:322

Satan labels the pot to be honey, when it is actually poison.

Satan lies.

Satan's promise is a lie.

Temptation is a lie.

Great Quotes by Gurnall

 “Never think to find honey in the pot when God writes poison on its cover.

“We may say of every sin in this respect...if God call it folly, there is no wisdom to be found in it.

“The devil, indeed, teacheth sinners to cover foul practices with fair names.”

— William Gurnall

 “Never think to find honey in the pot when God writes poison on its cover.

— William Gurnall

APPLAUSE IS WORTH NOTHING.

 

(Do not seek to impress others or your self with your: Chess rating, Bench Press, Cycling Distance.  Though exercise for the sake of energy for the sake of serving Christ and telling of His glory and grace -- is a proper motivation to exercise.)

Not for our Faith, nor according to our Faith

We are not elected....for our faith nor according to our faith, but "to our faith", that is, elected (in order that) we might (would) believe.  

-- William Perkins. 

THE SOVEREIGN DECREE OF GOD

 

I am His by purchase

 

I SIN CONTINUALLY, BUT CHRIST HAS DIED