According to God’s Word:
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of God
FAITH IS NOT OUR SAVIOR
Christ is All in All, not His Gifts or Blessings. (They're wonderful but they flow from Jesus.)
Monday, May 29, 2023
Justification Quotes from Ken Kovach
“God shatters our self-confidence and self-righteousness, so that we will put our faith in Jesus Christ. Luther goes on to say that “hunger is the best cook. As the dry earth thirsts for rain, so the Law makes the troubled heart thirst for Christ. To such hearts Christ tastes sweetest, to them He is joy, comfort, and life. Only then are Christ and His work understood correctly.”
Friday, May 26, 2023
CONVINCED OF OUR SALVATION
Philaathus
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Confession, What is.
"One of the genuine marks of being a Christian is not sinless perfection. One of the greatest marks of Genuine Christianity is that when we sin we are sensitive to it, and that sensitivity leads us to contrition and brokenness and ultimately confession. Christians are confessional people, and that does not just mean that we confess Jesus as Lord, but we are constantly agreeing with the Lord about our selves. The word confession, homologeo means, “to speak the same thing.” That God speaks to you through His Word and says, “You have anger in your heart.” Confession is not “Lord forgive me for my sins.”
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Thirteen Things the Unsaved Cannot Do
13 THINGS AN UNSAVED PERSON CANNOT DO
1. HE CANNOT THINK AS GOD DOES:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)
2. HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND GOD:
"You thought that I was just like you..." (Psalm 50:21). "Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens above--what can you do? They are deeper than Hell below--what can you know?" (Job 11:7-8)
3. HE CANNOT SEE SPIRITUAL THINGS:
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3)
4. HE CANNOT KNOW HIS OWN HEART:
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9)
5. HE CANNOT PROPERLY DIRECT HIS OWN PATHS:
"I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself, Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps." (Jeremiah 10:23).
"There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death." (Proverbs 14:12)
6. HE CANNOT FREE HIMSELF FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW:
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." (Galatians 3:10)
7. HE CANNOT RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT:
"...the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him." (John 14:17)
8. HE CANNOT HEAR (receive & understand) GOD'S WORDS:
"He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God." (John 8:47)
"The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit." (1 Corinthians 2:14)
9. HE CANNOT BIRTH HIMSELF INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD:
"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God." (John 1:13)
"For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.' It does not depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy." (Romans 9:15-16)
10. HE CANNOT PRODUCE REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN CHRIST:
"For by grace are you saved through faith; and that (faith) not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)
". . . for all men have not faith." (2 Thessalonians 3:2)
"For unto you it is given . . . to believe on him . . ." (Philippians 1:29)
"...in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 2:25)
11. HE CANNOT COME TO CHRIST:
"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him . . . Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." (John 6:44, 65)
12. HE CANNOT BELIEVE ON CHRIST:
"But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep." (John 10:26)
13. HE CANNOT PLEASE GOD:
"Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires....Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God....if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ." (Romans 8:5, 8-9)
Monday, May 22, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Both Limits
"Unless one is a universalist, one’s doctrine of the atonement is "limited" either in intention (Christ died to save His elect) or in application (Christ died for all, yet not all are saved)."
Sinclair FergusonThursday, May 11, 2023
John Frame Eschatology
I confess my disappointment that so much teaching about the last days is focused on the order of events. In my view, when Scripture tells us about the return of Christ, it doesn’t give us this information so that we can put it on a chart and watch the events as they pass by. That would be catering to our intellectual pride, among other things. Why, then, does Scripture have so much to say about the last days? So that we can reorder our lives in the light of Jesus’ coming.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
DO NOT MURMUR AT PROVIDENCE, HAVE FAITH
Brilliant comments from Calvin on John 13:8:
“Now [Peter] errs more grievously, when he has been corrected, & yet does not yield.
“And, indeed, 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗰𝘆.
“It is a plausible excuse, no doubt, that the refusal springs from reverence for Christ; but since he does not absolutely obey the injunction, the very desire of showing his respect for Christ loses all its gracefulness.
“The true wisdom of faith, therefore, is to approve and embrace with reverence whatever proceeds from God, as done with propriety and in good order; nor is there any other way, indeed, in which his name can be sanctified by us;
“for if we do not believe that whatever he does is done for a very good reason: our flesh, being naturally stubborn, will continually murmur, and will not render to God the honor due to him, unless by constraint.
“In short, until a man renounce the liberty of judging as to the works of God, whatever exertions he may make to honor God, still pride will always lurk under the garb of humility.”
(from Mike Riccardi).
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Jesus is the True and Better
“Jesus is the true temple, the true prophet, the true priest, the true king, the true sacrifice, the true lamb, the true life, the true bread.