IRONY OF JUDGING

It seems maybe you are continually judging him for juding someone else, have you considered stop judging him. Everytime you bring it up to constantly tell him to stop, is everytime you are judging him for judging someone else; If you can repeatedly tell him to stop judging since it is a sin, then he can repeatedly tell someon to stop fornicating since it is a sin.

NEITHER NOR

"But the gospel is neither moralism nor relativism and so it is equally offensive to the moral and the irreligious. So Christ calls us to repent of both our good and bad works, for we have no righteousness of our own."

- John Hendryx

GOOD CONFLICT

"Avoiding conflict is not always the right thing. Sometimes it is downright sinful. Particularly in times like these, when almost no error is deemed too serious to be excluded from the evangelical conversation, and while the Lord’s flock is being infiltrated by wolves dressed like prophets, declaring visions of peace w...hen there is no peace (Ezekiel 13:16)."...Even the kindest, gentlest shepherd sometimes needs to throw rocks at the wolves who come in sheep’s clothing."

- John MacArthur

The God Centered Gospel vs. a Man Centered Gospel

NONSENSE

"An honest belief in the sovereignty of God in salvation would bring an end to a lot of the nonsense that is going on in the church."

—John MacArthur

CERTAIN

A person is upset that I am so certain about my theology, yet at the same time is himself so certain about theology being so uncertain. Is it not a double standard that he grants himself certainity in asserting everything is uncertain, but then certainly denies me the right to be certain that some things are certain.

TAKE NOTE

It seems that Jesus brings about events in our lives that will reveal our insufficiency so that we might find Him. For as long as we pridefully think all we can help ourselves He remains hidden. But take note, it is by the grace of God we are what we are, which means that even the very humility needed to recognize the truth and excellency of Jesus does not come naturally. It is a gift of grace.

John Hendryx

HIGHER PURPOSE

"His saving of sinners is not an end in itself, for God would have been no loser had every one of them eternally perished. No, His saving of sinners is but a means unto an end—"to the praise of the glory of His grace!" (Eph. 1:6)."

~ A.W. Pink

Proverbs for the Week

Proverbs 17: 10 ​​​​​​​​A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 26: 16 ​​​​​​​​The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.

God Predestined

God predestined the fall, and though, as Supreme Ruler, he executes his plan even by means of sin; nevertheless, he remains holy and righteous; of his own accord man falls and sins: the guilt is his alone. “Man falls according to the appointment of divine providence, but he falls by his own fault.”

-Herman Blavinck

God may and God does

So then, God may reprobate, may suffer the reprobate to sin, may fore-determine his infallible damnation, through the pro-consideration of him in sin, and may also forbear to work that effectual work in his soul that would infallibly bring him out of this condition, and yet neither be the author, contriver, nor means of man’s sin and misery.

-John Bunyan

BE READY

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all. --

-Thomas Brooks


(source: Covenanted Reformation on FB)

ATONED ONCE AND FOR EVER

"If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found."

- Octavius Winslow

Nothing

Quoting Aashik Rao:

To evolutionists, I say: You are all gigantic blobs of carbon and oxygen. Your words are random vibrations produced by a random vocal chord. Your atheist manifestos, are random movements of your randomly made hands. Your scientific observation is just the random movement of chemicals through random synapses into a random brain. Sure, you can say you believe in evolution - but that means nothing. Belief is random too.

A Denial

"Anything which claims to be Christianity without having Christ at the beginning and the center and the end is a denial of Christianity, call it what you will."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

RELYING ON SELF

In particular, the denial of free will was to Luther the foundation of the Biblical doctrine of grace, and a hearty endorsement of that denial was the first step for anyone who would understand the Gospel and come to faith in God. The man who has not yet practically and experimentally learned the bondage of his will in sin has not yet comprehended any part of the Gospel" (44-45,).

"Justification by faith only is a truth that needs interpretation. The principle of sola fide [by faith alone] is not rightly understood till it is seen as anchored in the broader principle of sola gratia [by grace alone]; . . for to rely on one’s self for faith is not different in principle from relying on one’s self for works" (59,).

"[John] the Baptist's word means that man can receive nothing unless given him from above; so that free-will is nothing!" Martin Luther,

Martin Luther, Bondage of the Will

OVERTHROW

“To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.”

- John Owen

Enemy

The natural man is an ememy to Christ: 1) An enemy to Christ's Prophetic Office- (Despise His Word) 2) An enemy to Christ's Priestly Office- (Despise His Sacrifice) 3) An enemy to Christ's Kingly Office- (Despise His Rule).


-- Thomas Boston

SIMPLE PURITY

"So let us hold to this rule, that all human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot."

- John Calvin

Idolatry

“Will worship” (Col. 2:23) is ascribing to the will of man the work of God. Like all other forms of idolatry, it is damning to all who practice it. All who make the will of man a determining factor in salvation worship their own wills, worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, and set man in the place of God; and of all forms of idolatry spawned in hell, will-worship is the most abominable and the most absurd!

Don Fortner