Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
1 Cor. 15.19 – If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
Category: Atonement
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John Owen John Calvin
Before you read the following, I should make it clear that I was never HYPER-Calvinist. That is a very specific designation. For one to be a hyper-Calvinist, there are some very specific criteria which must be met. Phil Johnson in his excellent “A Primer of Hyper-Calvinism” discusses them in the following paragraphs:
“Notice three very crucial points in that definition: First, it correctly points out that hyper-Calvinists tend to stress the secret (or decretive) will of God over His revealed (or preceptive) will. Indeed, in all their discussion of “the will of God,” hyper-Calvinists routinely obscure any distinction between God’s will as reflected in His commands and His will as reflected in his eternal decrees. Yet that distinction is an essential part of historic Reformed theology. (See John Piper, “Are There Two Wills in God? Divine Election and God’s Desire for All To Be Saved” in Thomas R. Schreiner, ed., The Grace of God and the Bondage of the Will, 2 vols. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995, 1:107-131.)
Second, take note of the stress the above definition places on hyper-Calvinists’ “denial of the use of the word ‘offer’ in relation to the preaching of the gospel.” This is virtually the epitome of the hyper-Calvinist spirit: it is a denial that the gospel message includes any sincere proposal of divine mercy to sinners in general.
Third, mark the fact that hyper-Calvinism “encourages introspection in the search to know whether or not one is elect.” Assurance tends to be elusive for people under the influence of hyper-Calvinist teaching. Therefore, hyper-Calvinism soon degenerates into a cold, lifeless dogma. Hyper-Calvinist churches and denominations tend to become either barren and inert, or militant and elitist (or all of the above).”
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Judges 16.30 And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life. 31 Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
Samson is as tragic as he is heroic. His life demands examination.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Judges 11.30 – “30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering…34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow.”
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scriptures
Have I got a deal for you!Romans 8.1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scriptures
Just surrenderRom. 5.1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scriptures
Philippians 1.6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings in Scripture
John 15.12-13 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for His friends.
Eph. 2.4-7 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved – and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings in Scripture
Psalm 55.2 Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan.
Psalm 142.2 I pour out my complaint before Him; I tell my trouble before Him. -
Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings in Scripture
Heb. 13.8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
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