Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Matt. 13.18 – Hear then the parable of the sower. Mark 4.14 – The sower sows the word.
Category: Calvinism
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Walk in Wisdom - Gleanings from the Scripture
Heb. 1.1 - "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Heb. 1.1 – “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Joshua 2.1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there…4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them…8 Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9 and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. 11 And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. 12 Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign 13 that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.” 14 And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Mark 1.14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
The Gospel is presented in Scripture in a number of very informative ways. It is also presented in a number of very different ways. Not that the Gospel changes, but that it is not monolithic in what it addresses, and how it addresses it. For the next few days, we’ll examine some of these variants in an effort to help us both understand our salvation more comprehensively, and, to assist us in communicating it in evangelism.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Rom. 5.5 – And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
When someone says it right, it is better to back off and let them speak for themselves. Here then is Abraham Kuyper on the love of the Holy Spirit in us, from his classic “The Work of The Holy Spirit” pages 558-559.
For those who would like it, this wonderful work by Kuyper is available on line at – KUYPER
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
Matthew 13 is a remarkable passage. Gathered together here are 7 parables. Parables of the Kingdom. A study of each parable by itself is very profitable. Each one, while simple, is profound and rich. But what often gets overlooked is the larger picture. In other words, what happens when we take all 7 together, and assemble the complete package?
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Why I am an Evangelical, and why our Church wears that name.
The earliest solid reference I can find to someone being referred to as an evangelical, is in a 15th century label attached to John Wycliffe, often described as the “Morningstar of the Reformation. He was called “doctor evangelicus.” The term gained more popularity early in Lutheran side of the Reformation and spread from there. Men wanting to associate themselves with the recovery of the gospel in terms of its central doctrine of justification by faith called themselves evangelici viri” – evangelical men. Luther liked and used the expression in German as die Evangelischen.
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Walk in Wisdom – ’nuff said edition.
In an email today, I was reminded of the account history has left to us of the life of Blaise Pascal. Pascal was a 17th century child prodigy who established his place on the list of those uniquely gifted in mathematics,physics, philosophy and religion.
Eight years before his death, when Pascal was 31, he had a divine experience whereupon he could feel the presence of God. He jotted down his overwhelming memories of this experience on a piece of leather, and sewed it into the lining of his coat. He never liked to share the sanctity of the experience. Today we know about it due to a note found by Pascal’s servant from his coat after his death. It is interesting to know that he kept this note every time he wore his coat. The note revealed that the event that occurred on November 23, 1654 completely changed Pascal’s life.
His Confession:
In the year of Grace, 1654, On Monday, 23rd of November, Feast of St.
Clement…From about half past ten in the evening until about half
past twelve,
Fire,
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,
not of the philosophers and scholars.
Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.
God of Jesus Christ
“Thy God shall be my God.”
Forgetfulness of the world and of everything,
except God.
He is to be found only by the ways taught in the
Gospel.
Greatness of the human soul.
“Righteous Father, the world hath not known
Thee, but I have known Thee.” [John 17 : 25]
Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy.
I have separated myself from Him
“My God, wilt Thou leave me ?”
Let me not be separated from Him eternally.
“This is the eternal life, that they might know Thee,
the only true God, and the one whom Thou hast
sent, Jesus Christ” [John 17 : 3]
Jesus Christ.
I have separated myself from Him : I have fled from
Him, denied Him, crucified Him.
Let me never be separated from Him.
We keep hold of Him only by the ways taught in the
Gospel.
Renunciation, total and sweet.
Total submission to Jesus Christ and to my director.
Eternally in joy for a day’s training on earth. Amen.Wow!
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture
John 5.28-29 Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; Those who did good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
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