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El texto mas contundente que habla del canon cerrado es las Escrituras a las que nada ha sido anadido por 1.900 anos: Yo testifico a todo aquel que oye las palabras de la profecia de este libro: Si alguno anadiere a estas cosas, Dios traera sobre el las plagas que estan escritas en este libro. Y si alguno quitare de las palabras del libro de esta profecia, Dios quitara su parte del libro de la vida, y de la santa ciudad y de las cosas que e..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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I've read and reread William Tyndale, David Daniells's substantial biography. Thomas More was a great defender of Roman Catholicism in England, and he felt himself the servant of God in taking on William Tyndale and doing everything he could to destroy his work. Tyndale did what More thought was an absolutely horrible thing: he translated the Bible into a language people could read, in defiance of the Catholic hierarchy of the time. They we..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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11"And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old That you do not fear Me? 12I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you."
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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When you worry, you are saying in effect, "God, I just don't think I can trust You." Worry strikes a blow at the person and character of God."
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Leadership for the Christian always has a spiritual dimension. The duty of leading people carries with it certain spiritual obligations. That is as true for the Christian president of a secular company as it is for the stay-at-home mom whose sphere of leadership might extend no further than her own children. All Christians in every kind of leadership are called to be spiritual leaders.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Sea por muerte o por rapto, cada creyente se presentara un dia ante el Amo celestial para ser evaluado y recompensado. Una vez mas, el esclavo obediente no tiene nada que temer frente al Amo. Por otro lado, los creyentes que dedican sus vidas a actividades temporales y sin valor deben esperar de Cristo una recompensa minima. Los pecados de todo creyente, por supuesto, son perdonados para siempre
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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I have always found Christian biography to be inherently practical. A book that expounds the history or career of a noble Christian doesn't usually need to be enhanced with explicit how-to steps or imperatives and admonitions directed at the reader. The testimony of a godly life by itself is sufficient to motivate. That is why I treasure the life stories and memoirs of godly leaders.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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If anyone is ever to be kept out of heaven for my sins, it will have to be Jesus, for He took them all upon Himself and made Himself responsible for them. But He is in heaven already, never to be turned out, so now I know that I am secure.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Hay una real paradoja, no una incoherencia, en estas verdades. Todos los cristianos pecan (1 Juan 1.8), pero tambien todos los cristianos obedecen: <> (1 Juan 2.3). El pecado y la carnalidad todavia estan presentes en todos los creyentes (Romanos 7.21), pero no pueden ser el sello distintivo de su caracter (Romanos 6.22). <
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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can't help it if that gospel offends a society awash in self-love. And I know this: the preaching of the truth truly influences the world and genuinely changes one soul at a time. And that happens only by the life-giving, light-sending, soul-transforming power of the Holy Spirit, in perfect fulfillment of the eternal plan of God. Your opinion or my opinion is not part of the equation. The kingdom does not advance by human cleverness. It doe..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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When Joshua issued orders for the destruction of Jericho, he was echoing God's very clear commands.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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If we do not seek to see the entire scope of God's actions and character, we will tend to gravitate to what we like or don't like and miss the connections. The
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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La verdadera humildad fluye de una perspectiva de Dios correcta.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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The sad fact is that biblical truth has never been the hallmark of the Charismatic Movement, where spiritual experience is continually elevated above sound doctrine.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Every page of the New Testament is in perfect agreement. From Jesus' Sermon on the Mount to the book of Revelation, the message is consistent. It acknowledges the hopelessness of human depravity, but it points to Christ as the only remedy for that dilemma. Starting with the historical facts of His death and resurrection, it proclaims salvation by divine grace (rather than by the sinner's own works); the full and free forgiveness of sins; th..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Es la iglesia de Dios. El rebano y las ovejas de Dios llenan la iglesia de Dios. Ese es un importante recordatorio para quienes hablamos de <> o <> iglesia, <> o <> pueblo, <> lideres o <> lideres. No nos pertenecen a nosotros; pertenecen a Dios y solo a El. Presuntamente, alrededor del 80% de todos los problemas de la iglesia se centran en torno a problemas de poder o control. Eso surge por ver a l..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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God would give Israel the land by conquest, primarily to fulfill the covenant He had made with Abraham and his descendants.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Tu mayor prioridad como padre, entonces, es ser un evangelista en tu propio hogar. Debes ensenar a tu hijo la ley de Dios; ensenarle el evangelio de la gracia divina; mostrarle la necesidad que tiene de un Salvador, y senalarle a Jesucristo como el unico que puede salvarlo. Si crece sin una aguda conciencia de su necesidad de salvacion, tu, como padre, habras fracasado en tu tarea primordial como su guia espiritual.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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God could have used sickness, famine, fire, or flood to clear out the land, but He chose to use the people of Israel.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Y AHORA, ?QUE? El salmista dijo: <> (Sal 1.1, 2). No es suficiente sencillamente estudiar la Biblia. Debemos meditar en ella. En un sentido muy real le estamos dando a nuestro cerebro un bano, lo estamos lavando en la solu..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Es interesante notar lo que la Biblia identifica como la raiz de los problemas. El problema de la dificultad familiar recibe tratamiento en Efesios 5.22-6.9, pero la seccion siguiente (Ef 6.10-20) identifica al diablo como la fuente principal de tal problema. El problema del dominio propio sobre cosas como la lengua (Stg 3.1-5) tiene su base ultima en el mismo infierno (Stg 3.6). El problema de las tensiones internas se atribuye en definiti..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Most women were treated as nothing more than lowly slaves or animals, and husbands often bought, traded, or even disposed of their wives at will.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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In other words, God does not first make us perfect, then accept us on that basis. He first legally justifies us by imputing to us an alien righteousness, then perfects us by conforming us to the image of Christ. He "justifies the ungodly" (Romans 4:5)."
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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A lot of preaching today puts all the stress on the sinner's hostility to God, and I fear it tends to give sinners the impression that all that is needed for salvation is their own free-will decision to stop being at odds with God. The idea of a sacrificial atonement that propitiates God has all but disappeared from the message Christians proclaim to the world.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Christians are those who are united to God through Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:13). They have exercised saving faith in Jesus (John 3:15-18; Acts 4:12; 1 John 5:1) and repented of their sins (Romans 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9). God has forgiven their sins (Acts 10:43), made them His children (Romans 8:16-17), and transformed them into new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17) indwelt by the Holy Spirit (John 14:17).
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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But behavioral reform has no bearing on people's relationship with God. It has no means to deliver them out of the bondage of sin into the kingdom of Christ. The best that morality can do is turn people into another batch of condemned Pharisees.
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GOD'S CHARACTER IN JOSHUA God is holy --24:19 God is jealous --24:19 God is a promise keeper --22:4; 23:14 God is provident --7:14; 21:45 God is wrathful --10:25; 23:16
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Joshua represents a type of Christ in name and in deed.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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What two or three books on preaching have profoundly impacted your thinking? The first book that affected my thinking was John Broadus's On The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. A second book that really hit me hard was John Stott's book The Preacher's Portrait in which he explained five New Testament words that pictured the preacher's vast responsibility and duty. Then I read D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's Preachers and Preaching. Those three ..
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The unique contribution of Bible exposition is its substantial enhancement of the listeners' comprehension of Scripture's intent. Those who listen to expository preaching have opportunity to submit to the Holy Spirit who first inspired the text as He now illumines that text to them. This is the best avenue for building up the saints. The New Testament puts heavy emphasis on using the mind as the principal avenue to Christian growth (for exa..
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The three "undervalued" components of expository sermon preparation include introductions, illustrations, and conclusions. Due to the complexities of pastoral ministry in general and message preparation particularly, pastors tend to let these three slide. The congregation, in contrast, eagerly looks forward to how its pastor will handle these elements of the message. This discussion, which intends to equip the preacher for a new level of ex..
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If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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The man of God is thrilled to be a soldier. It is not that he goes out of his way to antagonize people and make enemies, but he is willing to fight the battle for truth. It is greatly disturbing to live in a time when battling for truth is looked upon as divisive and unloving. Far too many in the church today are willing to compromise theologically to avoid conflict, forgetting Jude's exhortation to "contend earnestly for the faith" (Jude 3..
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A lowly slave of unimpeachable character is more suitable for spiritual leadership than a business magnate whose integrity is questionable.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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The more a leader invests his life in people, the more effective that person will be in the Lord's service.
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God's objective and historically past revelation in Scripture cannot be understood accurately apart from the present, personal, and subjective work of the Holy Spirit. "Illumination," which applies only to believers,3 is simply the continued work of the Spirit by which He causes enlightened understanding of doctrine and how it should be applied to life."
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Fruitful expository preaching demands great effort. Since nothing is as important as the Word, no energy expended by anyone in any other field should even equal the effort of an expositor seeking to "rightly divide the Word." Adams identifies the number-one reason for poor preaching: I have had the opportunity to hear much preaching over the last few years, some very good, some mediocre, most very bad. What is the problem with preaching? Th..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Al predicar la narrativa, uno debe quitarle las luces a los heroes parecidos a Jose y colocarla en el unico personaje en el relato digno de alabanza: Dios.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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When we learn to embrace trials, anguish, and distress as friends (James 1:2-4; Romans 5:3-5) and as reminders of our own weakness (2 Corinthians 12:7-10), we become more dependent on the power of God and therefore more effective as leaders and witnesses for Him.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Apart from explicit general application in principlizing the main parts in the exposition, the expositor is not compelled to give a set number of points of specific application before a sermon can have an appli-cational impact. That is not to say he should not make some illustrative applications, but if the text is allowed to speak fully, applications will multiply far beyond what he can anticipate as the Spirit of God takes His Word and ap..
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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A sound study-library must be a top priority. For many, such a library has been unimportant and the result has been an impoverished ministry, lacking depth, breadth, and stimulation. An excellent library is constructed by deliberate acquisition rather than "accidental" accumulation. Since an expository preacher's library is an integral part of his pulpit work, it should be assembled with an eye toward the highest quality.4 A preliminary ind..
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Thorough exegesis and clear organization are crucial to an effective message. But a good sermon poorly preached is no better than a poor sermon properly preached. One has light but no heat; the other heat with no light.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |
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Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. |