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Only sinful people are in need of a savior. Those who are well have no need of a physician.
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Where Adam collapsed, Jesus conquered. Where Adam compromised, Jesus refused to negotiate. Where Adam's trust in God faltered, Jesus' never wavered. The second Adam triumphed for Himself and for us.
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R.C. Sproul |
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Actually, one of the most dangerous things we can do as Christians is to determine our theology by our experience, because no one's experience is normative for the Christian life. We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel. Not
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we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it.
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If the church is ever to be the church triumphant, she must first be the church militant. She must be willing to enter into a spiritual war, one that could cost us our very lives.
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We trust God's Word to understand that the world in which we live was designed, framed, and created by the Word of God, so that the things that are seen were not made of things that were (or are) visible. We cannot find anything in the universe today that has, in itself, sufficient power to account for its existence. In fact, the more we analyze it, the more finite and contingent it manifests itself to be.
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One of the most comforting verses of Scripture is Romans 8:28: "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose." Only a God of sovereign providence could make a promise like that."
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We cannot take our plates and help ourselves to only those attributes of God we find tasteful and pass by those attributes we find unpalatable. In practice, this is done every day. It is the basis of idolatry; we first deconstruct God by stripping Him of some of His attributes and then refashion Him into a different God more to our liking. An idol is a false god that serves as a substitute for the real God.
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As we know, Jesus was "a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" (Isa. 53:3). He knew pain beyond any measure that we have experienced. Yet beyond the pain, the sorrow, the afflictions, and the humiliation stood One whose life was marked by joy."
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Good preachers work hard with the text. They want to make the sermon as accurate as possible. They also want to make it as interesting as possible. They want to persuade, admonish, and exhort, yet nothing happens as a result of their skill. Nothing can happen--at least, nothing good. The Holy Spirit, who attends the preached Word, is the only one who moves people to changed lives and growth. The Word is where the power is. It is not in prog..
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pleasing to God. Churches that practice infant baptism believe that it is their duty to baptize infants, and in failing to do so they would be derelict in a responsibility. Those that refrain from infant
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The God of Christianity is sovereign, wise, righteous, and ultimately concerned with justice. Not only is God concerned with justice, He assumes the role of judge over us. It is axiomatic to Christianity that our actions will be judged. This theme is conspicuously absent in much Christian teaching today, yet it fills the New Testament and touches virtually every sermon of Jesus of Nazareth. We will be called into account for every idle word..
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Abel is commended here in Hebrews 11 not because he gave an animal but because he offered his sacrifice by faith.
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Jesus suffered for us. Yet we are called to participate in His suffering. Though He was uniquely the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy, there is still an application of this vocation for us. We are given both the duty and the privilege to participate in the suffering of Christ.
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if you want to find out what a person really believes, you should analyze his checkbook. As Jesus said, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Luke 12:34). So if you want to know where your heart is, check out your treasure. Do we invest in the kingdom of God or our own kingdoms?"
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point-making a decision to follow Jesus has never converted anyone. This is because it is not a decision that converts a person; it is the power of the Holy Spirit that does so. We get into the kingdom not because we make a decision, walk down an aisle, raise a hand, or sign a card. We get into the kingdom because there is true faith in our hearts. Don't
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Guilt is fundamentally a depressant. It squelches any feeling of well-being. It robs us of peace. It torments our souls. It is probably the most significant barrier to real joy. Thus, when our guilt is removed, joy floods our souls.
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Evangelism is not only a duty; it is also a privilege.
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La Biblia dice que hay ciertas cosas que Dios ha decretado desde la eternidad. Tales cosas sucederan inevitablemente. Si tu oraras individualmente o si tu y yo unieramos fuerzas en oracion, o si todos los cristianos del mundo orasemos colectivamente, eso no cambiaria lo que Dios, en su consejo oculto, ha determinado hacer. Si decidieramos orar para que Jesus no regrese, aun asi el regresaria. Aunque quiza tu preguntaras: "?No dice la Biblia..
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The author of Ecclesiastes made this declaration: "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die" (Eccl. 3:1-2a). Likewise the author of Hebrews says, "It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9:27). Notice the language of Scripture. It speaks of death in terms of a "purpose under heaven" and of an "appointment." Death is a divine appointment. It i..
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Like Abraham, we are pilgrims and sojourners in this world, searching for that heavenly country, the city whose designer and builder is God. We have not seen this city, but we know it exists, and the evidence for it is the trust that we have in the One who promises to bring it to pass.
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The pilgrimage of the Christian life is a pilgrimage of faith. It begins when God creates faith in our hearts. In the first stage of our Christian experience, we embrace Christ and trust Him for our redemption, but the whole pilgrimage of the Christian is rooted and grounded in that confidence, that trust. The whole process is defined by living in faith
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En palabras simples, la oracion ocupa un lugar vital en la vida del cristiano. Alguien podria orar y no ser cristiano, pero no se puede ser cristiano y no orar. Romanos 8:15 nos dice que la adopcion espiritual que nos ha hechos hijos de Dios nos hace clamar en expresiones verbales: "!Abba! !Padre!". La oracion es al cristiano lo que la respiracion es a la vida, y no obstante no hay un deber del cristiano que este mas descuidado."
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Like the Chaldeans, Joseph's brothers were guilty of sin, sin that they personally had wanted to do. But God stands above all human choices and works through human freedom to bring about His own providential goals. That is what Joseph was saying: "You chose to do something sinful, but all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. I" --
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El conflicto es constante porque la capacidad para el mal que reside en el corazon de una persona regenerada casi no tiene limites. No debe impactarnos demasiado cuando vemos lideres cristianos caer en pecados graves. Tenemos el poder de una vida nueva, pero eso no borra automaticamente nuestras tendencias previas a la conversion (ver Galatas 5:16-26; Romanos 6-7). La regeneracion es tan solo el comienzo. Pero no es unicamente tan solo el c..
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Our joy is to come from the assurance that we have redemption in Christ. The greatest joy that a person can have is to know that his name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he is saved and will live forever with Christ.
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if we were to imagine the most pleasant experience possible and thought about doing that for eternity, we would be conceiving of something that would be closer to hell than to heaven.
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If you are baptized, you have in your body the mark of your participation in the suffering of Christ, because we are buried with Him in baptism.
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When I have things in perspective, I know that if I never experienced another blessing in my entire life other than the blessings I already have received from the hand of God, I would have no possible reason to be anything but overflowing with joy until the day I die. God has already given me so much to be thankful for, so much to provoke my soul to delight, gladness, and joy, that I should be able to live on the basis of that surplus of bl..
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La autoridad de las Santas Escrituras, por la que ellas deben ser creidas y obedecidas, no depende del testimonio de ningun hombre o iglesia, sino exclusivamente del testimonio de Dios (quien en si mismo es la verdad), el autor de ellas; y deben ser creidas, porque son la Palabra de Dios (1.4). El Juez Supremo por el cual deben decidirse todas las controversias religiosas, todos los decretos de los concilios, las opiniones de los hombres an..
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If the conscience is misinformed, then we seek the reasons for this misinformation. Is it misinformed because the person has been negligent in studying the Word of God? God has been pleased to reveal His principles to us, and He requires that each Christian master those principles so that the conscience is informed. I may think that it's fine to indulge in a particular activity that God absolutely prohibits, and I cannot say to God on the l..
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The bottom line is that any time we experience feelings of guilt, we need to step back and ask ourselves as honestly as we possibly can, "Have I broken the law of God?"
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Christians need to understand that without a strong connection to Christ, who is the power supply, we will be completely fruitless.
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La gente me ha dicho en muchas ocasiones que el cristianismo no se trata de reglas y normas; se trata de amor. Eso sencillamente no es cierto. El cristianismo se trata del amor, pero eso es asi porque el amor es una de las reglas: Dios nos manda que lo amemos a el y unos a otros. El cristianismo no se trata solo de reglas y leyes, pero las reglas y las leyes decretadas por Dios han sido un hecho de vida desde el dia de la creacion.
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The glory of God transcends all creaturely glory.
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Any law that God instilled in the covenant of creation extends as far as the creation extends. So, since God sanctified marriage in creation, the sanctity of marriage applies to all generations.
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It's interesting that we can always find someone who will give an articulate and persuasive defense for the ethical legitimacy of some of the activities that God has judged to be an outrage to Him. As humans, our ability to defend ourselves from moral culpability is quite developed and nuanced. We become a culture in trouble when we begin to call evil good and good evil. To do that, we must distort the conscience, and, in essence, make man ..
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Such a Jesus has no need of a church. Worship is at best a hollow service and at worst an act of blasphemy if it is directed toward a dead teacher of morality. We have no church for Socrates. We sing no hymns to Cicero. We say no prayers to Aristotle. If Jesus is a mere human teacher, neither should we worship Him.
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The theater of God's redemption is this world. It is to this world that God came in Christ. Christ refused to allow His disciples to hide in an upper room with the doors locked because of fear. No tabernacles were allowed on the Mount of Transfiguration. We are called to be Christ's witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Jerusalem is in this world. Judea is in this world. Samaria is in this world. T..
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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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YOU ARE REQUIRED TO BELIEVE, TO PREACH, AND TO TEACH WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IS TRUE, NOT WHAT YOU WANT THE BIBLE TO SAY IS TRUE.
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If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. If the Bible is the Word of God, not mere human speculation, and if God himself declares that there is such a thing as predestination, then it follows irresistibly that we must embrace some doctrine of predestination.
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Christians have nothing to be smug about; we are not righteous people trying to correct the unrighteous. As one preacher said, "Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread." The chief difference between the believer and the unbeliever is forgiveness. The"
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It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is." --
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