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Ever increasingly we hear from the modern world “Live your truth.” or “Be your authentic self, find your own identity.” while the gospel tells us who our Savior is. It tells us what our identity is in our natural state, but more importantly it tells us what our identity can be in Christ.
We cannot save ourselves, we cannot live out unnatural lives contrary to God’s design while demanding justification. Cling to the Cross, seek first the kingdom of God and lean on Him rather than yourself.
Owen published this in 1656, while Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, from various sermons he had preached. He wasn’t selling self-made discipline or promoting the idea of man conquering sin of his own accord.
For Owen, sin is put to death by the Spirit, with one’s faith set upon Christ, and no believer outgrows the work.
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election.”
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. (Romans 7:24–25, NKJV)
Scripture declares that it makes the man of God “complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
In today’s world, where do you see Christians reading past the text for more than scripture gives us? Feelings, “fresh words,” tradition, or something else?
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“It has no dominion; it is a broken-backed snake; we are in bitter conflict with it, but it is with a vanquished foe that we have to deal.”
At its fourth session in 1546, the Council of Trent set church tradition alongside Scripture. The Reformers answered that only God can bind the conscience, so every council, creed, and teacher answers to His Word, not the other way around.
#Reformation
Warfield gave this as a lecture, published in 1894, when critics were saying the Bible held “more of the error of man” than Christians had believed. His answer: the church has always received Scripture as God’s Word in every part, not a book we sift for pieces of it.
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The Bible is not primarily about you is correct.
Man’s sin is the central problem that creates the tension in the biblical story is correct.
But the way you phrase the rest is not great.
The Bible isn’t about Jesus”
“Jesus is not the main character.”
This directly contradicts Jesus’ own interpretation of Scripture and the consistent insistence on a Christocentric reading.
John 5:39: the Scriptures “testify about me.”
Luke 24:27, 44–47: Jesus interprets “all the Scriptures” (Moses, the Prophets, the Psalms) as concerning himself, his suffering and glory.
The plan of redemption is the eternal counsel of the Triune God (the pactum salutis or covenant of redemption). The Father elects and sends, the Son is sent and accomplishes, the Spirit applies, but it is one undivided work of the one God.
creation → fall → redemption → consummation, with the glory of the Triune God as the end and Christ as the central actor in the drama of redemption.
Uhm…
The entire Bible is about Christ. He is the Word made flesh, and He exists through every portion and story within scripture.
Zach retweeted
What’s the gospel?
If you encountered someone dying in the street and needed to explain the gospel to them so that they’d be saved, what would you say?
Paul wrote this from prison near the end of his life, passing the work on to Timothy. He didn’t hand him a new revelation or a tradition to add. He pointed him to the Scriptures, and said they are enough to make the man of God complete.
#SolaScriptura
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Don't confuse these:
1. Faith with faithfulness.
2. Justification with sanctification.
3. The cause of salvation with its fruit.