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From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect his image, and yet how possible it is for us to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved!”
Luther, Calvin, and Knox are still household names, but MacArthur’s point is that the Reformation wasn’t their achievement. As ordinary people got the Scriptures in their own language, the Spirit used His Word to convert souls. That Word hasn’t lost its power.
Luther dated his Ninety-five Theses October 31, 1517, as a call to debate the sale of indulgences. Rome claimed a treasury of merits the pope could draw from. Luther pointed the church back to the treasure it already had: the gospel itself.
#Reformation
Hebrews was written to believers under pressure to drift from Christ. They are told to imitate the faith of the men who taught them, because the Lord those men trusted has not changed. Church history is the record of His faithfulness, not theirs.
#ChurchHistory
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification.”
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and heaven cannot excel.”
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.
