I never cease to be amazed at how professing Christians can repeatedly cling to the same 1% or less of Scriptural passages, misapplying them to justify their erroneous positions, all as they repeatedly ignore the other 99% of divine biblical testimony. It’s insanity to me. It’s even worse when they rely on the ambiguity fallacy…
Hermeneutics: We Are All Taught By Someone…
The False Arguments: Most everyone who professes to believe in Christ, claims to derive their doctrines from God’s word… even the papists so claim. Most everyone likewise listens to teachers, to one degree or another, including those who warn against those who make use of the teachings of others. Seeing that the Bible specifically declares…
God’s Faithfulness: A.W. Pink Against Murmuring (in Light of the Faithfulness of God)
“God is faithful in preserving His people. “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son” (I Cor 1:9). In the previous verse promise was made that God would confirm unto the end His own people. The Apostle’s confidence in the absolute security of believers was founded not on the strength of…
Thoughts: Who Really Has the Advantage (Then vs. Now)?
As I consider the faithful men and women of old, particularly from the 1500’s to the early-to-mid 1800’s (given their highly edifying written work), I cannot help but wonder what it would be like for them if we could transport them, for a fortnight, to present-day America and Great Britain. What would the overall effect…
Christian Warfare: Strive to Enter | Matthew Henry (YouTube Video)
KEY QUOTES: “(1.) All that will be saved must enter in at the strait gate, must undergo a change of the whole man, such as amounts to no less than being born again, and must submit to a strict discipline. (2.) Those that would enter in at the strait gate must strive to enter. It is a hard matter…
Hermeneutics: Another Example of Error Considered
Romans 7:12 “wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” The following question was recently asked (emphasis added): “So, how then do some men think and promote the idea that righteousness comes from Christ and holiness comes from the Law? That thinking is false and twisted because there is no single verse…
Obedience: The Narrow Way (Another Vital Warning) | A. W. Pink (YouTube Video)
KEY QUOTE: “There are two principle errors about the law, and I know knot which is more dangerous and disastrous: that one can earn heaven by obeying it [or] that one may enter heaven without that personal and practical godliness which the law requires. “Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no man shall…
Biblical Separation: A Call to Separation (A Vital Warning) | A. W. Pink (YouTube Video)
NOTE: These warnings should not be taken solely physically, socially. Much of the separation we need is mental and emotional (as it relates to what we take in through our eyes and ears, and what we allow to settle into, and ruminate within, our minds). So much of what we think of as mild is…
Christian Death: Christ is Best | Richard Sibbes
ASSOCIATED TEXTS: 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with…
Spiritual Conviction: Josiah, The Law of Moses, and a New Testament Equivalent
I. Introduction: All of these articles are my own personal meditations, put to print if you will. They are stream-of-consciousness flowings, reflecting what is in my mind, and on my heart. If you think my posts are long as is, you should see the originals. Quite often, having revised it a dozen or more times,…
Spiritual Wrestlings 