It is a dangerous thing to impose modern notions on scriptural matters. The best way to understand scripture is to understand it within the lexical context, the immediate scriptural context, the greater scriptural context, and the historic-cultural context (ensuring that all such aspects are appropriately accounted for). Concerning the latter (i.e., “the historic-cultural context”), it’s…
Proverbs 9:10-18 “The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding. 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone…
ASSOCIATED PASSAGES: Hebrews 10:37 “For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with…
Link to the text of the video content: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A77979.0001.001/1:5.1.17?rgn=div3;view=fulltext ASSOCIATED PASSAGES: Hosea 4:17 “Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.” Psalm 81:10-16 “I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to…
“Where God works, he always does so consistently with his own Word. What I mean is this: when he raises up, equips, and sends forth one of his servants, that servant will necessarily preach the Word, and denounce all that is opposed to the Word: hence, his message is bound to be unpopular, in fact,…
The true Gospel is good news and glad tidings for true sinners; not for pretend ones, not for those in the legal/judicial sense only, but for true (experimental/felt) sinners. The true Gospel is not good news to half-sinners who confesses that they are basically a “good person” despite having sinned here or there. The true…
Thomas Boston – The Torments of Hell Note: Knowing what we are saved from is a means that God grants us for valuing the Lord Jesus Christ, and His salvation, all the more. The understanding that what Mr. Boston describes is but a tiny drop in the bucket of the revelation concerning (a) what the…
Thomas Brooks – But a Flea-bite!
The Organism vs. The Cell Can We Hate What God Hates and Still Love Those Whom God Commands Us To Love? Consider the following passages, amongst many: Psalm 139:21-22 “Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them…
The Lord’s People Hidden By William Gadsby Preached at Bedworth, on Wednesday Evening, Aug. 24th, 1842. Isaiah XXVI. 20. I am about to read a portion of God’s Word, which I thought I could find very easily. Indeed, I thought it was in the 40th chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah; but I cannot find…
Spiritual Wrestlings 