“God never promised us an easy life, but He did promise to never leave us” – Unknown
Definition – 3 But a second question, I trust, arises in your mind, and it is this: what lies at the basis of this dread and fear? Let me state it negatively. It is not a work of God’s grace. This fear is known by unconverted people. This fear and dread is rooted in things […]
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The Sovereignty of God God’s sovereignty defined THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD MAY BE DEFINED AS THE exercise of His supremacy—see preceding chapter. Being infinitely elevated above the highest creature, He is the Most High, Lord of heaven and earth. Subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent; God does as He pleases, only as He pleases,
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Definition – 2 So then, let us move to first consider the first aspect of the meaning of the fear of God as found in Scripture: the fear of dread, of terror, and a fear that leads to anguish. The first instance of this fear is Genesis 3:10. The first recorded instance of any fear
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The Supremacy of God Most do not know HimIN ONE OF HIS LETTERS TO ERASMUS, LUTHER SAID, “YOUR thoughts of God are too human.” Probably that renowned scholar resented such a rebuke, the more so, since it proceeded from a miner’s son; nevertheless, it was thoroughly deserved. We too, though having no standing among the
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Definition – 1 “The fear of God is the soul of Godliness.” And yet, as we commented last Lord’s Day morning, it is obvious to any observing person that this pervasive and dominant theme of Holy Scripture has well nigh been lost to our own generation. Now, this morning we begin to come to the
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The Foreknowledge of God – Part Two Foreknowledge defined Now the word “foreknowledge” as it is used in the New Testament is less ambiguous than in its simple form “to know.” If every passage in which it occurs is carefully studied, it will be discovered that it is a moot point whether it ever has
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Introduction – 4 Well, look at Ephesians 5:21 and then Colossians 3:22. Ephesians 5:21 introduces the climate of the home: husband-wife relationship, parent-child relationship. And notice what the Apostle says in introducing that subject: “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” All of these injunctions concerning the nitty gritty of practical Godliness
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The Foreknowledge of God – Part One WHAT CONTROVERSIES HAVE BEEN ENGENDERED BY THIS subject in the past! But what truth of Holy Scripture is there which has not been made the occasion of theological and ecclesiastical battles? The deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His atoning death, His second advent; the believer’s justification, sanctification,
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Introduction – 3 Then in Jeremiah 32, as Jeremiah speaks of that new covenant which Messiah should bring to pass by His own suffering and death, that covenant sealed and ratified by the blood of Christ and expounded in Hebrews 8 and 10 in which passages there is a quotation from Jeremiah 31 and 32
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The Knowledge of God God’s omniscience GOD IS OMNISCIENT. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING: EVERYTHING possible, everything actual; all events and all creatures, of the past, the present, and the future. He is perfectly acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in heaven, in earth, and in hell. “He knoweth what is in the
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