“God never promised us an easy life, but He did promise to never leave us” – Unknown
Introduction – 2 Now turn to over the Psalms. Remember, all we’re trying to do is, by a qualitative selectivity, show in the Old Testament the centrality of the fear of God. Now, in the Psalms, there are dozens of references to the fear of God, and again, we select only several. In the second […]
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The Decrees of God The Decree of God is His purpose or determination with respect to future things. We have used the singular number as Scripture does (Rom 8:28; Eph 3:11), because there was only one act of His infinite mind about future things. But we speak as if there had been many, because our
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Introduction – 1 For a rather lengthy period of time, I have been toying with the thought of bringing some messages on one of the great and dominant themes of Holy Scripture, one concerning which there is almost total silence in our day, a theme which was a great theme of our forefathers in their
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The Solitariness of God The title of this article is perhaps not explicit to indicate its theme. This is partly due to the fact that so few today are accustomed to meditate upon the personal perfections of God. Comparatively few of those who occasionally read the Bible are aware of the awe-inspiring and worship-provoking grandeur
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The Sovereignty Of God In Operation: Part Four “For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be the glory forever. Amen”(Rom. 11:22). God’s Method Of Dealing With The Wicked Another equally striking illustration of God directing the wicked is found in Isaiah 10:5-7: “O Assyrian, the rod of Mine
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The Sovereignty Of God In Operation: Part Three “For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be the glory forever. Amen”(Rom. 11:22). God’s Method Of Dealing With The Wicked In contemplating God’s governmental dealings with the non-elect we find that He exerts upon them a fourfold influence or power.
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The Sovereignty Of God In Operation: Part Two “For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be the glory forever. Amen”(Rom. 11:22). God’s Method Of Dealing With The Righteous 1. God exerts upon His own elect a quickening influence or power. By nature they are spiritually dead, dead in
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Conclusion Conclusion number one: There is no task under heaven more demanding than that of being an effective father. The Bible records the competence of Eli as a priest in Israel, but his total incompetence as a father. The Bible records the competence of David as a successful and mighty warrior, as an astute statesman
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The Sovereignty Of God In Operation: Part One “For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be the glory forever. Amen”(Rom. 11:22). Has God foreordained everything that comes to pass? Has He decreed that what is, was to have been? In the final analysis this is only another way
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Basic Factor Number Two: The consistent use of means to attain those goals The second factor which constitutes effective fatherhood is this: The consistent use of means calculated to attain those goals. Look at verse eleven: as you know how we dealt with each one of you as a father with his own children,
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