“God never promised us an easy life, but He did promise to never leave us” – Unknown
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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The Sovereignty Of God In Reprobation: Part Eight “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God”(Rom. 11:22). That the Doctrine of Reprobation is a “hard saying” to the carnal mind is readily acknowledged-yet, is it any “harder” than that of eternal punishment? That it is clearly taught in Scripture we have sought to demonstrate, and
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Basic Factor Number One: Setting specific goals for the development of our children. – continued And if you want more details, you sit down this afternoon as a father, and you take the Book of Proverbs, and you say, “O, God, help me to bring within the scope of my goals for my children every
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The Sovereignty Of God In Reprobation: Part Seven “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God”(Rom. 11:22). Having thus stated the doctrine of Reprobation, as it is presented in Holy Writ, let us now mention one or two important considerations to guard it against abuse and prevent the reader from making any unwarranted deductions: First,
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Setting specific goals We have looked at the fundamental grace essential to effective fatherhood and the behavior pattern essential to effective fatherhood. Now let us give our attention to the basic factors which actually constitute effective fatherhood, and there are two. Basic Factor Number One: Setting specific goals for the development of our children. The
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“The Lord turned the captivity of Job.” So, then, our longest sorrows have a close, and there is a bottom to the profoundest depths of our misery. Our winters shall not frown forever; summer shall soon smile. The tide shall not eternally ebb out; the floods must retrace their march. The night shall not hang
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The Sovereignty Of God In Reprobation: Part Six “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God”(Rom. 11:22). Verse 23. “And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory.” The only point in this verse which demands attention is the fact that
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Closing Well, in closing, let me seek to draw all of this together. If the fundamental grace essential for effective fatherhood is sensitive, self-giving love. If the behavior pattern essential for effective fatherhood is real, consistent, practical godliness, do you see, O my dear friends, do you see the impossibility of being a true, effective
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The promises of God are to the believer an inexhaustible mine of wealth. Happy is it for him if he knows how to search out their secret veins and enrich himself with their hidden treasures. They are an armory, containing all manner of offensive and defensive weapons. Blessed is he who has learned to enter
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