“God never promised us an easy life, but He did promise to never leave us” – Unknown
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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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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