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Monthly Archives: March 2010
My Wrestlings: Laws at War
“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” —Romans 7:23
I perceive a different law in my members. “Another law” is translated from the Greek words ετερον νομον (heteron nomon), meaning “different law.” Does that mean that God has given another or a different law than that, which is understood in Scripture? No, I suggest that what Paul sees as a disciple of Christ, what you and I perceive, is a different dimension of the law, because now, in Christ, the statutes of God have been put in our inward parts, written in our new hearts given us by God’s grace (Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 36:26-27). So, what is this different law in my members? Continue reading
Posted in Expositional Article
Tagged Christ Crucified, Epistle to the Romans, Faith, God's Word, Grace, Jesus, Justification, law, Sanctification, sin
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A Puritan Family Devotional in ESV
A Puritan Family Devotional is now available with Scriptures from the English Standard Version (ESV). This book was created for family and individual meditations, containing, Robert Murray McCheyne’s DAILY BREAD, Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s A PURITAN CATECHISM, the 1689 LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION of FAITH, and selected hymns and psalms. Scriptures used in this volume are from the English Standard Version. Continue reading
My Wrestlings: I Find a Law
“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:” —Romans 7:21, 22
The word “law” in Romans 7:21-23 presents many facets and dimensions of God’s law as it pertains to the sinner saved by grace. Because we are “dead to the law” (Romans 7:4) as Christian disciples, some may want to refer to “law” as merely principles of truth. It would not be wrong to define “law” in this way, as principles of truth, for so they are; yet, they are also more than that. Continue reading
Posted in Expositional Article
Tagged Christ Crucified, Epistle to the Romans, God's Word, Grace, Jesus, Justification, Sanctification, Scriptures, sin, truth
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Eschatology: Our End Times Perspective
Even before the Lord saved me by His amazing grace there seemed to be a curiosity, if not an interest, among many people concerning the Biblical future: the end times. Even as a boy of 10 or 11 years of age, I remember television commercials here and there advertising Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth, a book written in 1970 from a Dispensational Pre-millennial end times view.
After the Lord saved me in June 1985, the church that I finally ended up becoming a part of was Calvary Chapel of Honolulu. Most, if not all, pastors and leaders of Calvary Chapel hold to a Dispensational Pre-millennial view (most of the churches in the Calvary Chapel affiliation are not what one would call Calvinistic or “doctrines of grace”). Continue reading
Posted in Resources Link, Video Link
Tagged Alaska, Amillennial, Calvary Chapel, Calvary Chapel of Honolulu, Calvinism, Christ Crucified, Dispensationalism, Doctrines of Grace, end times, Eschatology, Grace, Hal Lindsey, Jesus, last things, Postmillennial, Premillennial, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Scammon Bay Covenant Church, The Late Great Planet Earth
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My Wrestlings: Accountable, Not Condemned
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” —Romans 7:19, 20
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do” (Romans 7:19). My nature is flesh. I am a human being. I am a sinner because I am a descendent of Adam. Yet, by God’s grace, through faith in the righteous life, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, I am a new creature (2 Corinthans 5:17). Although this has happened, I still believe I only have one nature; that is, my humanity, which has never changed, and will not change until Christ come; yes, when we who are in Christ, “shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). I HAVE a nature, but it is no longer “natural,” meaning unsaved and reprobate (1 Corinthians 2:14). My nature, now abides with a new truth because I have been saved by God’s grace. Regeneration has given me a new heart and a new spirit; but I hesitate to call it another nature. It is spiritual and heavenly because it is the very Spirit of God, and therefore, I must call it supernatural. Perhaps you might refer to that as a “divine nature.” Continue reading
Posted in Expositional Article
Tagged Christ Crucified, Epistle to the Romans, Faith, flesh, Gospel, Grace, nature, regeneration, Sanctification, sin, spirit, war
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Walking with God
“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” —Genesis 5:24
“Walking with God” is a hymn penned by William Cowper (1731-1800), first appearing in Olney Hymns published in 1779. Genesis 5:24 was the inspirational text that prompted Mr. Cowper’s hymn. It is often more commonly listed in more modern hymnals by the words of its first line, “Oh! for a closer walk with God.” Continue reading
My Reality: Hating My Actions
“Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” —Romans 7:17, 18
Here is a place where we must not forget from where we came, and with what we have been previously taught. Though I am dead to the law and resurrected unto Christ, the law is unchanging as a standard of God, made even more visible and apparent through the perfect obedience and righteousness of Christ, wherein the law has been fulfilled. As my saved soul has been declared justified, having my sins imputed to Christ as the perfect sacrifice for sins, and having Christ’s righteousness accounted to me, I still have mortal flesh because I am sold under sin (Romans 7:14). Understanding this, the apostle reminds me, “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” Continue reading
Posted in Expositional Article
Tagged Christ Crucified, Epistle to the Romans, Gospel, Grace, Jesus, Justification, sin
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My Reality: Hating Sin
The unsaved sinner doesn’t “consent with the law that it is good.” He violently disagrees with the law and suppresses God’s truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18). Because the unsaved sinner hates God (Romans 1:30), he hates the law of God because it comes from God and is holy, just and good (Psalm 78:1; Romans 7:12). Continue reading
Jack Bauer School of Evangelism
As our good friend, Miles McKee, has given us a serious and sober look at true Biblical evangelism from his Wednesday Word article, “The Gospel and the Holy Spirit,” we thought we might offer a tongue-and-cheek look at an opposing method taken to the extreme. Posted just yesterday on The Sacred Sandwich was this, from their “Ad Absurdum” department, “The Jack Bauer School of Pragmatic Evangelism.” Continue reading
The Gospel and the Holy Spirit
Christ’s doing and dying are the sole grounds by which God treats us as being accepted and perfectly righteous. But surely, say one, we are made acceptable before God when Christ comes into our hearts! No indeed! As stated in last week’s Wednesday Word, the gospel is not about Christ saving us by coming into our hearts; the Gospel is the good news that sinners are saved by the finished, completed, saving acts of God in history in Christ Jesus. This is so far removed from the sinner’s heart that it was actually accomplished and completed 2000 years ago. This is Bible Christianity. All other religions teach that salvation is found in some process within the worshiper. The worshiper has to experience something or to do something. But Bible Christianity alone proclaims a salvation which is found in an event outside the believer. The Bible never once presents the gospel as being about Christ coming into our hearts! Continue reading
Posted in The Wednesday Word
Tagged Christ Crucified, Faith, Gospel, Grace, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Miles McKee, preaching, regeneration, truth, Wednesday Word
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