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Thoughts on smooth things
Isaiah 30:10 - "Tell us Smooth things" ESV
Even in Isaiah's day, the people did not want to hear the truth. "Give us no more visions of what is right" NIV.
Don't tell me truth, don't tell me what God is saying or has said. Just tell me what I want to hear to make me feel good. Sound familiar? It's still happening. Why do so many people flock to these huge churches that keep growing? Why do so many people listen to these "smooth things?" People have not changed. We still want to have our ears tickled and minds satisfied. We don't want to hear of our own sinfulness, and our own depravity. We don't want to hear about laying down our life, our need for repentance, and our need for a Saviour.
It still continues to this day.
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Verse of the Day
"This playing roulette with the Bible, reading a verse like it was a horoscope - a verse for the day, isolated from its historical or intellectual context. You can't understand it that way. No, I dug in and read the Bible like a book, examining things like its internal hermeneutics, canonicity, textual authority, and authorship." - Rosaria Butterfield
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Sovereignty of God
"You're saved by your personal faith and because of the total and absolute sovereignty of God who chose you in Him before the foundation of the world. You're saved because He designed to redeem you before the world was ever created. That's what's known in the Bible as pre‑destination, election and I believe in it absolutely and totally. But I also believe in personal faith and I believe Jesus put them both together in John 6 when He said, "No man cometh unto Me except the Father" what? "Draw him", God does that but He also said this, "Him that cometh unto Me", what? "I will no ways cast out." There you have the balance of salvation. It's total and absolute sovereignty and it's personal faith and how the two meet, I don't know and I'll never know till I see God. That's His problem not mine. I'm just glad He said, "Whosoever will‑‑may come." I'll let Him worry about how He justifies that with His absolute sovereignty. "
(Sermon; Entering into God's rest, 1972)
"This (salvation) is a work of God, solely a work of God, but you will be held responsible if you do not believe, and you are called to believe and eternal life awaits you if you will believe. Those are twin truths that run parallel. May I tell you? They will always run parallel. They will always run parallel. They will never come together. They will never intersect. They will never be diminished; legitimately, they are what they are. The fact that you don't understand how they go together only proves that you're less than you should be. It doesn't say anything about God. Your inability to harmonize those things is a reflection of your fallenness, my fallenness. People ask me all the time, "How do you harmonize those?" And my answer is, "I don't. I can't." They can't be harmonized in the human mind. But realize this, you are a puny mind and so am I, and collectively we are puny compared to the infinite, vast, limitless mind of God. All I can tell you is that in the Word of God, these truths run parallel. And the answer is to believe them both with all your heart. And the one, divine sovereignty, will inform your worship and the other, human responsibility, will motivate your evangelism."
(Sermon; Twin Truths; God's Sovereignty and Man's Responsibility, 2013)
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Saturday, November 7, 2015
Romans Study Notes - John MacArthur
MacArthur: (Study Bible Notes)
Romans 1:18-23
Rom. 1:18 wrath of God. This is not an impulsive outburst of anger aimed capriciously at people whom God does not like. It is the settled, determined response of a righteous God against sin (cf. Ps. 2:5; 12; 45:7; 75:8; 76:6–7; 78:49–51; 90:7–9; Isa. 51:17; Jer. 25:15–16; John 3:36; Rom. 9:22; Eph. 5:6; Col. 3:5–6). is revealed. More accurately, "is constantly revealed." The word essentially means "to uncover, make visible, or make known." God reveals his wrath in two ways: 1) indirectly, through the natural consequences of violating his universal moral law, and 2) directly through his personal intervention (the OT record—from the sentence passed on Adam and Eve to the worldwide flood, from the fire and brimstone that leveled Sodom to the Babylonian captivity—clearly displays this kind of intervention). The most graphic revelation of God's holy wrath and hatred against sin was when he poured out divine judgment on his Son on the cross. God has various kinds of wrath: 1) eternal wrath, which is hell; 2) eschatological wrath, which is the final day of the Lord; 3) cataclysmic wrath like the flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; 4) consequential wrath, which is the principle of sowing and reaping; and 5) the wrath of abandonment, which is removing restraint and letting people go to their sins (for examples of this wrath, see Ps. 81:11–12; Prov. 1:23–31; see note on Hos. 4:17). Here, it is that fifth form, God's abandoning the wicked continually through history to pursue their sin and its consequences (Rom. 1:24–32). ungodliness. This indicates a lack of reverence for, devotion to, and worship of the true God—a defective relationship with him (cf. Jude 14–15). unrighteousness. This refers to the result of ungodliness: a lack of conformity in thought, word, and deed to the character and law of God (see note on Rom. 1:17). suppress the truth. Although the evidence from conscience (1:19; 2:14), creation (1:20), and God's word is irrefutable, men choose to resist and oppose God's truth by holding fast to their sin (cf. Ps. 14:1; John 3:19–20).
Rom. 1:19 is plain to them. God has sovereignly planted evidence of his existence in the very nature of man by reason and moral law (1:20–21; 28; 32; 2:15).
Rom. 1:20 invisible attributes. This refers specifically to the two mentioned in this verse. his eternal power. The Creator, who made all that we see around us and constantly sustains it, must be a being of awesome power. divine nature. That is, his faithfulness (Gen. 8:21–22), kindness, and graciousness (Acts 14:17). in the things that have been made. The creation delivers a clear, unmistakable message about God's person (cf. Ps. 19:1–8; 94:9; Acts 14:15–17; 17:23–28). they are without excuse. God holds all men responsible for their refusal to acknowledge what he has shown them of himself in his creation. Even those who have never had an opportunity to hear the gospel have received a clear witness about the existence and character of God—and have suppressed it. If a person will respond to the revelation he has, even if it is solely natural revelation, God will provide some means for that person to hear the gospel (cf. Acts 8:26–39; 10:1–48; 17:27).
Rom. 1:21 knew God. Man is conscious of God's existence, power, and divine nature through general revelation (v v. 19–20). they did not honor him. Man's chief end is to glorify God (Lev. 10:3; 1 Chron. 16:24–29; Ps. 148; Rom. 15:5–6), and Scripture constantly demands it (Ps. 29:1–2; 1 Cor. 10:31; Rev. 4:11). To glorify him is to honor him, to acknowledge his attributes, and to praise him for his perfections (cf. Ex. 34:5–7). It is to recognize his glory and extol him for it. Failing to give him glory is man's greatest affront to his Creator (Acts 12:22–23). or give thanks. They refused to acknowledge that every good thing they enjoyed came from God (Matt. 5:45; Acts 14:15–17; 1 Tim. 6:17; James 1:17). futile. Man's search for meaning and purpose will produce only vain, meaningless conclusions. hearts were darkened. When man rejects the truth, the darkness of spiritual falsehood replaces it (cf. John 3:19–20).
Rom. 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools. Man rationalizes his sin and proves his utter foolishness by devising and believing his own philosophies about God, the universe, and himself (cf. Ps. 14:1; 53:1).
Rom. 1:23 exchanged the glory . . . for images. They substitute the worship of idols for the worship of the true God. Historians report that many ancient cultures did not originally have idols. For example, Persia (Herodotus; The Histories, 1:31), Rome (Varro in Augustine; The City of God, 4:31), even Greece and Egypt (Lucian; The Syrian Goddess, 34) had no idolatry at their founding. The fourth-century a.d. historian Eusebius reported that the oldest civilizations had no idols. The earliest biblical record of idolatry was among Abram's family in Ur (Josh. 24:2). The first commandment forbids it (Ex. 20:3–5), and the prophets continually ridiculed those who foolishly practiced it (Isa. 44:9–17; cf. 2 Kings 17:13–16). Although the false gods which men worship do not exist, demons often impersonate them (1 Cor. 10:20).
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Wrinkles the scary clown
These are my comments about Wrinkles. Why make the clown the bad guy? I mean what happened to discipline?
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