Nelis Bornman

As an alternative to msm, here I am. 1677/89 Particular Baptist.

[Charles Johnson 🇺🇸⚓️ @soli_Jesum]

Satan was the first feminist deconstructionist and weaponized victimhood was his first move.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD July 21, 1958:
English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter:

“What the devil loves is that vague cloud of unspecified guilt or unspecified virtue, by which he lures us into despair or presumption.”

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

@ssimonnin Groks explanation of this is gr8 too

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

@ssimonnin Wow

[Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones | MLJ Trust @TheMLJTrust]

"If they think that it's the doing of that good that admits them to God, they are denying the gospel... The apostle Paul was a highly religious man before his conversion. Martin Luther was a highly religious man before his conversion. John Wesley was a highly religious man before his conversion. You can be fasting and sweating and praying, and that may be the greatest obstacle to coming nigh unto God."
―Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
— Psalm 7:14-15

[Ray Comfort @RayComfort]

Two Dates on the Calendar

Martin Luther said, "I only have two dates on my calendar . . . today and Judgment Day." How wise it is to live for those two days. While Judgment is probably the last thing on the mind of the world, it should be the first thing on the mind of the Christian because such a thought should help him walk in the fear of the Lord. It will help him keep his heart free from sin. But more than that, it will horrify him when he sees this world soak up sin as though there were no tomorrow. This world's love for iniquity justifies God's wrath. Think of their fate: "... but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek." ( Romans 2:8 & 9)

There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

@JeffTaylorLR Rev 1:10?

[Stéphane Simonnin @ssimonnin]

Interesting that in LXX Ruth (1.20 & 21), "El Shaddai" is translated "the sufficient one" (ὁ ἱκανὸς).

"Who is sufficient (ἱκανὸς) for these things...?" Christ is sufficient.

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

Lukewarm Christianity has become so normal that Biblical Christianity seems radical.

[Tod Ashby @TodAshby]

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (John 1:1 & 14)

There may not be five more astonishing words in all of Scripture than these, “The Word became flesh.”

Stephen Charnock, in his discourse On The Wisdom of God, argues that the Incarnation is not merely another doctrine to affirm. It is the supreme display of God’s wisdom. The eternal Son did not simply come to rescue sinners; He became the God-Man because only the God-Man could accomplish our redemption.

One sentence in particular grabbed my attention, “The union of the two natures was the foundation of the union of God and the fallen creature.”

That is remarkable.

Christ does not merely stand between God and man as an external mediator. The very union of His divine and human natures is the foundation upon which our reconciliation rests. The distance between a holy God and fallen humanity could not simply be crossed by a message or a representative. It had to be bridged personally.

The eternal Son became what we are without ceasing to be who He eternally is.

Paul says, “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). Not merely a prophet. Not merely an example. Not merely a substitute. One Person possessing two complete natures.

Charnock then does something beautiful. Rather than explaining the mystery away, he invites us to stand in awe of it.

He stacks one seeming paradox after another:

The finite united with the infinite.

Almighty power joined to human weakness.

Immortality joined to mortality.

The eternal entering time.

The Lawgiver placing Himself under His own Law.

The One who upholds the universe becoming an infant in Mary’s arms.

None of these diminish His deity. None compromise His humanity. They magnify the wisdom of God.

Consider just one example.

Hebrews tells us that Christ upholds all things by the word of His power (Heb. 1:3). Yet the Gospels tell us He slept in a boat from sheer exhaustion.

While Jesus slept according to His humanity, He never ceased sustaining the universe according to His deity.

Hebrews 1:3 did not take the afternoon off while the disciples woke Him during the storm.

Or consider Galatians 4:4, “Born under the law.”

The very Lawgiver of Sinai entered history under the Law He Himself had given, not because He owed obedience, but because we did.

This is why Charnock concludes that divine wisdom designed exactly the Redeemer we needed.

Had Christ been only God, He could not obey in our place, suffer, or die.

Had He been only man, His obedience would have been finite and His sacrifice incapable of bearing the infinite weight of God’s righteous judgment.

Only one Person who is fully God and fully man could reconcile God and sinners.

Charnock also makes a fascinating observation about the cherubim over the mercy seat. Their faces looked continually toward the place of atonement, anticipating what Peter later says, that these are “things into which angels long to look” (1 Pet. 1:12).

Even the angels stand in perpetual amazement at God’s redemptive plan. We should too.

The Incarnation is not merely an orthodox doctrine to confess. It is an invitation to worship.

As Calvin beautifully wrote, “The Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin’s womb.”

Every blessing of salvation - His perfect obedience, His atoning death, His resurrection, His priesthood, our justification, adoption, and future glorification - rests upon this one glorious reality:

The eternal Son became man without ceasing to be God.

That is not merely sound Christology. It is, as Charnock reminds us, the supreme display of the wisdom of God.

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

@jonharris1989 We had that in SA decades ago

[Awis @Awisone]

Почему везде показывают унылую Ф1 когда существует это?

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

It follows that we are justified in God's sight solely through the righteousness of Christ. In other words a man is righteous not in himself but because Christ's righteousness is made over to him by imputation. Calvin.

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

@vrydenker Dankie my gevolg

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

UK bans Christian politician from country for believing in God’s definition of marriage and sexuality
https://t.co/wGmoHDguWB

[Nelis Bornman @CJBrembo]

From now on if the doctor books you off you can say you've been Madlangad

[Patrick Abendroth @PatAbendroth]

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."

Therefore, there never will be!

Carry on.