Mike Tate

Christian | Husband | Father | Presbyterian (ARP) | Lover of coffee | Shooter of guns | Taker of naps

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

@laralogan All abortions are murder, at any stage. Every abortion destroys the life of an innocent human being.

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

👏🏻🙌🏻✅⬇️

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

The problem is not that the “literal, grammatical, historical” method is wrong. Every responsible interpreter attends to grammar, history, genre, and authorial intent. The problem is treating that method as though the meaning of Scripture can be established independently of Scripture’s own Christological and redemptive-historical fulfillment.

Jesus and the apostles do not merely read the Old Testament grammatically and historically. They read it canonically and Christologically. Christ declares that the Scriptures testify about Him (John 5:39, 46). Paul says God’s promises find their “Yes” in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20), that the promised offspring of Abraham is Christ (Gal. 3:16), and that the events of Israel’s history were written for the instruction of the new-covenant church (1 Cor. 10:1–11). Peter says the prophets were ultimately announcing “the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow” (1 Pet. 1:10–12).

That is precisely where dispensational hermeneutics goes wrong. It can preserve the pieces—grammar, history, Israel, land, temple, sacrifice, kingdom—while refusing to allow the New Testament to show us the inspired picture into which those pieces fit: Jesus Christ and His finished work.

The issue, therefore, is not literal interpretation versus allegory. It is whether Christ and His apostles are permitted to teach us how to read the Bible. See: @RScottClark, “Is There An Apostolic Hermeneutic And Can We Imitate It?”
https://t.co/rRTjcf53bA

A hermeneutic that reaches the grammatical-historical meaning of the Old Testament but then resists its Christological fulfillment is not more faithful to the text. It stops reading too soon.

The grammatical-historical meaning matters. But the grammatical-historical meaning is not the end of the story. Christ is.

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

@nicksortor They should not be locked up. They should be put to death.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Slave Owners: "They're not people."

Nazis: "They're not people."

Abortion Activists: "They're not people."

[Adriel Sanchez @AdrielTweets]

As a preacher your weekly goal shouldn't be to get your sermon on a piece of paper, but in your heart. There's a vast difference between preaching from your heart and preaching from a sheet of paper. You can preach truths compiled through study in a cold and careless manner. God will still use this, and your people may not know the difference, but you must. Calvin said we should make men feel the shedding of Christ's blood in our sermons. Paper sermons come through study, heart sermons require prayer and meditation until the word is internalized.

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

@McJuggerNuggets You and your wife are murderers. There is forgiveness for murderers only in Christ Jesus. Repent and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ!

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:21

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

@RayyvanaTTV I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
— Matthew 12:36-37

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Human…

Zygote
Embryo
Fetus
Infant
Child
Adult

Different terms. Same person.

All created in the image of God with the right to life.

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

"This kid will suffer so I have to kill him"

almost always means

"I will suffer having this kid so I have to kill him."

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

The AIDS crisis is one of the most effective spin jobs in history. Gays successfully depicted themselves as hapless victims of an alien disease that fell out of the sky and randomly started slaughtering them while they were minding their own business, when in reality gays were actually killing each other with a disease that could have been curbed if they had been willing to refrain from devoting themselves to physically destructive sexual acts. But they weren't willing. They loved their lust more than the lives of their friends and neighbors.

So when you see children's programs celebrate Pride Month, let this be a reminder of how effective the spin job was. So many in our world are still pretending that "homophobia" is the most murderous threat gay men face when homosexual acts was the actual culprit the entire time. As always, sinful man would rather watch his neighbors die than mortify his own flesh.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer!

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

@KristanHawkins I feel worse for those who have exchanged “the glory of the immortal God” by substituting it for the idolatrous **veneration** of a finite redeemed sinner who no more hears their prayers than a block of wood.

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

Graeme Goldsworthy reminds us that Jesus is the true and obedient Adam, the faithful Israel, and the perfect hearer of God’s Word. He fulfills what humanity and Israel failed to do, standing not only as our Savior, but also in our place as the faithful Son who obeyed perfectly for us. This Christ-centered lens transforms the way we read, preach, and apply all of Scripture.

". . . both Matthew and Luke begin their accounts of the adult ministry of Jesus by demonstrating that he is the true and obedient Adam, and the faithful Israel. He fulfills all righteousness by being the truly obedient human being. Here at last is a human that hears the word of God and obeys it perfectly. Jesus is thus the God who speaks the creating word at the beginning. He is the God who speaks now the new-creating word. He is himself the message of that word, and he is the faithful hearer of the word.

This latter point is important for the way we deal with the application of passages that concern the people of God. If, say, we are preaching on the Psalms and reference is made to the people of God, the fact that Jesus fulfills the role of the true people of God should affect our application. Our biblical-theological approach shows us that Jesus is both the true preacher and the true listener. In this way he justifies us as we struggle to preach faithfully, and he justifies the congregation as they struggle to listen faithfully. "

~Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, 43

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

I don't think there's ever been a time when I wasn't a little uncomfortable while sharing the gospel with a person. But it's always due to a sinful fear of man. This is why it's so good to share the gospel. Not only does it save souls, but it also sanctifies the saint!

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

@CollinRugg Now make it swift!

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

Do Any Reformed Confessions Teach Salvation by or through Good Works?

Read the full breakdown and see what the confessions actually say.

https://t.co/JvU96IxlPM

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

People are discovering (again) that John Piper teaches "final salvation through works." His language. He's been teaching this for decades.

Yes, he makes our good works the instrument of our alleged final salvation. He always has.

He has repeated this in sermons, in articles, in the Bethlehem elders doctrinal statement, and DGM has tweeted it.

Seeing this for the first time can be a shock. You're not alone. Others have been through the same cycle (shock, denial, acceptance).

Start with the sources section and go from there.

https://t.co/Gel5JShoie

@ParamountChurch @Heidelblog01 @heidelcast @HeidelbergRefo1

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

The reason that preaching in the streets, jails, and homeless shelters is so useful for preachers, and especially the Reformed type, is that it requires you to interact with the unwashed, unclean, non-church people, and to learn how to do so in a way that they understand. They don't care about Calvin, theological nitpicking, seminary jargon, and ethereal platitudes. It'll teach you not to preach over people's heads and to keep your fancy language in the study. It trains you to keep to the point—Jesus Christ and Him crucified. If you're a preacher or a seminary student, go find a fishing hole outside of the church bubble & plunge in.

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

Anyone in Louisville who believes in fairness and the free exchange of ideas might want to find some place other than @HeineBrosCoffee to get their coffee. Christians don't seem to be welcome there either.

https://t.co/XzOGQaEbOF

[Mike Tate @RealMochaMike]

His brothers sold him into slavery in a wicked act of sin, yet God was sovereign over their evil actions to bring about good from it. The entire story of Joseph points us to Christ and the redemption He would accomplish in our place.

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”
— Genesis 50:20

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
— Acts 2:23