Henkel_Hermeneutics

Monergist, Wife, Mother, Cat-servant, bride of Christ, lover of oolong tea and confessional theology.

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May we learn from Psalm 29 to submit ourselves to the Lord and fear Him.

“Man works hard to establish himself in the earth, and the Lord may uproot him at any moment by His voice, and that justly so.”

—Excerpt from sermon, Matthew: Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me, Ethan James

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Calvin says:

“What a monstrous thing it is that, while all the irrational portion of the creation tremble before God, men alone, who are endued with sense and reason, are not moved!”

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The world perishes under ignorance and darkness.

Faith is the gift of God and submits to the decrees of God—not “barking up error and imagining himself strong in himself.”

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—John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, Works, vol. 10, pp. 173–174.

Christ does not merely make redemption possible:

“He shall bear their iniquities.”

And those whose iniquities He bears, He justifies.

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If Christ actually bore the penal guilt of every individual, the question becomes: on what judicial basis are those whose very sins He fully satisfied nevertheless condemned for those sins?

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Owen concludes:

“If he did not, then did he not die for all their sins. Let them choose which part they will.”

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Women ministered, but this ministry was not the public teaching office:

“he forbiddeth women to teach in the church, and to take upon them public offices.”

— Heinrich Bullinger, The Decades, Fifth Decade, Third Sermon, Parker Society ed., Vol. IV (1852).

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Scripture itself gives us the order of Christian charity:

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”

— Galatians 6:10, KJV

Unto all men—especially unto the household of faith.

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Bullinger continues:

“and with Martha, Christ’s hostess, they did with great care and diligence cherish the members of Christ.”

Women ministered in the primitive church. They cared for the poor and the sick and diligently cherished the members of Christ.