8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
“If we really believe and if we are truly thankful that our resurrection is sure, that we will be transformed from the perishable, dishonorable, weak, natural, mortal, and earthy to the imperishable, glorious, powerful, spiritual, immortal, and heavenly—we should therefore prove our assurance and our thankfulness by being steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in the work of the Lord (1 Cor 15:58).”
— John MacArthur, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨
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Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are in the Law, so that every mouth may be shut and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
— Romans 3:19-20
Seeking mortification of sin just to quiet the soul and find relief from the torment of the conscience, all the while neglecting to deal with the root cause of sin, is a result of self-love. Men are diverted from coming to God this way. This is of the most common deception in which men ruin their souls. They seek to apply themselves to victory over the troubling sin but do not allow their conviction to lead them to the gospel. They perish in their “reformation”.
~John Owen
May our faith be as steadfast as that of the early church and the Reformers. Fiery persecution, personal trials, and death sentences could not stop them from proclaiming the Gospel.
We keep trying to fix the world from the outside—through systems, policies, and progress. But as Solzhenitsyn warned, “the line separating good and evil… runs right through every human heart.” Until we face that reality, our solutions will always fall short.
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“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
-John Owen
“For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:13).
@Chris_Hohnholz See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.
(Colossians 2:8, NASB95)
Dr. MacArthur: "As sinners coming into the presence of a holy God, we come with a recognition that we are not properly suited to be there, except by virtue of the righteousness of Christ. In light of that, prayer should include a setting aside of sin." https://t.co/2fn77ADGMB
But the thing is: you will. You will have this God-Man, the Lord Jesus Christ, to reign over you. The day is coming when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:10-11).
Your knee will either bow now, in grateful submission to your Savior-King, or it will bow then, in bitter regret before your all-powerful and immutably righteous Judge. Your tongue will either confess Christ’s Lordship now, as an adoring worshiper of the One worthy of all honor, or you will confess then, as a conquered enemy who can no longer suppress the truth you refused to acknowledge all your life.
To be sure, being a Christian is more than confessing and submitting to the truth about gender and sexuality. The Gospel is a message of free forgiveness of sins through repentant faith in Christ alone. But being a Christian is not less than bowing the knee to the Lordship of Jesus in every area of life—including gender and sexuality, which seems to be the specific point at which our culture wants to assert its own lordship over Christ’s.
I’ve written a book to reassert Christ’s Lordship in these matters. The link is below. The call of this world’s Lord is not pride, but to humble ourselves under His mighty—and gracious—hand.
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“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”
“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.”
-Leviticus 18:22, 20:13
@Commanders And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
(Romans 1:28, NASB95)
@zambiahunt So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
(Isaiah 55:11, NASB95)