Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥

"If the devil merely sees you returning from the Masters banquet, he flees faster than any wind as if he had seen a lion breathing forth flames from his mouth."

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

This is what the Christian life is most basically:

'When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.' ~ Luther

'This life was given to you for repentance, do not waste it in vain pursuits.' ~ Isaac the Syrian

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@RickApplet0n The dude who wrote the TGC article on husbands not sitting with their wives at Church is a pastor of a seeker-sensitive church and of course I found this on their web page:

[Rick Appleton @RickApplet0n]

Seeker-sensitive type churches tend to exclude infants and small children from their worship services. I wonder if there’s any connection?

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@zoeschimke I was wondering why they don't mention children in the article and then I found the answer on their Churches page. Not only do they want husbands and wives to not worship God together, they also don't want children and their parents worshipping together either.

[Summum @7ummumbonum]

“We are justified by works, and not by faith only, by which are meant the fruits of sanctification. For true faith and true holiness will show itself by good works; faith giveth us the first right, but works continue it, for otherwise a course of sin would put us into a state of damnation again; therefore at the last judgment these are considered: Rev. xx. 12, ‘And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works;’ Mat. xxv. 35, 36, ‘For I was an hungry, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.’ Faith is our consent, but obedience verifieth it, or is our performance of what we consented unto, the one as covenant-making, the other as covenant-keeping; we are admitted by covenant-making, but continued in our privileges by covenant-keeping: Ps. xxv. 10, ‘All the paths of the Lord are mercy, and truth, unto such as keep his covenant.’”

—Thomas Manton, Sermon on Romans 8:33

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@YPClayConry @TexasPreacher All historic reformed liturgies had confession of sins and absolution. The Westminster Directory of Worship also included it. This simplified summary isn’t accurate.

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@BaptistBavinck @9tailNate @TexasPreacher I’ve heard this once before referring to WLC 171, which outlines what preparing for the Sacrament should look like. However I remain convinced that these requirements don’t by any means preclude weekly Communion.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

“Since grace relativizes nature, spouses should not sit with one another at church.”

“Since in the church there is neither male nor female, nor Jew or Greek, spouses should not sit with one another.”

“Since we are one and equal in Christ, we should not show partiality to our spouses, so spouses should not sit together in church.”

“Since there is no marriage in heaven, and the church is an outpost of heaven, spouses should not sit together in church.”

https://t.co/KD98u59v6X

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

And of course the Church this guy pastors gets rid of the annoying noise of children learning to be Christians from the Lord’s Day Worship of God’s people.

[David Schrock🌲 @DavidSchrock]

Herein lies @tgc's most recent attempt to use grace to destroy nature.

"And this raises a bigger question; if church is meant to be a gathering of our spiritual family, why are we sitting in our earthly families in the first place?" 🤦‍♂️

https://t.co/clEtorCvZ0

[David Schrock🌲 @DavidSchrock]

Herein lies @tgc's most recent attempt to use grace to destroy nature.

"And this raises a bigger question; if church is meant to be a gathering of our spiritual family, why are we sitting in our earthly families in the first place?" 🤦‍♂️

https://t.co/clEtorCvZ0

[Zachary Garris @ZacharyGarris]

I know antinomianism isn’t as hot a topic as Christian Nationalism.

But it think it’s a far more pressing issue for the church right now.

In part because God may judge a nation for the church’s lawlessness.

[Zachary Garris @ZacharyGarris]

Believers struggle with sin (Rom. 7), but they put sin to death by the Spirit so that they live (Rom. 8:13).

Believers have both imputed righteousness and an infused righteousness.

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

Please pray for Poland. Nothing like this has ever happened here before. Lord have mercy.

[Ambassador Tom Rose @USAmbPoland]

We are just learning details of the horrific mass shooting in Kraków, a savage and murderous attack that’s shattered the peace of Poland.

What we know so far is that several innocent precious lives were viciously cut down on a Saturday afternoon in Kraków’s historic and iconic central square.

America stands with Poland at this dark hour as Poland stands with her beloved citizens of Krakow. May the blessed memory of those lost today assuage the grief of those who mourn. @PremierRP_en @NawrockiKn @KosiniakKamysz #Poland

[Bryan of Alexandria 🪧🦭 @DBryanRhodes]

When I recognized this error in my teaching and preaching (and corrected it), I got accused of "no longer preaching the Gospel."

Antinomianism is not only "in" our churches, it's become the default understanding of "the Gospel" in many places.

[Zachary Garris @ZacharyGarris]

To clarify, we shouldn’t confuse typological readings with immediate context.

Jesus is the perfect man of integrity in whom we trust for salvation. And He commands us in Psalm 15 to walk in integrity!

Reading imputed righteousness into every demand upon believers is antinomian.

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@MateyYanakiev People should really just memorize Psalm 119 and recite it daily until moral improves.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Wreckage, yikes. More people have been brought to faith & specifically Calvinism through PW than anyone else alive today. You might not like it, and he might not be for everyone, but RSC & co. should be more charitable towards a servant God has clearly used.

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@BerithPress Watson truly is one of the greatest theologians of all time.

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

You can weep over your sin and still love it.

You can fear its consequences while secretly longing to commit it again.

You can confess it with your lips while keeping it enthroned in your heart.

In his 1668 book The Doctrine of Repentance, the Puritan Thomas Watson identifies SIX essential ingredients of true repentance:

1. SIGHT OF SIN: You must see your own wickedness, not merely the sins of others. You must recognize what you are before a holy God.

2. SORROW FOR SIN: You must grieve not merely because your sin has brought you suffering, but because you have offended the God who made you.

3. CONFESSION OF SIN: You must stop excusing, minimizing, and concealing your transgressions. You must accuse yourself and acknowledge your guilt before God.

4. SHAME FOR SIN: You must learn to blush at what you once boasted of. What once delighted your corrupt heart must now humble you.

5. HATRED OF SIN: You must hate what you once loved. Not merely because sin threatens your happiness, reputation, or eternal safety, but because it is hateful to God.

6. TURNING FROM SIN: You must forsake your wicked ways and turn to God with your whole heart. You cannot claim to have abandoned sin while secretly reserving a place for its return.

You have not truly repented merely because you regret what sin has cost you.

The question is whether you now hate the sin you once cherished, and whether your heart and life are being turned toward God.

Repentance is not merely sorrow over sin.

It is a Spirit-wrought change of heart that produces a change of life.

[Menarion @cath_menarion]

It's nice of His Eminence to clarify that the most charitable interpretation of his words is in fact not the one he intended

[Michał Sylwestrowicz ☧🕊❤️‍🔥 @firstthesisstan]

@PresbyXian 67, 16 and 27 are probably in my top 5 as well! Great Psalms.