Joseph Livingston

A slave of Jesus Christ. Joyful and Free!

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“The great contribution which Augustine has made to the world’s life and thought is embodied in the theology of grace.” - B.B. Warfield.

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“So in everything, as was said earlier,
    we must worship their trinity in their unity
    and their unity in their trinity.”

Athanasian Creed.

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

In the long run that system will hold the field which can be proven to have grown organically from the main stem of revelation, and to be interwoven with the very fibre of Biblical religion.

#Vos

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“Only in so far as such a being chooses to open up itself can we come to know it.” #Vos

Unless and until God reveals Himself to you, you can never “know” Him.

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

Sanctification, no less than justification, is God’s work.

#Gaffin

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“Christus victor et propitiator”

#GoodFriday

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“God’s Word, however, is much more precious to Him than it is to us.”

#Calvin

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

Accursed then be the peace and unity by which men agree among themselves apart from God.

#Calvin

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“My true good is in another world and my only real treasure is Christ.”

#Lewis

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

The ultimate root of every believer’s relation to God lies in the most intimate and individual act of election, an act wherein the love of God consciously chooses and sets up over against itself a human spirit to be bound to God in the bonds of everlasting friendship.

#Vos

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“Worship is theology set to music”

#Ferguson

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“God doesn’t exist because of man, but man because of God. This is what is written at the entrance of the temple of Reformed theology.”

#Vos

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

“It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.”

#Lewis

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

He that would utterly separate the Spirit from the Word, had as good burn his Bible.

#Owen

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

The Gospel radiates His glory; it is His kingly scepter by which He governs His people, and yet He hands it over to us!

#Calvin

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

It is a truly astonishing provision for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God.

#JohnOwen

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ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ὁ εἰπών, Ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψει…

that THE God THE One-sayING
OUT OF-DARKness LIGHT
TO-SHINE… (https://t.co/fLNcqXlqII)

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness”… (ESV)

2 Corinthians 4:6

After darkness, Light!

#2022

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Restore us, O God;
let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Psalms 80:3

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

All are in Him but only some are into Him.

#union #with #Christ

[Joseph Livingston @joseph_ls]

Those who deny that this furniture of the whole world was perfected by the Divine reason and assert that it was heaped together by certain fragments casually adhering to each other, seem to me to have neither mind nor sense nor in fact even sight itself.

Octavius #endevolution