Even when you sin, you do not provoke God to disinherit you. Instead, He is prompted to win you back to fellowship with Him.
Hear His words through Isaiah: ‘…he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him…’
—William Gurnall
NT preachers didn’t explain Scripture in the abstract.
They located the audience, named the kingdom crisis, and then unleashed the canon accordingly.
Apostolic preaching = audience → kingdom need → canon activation → covenant summons.
Not exposition detached from people, but canon applied to covenant reality.
#preaching
“For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” Hebrews 10:14.
That means the believer’s definitive standing before God is not waiting for the slow process of sanctification to reach completion. Rather, the one sacrifice of Christ has already secured what the believer could never establish.
This does not make sanctification unnecessary. It makes sanctification possible and promised.
In short, your sanctification may feel painfully incomplete, but the good news is that Christ’s sacrifice is not.
There is no coming judgment for the believer because the believer has already died.
Galatians 2:20 says the old Adamic self was crucified with Christ — executed in the only judgment that counts.
The life the Christian now lives is the resurrected life of the Second Adam.
You cannot be judged in the future if your old self has already been judged and your new life is Christ Himself.
#SecondAdamidentity
#Nocondemnation
@rajuvamsi007 and when you’re done playing with your crystal ball, can you pass it to me so I can just look into the future and create my full proof “crystal ball mutual fund” for myself
Sincerely,
Marty McFly
RYLE:
"Oh, if any reader of this paper is broken-hearted, and care-worn, and sorrowful, let him go to Jesus Christ, and cry to Him, and he shall be refreshed.
“Come unto Me,” He says, “all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matt. 11:28)""
Samson especially stands out to me as proof that God uses people in spite of them.
Why especially?
Because he's mentioned in Hebrews 11.
Brothers and sisters, we will fellowship with Samson in the new creation.
And we will all be there for the same reason he will be.
Grace.
Caiaphas, high priest and unbeliever, "prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God." (John 11:51-52)
Brothers and sisters, our Father encourages even with the mouths of those who hate Him.
Jesus viewed His entire life as a mission to fulfill every single point of the law and to achieve perfect obedience to the commandments of God. His motive was not to keep a list of rules but to do the will of the Father. —@RCSproul https://t.co/eGMmifdUmu