By Robert Flynn on
10/29/2008 7:13 AM
The promise, that he should be the heir of the world - Is the same as that he should be "the father of all nations," namely, of those in all nations who receive the blessing. The whole world was promised to him and them conjointly. Christ is the heir of the world, and of all things; and so are all Abraham's seed, all that believe in him with the faith of Abraham (John Wesley)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/28/2008 6:46 AM
The nature of sacraments in general: they are signs and seals - signs to represent and instruct, seals to ratify and confirm. Matthew Henry
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By Robert Flynn on
10/25/2008 8:00 AM
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something very different. (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)
We often needlessly wander through the darkened fortress of discouragement and despair. The high hardened ramparts of our own building. Brick by brick did they rise from the hardness of our own heart. Cemented indestructible by the piteous mortar of our ever bleeding heart. We are powerless to extricate ourselves from this fallen estate because of our self-deception.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/24/2008 7:37 AM
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness." (2 Timothy 2:19 NASB)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/23/2008 7:18 AM
Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it.... (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)
The chief cause of the current state of affairs that surround us may be viewed in the mirror....
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By Robert Flynn on
10/22/2008 6:45 AM
Faith was reckoned to Abraham for justification, as we read Genesis 15:6, (see the note on Genesis 15:6); but circumcision was not instituted till about fourteen or fifteen years after, Genesis 17:1, etc.; for faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness or justification at least one year before Ishmael was born; compare Genesis 15, and 16. At Ishmael’s birth he was eighty-six years of age, Genesis 16:16; and, at the institution of circumcision, Ishmael was thirteen, and Abraham ninety-nine years old. Dr. Adam Clark
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By Robert Flynn on
10/16/2008 11:58 AM
This blessedness - This happy state or condition. This state of being justified by God, and of being regarded as his friends. This is the sum of all blessedness; the only state that can be truly pronounced happy. Dr. Albert Barnes
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By Robert Flynn on
10/14/2008 5:52 PM
"...wherefore they must be secure from wrath and condemnation, enjoy much peace and comfort now, and be happy hereafter." Dr. John Gill
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By Robert Flynn on
10/9/2008 5:59 AM
To be makários, blessed, is equivalent to having God's kingdom within one's heart...Makários is the one who is in the world yet independent of the world. His satisfaction comes from God and not from favorable circumstances. (The Complete Word Study Dictionary, General Editor: Spiros Zodhiates, Th.D.)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/8/2008 6:39 AM
How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven, whose sin is pardoned! How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit. (Psalms 32:1-2 NET.)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/7/2008 2:05 PM
Speaking generally a man that works for a wage for services rendered is paid by the hour or by the job.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/6/2008 3:12 PM
The Demon Screwtape: "Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury." C. S. Lewis
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By Robert Flynn on
10/6/2008 1:40 PM
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By Robert Flynn on
10/5/2008 8:31 AM
"Salvation as an accomplished fact, as a present process, and as a future prospect." Arthur W. Pink, A Fourfold Salvation
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By Robert Flynn on
10/4/2008 6:59 AM
The new diet plan, More of Jesus and Less of Me!
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By Robert Flynn on
10/3/2008 3:14 PM
"Abraham was, humanly speaking, the founder of our Jewish nation. What were his experiences concerning this question of being saved by faith?" (NLT 1996)
Sola Fide - Salvation comes only through faith in Jesus and not good works (in particular the belief in atonement for sins at the cross and the resurrection of Christ)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/2/2008 4:37 PM
“’Twas for my sins my dearest Lord.
Hung on the cursed tree.
And groan’d away his dying life,
For thee, my soul, for thee.
“O how I hate those lusts of mine.
That crucified my Lord;
Those sins that pierc’d and nail’d his flesh.
Fast to the fatal wood.
“Yes, my Redeemer, they shall die,
My heart hath so decreed;
Nor will I spare the guilty things.
That made my Saviour bleed.”
So we see then that our faith is unfurled and waves brightly in the wind of Christ's good pleasure. It is Him alone who gives us strength. It is Him alone who is worthy of our praise. It is Him alone who is the author and finisher of this faith unfurled. Sola de Christos!
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By Robert Flynn on
10/1/2008 6:14 PM
"There is only one God, and He makes people right with Himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles." (Romans 3:30 NLT)
I was much surprised by a recently published poll to find that only 35% of Evangelical Christians believe that Christ is the only way! It is pretty hard to miss the doctrinal implication herein described.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/1/2008 7:24 AM
"It is a hard thing to be a hearty zealous friend of what has been good and glorious, in the late extraordinary appearances, and to rejoice much in it; and at the same time to see the evil and pernicious tendency of what has been bad, and earnestly to oppose that. But yet, I am humbly but fully persuaded, we shall never be in the way of truth, nor go on in a way acceptable to God, and tending to the advancement of Christ's kingdom till we do so. There is indeed something very mysterious in it, that so much good, and so much bad, should be mixed together in the church of God; as it is a mysterious thing, and what has puzzled and amazed many a good Christian, that there should be that which is so divine and precious, as the saving grace of God, and the new and divine nature dwelling in the same heart, with so much corruption, hypocrisy, and iniquity, in a particular saint. Yet neither of these is more mysterious than real. And neither of them is a new or rare thing. It is no new thing, that much false religion should prevail, at a time of great reviving of true religion, and that at such a time multitudes of hypocrites should spring up among true saints."
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