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Nowisee
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Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 6:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Some pertinent thoughts that will resonate with us:


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I would like to make this very plain. I hope that I have done so already; but still, plain as it is, it is only the Lord that can make a man see it. It does at first seem most amazing to an awakened man that salvation should really be for him as a lost and guilty one. He thinks that it must be for him as a penitent man, forgetting that his penitence is a part of his salvation. "Oh," says he "but I must be this and that," all which is true, for he shall be this and that as a result of salvation; but salvation comes to him before he has any results of salvation. It comes to him, in fact, while he deserves only this bare, beggarly, base, abominable description, "ungodly." That is all he is when God's gospel comes to justify him.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.




from "All of Grace", p. 14-15.
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Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Great piece.
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Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 11:31 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thank you, Nowisee. That is SO good.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Beautiful. I like this.
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Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Great quote, Nowisee, from the "prince of preachers." Spurgeon further stated: "The Lord must have loved me before I was born, or else He would not have seen anything in me to love afterwards."

In the 1940s, Oscar Eliason wrote and sang, "My heart is stirred whenever I think of Jesus, no name on earth has meant so much to me." Bill and Gloria Gaither later added: "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, there is just something about that name." And all God's people said, "amen."

Dennis Fischer
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Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 6:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Amen! :-)
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Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 9:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

AMEN!!!!!!
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Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 1:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A Needy or Extravagant God?

What kind of God do you have? A needy God who created out of a need (showing our importance), or an extravagant God who loves and rules sovereignly?

Dennis Fischer
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Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 2:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My God is an extravagant god who loves and rules sovereighnly.
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Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 6:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Good statement, Dennis. It's amazing how people could have read the Mars Hill sermon, or John 1, or any of Isaiah, and think that God needs anything, or has to save us to prove Satan wrong. I used to believe in that dung heap. He is wildly extravagant, and sovereign beyond our imaginations.
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Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 8:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Definition of Aseity- God is self-existent, God has always been. Our Maker exists in an eternal, self-sustaining, necessary way necessary, that is, in the sense that God does not have it in Him to go out of existence, just as we do not have it in us to live forever. We necessarily age and die, because it is our present nature to do that; God necessarily continues forever unchanged, because it is His eternal nature to do that. This is one of many contrasts between creature and Creator. (Packer, J.I., Concise Theology, 26)"

Even though He didn't have to, praise God that He chose to display his mercy and justice, that some may spend eternity with Him.

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