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| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 834 Registered: 4-2000  |
Dear fellow believers in Christ, In my 60+ years of life, I have never heard a better nor more relevant sermon than I did early this morning on Christian radio. You owe it to yourself to listen to John MacArthur's message for today (Oct. 9) by logging unto www.gty.org . Depending on where you live, you may still be able to hear this sermon on Christian radio today. In awe of His grace, Dennis Fischer | ||
| Mwh Registered user Username: Mwh Post Number: 187 Registered: 4-2006  |
Thanks, haven't heard it yet but Id bet its good, seems to be number 3 in a 3 parts series. I have read 3 nice articles on the same subject by him, hope its not entirely the same, they are available here: Part 1: http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/45-40.HTM Part 2: http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/45-41.HTM Part 3: http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/45-42.HTM | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 2135 Registered: 3-2005 |
Hi Dennis and Mwh, I agree with you. This is John MacArthur at his best. Please give us some more details from this sermon. Also, those sermons are archived, and can be listened to online. Stan | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 2140 Registered: 3-2005 |
Dennis, As you said above, that MacArthur series on election is absolutely splendid. We have spent a lot of forum time on the doctrine of election and predistination, and some of my posting on this topic has not been as Christ centered as it could be. But I found in reading Dr. Philip Hughes book called "The True Image" Ten propositions or commandments that should accompany any of our discussion on election, and I will briefly summarize them here: 1.) All God's purposes from eternity to eternity have their focus and their fulfillment in Christ...including the election of sinners to life and their adoption as sons; 2.)The initiative of redemption rests entirely with God and divine grace is always prior to human faith. 3.)The call to repent and believe is a genuine summons on the basis of God's action in Christ for the redemption of the world 4.)The response of faith is an authentic human response and not just a predetermined reflex 5.)The meeting point of divine sovereignty and human response is the constitution of man in the divine image. 6.) The harmonious union of divine sovereignty and human answerability is achieved and manifested in the divine-human person of the incarnate Son, in whom the whole of our redemption, from beginning to end, is established. 7.)God is dynamically, not statically, sovereign in his control of the history of mankind, his attitude to all who are formed in his image is one of love, not love to some and hatred to the rest, and the prolongation of the present age of grace is indicative that God in his forbearance takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked and offers his salvation to all." (This point may be very troubling to the hyper-calvinists, but I believe it is a Biblical statement.) 8.)The paradox of the absolute sovereignty of God and the answerability of man remains, and it is not for us to offer logical, and therefore humanly finite, explanations of this mystery by virtually disregarding either its human or divine side." 9.)The relationship between God and his fallen creatures is still essentially personal, but always in such a manner that human answerability does not diminish or nullify divine sovereignty. 10.)Even though the response of faith is a genuine human response, yet this response is itself owed to God by reason of the primacy of his grace, so that God is the sole author of man's salvation and all the glory without exception belongs to God, who not only begins but also brings to completion the work of grace in his believeing creatures. Soli Deo Gloria, Stan | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 4766 Registered: 12-2003  |
Yes, StanóI agree. The issue of God's sovereignty and our "answerability" is a paradox. We cannot ignore either side of this mystery without creating a half-truth, or a heresy. God's ways are 'WAY bigger than our ability to formulate! Colleen |
