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1 John 2:2 THERE is one passage more than any other which is I appealed to by those who believe in universal redemption, and which at first sight appears to teach that Christ died for the whole human race. We have therefore decided to give it a detailed examination and exposition. "And He is the...

By John Cotton https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/cotton/A%20Treatise%20of%20the%20Covenant%20of%20G%20-%20John%20Cotton.pdf The Lord Jesus Christ, to be the Mediator and Surety of the Covenant between God and Abraham We now come to the third and last Branch of the Doctrine; which...

Found Another fine Article on Reformation Today...enjoy; You are here Home » The Riches of God’s Love to His Elect The Riches of God’s Love to His Elect by Thomas Goodwin The Apostle’s aim in this passage is to...

Found this fine article from Reformation Today; Why Provisionism Is Not Biblical Provisionism, a view popularized by Leighton Flowers, teaches that God has made salvation available to everyone and that anyone can choose to respond to that provision by...

In a previously closed thread, The poster John C in trying to help us understand the bible, without PSA offers several ideas he believes are helpful! Let's take a look! Okay John, go for it! Okay A blanket??? Not the law of God, which we have broken? Not the law keeping of the Savior? So, in...

https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/haddington/The%20Systematic%20Theology%20of%20John%20-%20John%20Brown.pdf The general benefit which Christ, by his humiliation, procures and bestows in his exaltation, is our redemption or salvation, which includes the whole of our deliverance from the...

Here is the link which is over 700 pages. I will open discussion on various portions of it. Not all 700 pages so here we go. CHAPTER 3: Of the Decrees and Purposes of God. God acts on himself in contemplating, loving, and delighting in himself; and in the persons of the Godhead knowing...

2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; Paul lists many dangers he faced, many...

Paul is addressing the Philippians , and In chapter 3 he explains that the Judaizers were an enemy trying to enforce OT. Circumcision; 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. He identified himself as having been a previous enemy of the Church; 6 Concerning zeal...

Biblical predestination has to do primarily with God conforming those saved elect sinners to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, as described here; rom.8: 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many...

We see quite often how several posters because they do not understand this vital teaching correctly. This failure leads to several major errors. 1] Failing to understand God's Eternal purpose, that He has made known to the Church Eph3;9-11 2] Failing to understand the Covenant of Redemption...

Recently we have witnessed a couple of threads with the joyful titles Do Calvinists believe the same gospel? Or the other favorite; The gospel a Calvinists cannot believe! What followed were posts whining about the doctrines of grace offered by those who do not understand the basic ideas of...

Recently we have witnessed a couple of threads with the joyful titles Do Calvinists believe the same gospel? Or the other favorite; The gospel a Calvinists cannot believe! What followed were posts whining about the doctrines of grace offered by those who do not understand the basic ideas of...

From a puritans Mind...excerpts from Richard Sibbes; Jesus is our surety – one who acts in the place of another – in the place of His elect. Surety: “One who acts in the place of another.” Extracted from the sermon “Christ’s Sufferings for Man’s Sin” from the Works of Richard Sibbes, Banner of...

COVENANT THEOLOGY (Our study in 2 Peter 2:1, 10-7-08) Covenant theology is a system developed by two men, Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669) and Hermann Witsius (1636-1708). It was an attempt to tie the Old and New Testaments together by two covenants. The first was called the covenant of works...

From Dr .J. Ligon Duncan...found on Monergism.com First of all, Dispensationalists may be an Arminian or four point Calvinists, but Dispensationalists are almost never five point Calvinists. The point that they...

10 Things You Should Know about Covenant Theology October 28, 2020by: John R. Muether, J. Nicholas Reid, Guy Prentiss Waters This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. 1. Covenant theology is about the gospel. Romans 5:12–21 is a great example of covenant theology on...

All of the present Bible believing preachers and teachers must also believe in election, but most of them do not preach election at all. And those who do, many times, do not teach what the Bible teaches about it. In this chapter I want to make some general remarks to turn away preconceived...

In Scripture, God's foreknowledge—expressed by the term foreknown (proginōskō in Greek)—never refers to foresight or advance awareness of human decisions or actions, but always to His eternal, covenantal love and sovereign purpose set upon persons. Romans 8:29 says, "For whom he did foreknow, he...

On Thursday, Sept. 25, Founders Ministries informed the public that Voddie Baucham, Jr. died earlier that day after “suffering an emergency medical incident.” “We are saddened to inform friends that our dear brother, Voddie Baucham, Jr., has left the land of the dying and entered the land of...