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Prophecy is not only foretelling, it is also forth-telling: speaking forth the words of God. At least half of what the prophets wrote was telling the people their sin, and then warning them of judgment to come. Do you find the date 94 AD in your Bible, or is that another thing you have either...

I was forced to consider this as a new Christian about 30 years ago, when charismatics started invading my then church and saying that it was not enough to be baptized with the Holy Sprit; you needed a second blessing, the 'fire,' as well. I prayerfully considered this and it seemed, and still...

The great Puritan writer John Owen, taught that there were multiple (17 to be exact) differences between the old covenant and the new, and in each the new covenant is better (c.f. Hebrews 8:6).. One of these is that in the old covenant, the kingdom of God had the appearance of a kingdom of the...

"Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the doctrines of grace in a single instant. Born, as all of us are by nature, an Arminian, I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit and did not see the grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was...

First of all, there is a 'great multitude' in Revelation 7:9-10 from every tribe, tongue, nation and people. If they are not the saved of all time, who are they? Yet you have denied that they are a great multitude, which means that you have counted them. Secondly, the 144,000 are never...

Unfortunately, with this post you deny the word of God in two ways: God says that the crowd in Revelation 7 is 'great' and that no one can count it. You take the liberty of counting it and then disagree with Almighty God by finding it small. But tell me, how does the crowd get either bigger...

The Sinaitic covenant was made with a people, not with individuals. Consider Exodus 6:6-8. Very few indeed of the people addressed there made it to the Promised land, but the nation did. It was a national covenant and did not refer to the final salvation of individuals; nor was it broken by the...

The Sinaitic covenant is the first of two covenants made with a people through a mediator. It was made with the Israelites at Sinai through Moses, so it is not quite accurate to call it the Mosaic covenant because it was not made with Moses. It is commonly referred to as the ‘Old Covenant,’...

Spurgeon wrote, "To see a soldier become a Christian is a great thing. To see a Christian become a soldier is another matter." Way back in 1939, at the start of WW2, Dr. Lloyd-Jones gave four sermons on the subject of war at a Christian conference in Scotland. They later became his first...

Quotation from Andrew Fuller: I believe it is the duty of every minister of Christ plainly and faithfully to preach the gospel to all who will hear it; and as I believe the inability of man to be wholly of the moral, and therefore of the criminal kind, and that it is their duty to love the Lord...

I have specifically studied Fuller, and faced with a choice between John Gill and Andrew Fuller, I choose Fuller. He saved the Baptists from hyper-Calvinism and was a prime mover in the Baptist Missionary Society. The Gospel is undoubtedly "Worthy of all Acceptance."

It may be as well to quote from Acts 26:22-23 as well: 'Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing to both small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come - that the Christ would suffer, that He would rise from the...

Acts 10:34. 'Then Peter opened his mouth and said, "In truth I perceive that God shows no impartiality, but in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him."' '..... But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to...

Genesis 5:1-3. 'This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man. He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son...

Well, well. You think I do not accept the words we are given from God. I think you do not understand them. John 6:63. 'The words I speak to you are spirit and they are life.' You may seek to drive a wedge between the Father and the Son; I do not.

@calledbyHisgrace Many years ago, I spent some time looking at texts with 'soul' or 'spirit' in them. There are some places where they are used together (eg. Luke 1:46-47, 1 Thes. 5:23-24; Hebrews 4:12). None of these seem to explain what the difference is between the two. Where the words...

I think you may be overthinking this. We are begotten again (past) into a living (present) hope (future). The one leads to the others.

The Hebrew word for Adam is the same as the word for man and there was also a place called Adam (Joshua 3:16). However, to say, 'Like men they transgressed the covenant' doesn't make much sense: they were men! The covenant with Adam is more often referred to as the Covenant of Works, and it can...

The term 'Evangelical' has become so debased as to be almost meaningless. The current (soon to be ex) Archbishop of Canterbury would describe himself as an evangelical. It has become necessary in Britain to define one's evangelicalism - 'conservative,' 'Bible-believing' or 'Reformed.' Even...

I don't believe that 1 Corinthians 7:12ff is merely Paul's opinion. When in vs.10-11, he says, ".......Not I, but the Lord," He is saying that the Lord Jesus taught much the same thing in Mark 10:6-12. In vs.12-16, there is no corresponding teaching from our Lord, but if we believe in the...