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Matt. 7:16-17. "You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear...

If someone is one of Christ's sheep, he may, for a time, lose his way, but the Good Shepherd will come and find him and bring him home. If the Good Shepherd doesn't come and find him, that is an indication that he was never one of Christ's sheep I think OSAS - Once Saved, Always Saved - is a...

Go to Martyn Lloyd-Jones Sermons - Complete MLJ Trust Sermon Collection for all Lloyd-Jones' sermons. Descibed as "logic on fire"! Audio only, but well worth listening to!

With a degree of trepidation,may I invite you to try here: Scott Drive Church Exmouth. The ministry of Scott Drive Church, Exmouth UK.

Thanks to @Paleouss and @DaveXR650 for some helpful comments. For the benefit of @kyredneck I will deal with the texts he has brought up in due course. Perhaps we can start with a definition, from the Baptist Catechism ("Keach's") of 1690. Q. What is Justification? A. Justification is an act...

I am currently on holiday, and have been doing a bit of study. I am interested to know what folk here think about Justification. So firstly, how does justification differ from forgiveness? Secondly, in the Book of Romans, Paul tells us that we are justified by three things: 1. We are...

Matthew 7:21-23. "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. but he who does the will of My Father in heaven...." OK, so what is the will of the Father? John 6:28-29. 'Then they said to Him, "What shall we do that we may work the works of God?" Jesus...

I have never heard of them before, but browsing through their beliefs it appears that they deny the Trinity inasmuch as they deny the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit.

It may be helpful to compare 2 Thes. 2:13 with 2 Tim. 1:9. '[God] who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.' The salvation and the calling come in time...

As the proud possessor of a British passport, I have always been aware of "Withour let or hindrance," but the term has been there since at least the early 19th Century, and I doubt that most British people know what it means, let alone foreigners, so it's really not that helpful and only...

More than Conquerors was the book that really helped me. When I read Revelation, I couldn't understand it. The world kept coming to an end and then cranking up again (e.g. Rev. 6:12-7:1). M.T.C. showed me how to read the book so that it made sense. Having said that, I try not to fall out with...

Yet another 'against the person' post which is a fallacious argument. Did I say that @Van said the words "the New Covenant" appear in the context? Nope, so the implication that I did is another false clain by Van. What I said was that the words 'New Covenant' appear nowhere in 1 or 2...

A good word.

@Van constantly repeating this does not make it true. The words 'the new covenant' appears nowhere in the context of 2 Thes. 2:13. In fact, the word 'covenant' appears nowhere in the whole of 2 Thessalonians! Well maybe it pops up in 1 Thessalonians, so that the recipients would expect to...

Thank you for confirming what I wrote. Found nowhere in the 1689 Confession.

:rolleyes: I took time to explain to you that because 'have been written' is in the Perfect Tense, it means that the names were written, once and for all in the Lamb's Book of Life and they have been written there since the foundation of the world. I understand that you may not like that, but...

I think you should not constantly accuse others of making false claims. It really doesn't help your case since you only back your case up by making more false claims. That is one translation, even though it does not follow the word order of the Greek. Another translation is from the NKJV...

Acts 17:26. 'And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.... .' This verse seems to suggest multiple nations, but only one race - the human one.

I didn't find any reference to the 1689 Confession in your link. Instead you offer one page from an American 19th Century writer of whom I have never heard. But people who come into membership of a church should undoubtedly commit themselves to regular attendance unless there is some pressing...

I must say that I don't recognize the criticisms of churches on this thread. Maybe there's a difference between churches in the UK and USA. The main difference would be in size, and I think there is a danger here. It's hard to get to know everybody is a big church, and I think some people who...