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This topic brings to mind Psalm 19, especially the last half: 7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; 8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes...

AW Tozer and the Order of Salvation Not everyone can hear Tozer's "voice" of the Shepherd. “My sheep hear My voice.” - John 10:27. The context of John 10 tacitly assumes that there are some who just cannot hear the Shepherd. But this has no place in Tozer’s soteriology.

My point as well. Condemnation and judgment are not the same terms. "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ", not award ceremony. We need to maintain the right balance here. Keeping this awesome meeting in mind is a key means of our growth in grace. It is not slavish fear, but...

The lexicons were referred to before I wrote this article. I assumed that the verses would have had sufficient weight. It's funny, in another group I was faulted for supposedly relying on extra-biblical sources. Neither am I saying that Christians will be condemned. Maybe you should quit...

I'm not sure why you are quoting these verses. I quoted them also in my article.

All of creation will, some way or other, appear before our Creator. Wherever our eschatology has led us (rightly of wrongly) I hope we all realize this fact. We must avoid any teaching that robs these necessary Bema passages of their intended convicting power. Returning to the Biblical Bema...

Studying the account of these two pillars (1st Kings 7; 2 Chron. 3) we notice a startling fact: These pillars don’t hold up anything! Why is that? Merely decorative? Hardly. All the details of this temple were given to Solomon’s father David, and faithfully handed down. Clearly, they had a...

Ipoh, Malaysia. Part Two The name “Ipoh” comes from a poisonous plant, the Bark Cloth Tree, Antiaris toxicaria, (“pokok ipoh”), the latex which hunter’s used on their blow darts. The Kinta River generally divides the old town from the new. The old town is on the west side. This area is by far...

I was trying to attach these photos to the thread above. I guess you can't do that.

Ipoh, Malaysia We have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to so many places that there is a serious backlog of articles. Several places have been absolutely filled with adventures, most were good, a few otherwise. One country that both of us have missed is Malaysia. I just randomly...

Ipoh, Malaysia We have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to so many places that there is a serious backlog of articles. Several places have been absolutely filled with adventures, most were good, a few otherwise. One country that both of us have missed is Malaysia. I just randomly...

The Old Covenant Law Paul referred to as a “pedagogue” (παιδαγωγὸς) that leads to Christ. What an important word – yet difficult to precisely translate. The first part of the word is “child”. And that is what the Old Covenant era was, Israel’s childhood. And the New Covenant was, to borrow a...

Yes, Abraham, was the father of His chosen people. He is also the "father of many nations". We are grafted into these promises. If you are Christian then you are also one of His chosen people.

Your two sentences contradict each other. Have you not read in Ephesians that the middle wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles has been taken down?

After the final and supreme sacrifice of the Son there was no longer any validity in further sacrifices or, for that matter, any other obligation under the Old Covenant. Yes, many Jews continued observing rites, feasts and sacrifices of the Old Covenant, but mostly from ignorance or obstinence...

This passage is a problem for teachers of Covenant Eschatology (CE), seeing that the Feast days are a part of the Law. So are all the jots and tittles. This would mean that all Jews were obligated to obey all of it. Yet that would mean that grace was unavailable. Because Law and Grace are...

"Threatened"? You make it sound like our response is just emotional. Cheap shot. Believe me, I know from personal interactions that there are probably many fellow Preterists that have not been to the Cross. And it shows by their teaching. I write much in Preterist groups trying to clean this...

The Old Covenant was indeed fading away, but centuries before Gospel times. And how did the Old Covenant fade away? It faded in glory with every prophetical announcement and typological foreshadowing of the coming New Covenant. An incremental Ichabod. 4. The Old Covenant – including the Feasts...

It is true that the practicing of the Old Covenant Law continued for four more decades after the Cross. But from that time onward it was only a lethal witness, “the letter that kills“, 2 Cor. 3:6, against those who insisted on continuing in it. It had no validity or merit in the eyes of God...