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April 9, 2022
Nimrod, the Tower, and the Cities of Men
Genesis 10
8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
Genesis 11
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city…
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June 24, 2020
Romans 8
Romans 8:1-2
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Why is there no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus? Piper’s answer is that there is no condemnation, because Christ died to give us the Spirit who will work in us to improve our behavior so that eventually there won’t be anything to condemn us for. But this is not what Paul has been saying.
Romans 8 is the consummation of chapters 1 – 7. Paul begins chapter 1 by reminding us that all men have fallen and are under the condemnation of sin. Death is the condemnation to which all sinners are born condemned.
Paul then next reminds us in chapter 2 that no one has an excuse they…
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July 30, 2019
It (a satisfactory, merit-based, substitutionary, propitiatory, offering to God) happened before me, so I can’t influence it or affect it in anyway. Never even had the chance. I can’t affect what George Washington did, because George Washington lived and died before I was born. Never even had the chance. George Washington is still dead.
I was guilty at conception, so even as God was knitting me together, His law demanded my life. (See Psalm 51; cf Romans 9) God’s desires are not divorced from the demands of His law. The fashioning of a human being in the womb does not imply divine love, though God had love for David.
I never had a chance. I never had an opportunity to choose. I was only ever guilty, until God freely (completely of Himself and uninfluenced/unaffected by me) justified me. But God cannot justify me because of me or anything that He…
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August 3, 2018
False Teachers Like James White Are Sure this Man is a Brother in Christ
Excellent engagement. Praying for that fellow
My recent discussion with a man who believes in universal atonement. His name will remain anonymous. I’ll call him, UA.
DAVE: The Bible’s implied propositions regarding the extent of the atonement are not limited to those texts that speak directly about election and His death. Rather, they also include those texts which speak directly about His priesthood, the efficacy and nature of His priesthood, and His role as the representative headship of a new covenant. Those texts regarding election and the efficacy of His death in conjunction with these texts about the efficacy of His priesthood and new covenant federal headship prove the Bible teaches Christ died only for His elect.
By offering His body to God at the cross as a sacrifice for His people’s sins, Christ HAS (past tense) once and for all time redeemed His people from the just punishment for their sin. This is why God…
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May 20, 2018
There is no hope for any sinner apart from Christ’s death as a propitiation for His elect alone.
“For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.”Romans 9:9-16 ESV
“Now to the one…
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November 15, 2017
What Did the Thief on the Cross Know and Believe?
Luke 23:34-43
And they cast lots to divide his garments. 35 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” 38 There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” 39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he said…
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August 30, 2017
If you still believe salvation is conditioned on the sinner, then God has not yet taught you His gospel, which means you are still unconverted.
“It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—”John 6:45 ESV
“Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 ESV
“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his…
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August 13, 2017
“The Gospel According to John MacArthur” Reading of John W. Robbins
Good morning Steemit brethren,
I present to you today a reading of “The Gospel According to John MacArthur” by John W. Robbins which is a critique of “The Gospel According to Jesus” by John MacArthur. The reading was recorded by my brother Duane Linn. One of the most important points I would like to make is that faith that saves does so because God grants that faith with its proper object. It is not due to some subjective quality of faith that Neo-Calvinists seem to assert.
When it comes to being a Christian, it is not “if one walks like a duck and talks a duck, they must be a duck” as in “If one walks like a Christian, they must be a Christian”. Even goats may wax religious and perform meritorious works in the sight of men but we know if these works have not their basis being in God-given faith that they are useless like chaff in the wind.
It is only sheep that hear His voice and believe the gospel. It is only sheep that submit to the righteous of Christ revealed therein. It is only sheep that repent of dead works. We will know them by their fruit. Fruit of believing and resting in the gospel of Christ, who is the LORD of the Sabbath.
What gospel do they confess? Is it one solely conditioned of Christ, is it conditioned the sinner, or is it some abominable permutation of the two?
Concerning the gospel, we don’t get to put our ducks in more than one barrel. Our hope either lies in Christ, the Rock of our salvation, in His death as satisfaction for the righteous requirement of the law or it is lost within the sands of self with the wrath of God abiding. This isn’t Burger King. With salvation, you cannot have it your way!
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July 27, 2017
Since God is Sovereign, Does It Even Matter how precise you are about the Gospel?
Tolerant Calvinists i tell us that, while Arminians may THINK that their salvation is conditioned on them, those Arminians are still saved and that this their salvation is not conditioned on them. After all, they say, they are not “stingy with the love of God”.
Does this mean that God loved the elder brother in spite of his legalism? Since most of those tolerant Calvinists claim that God has an universal “non-saving love” for all sinners, I am sure they would say that God does love “in some way” that elder brother.
But is that elder brother justified before God? Must the one who came home from the hog pen confess that the elder brother is his brother? Back in the days when I became an universalist, I said yes: all are brothers.
What do you say? I do not ask if you think the elder brother was non-elect in…
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