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Psalm 3:8

Here is Mr. Spurgeon on this great Psalm of David as he fled from Absalom.

“This verse contains the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine. Search Scripture through, and you must, if you read it with a candid mind, be persuaded that the doctrine of salvation by grace alone is the great doctrine of the word of God: “Salvation belongeth unto the Lord.” This is a point concerning which we are daily fighting. Our opponents say, “Salvation belongeth to the free will of man; if not to man’s merit, yet at least to man’s will;” but we hold and teach that salvation from first to last, in every iota of it, belongs to the Most High God. It is God that chooses his people. He calls them by his grace; he quickens them by his Spirit, and keeps them by his power. It is not of man, neither by man; “not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.” May we all learn this truth experimentally, for our proud flesh and blood will never permit us to learn it in any other way.”

(Treasury of David, Psalm 3)

Reasons Not To Sin

Here are 3 major reasons not to sin.
1. It diminishes and taints the glory of the Father.
2. It crucifies afresh the Lord Jesus Christ
3. It vexes and grieves the Holy Spirit.

The Big Cleaver

Genesis 2:24 speaks of leaving & cleaving as a man’s responsibility when he takes a wife to himself. It is interesting to note from the English perspective that the word “cleave” offers two distinct meanings. Both are verbal: one means to adhere to and the second means to divide or split asunder. The Hebrew word “dabaq” signals “to cling to”, “to be joined to” and the Latin “adherebit” confirms this. The second English meaning apples to the “leaving” part – for a man does divide from his father and mother to form a new union. Marriage really is the Big Cleaver and thank God for it.

Barbaric Cosmology

The idea that morality can be simply derived from natural reason is barbaric to say the least. We could apply the source of morality to anything apart from God, and frankly the idea would still be ultimately barbaric. It is a monumental leap of vain imagination for anyone to consider (as most cosmologists do) that the universe arose from nothing, and that this “nothing” in turn was certain to give rise to something. As Maria sang, “nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could; so somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.” (from Sound of Music). Pathetic theology, to say the least, but she makes a connection. The only way something comes from nothing is if God does it. To think that some random process spontaneously explodes out of nothing is intellectual folly, nevertheless it is indulged in persistently.

Cosmology refers to origins – origins of the universe. Darwin hypothesized about origins. His followers continue the tradition. Uncertainty marks their work. If science is supposed to convince – it has not done a good job here.

Creation – Genesis 1:1

3 facts:

1. The Time of Creation – “in the beginning”

2. The Agent & Action of Creation – “God created”

3. The Extent of Creation – “the heavens & the earth”

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