A Day To Give Thanks
I. The Lord Is My Savior
II. The Lord Is My Sustainer
III. The Lord Is My Sovereign
He Redeems
He Refreshes
He Rules
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A Day To Give Thanks
I. The Lord Is My Savior
II. The Lord Is My Sustainer
III. The Lord Is My Sovereign
He Redeems
He Refreshes
He Rules
Outline of 1 Corinthians 15:1 – 11
I. Receiving the Gospel – Grace Delivered (vv. 1, 2)
II. Preaching the Gospel – Grace Described (vv. 3 – 5)
III. Living the Gospel – Grace Displayed (vv. 9 – 11)
Daniel’s seventy-weeks resolve around one simple issue. Here it is.
We know that the promised Messiah came at the end of the 69 weeks (Dan. 9:25) and he was cut off within the next week of years (the 70th) and that in that ensuing 70th week he fulfilled all the predictions of Daniel 9:24 and 27.
There is absolutely no reason to insert any period of time between the 69th and the 70th week for the simple reason – none of us think of time in this way. We go from 7 weeks and then the next 62 weeks (Dan. 9:25) consecutively and then to the 70th week consecutively. To add anything in-between is a travesty of interpretation.
Calvin points out in his work on justification in the Institutes that, Scripture affirms that “Christ is both righteousness and life, and that the blessing of justification is possessed by faith alone.”
(Inst. 3.14.17)
Calvin has some beautiful comments on God’s discipline of his people in his Institutes (Inst. 3.4.32).
“the chastening of God carries his blessing with it, and is an evidence of love, as Scripture teaches.” (see Job 5:17; Prov. 3:11; Heb. 12:5)
“All the calamities which the wicked suffer in the present life are depicted to us as a kind of anticipation of the punishment of hell. In these they already see, as from a distance, their eternal condemnation…the Lord chastens his servants sore, but does not give them over to death (Ps. 118:18).”