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Promises Performed

April 20, 2017

Whatever God mercifully promises, he faithfully performs.

(Calvin, Inst. III.13.4, p. 766)

Filed Under: Blog, Calvin, General, God, Promises

Loving Your Enemies

April 5, 2017

Loving our enemies (Luke 6:27 – 42) involves:

  1. The loss of personal personhood
  2. The loss of personal privilege
  3. The loss of personal power
  4. The loss of personal possessions

We must:

  1. Forego
  2. Forgive
  3. Follow

Filed Under: Blog, Enemies, Idolatry, Sermon

Selfless

April 5, 2017

We need to die to self in order to become selfless. Listen to: http://s3.amazonaws.com/BethelSermons2017/2017Apr02ra.mp3

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Filed Under: Blog, Enemies, Idolatry, Sermon

How Adam Broke the Ten Commandments

March 15, 2017

Edward Fisher says in his Marrow of Modern Divinity that Adam broke the Ten Commandments “at one clap.” Here’s what he says:

  1. He chose himself another god when he followed the devil.
  2. He idolized and deified his own belly (he made his belly his god).
  3. He took the name of God in vain, when he believed him not.
  4. He kept not the rest and estate wherein God had set him.
  5. He dishonored his Father who was in heaven; and therefore his days were not prolonged in that land which the Lord God had given him.
  6. He massacred himself and all his posterity.
  7. From Eve he was a virgin, but in eyes and mind he committed spiritual fornication.
  8. He stole, like Achan, that which God had set aside not to be meddled with; and this his stealth is that which troubles all Israel – the whole world.
  9. He bare witness against God, when he believed the witness of the devil before him.
  10. He coveted an evil covetousness, like Amnon, which cost him his life, and all his progeny.

Edward Fischer (The Marrow of Modern Divinity, p. 58)

Filed Under: Blog, Edward Fisher, Law

God is Greater than Our Hearts

March 14, 2017

Our hearts so often condemn us (we probably don’t know our hearts as we think we do). But God is greater than our hearts. Calvin wrote, “the human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.” It never dupes God (see Hebrews 4:13). Look to God and his grace for healing comfort.

Filed Under: Calvin, General, Grace, Heart, Sanctification

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