September 2014

Five Eternal Gifts from God - Scripture 5

Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) means that Scripture alone is the believer’s preeminent authority. It is the final influence by which the Christian’s conscience is bound. It is the believer’s understanding and commitment that anything besides Scripture including feelings, passions, church traditions and teachings, along with personal convictions are secondary to God’s Word being the ultimate authority within the believer’s life. Dr. Michael Horton writes, “Scripture not only has the final say, but it is the formal principle of everything we believe about doctrine and conduct” (Sola Scriptura xvi).

Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) means that Scripture alone is the believer’s preeminent authority.  It is the final influence by which the Christian’s conscience is bound.  It is the believer’s understanding and commitment that anything besides Scripture including feelings, passions, church traditions and teachings, along with personal convictions are secondary to God’s Word being the ultimate authority within the believer’s life.  Dr.

Five Eternal Gifts from God - Scripture 4

The POETICAL and WISDOM books of the Old Testament also testify of the importance of Scripture Alone being the believer’s final authority.

The POETICAL and WISDOM books of the Old Testament also testify of the importance of Scripture Alone being the believer’s final authority.

Psalm 1 contrasts the godly and the ungodly, placing a high premium for the believer’s faith and practice upon the Scriptures alone.

Five Eternal Gifts from God - Scripture 3

God clearly communicates that His Word is the final authority in all matters. It is not to be tampered with in any way. Biblical texts in the Old Testament LAW and HISTORICAL books declaring this include:

God clearly communicates that His Word is the final authority in all matters. It is not to be tampered with in any way. Biblical texts in the Old Testament LAW and HISTORICAL books declaring this include:

Five Eternal Gifts from God - Scripture 2

Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) means that Scripture alone is the believer’s preeminent authority. It is the final influence by which the Christian’s conscience is bound. It is the believer’s understanding and commitment that anything besides Scripture including feelings, passions, church traditions and teachings, along with personal convictions are secondary to God’s Word being the ultimate authority within the believer’s life. Dr. Michael Horton writes, “Scripture not only has the final say, but it is the formal principle of everything we believe about doctrine and conduct” (Sola Scriptura xvi).

Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) means that Scripture alone is the believer’s preeminent authority.  It is the final influence by which the Christian’s conscience is bound.  It is the believer’s understanding and commitment that anything besides Scripture including feelings, passions, church traditions and teachings, along with personal convictions are secondary to God’s Word being the ultimate authority within the believer’s life.  Dr.

Five Eternal Gifts from God - Scripture 1

“We live in a world filled with competing truth claims. Every day, we are bombarded with declarations that something is true and that something else is false. We are told what to believe and what not to believe. We are asked to behave one way but not another way. In her monthly column “What I Know for Sure,” Oprah Winfrey tells us how to handle our lives and our relationships. The New York Times editorial page regularly tells us what approach we should take to the big moral, legal, or public-policy issues of our day. Richard Dawkins, the British atheist and evolutionist, tells us how to think of our historical origins and our place in this universe.”

Dr. Michael Kruger, in the November 2012 issue of Tabletalk magazine, writes:

Precious Blood 6 - R.C. Sproul

Dr. Phillip Ryken states that whenever God accomplishes victory over the enemies of His people, the people of God under the inspiration of the Spirit in the Old Testament will compose a song of deliverance. The horse and his rider has he throne into the sea. With the song of Debra, the stars in the courses fought against Cicera. Again and again we see these phenomena. We see a concentration of it in the early infancy narratives of the birth of our Lord, particularly in Luke's Gospel. The Benedictus of Zacharias, the Magnificat of Mary, my soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit doth rejoice in God my Savior, the song of Simeon when he beholds the Messiah singing the Nuncdimittis “ now lettest though thy servant depart in peace for I've seen the consolation of Israel.”

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Precious Blood 5 - R.C. Sproul

Let's move now to Revelation chapter 5. John's given us the initial glimpse into Heaven where He sees the throne of God with all of its glory, with all of its majesty, and then in chapter 5 he says, "Then I saw in the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne, a scroll written within and on the back. Both sides of the scroll were used for this written information."

Let's move now to Revelation chapter 5.  John's given us the initial glimpse into Heaven where He sees the throne of God with all of its glory, with all of its majesty, and then in chapter 5 he says, "Then I saw in the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne, a scroll written within and on the back.  Both sides of the scroll were used for this written information."                

Precious Blood 4 - R.C. Sproul

Now we've considered already the ways in which Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecy of the e suffering servant of the Lord that is contained so brilliantly in that chapter of Isaiah 53. "Surely He has borne our sorrows..." and so on...

Now we've considered already the ways in which Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecy of the e suffering servant of the Lord that is contained so brilliantly in that chapter of Isaiah 53.  "Surely He has borne our sorrows..." and so on... 

Precious Blood 3 - R.C. Sproul

The Bible speaks about our redemption in terms of a purchase. The Apostle Paul said to his people, you are not your own. What does that mean? You are not your own. You might say, “Of course, I'm my own. Who else's am I? I'm free. I don't belong to anybody else.” Paul said, “Oh, yes, you do. You are not your own because you've been bought. You've been purchased. You have been bought and you have been paid for, and the price that was paid was the blood of Jesus.”

The Bible speaks about our redemption in terms of a purchase.  The Apostle Paul said to his people, you are not your own.  What does that mean?  You are not your own.  You might say, “Of course, I'm my own.  Who else's am I?  I'm free.  I don't belong to anybody else.”  Paul said, “Oh, yes, you do.  You are not your own because you've been bought.  You've been purchased.  You have been bought and you have been paid for, and the price that was paid was the blood of Jesus.”

Precious Blood 2 - R.C. Sproul

I've always found it somewhat interesting that the critics of the Christian faith aim their guns at the miracles of Jesus and particularly at the resurrection of Christ or the virgin birth of Christ, and they will say, “Oh, come on now, the virgin birth goes against all nature, all science. It couldn't have happened, and certainly when people die, they stay dead and the idea of a resurrection is a myth. I wondered why do they spend so much attention on that rather on the extraordinary aspect of Jesus and his sinlessness? Is there anything more rare? Anything more scarce? Anything more extraordinary? Anything more common than as human being without sin?

I've always found it somewhat interesting that the critics of the Christian faith aim their guns at the miracles of Jesus and particularly at the resurrection of Christ or the virgin birth of Christ, and they will say, “Oh, come on now, the virgin birth goes against all nature, all science.  It couldn't have happened, and certainly when people die, they stay dead and the idea of a resurrection is a myth.  I wondered why do they spend so much attention on that rather on the extraordinary aspect of Jesus and his sinlessness?  Is there anything more rare?&

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