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40 Things that happen to the Believer at Salvation
Print these out and look up the references!
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With Friends Like These...
Someone needs to redefine what he means by “friends.”
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Readiness for What? Ephesians 6:15
Ephesians 6:15and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
“…not readiness for conflict created by the gospel, but readiness to propagate [the gospel].” - William Hendrickson, Ephesians
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Preface to Calvin’s Institutes
““Thus, on the printer’s behalf and mine, your ease and commodity (good readers) provided for. Now resteth your own diligence, for your own profit, in studying it.”
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Christ alone, therefore, is the mirror in which we can contemplate that which the weakness of the cross hinders from being clearly seen in ourselves. When our minds rise to a confident anticipation of righteousness, salvation, and glory, let us learn to turn them to Christ. We still lie under the power of death; but he, raised from the dead by heavenly power, has the dominion of life. We labor under the bondage of sin, and, surrounded by endless vexations, are engaged in a hard warfare, (1 Timothy 1:18;) but he, sitting at the right hand of the Father, exercises the highest government in heaven and earth, and triumphs gloriously over the enemies whom he has subdued and vanquished. We lie here mean and despised; but to him has been “given a name” (Philippians 2:9,) which angels and men regard with reverence, and devils and wicked men with dread. We are pressed down here by the scantiness of all our comforts: but he has been appointed by the Father to be the sole dispenser of all blessings. For these reasons, we shall find our advantage in directing our views to Christ, that in him, as in a mirror, we may see the glorious treasures of Divine grace, and the unmeasurable greatness of that power, which has not yet been manifested in ourselves.
John Calvin, commentary on ephesiansSource: ccel.org
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Fit the task to the time.
Dr. William J. Larkin -
Plays: 10[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Snow Day sermon #2. Piper on living by Faith, not by Works.
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Plays: 10[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
One of the sermons we listened to in the Myer house when we were snowed in this past Sunday.
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RC Sproul: Right Now Counts Forever
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Let our confidence be uniform. In all thy ways acknowledge him (Proverbs 3:6). Take one step at a time, every step under divine warrant and direction. Ever plan for yourself in simple dependence on God. It is nothing less than self‐idolatry to conceive that we can carry on even the ordinary matters of the day without his counsel.
He loves to be consulted. Therefore take all thy difficulties to be resolved by him. Be in the habit of going to him in the first place—before self‐will, self‐pleasing, self‐wisdom, human friends, convenience, expediency. Before any of these have been consulted go to God at once. Consider no circumstances too clear to need his direction.
In all thy ways, small as well as great; in all thy concerns, personal or relative, temporal or ternal, let him be supreme.
Charles Bridges (1794–1869), from A Commentary on Proverbs (Banner of Truth, 1846/1968) pp. 24–25.
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