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Christian Reader, consider these comforting lines from Psalm 89 (1650 Scottish Psalter): 31 If they my laws break, and do not keep my commandements; 32 I’ll visit then their faults with rods, their sins with chastisements. 33 Yet I’ll not take my love from him, nor false my promise make. 34 My cov’nant I’ll not […]
Read More Some Words of EncouragementFirst things first. We need to talk about the term gospel, define what we mean by its usage, and then measure our definition with gospel’s biblical denotation. In a time where everyone has his own relative definition and belief of any and all, it is indeed important to have an absolute, biblical definition of gospel. […]
Read More The GospelThe covenant of redemption is the theological term for the agreement that was made between the God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in how they were going to redeem for themselves the elect. This covenant is not mentioned by name in scripture but it is clearly implied that an agreement […]
Read More The Covenant of RedemptionRevelation 20 is one of the most debated passages in Scripture. When reading commentaries on this passage, it seems that there are about as many interpretations as there are writers. What causes this to be such a unique passage of Scripture is that according to Eerdmans’ Handbook on the Bible, this is the Scripture “which […]
Read More The Millennium – A Look at Revelation 20But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. Luke 15:20 What a beautiful picture we have here. The prodigal has returned home, but only after forsaking his father and laying waste to his inheritance. The prodigal, living […]
Read More The Kisses of GodExodus 3:10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. Notice that the whole of God’s people was that of Jacob’s Children (Children of Israel). At the end of chapter 2 we read, “…and God remembered his covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac, […]
Read More The Children of IsraelHere is a vlog I did on justification and the active and passive obedience of Christ. And yes I am standing in my garage 🙂 Doug
Read More The Active and Passive Obedience of ChristMany times when a dispensationalist and covenantal theologian get together there can tend to be a bit of a confusing discussion that takes place around the term dispensations. The dispensationalist will say something like, “the idea of dispensations is in the scripture, how can you deny this?” The covenantal theologian will say something like, “we […]
Read More Dispensations: What’s the Difference?
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