COLOSSIANS 1:18

STAINS IN OUR BEST

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:46:00 +0000

"Our prayers have stains in them, our faith is mixed with unbelief, our repentance is not so tender as it should be, our communion is distant and interrupted. We cannot pray without sinning, and there is filth even in our tears."

~C.H. Spurgeon

CHRIST ON EVERY PAGE

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:02:00 +0000

Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

Michael Horton

His appointments

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:13:00 +0000

"Yes, give thanks for "all things" for, as it has been well said "Our disappointments are but His appointments." ~A.W.Pink

REBUKE AND GRACE

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:09:00 +0000

How is it then that miserable men dare to be proud, either of their free will, before they are freed, or of their own strength, if they have been freed? They do not observe that in the very mention of free will they pronounce the name of liberty. But “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ” If, therefore, they are the slaves of sin, why do they boast of free will? For by what a man is overcome, to the same is he delivered as a slave. But if they have been freed, why do they vaunt themselves as if it were by their own doing, and boast, as if they had not received? Or are they free in such sort that they do not choose to have Him for their Lord who says to them: “Without me ye can do nothing;” and “If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed?”

– Augustine, On Rebuke and Grace, Chp. 52

Did God get much

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:23:00 +0000

When you go out of a Church meeting and say, "I didn't get much out of that meeting tonight." That's not the point! How much did God get out of it? Did He get worshipped? Did He get adoration? Our only business on earth is to glorify GOD
You don't worship God standing up... you worship God on your belly....worship is speechless adoration! How much time have you spent with Jesus today? When is the last time you've gone to Him and said, "I'm not going to ask you for a thing... I come to worship you in spirit and in truth." via. K.S.R.

PAGAN GODDESS

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:17:00 +0000

"The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long." ~ Steve Lawson

ESSENTIALLY ATHEISM

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:30:00 +0000

"Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism." ~ Charles Spurgeon

GOD PRODUCES ALL

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:13:00 +0000

In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active.---Jonathan Edwards

WHO IS WITH ME

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:33:00 +0000

I am keeping the incarnation, perfection, substitution, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, reigning, returning, and exaltation of God in the public discussion. Who is with me?

GOD IS ETERNAL

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:17:00 +0000

"Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving." - Stephen Charnock

WONDERFUL WORDS OF JESUS

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:59:00 +0000

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden." ~Augustine

Puritan Prayers

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:05:00 +0000

Grant me never to lose sight of The exceeding sinfulness of sin, The exceeding righteousness of salvation, The exceeding glory of Christ, The exceeding beauty of holiness, The exceeding wonder of grace.
~The Valley Of Vision~Prayers of the Puritans

ALL OUR THOUGHTS

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:38:00 +0000

All our thoughts concerning Christ and his glory should be accompanied with admiration, adoration, and thanksgiving. For this is such an object of our thoughts and affections as, in this life, we can never fully comprehend,—an ocean whose depths we cannot look into. If we are spiritually renewed, all the faculties of our souls are enabled by grace to exert their respective powers towards this glorious object.

~John Owen

NORMAL OR STRANGE

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:31:00 +0000

"Worldliness is what any particular culture does to make sin look normal and righteousness look strange." ~ David Wells

UTTERLY PASSIVE

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:04:00 +0000

Arminians...

A [g]ospel which teaches that the difference between the man in heaven and the man in hell is something that the man in heaven did on his own steam and apart from the grace of God is a blasphemous parody of the True Gospel. The man in hell simply did not use his Almighty Will properly and the man in heaven did.... this is a man-centered works-based [g]ospel which is not good news at all.

Man does not find it within himself to properly coordinate his decisions and thus choose to save himself. A man is only saved if the LORD gives him the gift of faith. Arminians teach that faith is what man does independent from God and that God is waiting on man to straighten up and fly right. Scripture teaches that man is dead, in need of new life, and thus unable to help himself. Scripture also teaches that faith is a gift from God and not something that man must locate within his thoroughly wretched self. One [g]ospel is all about what man does and that system hates the fact that faith is given to man as a gift. The True Gospel is about what God gives to man as a gift, not what man chooses to do as an independent agent. One is works-righteousness and one is salvation by grace alone. The reason that faith is not a work is because it's not something that man does, but rather something that man receives as a gift. The rebel sinner who is guilty of high treason and who lives on death row has one option: receive mercy. Man is utterly passive in salvation, lest any man should boast.

In Christ,

Dennis Keesee

ALL THINGS WHATEVER ARISE

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:17:00 +0000

"All things whatever arise from, and depend on, the divine appointment; whereby it was foreordained who should receive the word of life, and who should disbelieve it; who should be delivered from their sins, and who should be hardened in them; and who should be justified and who should be condemned." - Martin Luther

PREPARING

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:33:00 +0000

While Jesus is in heaven, preparing a place for His people, the Spirit is on earth, preparing His people for that place- Winslow

SHOULD BE ABANDONED

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:43:00 +0000

"The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36)." - D. A. Carson

CORNER-STONE, STONE OF STUMBLING.

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:52:00 +0000

Grace is only given to the sheep; The death angel was a blessing to jews, to be the final basis for their release. The death angel was a curse for the Egyptians, to be the demise of their evil. The same event, two different effects. Grace to one, judgment to the other. I think one Puritan made the same observation about the Red Sea, a means of life for the Jews, a means of death for the Pharaoh....one miracle, a purpose of grace, a purpose of judgment, God glorified in both.

Noah's boat saved his family, and condemned the World. (Hebrews 11);

Jesus is the corner-stone, and a stone of stumbling.

Jericho's wall fell, a miracle for the Jews, a curse for the residents.

NO SENSE TO ELECT

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:15:00 +0000

Arminianism cannot make sense out of God's election. If God elects individuals based on His knowledge of those creatures choosing Him, there is no sense for God to elect anyone; since those creatures will choose Him anyway.

ULTIMATE TRAGEDY

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:49:00 +0000

"The ultimate tragedy of man's self-understanding is that he believes himself to be free, has all the feelings of a free agent, but does not realize that he is a slave to sin and serves the will of Satan." ~Sinclair Ferguson

WHATSOEVER

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:44:00 +0000

God determines whatsoever comes to pass:

Proverbs 16:1, 4, 7, 9, 33; 20:24; 21:1, Jeremiah 10:23, Lamentations 3:37, 38, Amos 3:6, Acts 17:26-27, Daniel 2:21; 4:35, Psalm 139:16, Ephesians 1:11, Romans 11:36 John 3:27, Job 12:9-10; 14:5

UNITED TO CHRIST

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:43:00 +0000

"We can no more unite ourselves to Christ, than a branch can incorporate itself into another stock; it is of Him, of God, His proper and alone work." John Flavel

NO BOX OF CANDY

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:39:00 +0000

"Grace is not like a box of candy that you can send back if you don't want it. Grace is divine favor, an attitude of God's own heart. We cannot stop him from loving us, if he chooses to do so. Nor can we stop him from giving us blessings of salvation: regeneration, justification, adoption, sanctification, glorification. His purpose in us will certainly be fulfilled, Phil. 1:6, Eph. 1:11." ~John Frame

WHO CHANGED YOUR HEART

noreply@blogger.com (Todd Lambert) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Diagnostic Q: Who changed your mind? Who changed your heart? Who changed your nature? Who changed your will? #1. These are not about "general influence", but real change. Do you credit God and His Grace or your self?