tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:54:51 +0000<center>EXAMINING THE SCRIPTURES DAILY TO SEE WHETHER THESE THINGS WERE SO.<br> Acts 17:11c</center>http://bororean.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)Blogger668125http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.giftag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-7112313630598330003Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:09:00 +00002010-02-07T06:25:59.874-06:00Sovereignty of GodOwenFree Will"The unconverted mind still remains on it's old foundation of self-sufficiency and self-determination, satisfied that all is under the control of its own free will.But when these truths are brought home to their hearts, urging them to renounce faith in themselves, their own self-sufficiency, self-determination and self-righteousness and be renewed in Christ, then that old enmity lurking in their http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/02/old-foundation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-7341358909427401694Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:11:00 +00002010-02-07T06:44:43.583-06:00Sovereignty of GodFree WillA. W. Pink"The trend of modern theology—if theology it can be called—is ever toward the deification of the creature rather than the glorification of the Creator, and the leaven of present-day Rationalism is rapidly permeating the whole of Christendom. The malevolent effects of Darwinianism are more far reaching than most are aware. Many of those among our religious leaders who are still regarded as http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-trend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-7211353779468742772Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:32:00 +00002010-01-20T19:40:17.196-06:00DoctrineA. W. Pink"First and foremost then the inspired Scriptures are profitable for doctrine: that our thoughts, ideas and beliefs concerning all the subjects of Divine revelation may be formed and regulated by their infallible teachings. How that rebukes those who sneer at theological instruction, who are prejudiced against the doctrinal exposition of the gospel, who ignorantly account such “dry” and http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/01/invalid-distinction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-5708342142239595795Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:40:00 +00002010-01-09T08:42:28.316-06:00Purpose DrivenMovements or FadsJohn MacArthur"An honest belief in the sovereignty of God in salvation would bring an end to a lot of the nonsense that is going on in the church." —John MacArthurMacArthur, J. (1993). Ashamed of the gospel : When the Church becomes like the world (85). Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books.http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/01/quote-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-6044764592878920030Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:24:00 +00002010-01-05T18:29:29.221-06:00QuoteA. W. Pink"When Christ came to the earth He did these two things. He revealed the Father’s heart and He exposed man’s enmity. And one of two things always followed: either men hated Him for exposing them, or they accepted such exposure and took refuge in the Grace which He revealed. When Christ exposed the hypocrisy of the Pharisees they hated Him; but when He exposed to the woman at the well her sinful http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-798424234784640839Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:34:00 +00002010-01-02T19:39:40.945-06:00QuoteA. W. Pink"The God which the vast majority of professing Christians love, is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth. But the Word says,“Thou hatest all workers of iniquity” (Psalm 5:5).And again,“God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psalm 7:11).But men refuse to believe in this God, and gnash their teeth http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/01/indulgent-old-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-2972016273678028763Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:01:00 +00002010-01-02T08:45:43.526-06:00DoctrineIgnatiusI always like to read the early church fathers like Clement of Rome, Polycarp and Ignatius and look for Christian doctrines that were clearly taught in the early church that has been passed down through the ages. In the quote below Ignatius clearly teaches the Incarnation (Jesus is God), The Atonement, the Virgin Birth, Substitution, and a couple subtle hints to the doctrine of Election and the http://bororean.blogspot.com/2010/01/ignatius-doctrines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-7917316919333286071Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:16:00 +00002010-02-07T06:44:43.584-06:00Sovereignty of GodFree WillA. W. Pink"Men imagine that the Most High is moved by sentiment, rather than actuated by principle. They suppose that His omnipotency is such an idle fiction that Satan is thwarting His designs on every side. They think that if He has formed any plan or purpose at all, then it must be like theirs, constantly subject to change. They openly declare that whatever power He possesses must be restricted, lest Hehttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/subject-to-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-4548884685987674465Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:24:00 +00002010-02-07T06:44:43.585-06:00Ordo SalutisSovereignty of GodFree WillCalvinismGraceA. W. Pink"God’s way of salvation is too humbling to suit the carnal mind, for it removes all ground for boasting. It is therefore unacceptable to the proud heart of the unregenerate.Man wants to have a hand in his salvation. To be told that God will receive nought from him, that salvation is solely a matter of Divine mercy, that eternal life is only for those who come empty-handed to receive it solely as http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/beggar-in-dust.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-3944010164604537686Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:18:00 +00002009-12-25T13:32:46.273-06:00Seeker InsensitiveA. W. Pink"The chief trouble is that so much that passes for faith today is really only maudlin sentimentality. The faith of Christendom in this twentieth century is mere credulity, and the “god” of many of our churches is not the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but a mere figment of the imagination. Modern theology has invented a “god” which the finite mind can understand, whose ways are pleasing to the http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/chief-trouble.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-513710866772283085Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:06:00 +00002009-12-24T18:09:23.257-06:00idolatryDevotionalA. W. Pink"The ungodly are ever seeking after joy, but they do not find it: they busy and weary themselves in the pursuit of it, yet all in vain. Their hearts being turned from the Lord, they look downward for joy, where it is not; rejecting the substance, they diligently run after the shadow, only to be mocked by it. It is the sovereign decree of heaven that nothing can make sinners truly happy but God inhttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/running-after-shadows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-7701664396806076901Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:10:00 +00002009-12-19T15:15:30.130-06:00PrayerLuther"When thou prayest let thy words be few, but thy thoughts and affections many, and above all let them be profound. The less thou speakest the better thou prayest.... External and bodily prayer is that buzzing of the lips, that outside babble that is gone through without any attention, and which strikes the ears of men; but prayer in spirit and in truth is the inward desire, the motions, the sighshttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/buzzing-of-lips.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-600258288925174668Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:45:00 +00002009-12-15T18:51:39.734-06:00Sovereignty of GodSeeker InsensitiveCalvinismDoctrineA. W. Pink"O that the modern evangelist would faithfully press upon his unsaved hearers their utter powerlessness to turn unto God of themselves, and their inability to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior until a miracle of Divine grace has been wrought in them. The Lord Jesus (our Exemplar) did not hesitate to plainly say to a promiscuous crowd,“No man can come to me, except the Father which sent me http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/faithfully-press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-4845886920827564288Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:52:00 +00002009-12-09T16:55:12.266-06:00GraceA. W. Pink"Love to God, however sincere and transcendent, is not all there is in the Christian’s heart: there are also powerful impulses which lust after ungodly things, and compete for his affections. Hence his urgent need of crying, “Unite my heart to fear thy name” (Psalm 86:11). Yet the very fact that the Christian is constrained to so cry, that he is acutely conscious of the feebleness of his love, ishttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/love-to-god.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-3574379823379875638Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:38:00 +00002009-12-08T19:40:06.568-06:00R.C. SproulQuote"Without a clear understanding of sola fide and the doctrine of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness, you do not have the gospel or gospel unity (1 Cor. 1:17; 2 Cor. 5:21)." —R. C. Sproulhttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/quote-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-8168621772244681961Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:01:00 +00002009-12-04T23:04:59.193-06:00Movements or FadsQuoteA. W. Pink"Do you imagine that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to worldlings and telling them that they “may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their personal Savior” while they are wedded to their idols and their hearts are still in love with sin? If I do so, I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel, insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness." —A. W. http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/12/imagine-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-1355341591590908756Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:33:00 +00002009-11-30T20:40:39.767-06:00A. W. Pink"It is generally recognized that spirituality is at a low ebb in Christendom and not a few perceive that sound doctrine is rapidly on the wane, yet many of the Lord’s people take comfort from supposing that the Gospel is still being widely preached and that large numbers are being saved thereby.Alas, their optimistic supposition is ill-founded and sandy grounded. If the “message” now being http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/cheap-jack-evangelists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-8873666717137349980Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:01:00 +00002009-11-29T15:06:39.596-06:00Lost HymnsGOD OF GRACE GOD OF LOVEShow pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive,Let a repenting rebel live:Are not Thy mercies large and free?May not a sinner trust in Thee?My crimes are great, but don't surpassThe power and glory of Thy grace:Great God, Thy nature hath no bound,So let Thy pardoning love be found.God of grace! God of love!O have mercy on a wand’ring heart like mineSon of Man! Son of God!Keep me turninghttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/lost-hymns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-8786030341373605532Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:43:00 +00002009-11-19T12:45:58.807-06:00A. W. Pink“The design of every false scheme and system of religion is to depict the character of God in such a way that it is agreeable to the tastes of the carnal heart, acceptable to depraved human nature. And that can only be done by a species of misrepresentation: the ignoring of those of His prerogatives and perfections which are objectionable, and the disproportionate emphasizing of those of His http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/unknown-god.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-999765595162889228Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:59:00 +00002009-11-16T19:03:52.211-06:00C.H. SpurgeonEmergent Church"A new age this, when falsehood and truth can kiss each other! New times these when fire and water can become friendly! Glorious times these when there is an alliance between hell and heaven, though God knows, we are of vastly different families. Ah! now, who cares for truth except a few narrow-minded bigots as they are called. Election—horrible! Predestination—awful! Final perseverance—desperatehttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/path-of-error.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-472919877008783037Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:03:00 +00002009-11-14T12:06:43.264-06:00Seeker InsensitiveA. W. Pink"There are multitudes in Christendom to-day deluded with the idea that a mere historical faith in the Gospel ensures their reaching Heaven: who verily suppose they have “received Christ as their personal Savior” simply because they believe that He died on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for the sins of all those who repudiate their own righteousness and trust in Him. They imagine that if under http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/satans-chloroform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-949059541065818540Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:17:00 +00002009-11-11T16:19:37.874-06:00Seeker InsensitiveQuoteLocal"The new gospel is all about what we need to do for God in order for us to be happy, not what he has done for us so that we can be holy." —Dr. David Harrellhttp://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/quote-of-day_11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-3498015194105841410Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:04:00 +00002009-11-08T15:07:04.494-06:00Ordo SalutisMovements or FadsA. W. Pink"It is now almost universally supposed that saving faith is nothing more than an act of the human will, which any man is capable of performing: all that is needed is to bring before a sinner a few verses of Scripture which describe his lost condition, one or two which contain the word “believe,” and then a little persuasion, for him to “accept Christ,” and the thing is done. And the awful thing http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/devils-drug.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-7450021252834158205Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:01:00 +00002009-11-07T08:10:19.968-06:00Sovereignty of GodGraceA. W. PinkSalvation is God’s sovereign work. “God does not save a man because he is a sinner, for if so He must save all men, for all are sinners. Nor because he comes to Christ, for ‘no man can come except the Father draw him;’ nor because he repents, for ‘God gives repentance unto life;’ nor because he believes,’ for no one can believe ‘except it were given him from above;’ nor yet because he holds out http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/ground-of-grace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33843862.post-4164882950032537984Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:55:00 +00002009-11-05T20:01:41.426-06:00A. W. Pink"Many... are willing for Christ to save them from hell, but are not willing for Him to save them from self. They want to be delivered from the wrath to come, but they wish to retain their self-will and self-pleasing. But He will not be dictated unto: you must be saved on His terms, or not at all. When Christ saves, He saves from sin—from its power and pollution, and therefore from its guilt. And http://bororean.blogspot.com/2009/11/real-men-love-pink.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Bororean)0