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Warrior Princess 4 Yeshua

Morning & Evening

The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He should be distinguished from it in the great object of his life. To him, “to live,” should be “Christ.” Whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he should do all to God’s glory. You may lay up treasure; but…

September 11, 2023
Justification By Faith Alone (Part 11)

Jonathan Edwards SECTION 4Answering Objections (Cont’d) Matthew 12:37, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” It cannot be meant that men are accepted before God on the account of their words. God has told us nothing more plainly than that He looks at the heart. When…

September 10, 2023
Justification By Faith Alone (Part 10)

Jonathan Edwards SECTION 4Answering Objections (Cont’d) PAUL CONFIRMS JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE The apostle Paul, in Romans 4, confirms the doctrine of justification by faith alone. When sin is rightfully confessed to God, there is always faith in that act. Confessing sin joined with despair, as did Judas, is not the confession for which the…

September 10, 2023
Justification By Faith Alone (Part 9)

Jonathan Edwards SECTION 4Answering Objections (Cont’d) THE FOUNDATION OF FIRST ACCEPTANCE There is a vast difference between this doctrine of justification by faith alone, and what is supposed in the scheme of those who oppose it. The true doctrine lays the foundation of first acceptance with God and all actual salvation consequent upon it, wholly…

September 10, 2023
Justification By Faith Alone (Part 8)

Jonathan Edwards PERSEVERANCE AFTER JUSTIFICATION (Cont’d) SECTION 4Answering Objections THE FIRST OBJECTION: We frequently find promises of eternal life and salvation (and sometimes of justification itself) suggested as a reward for virtue and obedience. Eternal life is promised to obedience. Romans 2:7, “To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory, honor,…

September 10, 2023
Jutification By Faith Alone (Part 7)

Jonathan Edwards CHRIST’S DEATH: ATONEMENT AND REDEMPTION (Cont’d) 3. I proceed now to the third and last assertion of this argument. I will show that this doctrine of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness is utterly inconsistent with the doctrine of our being justified by our own virtue or sincere obedience. If God’s favor and a…

September 10, 2023
MAJESTY

Amazing Grace Words and Music by Jack Hayford, 1934– O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1) There are many attributes of the Lord that should prompt our response of adoration and worship: His holiness, His power, His love … A very popular contemporary song by the Rev.…

September 10, 2023
Morning & Evening

Here was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume, because they are not called to the highest places in the ministry; but reader be it thine to rejoice that Jesus calleth whom he wills. If he shall leave me to be a doorkeeper in his house, I will cheerfully bless him for his grace in…

September 10, 2023
Justified By Faith Alone (Part 6)

Jonathan Edwards PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE LAWS OF GOD (Cont’d) To suppose that the only thing Christ does is to make atonement for us by suffering is to make Him our Savior, but only partially. It robs Him of half His glory as Savior. If so, all that He does is deliver us from hell;…

September 9, 2023
Justified By Faith Alone (Part 5)

Jonathan Edwards ABSURDITY! (Cont’d) THIRD ARGUMENT: To suppose that we are justified by our own sincere obedience or any of our own virtue or goodness is to deny the gospel grace. We must reject any scheme of justification that manifestly diminishes the grace of God, because it is the declared design of God in the…

September 9, 2023