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 9/17/2023 5:42 PM |
| M. Wagner | | Alberta, Canada | |  |  |
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“ Divine revelation is essential ”
In explaining that you can't get to God by reason apart from divine revelation, Dr. Morecraft quotes from Robert Candlish's commentary of Genesis: "When I draw inferences for myself concerning the Author of creation,—when I reason out from His works the fact of His existence, and the chief attributes of His character,—I am conscious of a certain feeling of superiority. The Deity becomes almost, in a certain sense, my creature,—the product of my own elaborated process of thought. I am occupied more with my own reasonings than with the transcendent excellences of Him of whom I reason. . . . The God whom I discover is like the dead abstract truth to which a train of demonstration leads. I myself alone have a distinct personality;—all else is little more than the working of my brain on its own imaginations. . . . But now, God speaks, and I am dumb. He opens His mouth, and I hold my peace. I bid my busy, speculative soul be quiet. I take my station humbly, submissively at His feet. I learn of Him. And what He tells me now, in the way of direct personal communication from Himself to me, has a weight and vivid reality infinitely surpassing all that any mere deductions from the closest reasoning could ever have." |
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| 7/2/2023 5:35 PM |
| M. Wagner | | Alberta, Canada | | | |
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“ The failure of the church ”
Dr. Morecraft explains that the spiritual condition of the church determines the political, economic, social and international condition of the nation in which that church lives. If the president or ruling party changes but the church doesn't change, nothing is going to get any better. Things are going to get worse. What is necessary to get a culture out of decline? A church that is being revived by the Holy Spirit of God, and a culture where God is rooting out and removing the alloy from places of power and influence. The reason the anti-Christians, pro-abortionists, supporters of homosexual marriage, and other leftists are out there controlling the media, politics, education and all the rest, is because of the failure of the church. Because the church has not been what she should be, those are out there harassing us as God's judgment on us. The church needs to repent for being backslidden and disregarding the law of God. When Christians truly repent, God will start changing the church and the nation will be restored. |
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| 6/25/2023 5:53 PM |
| M. Wagner | | Alberta, Canada | | | |
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“ What can the righteous do? ”
The question of Psalm 11:3, “If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?” is asked of David by his cowardly, escapist friends. David's cowardly friends are saying that once the pillars of society have fallen, the righteous can't do anything except run away. But they were wrong. As Dr. Morecraft explains, the biblical answer to the question, “If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?” is "a lot!" During times of national decline, there's much the righteous man can do and must do in the power of God. For America in the early days, those foundations were faith in God, and submission to God's law contained in the Bible. The righteous can stand on God's revelation of Himself and His will for men and nations in the Bible. He can keep on being righteous in life and work to rebuild the foundations until he sees God restore those foundations and frustrate the effort of those warring against Him. A faithful man with God's help can stop evil forces dead in their tracks and recover the day. The righteous man must rebuild the foundations; give all his life, resources, and energy to the restoring of those foundations with the help of God. |
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| 4/9/2023 5:23 PM |
| M. Wagner | | Alberta, Canada | | | |
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“ To love God's name ”
In one part of this sermon, Dr. Morecraft quotes from William Plumer's Studies in the Book of Psalms to explain what it means to love God's name: "To love God's name is to love him and all, by which he has made himself known. All the righteous have this love. All of them think upon God's name, cherish it, glory in it. To hear it lightly spoken of gives them pain. To hear it blasphemed shocks their sensibilities. But when it is honored, extolled, praised, they are happy. They delight in God's name, titles, attributes, works, word, worship, ordinances, and people." |
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| 3/12/2023 5:16 PM |
| M. Wagner | | Alberta, Canada | | | |
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“ Pray like David prayed ”
Dr. Morecraft explains that the most powerful way of praying is to pray like David prayed. First, turn revealed truths about God into loving adoration of God. Adore God, that is, tell God things about Himself that you love. Take what God has revealed about Himself in the Bible and turn that into loving adoration of God. Secondly, take the covenant promises of God and turn them into petitions to God to do what He promised. This kind of praying (of turning revealed truths about God into loving adoration of Him, and turning covenant promises into petitions to Him) only flows out of a life of repentance, faith, covenant faithfulness, life in the Word of God, and hope. |
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