THREE THINGS WHICH CANNOT BE DIVORCED There are three things in our whole understanding of the gospel that absolutely cannot be divorced: namely, the intention of God and the accomplishment of his work, secondly, the atonement of Christ and the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. Hebrews 9:15 ... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
EXPIATION AND PROPITIATION Expiation simply means the removal, or cleansing, or covering, or canceling of the sin. Propitiation means something more specific. The word for propitiate (hilasko) is used four times in the New Testament in various... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
KING BETWEEN GOD AND MAN (RULE) Just as the offices of prophet and priest belonged to Israel and failed in their calling, so the same can be said of the office of king. For one thing, it was a regress to have gone from the governments of priests and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” 1 TIMOTHY 2:5 Question 20 of the Children’s Catechism asks ‘What is a covenant?’ to which the answer is that “A covenant is an agreement between two... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
CHRISTOLOGY FOLLOWING THE REFORMATION Strangely enough, it was the debate over the Lord’s Supper that caused the sharpest divisions over the doctrine of Christ within the first Reformed community. Luther championed the real presence in the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
SUBORDINATIONISM Authority and submission were not the only issues regarding the economy of the Trinity. Justin Martyr and his disciple Tatian had drawn several analogies to explain the sense in which the logos could be begotten from all eternity... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
