Posted in A Call to the Unconverted, Hard Sayings of the Bible, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged Christ, deuteronomy, devotion, faith, hebrews, holiness, law, obedience, pursuit, repentence, sanctification, shema, violence on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
As I was reading the first two verses of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) in Hebrew yesterday morning, I was struck by the last word used in verse 5. The following is the Hebrew [...]
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Posted in Hard Sayings of the Bible, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged apostasy, covenant, deuteronomy, double entendre, hebrews, john owen, judge, judgment, moses, new covenant, song of moses, vindicate, vindication, warning on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hebrews 10:30 as a Double Entendre:
Vindication through Judgment
…The Lord knows those who are His… (Numbers 16:5, LXX)
The word of exhortation[1] given throughout the book of Hebrews is a call to persevere by remaining steadfast and faithful amidst the various temptations to fall away and turn back to Jewish practices that have found both [...]
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I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
We live in a time of tension as believers–the tension of the already/not yet. When Christ appeared, the future eschaton broke into the present (cf. Heb 1:2 - ἐσχάτου τῶν ἡμερῶν ["last days"]), yet not fully . That [...]
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Posted in A Call to the Unconverted, Hard Sayings of the Bible, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, The 21st Century Church, tagged christian, Christianity, hypocrisy, judge, judge not, judgement, judging, judgmental, matthew 7, moral relativism, sermon on the mount on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Judge not, that you be not judged. – Matthew 7:1
While John 3:16 has probably been the most often quoted passage historically, Matthew 7:1 is a close second. This passage is one of the most misunderstood and misused passages in the NT. Consider the following dialog between a Christian and non-Christian, or even between two Christians:
Person [...]
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Posted in Hard Sayings of the Bible, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged God, gospel of matthew, Jesus, mammon, master, material, materialism, matthew 6:24, riches, serve, slave, Wealth on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we read Matthew 6:24, we must ask ourself: who is your master?
Greek: Οὐδεὶς δύναται δυσὶ κυρίοις δουλεύειν· ἢ γὰρ τὸν ἕνα μισήσει καὶ τὸν ἕτερον ἀγαπήσει, ἢ ἑνὸς ἀνθέξεται καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου καταφρονήσει. οὐ δύνασθε θεῷ δουλεύειν καὶ μαμωνᾷ.
Transliteration: oudeis dunatai dusi kurious douleuein e gar ton hena misesei kai ton heteron agapesei, e [...]
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Posted in A Call to the Unconverted, Hard Sayings of the Bible, Puritan Pensées, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged conversion, corinthians, examine, faith, hebrews, repentance, sanctification on December 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test? But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. (2 Cor. 13:5-6)
Herein we see the Apostle calling on the Corinthian people [...]
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My pastor, Ron Steel, delivered a powerful and timely sermon this past Sunday morning on having a Biblical perspective on wealth, possessions, and stewardship. I highly recommend it. Click here to listen.
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Imprecatory prayers are prayed to curse one’s enemies. The Book of Psalms contain many imprecatory psalms (7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69, 79, 109, 137 and 139). For example, some verses from these imprecatory are:
Psalm 55:15 - Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the grave.
Psalm 58:6 - O God, break [...]
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Posted in Hard Sayings of the Bible, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, The 21st Century Church, tagged bible, diakonos, doulos, esv, john macarthur, servant, slave, slavery on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The finest NT Greek scholars all say that the Greek word “doulos” always means slave. It never means servant, bond-servant, or anything else. The Greek word group that doulos is a part of only ever means slave. However, you will notice that in almost every Bible translation, you will either see “servant” or “bond-servant” instead of [...]
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Hebrews 6 and 10 contain two of the most sobering warnings in all of Scripture. In this first post, I want to look at Hebrews 6:4-6 and tackle some of the questions that come up concerning this text, along with the various interpretations and views of this text. I would like to then conclude with what [...]
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Thoughts of Francis Turretin
