Federal Theology Is Good News For Sinners
Paul calls Christ the “last” Adam (1 Cor 15:45). So, we know that there was a definite link between the two. In Romans 5:12–21 Paul intentionally wants us to think of Adam and Christ as fulfilling...
View ArticleSproul: A Justified Person Is Always A Changed Person But That Change Is No...
A justified person is always a changed person. A justified person differs from an unjustified person in critical ways. A justified person is a believing person; an unjustified person is an unbelieving...
View ArticlePerkins: The Remedy For Our Need Is To Be Clothed With Christ
For the King of heaven has long invited us to the marriage of His Son. We have yielded ourselves to be His guests. And there is a time when the King will take a survey of all His guests, whether they...
View ArticleRomans 6:14, 7:14, And 8:14 Are All True Of The Christian At The Same Time:...
Bob Godfrey preached from Romans 6 recently and his message inspired me to look again at the relationship between chapters 6, 7, and 8. As I reconsider those chapters (focusing on ch. 7 as the nexus...
View ArticleOlevianus: Good Works Contribute Nothing To Our Justification But They Do...
170 Q. You are not saying, then, that good works are useless? Continue reading →
View ArticleYes, A Pope Will Occasionally Speak About Justification By Grace And Faith
The Bishop of Rome apparently made noises about justification by grace through faith and some evangelicals are excited as if this marks a change in Roman doctrine or in the bishop’s thinking. It does...
View ArticleLuther: Before The Fall We Had No Need Of Christ
Before the Fall, Adam did not need Christ, for he was righteous by his own nature, through the law of perfect nature he loved the law. But after the Fall all need Christ. Martin Luther | The...
View ArticleLuther: Find A Church Where This Is Preached Weekly
Therefore, whoever is justified is still a sinner; and yet he is considered fully and perfectly righteous by God who pardons and is merciful. Martin Luther | The Disputation Concerning Justification...
View ArticleOwen: Either We Are Justified Sola Fide Or By An Inherent Righteousness
It is true, that all those who place the formal cause or reason of our justification in ourselves, or our inherent righteousness, and so either directly or by just consequence, deny all imputation of...
View ArticleOwen: We Are Sanctified Because We Are Justified But We Are Not Justified...
Now, to be justified is to be freed from the guilt of sin, or to have all our sins pardoned, and to have a righteousness wherewith to appear before God, so as to be accepted with him, and a right to...
View ArticleJohn Piper, Future Grace: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God, rev....
Pastor John Piper is well-known for his role in sparking the “young, restless, and Reformed” movement, mainly through his emphases on God’s sovereignty and serious expository preaching. There are no...
View ArticleHeidelcast 194: What Must A Christian Believe? (11) On Christ’s Obedience And...
In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the fourth article: “suffered under Pontius, Pilate, crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell.” In this episode...
View ArticleThey Are Still At It
People assume (as I once did) that since the Martin Luther (1483–1546) first protested the abuse of indulgences, in 1517, that Rome must have been shamed into ending the practice. She was not. The sale...
View ArticleOn Whose Record Will You Stand?
Just pause and think of what it meant for the Lord Jesus to obey for us, in our place. For thirty years he never once said or did anything wrong. More than that, at every single moment he positively...
View ArticleHeidelcast 202—What Must A Christian Believe? (19): The Forgiveness Of Sins (1)
This is episode 19 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the tenth article, “the forgiveness of sins.” That phrase...
View ArticleWilliam Perkins On Justification
Perkins objected to Rome’s sacrifice of the Mass. For Perkins, this doctrine was attached to erroneous views of Christology, Christ’s propitiatory suffering unto death, and in turn the doctrine of...
View ArticleWilliam Perkins On Justification (2)
In connection with Trent and Bellarmine’s stance on purgatory and the sacrifice of the Mass was Rome’s doctrine of a second justification. Bellarmine’s Scriptural basis for a second justification was...
View ArticleHeidelcast 204—What Must A Christian Believe? (20): The Forgiveness Of Sins (2)
This is episode 20 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the tenth article, “the forgiveness of sins.” The truth...
View ArticleHeidelcast 205—What Must A Christian Believe? (21): The Forgiveness Of Sins (3)
This is episode 21 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we are completing our brief study of the tenth article, “the forgiveness...
View ArticleOwen: The Loss Of Justification Sola Fide Leads To Rome Or Atheism
I shall take the boldness, therefore, to say, whoever be offended by it, that if we lose the ancient doctrine of justification through faith in the blood of Christ, and the imputation of his...
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