Self-justification is the deepest impulse in the fallen human heart. We might sincerely agree with the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone. But deep in our hearts, it isn’t that simple, is it? Gerhard Forde helps us see ourselves: The problem lies in the fact that the Old Being will not and cannot hear…
1. Regeneration is an instantaneous change. a. Eph. 2:5 συνεζωοποίησεν , Aorist (punctiliar) “God…made us alive with Christ.” b. Acts 16:14 διήνοιξεν , Aorist (punctiliar) “opened her heart.” 2. Regeneration is a supernatural change. a. It is the implanting of new life. Eph. 2:1, 5; Col. 2:13, Rom. 8:7-8. b. This new life affects the…
This chart summarizes the six “counterfeit gospels” that Trevin Wax refutes in Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope (Chicago: Moody, 2011), 210:
So when Ephesians 1:6 says that the entire drama in the entire theater of God has this one great end—“the praise of the glory of the grace of God” through Christ and in the Beloved—he means that the historical work of Christ reveals the glory of God’s grace as our all-sufficient purchase, and the eternal…
Because God is sovereign over the future, he alone is capable of giving prophetic insight into the future. In great mercy he did this for his people in the Old Testament. He detailed for them who was coming to save them, how he would come, where he would come, when he would come, and why…
