The Crown and Glory of Christianity. {*style:<b> HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness </b>*} Thomas Brooks, 1662 I come now, in the next place, to answer those which usually are made against men's pursuing after holiness. As, First, We have no power to make ourselves holy. We are as well able to make a world, to command the winds, and to raise the dead—as we are able to cleanse our own hearts, or change our own natures, or sanctify our own souls.
First, That you have no power to perform any supernatural act—such as to believe or love God, or repent, or to change your own heart, or to sanctify or make yourself holy—must be granted. I have read of the lioness—that she brings forth her whelps dead, and so they remain, until, by her roaring loudly over them, they come to live. In respect of , and therefore his works are called dead works, Heb. 9:14. He is dead in respect of ; he is dead to all privileges, he is not fit to inherit mercy. God commanded to go and deliver his people out of Egypt. John Newton.
Grace Audio Treasures. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. {*style:<b> </b>*} "I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars. And have borne, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, and have not fainted. "—Revelation 2:2,3. 'CHRIST did not please Himself' (Romans 15:3). Yet if any one were entitled to please Himself, it was the Son of the Blessed, the Son of the Highest. PAUL did not please himself. What do we say to our self-indulgence, our sloth, our love of ease, our avoidance of hardship, our luxury our pampering of the body, our costly feasts, our silken couches, our brilliant furniture, our gay clothing, our braided hair, our jeweled fingers, our idle mirth, our voluptuous music, our jovial tables, loaded with every variety of wine and rich viands?
'At ease in Zion! ' 'At ease in Zion! ' Not the form or name, but the living thing. "Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because . " FALSE DOCTRINES AND FALSE TEACHERS. 1865. Facebook. Reconciliation by Death. 'Take Heed' Ministries Audio.
Welcome to Twin City Fellowship. Don carson. REGENERATION by J.I. Packer. REGENERATION THE CHRISTIAN IS BORN AGAIN by J.I. Packer In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” JOHN 3:3 Regeneration is a New Testament concept that grew, it seems, out of a parabolic picture-phrase that Jesus used to show Nicodemus the inwardness and depth of the change that even religious Jews must undergo if they were ever to see and enter the kingdom of God, and so have eternal life (John 3:3-15). The concept is of God renovating the heart, the core of a person’s being, by implanting a new principle of desire, purpose, and action, a dispositional dynamic that finds expression in positive response to the gospel and its Christ. Elsewhere John teaches that belief in the Incarnation and Atonement, with faith and love, holiness and righteousness, is the fruit and proof that one is born of God (1 John 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1, 4).
Regeneration is monergistic: that is, entirely the work of God the Holy Spirit. Sin/pink.