Either a man believes that he is worthy to stand before God based on something within himself OR he rejects any hope in himself and casts his faith upon the total sufficiency of Christ.
Salvation, in a nutshell, really boils down to this.
Continue reading “The Uncertain Evangelical Gospel: Conclusion – The Total Sufficiency of Christ”
Job is one of my favorite books of the Bible.
It’s also, possibly, one of the most ancient of all the books of the Bible.
While it contains many vital messages, one of those lessons has become especially precious to me.
It has to do with what was really going on in Job’s life at that time. And what God was trying to accomplish, for Job’s eternal benefit, by allowing him to suffer as he did.
At the core of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism today, is an absence of the Cross.
It’s not an absence of preaching about the Cross; it’s an absence of the application of the Cross to the inner man.
Which is evidenced by a focus on good works instead of faith in the words of God.
Changes in our lives do not occur based on our own determination, resolve, strength, focus, etc..
They do not occur based on our ability combined with God’s ability.
They occur because the Lord works within us.
He works to create both the desire and the doing of a thing.
All based upon our dependence on Him to do exactly that.
“The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.” (Psalm 145:18)
There is a dangerous error which concerns the traditions of discipline practiced within popular Christianity and within many other religions of the world.
This teaching promotes a false basis for how we approach and commune with God. And for how we may please God.
Continue reading “The Satisfaction of God: Conclusion – What Does It Take?”
In recent posts, we talked about discipline and self denial as commonly practiced within “the church”.
All of these practices are based on a popular presumption about how to please God. Continue reading “The Satisfaction of God”
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