Complete in Thee! no work of mine May take, dear Lord, the place of Thine; Thy blood hath pardon bought for me, And I am now complete in Thee. Refrain: Yea, justified! O blessed thought! And sanctified! Salvation wrought! Thy blood hath pardon bought for me, And glorified, I too, shall be! Complete in Thee! […]
The snowflake floated and fell on my arm. It melted and caused no harm— but a small kiss of cold and wet. I watched as another and more and more fell in designs of glitter and lace. Each one fell into its place. Could this be a picture of grace? “Washed whiter than snow” is […]
The tripartite image of God in man consists of knowledge, righteousness and holiness. Man through the fall irretrievably lost the threefold image. Like a cracked bucket that cannot retain water so was the innate ability of mankind to be image bearers damaged beyond repair like the bucket so that he could no longer bear the […]
In your catechism classes, Young People, you were taught that there are seven different elements in our salvation. First of all, we are by God’s grace caused to be born again, with a new spiritual life. The title of that work of our God is regeneration. In the second place we have a calling out […]
Several years ago, I heard a man could say that God now deals with him say over the radio that for him to say just-as-if-he’d never sinned. There is that he was justified means that he truth in that statement. The result of justification is that God deals with us as though we had never […]
ROMANS 4:1 – 4:25 In order to understand the teaching of the apostle here we must pay due attention to the relationship of this Chapter to the former Chapter, verses 21-31. The relationship is as follows: Man, both Jew and Gentile, is hopelessly lost “under sin.” By the law is the knowledge of […]
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ESTABLISHED This Epistle begins with: I. Introduction (1:1-15) II. Theme (1:16, 17) III. Judgment: The Whole World Condemned (1:18-3:20) A. The Gentiles Under the Wrath of God (1:18-32) B. The Gentiles’ Judgment (2:1-16) C. The Jews’ Judgment (2:17—3:8) D. The World’s Judgment (3:9-20) This chapter’s outline: I. The Argument for […]