When a nation's religion is false, it is not only on the path to destruction, it is dead. The nation that has the Lord for its God, is a nation that is alive, that flourishes, prospers. I attended a lecture at Keele University in Staffordshire some time ago. The lecturer was discoursing on Middle Eastern …
No Such Thing as Popular Christianity!
John Calvin did not want to return to Geneva, he and his confederate, William Farrell, were thrown out of Geneva and John Calvin had found a lovely, comfortable place in Strasbourg. He loved the place, he had found a congregation that loved him and loved his ministry. He had time to write his books, to …
Antinomianism is Legalism!
Antinomianism means against the Law. It sees God's Law as a real enemy, legalism is, paradoxically, a type of antinomianism. It proposes that since the believer is saved by grace alone, he must henceforth have no dealings with the moral Law. The age of the Spirit, it is said, has superseded the age of the …
The Preaching of Christ & the Apostles!
Before you would discount Calvin's teaching on the Law, for a New Covenant attitude as they call it today, grace, do remember that threaded throughout our Lord Jesus Christ's preaching, is the theme of the Law. It is embedded in his ministry. If your right eye offends you, he says, pluck it out. That is …
Educating the Christian!
The pattern for the Believer's Life. The Law, the divine Law, not only reveals the character of God, it not only reveals his holiness and righteousness, but it also reveals and sets forth his will, his just and righteous demands for all of his people, for the elect. It admonishes the Christian, those in whose …
The State: A Power for Good or Evil
The state is responsible to God for all that it does, it is accountable to God. As the apostle John informs us in Revelation, as he peers into the future prophetically, he says that in that last and great day, he sees the great and the small, all of them standing before God and with …
The Political Purpose of the Law!
We read in Proverbs that where there is no vision, the revelation of the Law that is, the people perish, they cast off all restraint that is. We understand this to mean that where there is no revelation of the divine Law, where there is no exposition, where there is no preaching of the divine …
