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 …
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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 …
No Hiding Place From Sin!
John Calvin said that man when compelled to weigh his life in the scales of the divine Law, is compelled to lay aside that presumptuous, that fictitious self-righteousness and he finds himself a long, long way from holiness. Calvin says he teams with a multitude of vices, while all the time finding himself to be …
The Law’s Pedagogical Purpose!
John Calvin had an extremely high view of revelation, his heart was captivated and he enjoyed a full assurance that divine revelation asserted a final authority in every area of the believer's life. He understood that the divine Law was educational. It showed, revealed the righteousness of God and thereby also reflected the sinfulness of …
The Preservation of Scripture!
Now the majority of Protestant churches concur to a large degree with the once discredited epistemology of papal Rome. The modern textual critics have largely accepted the Roman Catholic view of the impurity of the original language texts of Scripture. Now instead of the Council of Trent asserting that the Latin Vulgate is the authentic …
The Spirit’s Regenerating Work!
It is held by some that by what they call 'the fatherhood of God' in virtue of an alleged unbroken relation formed by creation, and assert that all men, without exception or distinction, belong to the family of God. Children, forsooth, who only disobey and dishonour their Father! No: all men by nature belong to …
The Philippian Jailor!
The Philippian Jailor (Acts 16:25-34) 1. The Earthquake. 2. The Despair. 3. The Outcry. 4. The Preaching. The episode was all of Christ. The earthquake in Scripture is a wonder as we see here. It certainly wasn’t a common event as is evident from the time and place. It took place at the bottom of the …
