The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah17:9) "The easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true" (Demosthenes). "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves" (Goethe). "Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves" (Rousseau). "Despite their …
Tag: Grace
Trinitarian Redemption!
The result, the development of the rebirth is faith, conversion, sanctification, and also its completion: the presentation before the Father without spot or wrinkle. The Father with his creative power establishes the bond of the covenant, opens the paternal home for his elect children, keeps the inheritance ready for them, and watches over them with …
God’s Sovereign Elective Grace !
Rev. George Ophoff (1891-1962) was one of the founding fathers of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America. In 1922, he was ordained into the ministry of the Word and became the first pastor of Hope Christian Reformed Church (later Hope Protestant Reformed Church) in Walker, Michigan, where he served for 7 years. In 1925 he …
Sovereign, Saving Grace!
"Because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam" (1Kings 14:13) Such was the testimony which the Lord gave by his prophet of young Abijah, the son of wicked Jeroboam. The father was branded even to a proverb, for his abominable wickedness. Behold, the …
Slavery! (That Was Then, Not Now)
I was preaching a short time ago in the city of Nottingham in England, here in the United Kingdom. A man who obviously disagreed with the Bible but had a more than usual knowledge of the Scriptures questioned me. He finished by saying, "I suppose then you agree with slavery as well," quoting a verse …
Preaching in the City of Cambridge!
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Evolution is a Lie!
Evolution is a lie, Some people they ask me, why; Science, science is what I hear them cry, But even this they do, not knowing why. Science's good, a conceptual tool, But not for truth an absolute rule; Your reasoning can be wrong, totally fail, Even lead you down to hell. Truth is eternal, …
