Great Sermon! Amen..! Thank you for this wonderful message of assurance! Be sure to hear this one! Yes, Our Eternal Salvation is of the Lord...Jonah 2:9
Great lesson. By creation, God inscribed the natural law on the hearts of all men, but the fall in sin obscured this law, so God had to reveal by special revelation the inscriptured moral Law. Jeremiah 31 promises that God will write the essence of His Law in the hearts of all His people. 2 Cor. 3:3 attests that this is fulfilled. Excellent message, good biblical argumentation.
God likes public worship. Excellent message on Calvin on public worship, on what the Scripture says about public worship. I liked especially that part in which the preacher argues that public worship has a priority in God's mind over private worship. Excellent are the arguments from Psalms and the New Testament. Very instructive message!
Theocentrism. A Theocentric perspective on universe and life: God is the source of all things and the preserver of all things. God seeks His glory in all what He does in universe. Our lives should revolve around this thing also: to live and to do all things for His glory.
Great Sermon! This message was so evidently preached by the power of the Holy Spirit. I appreciate all the Scripture used for the glory of God and the good of His people!! One of my favorite sermons. I pray the Lord will help me to recall this when I am in the valley. Thank you!!!
Useful. Calvin's approach of Antinomianism applied to today's currents of Antinomianism. Good definition of Antinomianism, presentation of the two different types of it and signs to recognize Antinomian teachings today, and a refutation of these.
Relevant As a secondary comment, we must be cautious about comparing Zionism and the modern Secular State of Israel, carved out by force, not gracious convincing, upon decree of the anti-Christian UN, by the persuasion of atheistical Jews. *Strict Orthodox Rabbis* do not support Zionism, but protest against it, saying Zionists are disobedient to God, and are not "Torah Jews"! http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
The Zionist state is more an evidence of Anti-Christ than of a revival to belief in Christ. It is Scofieldism and Dispensationalism that supported Zionism, not reformed or Biblical Christianity.
The Puritans like Owen spoke very sharply against Jewish hard-heartedness and their false religion of the Mishna .
Important Message! The sobering, even frightening thought, following Paul's teaching in Romans, about the "grafting in of the wild olive branch" (the Gentiles), is his continuation, from which the speaker draws: "Be not high minded (you Gentiles), for if God spared not the natural branch, neither will he spare you...for God is able to graft them in again" (the Jews). And scripture speaks of "until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled", implying that God will cut off and close the door (likely dramatically as he did with the Jews in 70 AD), as Gentile churches apostatize, and en-graft the Jews again! ARE WE AT THAT POINT NOW? ARE THE GENTILES DONE? Look at the churches condition (since the "downgrade" a century ago), and fear! The Pharisees would not accept Christ's rebuke, thinking their religious heritage made them righteous, "we are the seed of Abraham". "Behold the goodness and severity of God"!
Great Sermon! There is so much going on in this sermon its hard to take it all in at one go. Its full of gold and well worth the dig!
God speed pastor Joel.
Source of encouraging 'old poet' quote As is usual with Rev. Watts, this was an excellent message!
Near the end of the message, Rev. Watts says:
The old poet said,
"Not one shaft of ill can hit,
'til the God of love sees fit.
'ere he bids,
I cannot die."
My family and I wondered where this quote came from, so I did an Internet search. I found somewhat different variations of it in A.W. Pink's "Life of David", Pink's "Sovereignty of God" (which related it to Psalm 91), C.H. Spurgeon's "Treasury of David" (in the section on Psalm 118), and a sermon on Philippians 4 byRev. Geoff Thomas' (Alfred Place Baptist Church, Aberystwyth).
It looks like the original source is likely a hymn by England's John Ryland, which begins "Sovereign Ruler of the skies!" and seems quoted most fully at http://www.muskogee007.com/ryland.htm.
Great Sermon! The greatest love of all. Warm your heart in the contemplation of the perfect, infinite love of the One who loved us and gave Himself for us in Malcolm Watts sermon meditation on John 15:13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.