Good Reads: July 22, 2008

We must be con­stant wor­ship­pers — The Rebe­lu­tion

 

Which God do you wor­ship? –Part 8:  The Desert Pas­tor

 

“The doc­trine of irre­sistible grace is eas­ily under­stood. Once we under­stand the con­di­tion of man in sin, that he is dead, enslaved to a cor­rupt nature, inca­pable of doing what is pleas­ing to God, we can fully under­stand the sim­ple asser­tion that God must raise the dead sin­ner to life. That is all, really, the phrase means: it has noth­ing to do with sin­ners rebelling against God and ‘resist­ing’ Him in that way. It has noth­ing to do with the fact that Chris­tians often resist God’s grace in their lives when they sin against Him. No, irre­sistible grace means one thing: God raises dead sin­ners to life.”
–James R. White, The Potter’s Free­dom

 

The gospel of Satan is not a sys­tem of rev­o­lu­tion­ary prin­ci­ples, nor yet a pro­gram of anar­chy. It does not pro­mote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daugh­ter nor the father against his son, but fos­ters the fra­ter­nal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great “broth­er­hood.” It does not seek to drag down the nat­ural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advo­cates edu­ca­tion and cul­ti­va­tion and appeals to “the best that is within — It aims to make this world such a com­fort­able and con­ge­nial habi­tat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed. It endeav­ors to occupy man so much with this world that he has no time or incli­na­tion to think of the world to come. It prop­a­gates the prin­ci­ples of self-sacrifice, char­ity and benev­o­lence, and teaches us to live for the good of oth­ers, and to be kind to all. It appeals strongly to the car­nal mind and is pop­u­lar with the masses, because it ignores the solemn facts that by nature man is a fallen crea­ture, alien­ated from the life of God, and dead in tres­passes and sins, and that his only hope lies in being born again.

 

In con­tradis­tinc­tion to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches sal­va­tion by works. It incul­cates jus­ti­fi­ca­tion before God on the ground of human mer­its. Its sacra­men­tal phrase is “Be good and do good”; but it fails to rec­og­nize that in the flesh there dwelleth no good thing. It announces sal­va­tion by char­ac­ter, which reverses the order of God’s Word — char­ac­ter by, as the fruit of, sal­va­tion. Its var­i­ous ram­i­fi­ca­tions and orga­ni­za­tions are man­i­fold. Tem­per­ance, Reform Move­ments, “Chris­t­ian Social­ist Leagues,” Eth­i­cal Cul­ture Soci­eties, “Peace Con­gresses” are all employed (per­haps uncon­sciously) in pro­claim­ing this gospel of Satan — sal­va­tion by works.” —A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)

 

Taken from Another Gospel by A.W. Pink

 

HT: The Bororean

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Good Reads: July 3, 2008

Half pills of poi­son? — The Desert Pas­tor

Reformed The­ol­ogy in One Verse — Sym­phony of Scrip­ture

What is Sal­va­tion? — Of First Impor­tance

 

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