Tom Hicks
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I disagree with Allistair Begg’s advice but I will not cancel him. He is a godly man. Also I’m happy to be cancelled over this. 😂😂
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If you’re a conservative Baptist pastor, I would like to invite you and your church to join the Southern Baptist Convention. It’s very easy to do. You don’t have to give much. You can allocate your giving to the best agencies like IMB. Then come and vote with us in Houston.
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Don’t leave the SBC yet. Conservatives have too often abandoned institutions rather than reforming them.
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We do not need the
@ERLC
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My motion will be brought out for debate and vote Wednesday morning at 8:50. Please be in the room.
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My youngest daughter just said trans surgeries are wrong because “You shall not make for yourself a carved image.”
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NAMB and Southeastern Seminary group spent a lot of political capital to stop an amendment merely because it was “unnecessary.” Seems they thought it was absolutely necessary to stop it.
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We really need to recover the Bible’s theology of law and gospel which was recovered and taught by the best of the Reformed tradition.
Law as covenant - Do and live
Gospel as promise - Live
Law as standard - Do
Gospel as covenant - Live and do (evangelical obedience)
And this passes as 'reformed' theology? No surprise to see antinomianism rife in big Eva. This statement denies the gospel contains law & yet our Lord said, "If you love me, you will obey my commandments" & commissioned us to teach the nations "everything I have commanded you."
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There are 5000 people at the
#SBC24
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Theonomy is a problem because it collapses law and gospel at the level of Christ’s kingdom.
It says He saves you & then graciously enables you to build His kingdom by faithful works of obedience.
But the Bible says He gives His kingdom as a free gift received by faith alone.
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The law is good, and the gospel is good.
If you mix them up, blending and confusing them, the result is bad, neither law nor gospel.
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4 dangers of conflating law & gospel:
1. It compromises the holy justice of God.
2. It throws believers back on their own obedience for justification.
3. It robs believers of assurance and consolation in Christ.
4. It robs Christ of receiving all the glory in justification.
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The covenant of grace does not depend on our antecedent obedience. That would turn it into a covenant of works.
Rather the Spirit freely gives every grace of the covenant, every act of obedience, every blessing in Christ. It is grace upon grace, one grace after another.
The covenant is a force multiplier. The covenant multiplies blessing or cursing. The covenant is a greenhouse, and whatever you’re growing grows faster and stronger.
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Moore is clearly shilling for the left. I don’t get it. Is it money? Trump is an immoral man. Who denies it? But to support political prosecutions? To ignore the sexual abuse allegations against Joe Biden by his own daughter and others? This is nothing but politics. Shameful.
The question is what it has always been- fit or unfit. And the answer was obvious all along. Character matters, still.
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@Brian_Sauve
Pastors and churches have no authority to legislate beyond the law of God. This is an authoritarian violation of Christian liberty. I say this as one who agrees that in most cases it’s irresponsible to send children to public schools. 2LCF 21.2
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False dichotomy. You can’t “surrender to the Lordship of Jesus” unless you understand *precisely* what the Lord Jesus teaches and commands.
SBC presidential candidate
@BruceFrank1
says that doctrinal precision will not matter in 100 years but that how many people are led to Jesus through the SBC will matter.
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The Nicene Creed says, "I believe in one baptism for the remission of sins." Do Baptists believe this? Absolutely. It is a direct quotation from Acts 2:38.
“‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.” 1/
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I am teaching my daughters to be strong in truth, to make sound arguments, to be Christian thinkers, and not to back down one inch from what God says. I want them to have backbones of steel when it comes to God’s truth.
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While God often works and saves through families and fathers must faithfully lead and instruct, to teach that *God promises* redemption to our children is not only false but deeply discouraging to faithful families where God chooses not to save all children.
Covenant Theology teaches us that likely the most important thing any of us will ever do is to believe what God says about our children and act like it.
There are two primary mechanisms by which the Kingdom of God grows and expands out like leaven through the lump of the world:
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If the SBC doesn’t approve the Law amendment, my church and others in my local association will seriously consider leaving the SBC or defunding it.
How can we support missions and church planting with people who are constantly pushing for this level of heterodoxy?
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SBC actions today most certainly did not indicate that we stand with biblical truth. Instead 1/3+ voted against an amendment to uphold the clear teaching of the Bible and the BFM among our churches. Grievous day.
Regardless of what you hear in the secular media the Southern Baptist Convention stands with the crystal clear teaching of scripture that the role of pastor is reserved to men only. Our actions of recent years have proved it and our doctrinal confession confirms it.
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This needs to be heard.
“Turn away from every imaginary eschatology that does not emphasize Christian holiness.”
-Joel Beeke
#CovCon24
Tune into the livestream at
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@GMRench
Christ died for the sin of reviling and speaking evil of the brethren. He will forgive you if you go to Him. I have prayed for you.
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So true.
Jordan Peterson Considers Every Possible Meaning Of Bible Story Except That It Might Mean Exactly What It Says
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The kingdom of Christ advances by the gospel in the hand of the Spirit, guided by God’s good law as the rule of life.
The gospel is the wind in our sails to propel us. The law is the rudder to direct us.
The kingdom of Christ does not advance by law.
The kingdom of Christ advances by the gospel.
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Grace does not destroy nature. Common grace stabilizes nature. Redemptive grace perfects it.
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The Reformed doctrine of justification by faith alone is really about the absolute holiness and justice of God.
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Your broken arm is a character flaw. No pain medication for you.
John MacArthur doubles down on mental illness being a noble lie.
Brain disease is pathological. “Mental disorders” are character flaws. Flaws of people who don’t know how to cope with life.
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This is very good. There are two modes of Christ’s kingdom: common and redemptive. Correspondingly, there are two modes of grace: that which is common to all men, and special grace that is redemptive to the elect.
John MacArthur's denial of mental illness harms people. Yet this way of thinking is sadly common in many churches. It is crucial to develop a better response to mental health, with a more robust doctrine of common grace.
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Correct. Christ is King was true before the fall. Christ is Savior is the good news to sinners.
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The establishment of the covenant of works was by grace. The terms of the covenant of works are terms of works, not grace.
God’s sovereign determination of human choices is the ground of their responsibility, not grace. It is why Adam was justly condemned for his sin.
If Adam would have obeyed at the tree, it would have been all by grace.
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In this age, the church is in a state of humiliation, just like Jesus was.
In the age to come, we enter into a state of glory like Jesus.
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Pastors, publicly support Doug Wilson and you’ll be automatically immune to liberals!
Of course you’ll also attract legalists who try to rule their wives, their children and their churches by willful fiat command rather than by God’s law and the gospel. So there’s that.
Aaron Renn's (
@aaron_renn
) newsletter today is a must-read on avoiding Conquest's Second Law (about liberal drift). He mentions Moscow as a good example of a place that imposes a status penalty that helps us to stay on mission. This is part of the function of Doug's blog.
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There’s a difference between having a more Christian America, as we did in the past, and having a Christian prince who makes the final decision on disputed Christian orthodoxy and then imposes it on all the churches.
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You can only believe non-postmillennialists teach “we will lose down here” if you think Christ lost down here.
He lived a life of suffering and was murdered. He rose, and did not subdue the nations, but strengthened His brothers, the church, preparing them to
suffer.
Hot Take on Eschatology and Christian Nationalism:
Eschatology matters for the Christian Nationalism discussion, but not in the way that many (such as MacArthur) think.
The basic duties of political philosophy (the “oughts”) are established by the doctrines of God and man—every
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“The basic principle in application is to know whether the passage is a statement of the law or of the gospel.”
-William Perkins, The Art of Prophesying
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I couldn’t agree more.
It's amazing to me that anyone would actually buy tickets and attend this conference.
It is apparent that the church needs more Law/Gospel, Reformed Two-Kingdoms preaching, not less.
This stuff 👇🏼 is just flat-out unbiblical.
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Baptist political theology isn’t inherently pluralist. Rather it insists that the civil magistrate has no authority to rule with the sword over the church’s doctrine or worship. It also insists that the magistrate do nothing to propel false worshippers into the church.
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This is an excellent booklet about reasons to welcome children with a credible profession of faith to receive baptism, membership and the Lord’s Supper.
NEW Founders Press booklet available!
Forbid Them Not: Rethinking the Baptism and Church Membership of Children and Young People by Ted Christman.
Purchase your copy for $9 today:
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The SBC is under attack from the far Left. This will become clearer in the days ahead. If the SBC falls to the Left or is greatly weakened due to the apathy of conservatives, the whole American church will suffer. They want to divide and conquer the American church. Join us.
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Such good stuff. Ban porn. Come to Christ and live.
What happens when you elect a Christian nationalist pastor like Dusty Deevers to a seat in the Oklahoma state Senate? You get lectured about how pornography is a tool of Satan and must therefore be outlawed so that people "can be set free" and give their lives to Jesus.
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This got me laughing. 😂
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DW is heterodox on the covenant of works.
DW: “The view we reject is that the covenant with Adam must be considered a covenant of works, based on Adam’s merit or demerit....The problem with the first Adam was his unbelief & not an action that brought about raw demerit.”
“I was, am, & will remain a Westminster Puritan.”
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Guilt for breaking God’s law is good. People who long for a dulled conscience toward the law of God are evil. This is antinomianism.
But guilt-driven obedience to the law is equally bad because it’s not real obedience. It’s a loveless outward pretense. This is legalism.
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If you’re a Reformed Baptist pastor, you can retain your Reformed Baptist association in conformity to your confession of faith, and become dually aligned. This could be a way to demonstrate the broad catholic spirit that exists among truly confessional Reformed Baptists.
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Wow. Defund the
@ERLC
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The explosive leak of dozens of pages of Audrey Hale’s manifesto prove that she was motivated by trans ideology and anti-Christian hatred.
@LeatherwoodERLC
used Southern Baptist resources to suppress this information in opposition to freedom of the press.
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The SBC needs to define what it means for a church to be in friendly cooperation.
What do you think of the idea that SBC churches must not reject any doctrine of the BFM to seat messengers? Messengers should sign a form saying that they do not reject any doctrine of the BFM.
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Did the
#SBC24
resolutions committee just find an amendment to support the religious liberty of Christians to say what is in the Bible to be unfriendly?
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How do false teachers mix the gospel into the law? They “graciously” relax the law, making it easy enough for sinners to keep.
How do false teachers mix the law into the gospel? They issue threatening commands to the sinner, telling him to change, and call that the gospel.
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The Hebrew of this passage mostly likely should be translated: “Train up a child in the way *he would go* and when he is old he will not depart from it.” It’s a warning.
When someone makes Proverbs 22:6 out to say:
"Raise up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old—meh, flip a coin. It's all really random. There's no connection between faithfulness and blessing. Proverbs aren't promises, after all."
You should raise an eyebrow.
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This confuses personal conviction on matters of Christian liberty with imposing convictions on others. There is no contradiction btwn practicing conscience and refusing to lord over consciences of others. To impose one’s own arguable convictions on the whole church is divisive.
It's funny how often people say something to the effect of:
"It is almost always really unwise/irresponsible to send your children to the public schools, but to imply that it is sinful is damnable legalism, legislating beyond the law of God."
This borders on formal
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The law is the definition of a true human.
The gospel repairs rebellious & broken humanity in two ways:
First it *reconciles* rebellious humans to God by Christ’s work for us.
Second it *promises* the total repair of reconciled but still broken humans by Christ’s work in us.
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While the Spirit gives His graces in a certain order, it’s not an order of cause or condition, but of grace. In the covenant, He gives regeneration then faith, then He gives justification. He gives faith, then faithfulness and preservation. He gives good works! All of grace!
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Coming to “Jesus” for a better, this worldly, social structure, for the practical utility of it, for good definitions of love and righteous living, is not coming to Christ.
We can only come with a sight of His holiness and our sin and need of redemption in His blood alone.
Joe Rogan, once a vocal evangelist of New Atheist talking points on religion, now yearns for the "just and righteous" Kingdom of God and believes the world "needs Jesus...for real."
That's quite a change, but his journey is emblematic of a wider shift in attitudes towards
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When I first read this I thought it said John Gill, The GOAT.
"Circumcision of the flesh was typical of that of the spirit, and fitly expresses the passiveness of man in it; for as the infant was entirely passive and not active in circumcision, so is man in regeneration and conversion."
-John Gill, COGAT
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Same-sex sexual inclination, desire, attraction, orientation, propensity, etc., is part of the sinful and wicked human nature. It’s not complicated or nuanced.
You can’t save or change yourself. Trust Jesus Christ, crucified and risen for sinners to save you and change you.
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@douglaswils
, you mentioned the law/gospel distinction in Carlson’s video yesterday in a way consistent with your teaching over the years.
Do you affirm the law/gospel distinction in justification?
Divine justice requires perfect obedience to the law for justification….
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Very true. In fact the gospel *is* Christ’s keeping of the law for us (redemption accomplished) and His promise to work in us that we will keep the law (red. applied). Thus to lack a clear theology and definition of law is to lack a clear theology and definition of the gospel.
If you preach the gospel but do not preach the law then you are not preaching the whole counsel of God.
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FWIW, Moscow is weak on the law. It generally preaches a wimpy law that couldn’t convict any self-confident sinner of their need of Jesus. Prove me wrong.
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This is extremely bad.
Doug Wilson's teaching on marriage promotes a bizarre Christianized gender fluidity, where a woman switches to "masculine" when she's in a position of authority. Even Doug's Christ had an existence of purely "feminine" obedience, until switching to masculine in the Incarnation.
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Without a clear proclamation of the rigor of the law, there is no need of redemption in Christ. Don’t hear much of the law’s rigor coming out of Moscow.
Practically they sound to me a lot like outwardly moralistic pagans such as Andrew Klavan and those he mentions.
We rightly warn of "Christless conservatism." But also beware a political conservatism that proclaims Christ and embraces liberal theology.
Andrew Klavan, for years, has affirmed same-sex monogamy. Now, he espouses some sort of universalist salvation by works apart from Christ.
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NAMB is advocating for friendly cooperation with churches that are in direct disobedience to the clear teaching of Scripture. $$$
Getting word from a church planter that the NAMB Send event was quite interesting tonight. Says the panel spoke directly against the Law Amendment.
Is this how you want your church planters being influenced, SBC? Is this how you want your $$ spent?
Let's pass Law and prove that
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Diversity on confessional matters is not a strength. We need to strive for unity in the truth, doctrinal and practical purity as our Baptist forefathers did.
We must celebrate our diversity rather than striving for conformity, while doubling down on what the SBC came together to do in the first place—getting the Gospel to people who have never heard it.
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These demons are real and will “bless” you for a steep price. And the price will only keep going up.
The reason Christians hate paganism is because Christian priests trick their followers into thinking pagan Gods are demons. The truth, however, is that Christianity is Jewish lies, the pagan Gods are real, and if you worship pagan Gods, They will bless you.
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Nah
Adam never existed, even for one instant, as a "purely natural" being. There was no "state of nature."
He came to life by Yahweh's breath. His very existence was communion with the Creator.
His first environment was not the untamed wild but a cultivated garden.
Grace and
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Just affirm classical creedal Trinitarianism. :)
Regarding confessionalism and creeds, this by Brad Klassen is very helpful. In an age of extremity--whether "Bible-onlyism" or high creedalism--it's richly balanced.
Scripture is our authority, from beginning to end!
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Someone should make the Law amendment motion again next year. It will be referred to the executive committee and set it up for a vote the following year.
Why not do this?
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I really enjoyed preaching a series for a conference at Trinity Reformed Baptist in Boones Mill, Virginia in response to Theonomy and Christian Nationalism. It was a blessing to spend time with the brethren there.
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The problem today is a crisis of transcendentals, especially God’s law. Fuzziness on God’s law leads to every problem on the left and right.
1. LGBTQ, wokism, reverse racism, feminism, etc.
2. Problems with justification in the FV and NPP.
3. Theonomy, dominionism
4. NCT, PC
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Let’s vote to adopt the Nicene Creed at the SBC next week.
"We defended the inerrant Word, now let's defend and exalt the incarnate Word." - Malcolm Yarnell (
@MusingsOnChrist
)
We will move to amend The Baptist Faith and Message to add The Nicene Creed. Please support this motion at the SBC.
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That Christ is King is very bad news if He is not your Savior.
It’s only good news if He is also your Savior.
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Is this congressman’s pro-life position the same as or different from yours
@bartbarber
?
Everything we say about Pro-Lifers is true.
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The mind is not “completely different” from the brain. We are body/soul unities. Mind involves both.
John MacArthur’s response to the controversy over his comments on PTSD, ADHD & OCD.👇🏼
“Is there post-traumatic stress? Of course! Is it a brain syndrome? No.
“Psychology & Psychiatry has been trying to deal with mind problems with things that alter the brain…that’s all I was
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Christ’s person is the divine Son. The Son is impeccable.
@carlgobelman
@jaredhmoore
I have heard Doug address this question directly. He says that Christ was peccable in the same way that His bones were breakable. 1/2
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LifeWay is making this volume of Jonathan Edwards writings available for free, one per family, at the SBC. Quite an upgrade from what one might expect. Kudos to
@Lifeway
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The vote to direct the credentials committee to exclude all SBC churches with women pastors only failed by 500 messengers. We only need about 250 more churches, or even less, to dilute that margin since each church gets a minimum of 2 messengers.
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The law - You must perfectly obey the law for your righteousness/justification.
The gospel - Christ perfectly obeyed the law for our righteousness/justification.
If so, then you affirm the law/gospel distinction not only for unbelievers but for justified believers.
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The greatest divide in Christendom today isn’t between left and right but between the orthodox and the heretics.
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“We have the Bible” is a creed. The SBC should affirm the Nicene Creed.
“We have no need for a creed. We have the Bible…how can you improve on that?”
—
@AdrianRogers
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Say no to Integralism and Statist Christian Nationalism.
#OTD
March 26, 1555
Nineteen-year-old William Hunter is burned to death in Brentwood, England, under Queen Mary. He had resisted both threats and bribes. He died with Psalm 51 on his lips and told his brother, “I am not afraid”.
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If you join, your church remains completely autonomous and free from any hierarchical control.
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The Reformed Faith always insisted on the Law/Gospel hermeneutic.
The Gospel is, indeed, opposed to the law. For the law works wrath and announces a curse, whereas the Gospel preaches grace and blessing.
—Second Helvetic Confession 13.1
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This isn’t complicated and doesn’t need nuance. Is the Bible true and should we obey it?
Which way SBC?
The Law Amendment : the Bible says it, so let’s do it. Period.
The Cooperation-Bros : the Bible may say it, but hold on, it’s actually quite complicated. Let’s be careful, form a committee, issue qualifications, etc…
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So thankful for
@FoundersMin
! I encourage you and your church to consider giving to this great ministry.
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Behold the world is watching
Baptist Women in Ministry:
“Baptist Women in Ministry offers appreciation to all the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) who voted against the Law amendment BECAUSE of their commitment to support and affirm women serving as pastors of all kinds in the SBC.”
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The testimonies of those who read Colquhoun are stacking up. Have you read his Treatise on the Law and Gospel yet? Get it at
@RHB_Books
.
@TomHicks2LCF
Thankful for you, brother. I read Colquhoun's book at your recommendation last year, and it changed me profoundly. I've been handing copies out like candy to my church members.
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Baxter was not Reformed
"[John Bunyan] ignorantly subverted the gospel of Christ as an Unlearned Antinomian-Anabaptist..."
Richard Baxter on John Bunyan (The Scripture Gospel Defended. Vol. 2, p.49)
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All true. I would add that since our sins against the law were the reason Christ had to shed His blood, then we know the same law teaches us what Christ expects of us as believers. The law is the standard or rule of love for the believer.
The law of God is good, holy, and right.
The law reveals truth about God's character.
The law teaches and instructs the church.
The law vitally exposes sin, but the law cannot save.
Only the gospel saves.
The Christian lives under the reign of grace, not the reign of law.
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This is excellent. Thanks
@brandon_adams
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Did the Covenant of Circumcision become the New Covenant?
Is the Covenant of Circumcision still in effect?
Were the land promises unconditional?
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1 Timothy 2:11-12
[11] Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. [12] I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
“…yet it is always true that there is nothing more offensive to an established religion as the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
- Jeremiah Moore (1746-1815), founding pastor, First Baptist Church, Alexandria, Va.
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Study John Colquhoun’s book A Treatise on the Law and Gospel. See here for other great resources:
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Rebellion. Let’s approve the Law Amendment in Indianapolis.
Important Update on Mike Law Amendment
I was just sent this video of another SBC church installing a female pastor. Bayou Church in Lafayette gave to the CP last year and is an active SBC church. Several vital points from the video:
1) Pastor says he’s been praying and
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