Mike, this is well said. I looked up old John Gill’s comment on Simeon, where he described it like this: …the Spirit of God, who knows and searches all things, even the deep things of God, and could testify beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow, knew the exact time when… Continue reading Simeon’s Prophecy
Author: Ron Francis
Thoughts on Psalm Singing
I got on this path yesterday after reading a post that included Psalm 130, My Soul Waits for the Lord. I’ve been trying to focus on the Psalms more this year as my primary Bible reading. Finally found some good audio versions of them being sung. Still looking for more and a complete Psalter which… Continue reading Thoughts on Psalm Singing
Monthly Reader – February 2022
2/25 Update I found this post by Mike Ratliff spot on: Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart. If you want to read the definitive History of Protestantism check out: J. A. Wylie’s book. You can find PDF copies here and other sites: Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3 Also for the 20th Century… Continue reading Monthly Reader – February 2022
By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error
Mike, I always find the John 6 passages so profound. It would be interesting to build a whole evangelistic study around that chapter, and some of the parallel passages in John.
Good examples of “alētheia”, particularly profound Biblical truth can be seen in Luke 24, although Luke doesn’t actually say Jesus used that word. But for the disciples and first century Jews what could be more profound that that the whole Old Testament speaks about him!
Luk 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luk 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
by Mike Ratliff
5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 1 John 4:5-6 (NASB)
Several years ago when I still worked in an office I had a fellow with whom I worked, when he found out that I was a Christian, demand that I listen to his “reasoning” why “everything is relative.” I told him I would listen to him if he could refute the following statement, “Aren’t you making an ‘absolute statement’ when you say, ‘there are no absolutes’?” He chuckled nervously and left my cubicle. I still pray that God will save him. My brethren, the scourge of relativism is…
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