The church's letter to the gentiles comes up again in today's reading of Acts 21.That and several examples of the early first century prophetic office.Three times the churches exhortation is mentioned explicitedly in Acts.Act 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and fromfornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.Act 15:29 That ye abstain from meats… Continue reading Acts 21 – Words of the Prophets
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WCF Chapter XIII – Sanctification
CHAPTER XIII.Of Sanctification.I. They, who are once effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart, and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and personally, through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them: the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and… Continue reading WCF Chapter XIII – Sanctification
2 Corinthian’s 3:18 – The Image of God an Image of Progressive Sanctification.
This verse came up in my reading this morning, I think it pertains to the progressive sanctification process we discussed last night.2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.Note also… Continue reading 2 Corinthian’s 3:18 – The Image of God an Image of Progressive Sanctification.
Thoughts on the Bookends in Luke 3
Reading this over today I was impressed by Luke's detail in the names of history.He begins with:Luk 3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias… Continue reading Thoughts on the Bookends in Luke 3