There is much in this Proverb I have found comforting, but I never actually noticed the middle words of this verse. So true don’t even come close enough in passing by. Pro 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Pro 4:15 Avoid it, pass not… Continue reading Proverbs 4 – Flee evil….
Saving Faith is a Gift From God by His Grace
Seems so clear, it’s amazing how many reject this to rely on themselves to come to God. The gift of Grace; the gift of Faith. Even John confirms Jesus said much the same thing... John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him… Continue reading Saving Faith is a Gift From God by His Grace
Back from Vacation
Wow it's been a month. Today I revive my postings on reading 66. I listened again to Max read Luke 22. I am struck, with the emphasis on the Passover, and admit in the past I've often been hung up on figuring the exact day in the feast timetable the various account in the Gospels… Continue reading Back from Vacation
What Defiles a Person?
So very well said Mike.
“ In our day we see this sort of thing being used to justify church leaders making their churches appealing to the ‘world’ by secularizing their music and focusing on entertainment of goats rather than the feeding and shepherding of sheep. They void the word of God by this ‘new tradition’ of becoming seeker-sensitive rather than biblical and obedient to God’s Word and the genuine Gospel.”
Btw. This extends not only to the traditions, but the actual commandments. There is an excellent sermon on this by the pastor of a very small reformed church my friends attend. He does not use “catchy” culturally relevant references, teaches exclusively from the Bible and might only be faulted for being a bit long. Readers can find it here…. The Place of Our Good Works, part of his Heidelberg Catechism series…it’s a good listen.
http://trinityurcwc.org/?wpfc_sermon=purpose-of-the-sacraments
by Mike Ratliff
14 After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. Mark 7:14-15 (NASB)
One very interesting character in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a fellow named ‘Ignorance.’ ‘Christian’ and ‘Hopeful’ encounter him after they depart the company of the ‘Shepherds’ as they continue their journey to the Celestial City. The path on which they traveled became crooked and it lay next to a country called ‘Conceit.’ ‘Ignorance’ came from there. Bunyan described him as ‘a very brisk lad.’ After ‘Christian’ learned that ‘Ignorance’ claimed to be on the same journey as he and ‘Hopeful’ he also deduced that this fellow had not begun it at…
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