"If indwelling sin is not ur greatest burden, I doubt if u r even a Christian". Where is it in the Bible? And what a toxic statement it is. Shit like this can literally drive people mad. Just cuz another supposedly smart human being said it, we don't even question it.
Would there be distinctions between the conscience and Spirit working upon a heart, or would you say the Spirit works to create a healthy God centered conscience?
Thank you for uploading. This was a great sermon and we need more thoroughly exegetical teachings for new believers from a reformed perspective. Unfortunately, verse by verse teaching is dominated by arminian, dispensational teachers out there on the web - that's why it's so wonderful to find messages like this!
If Paul is writing Romans 7 as a Christian and his struggle against sin, then had the "law of the spirit of life in Christ set him free from the law of sin and death"? Apparently not.
El Señor bendiga esta conferencia y sea de mucho provecho para cada Siervo de Dios que esta ahí como para nosotros nosotros un abrazo queridos hermanos desde Santiago de Chile
32:00 I’m just thinking, if no one was saved, God would seemingly get no glory out of creation, in fact, if Jesus died and none were saved some how, he’d seemingly get less than if there were no creation. So the more he saves, the more glory is received, because there’d be more people to work for his glory and to praise him, yet, since he planned all of creation and all things work for his purposes, love also being magnified through the thorns, he still gets glory. I’m not sure it’d be mandatory that he get maximum glory out of creation, cause somehow there’d have to hit a seesaw balance point, that if he save one more, somehow that’d be worse for him, so his love and will is just based off of his love for himself, plus he doesn’t need praise.
Our God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) will work greater acts through these few Godly graduates than an army of secular Harvard graduates. May God bless you all and His glory be shown through your faithful service, in Jesus's name ✝
There must be something wrong w me. I don't like Pilgrims Progress. Or any allegorical story. It gets in the way in my mind of the original truth. Many love it and that is great. For me ...I read John Owen and Jonathan Edwards freely with understanding. But Bunyon.....nope.....thoughts?
No, I don't think there's anything wrong with you. I personally like the story-telling approach, I love to tell stories. I find them useful for purposes of illustration. But I know Christians who don't find them very useful or helpful. I can see them shake their heads when I get started :) . They prefer a more straightforward proclamation of truth. I just think we're all wired a little differently. By the way, I was just reading an account that Bunyan, when he got out of prison, approached Owen's publisher with Pilgrim's Progress. And it's thought that Owen set that up or facilitated the meeting.
35:30 Was this a natural inclination purely on the fact there was no sin and now we are surrounded by bad choices and temptations, or is our desire changed somehow as if we’d fall more easily if Adams surroundings pre fall were ours? Maybe I could put that better, but hopefully someone can get what I’m saying.
I remember asking my mother if she’d ever read Pilgrim’s progress and her opinion of it. She said she couldn’t really understand it. That disappointed me as I felt that I was beginning to understand it. Grace abounding to the chief of sinners is another great book of Bunyan’s and one that I really needed right at the time I was given it from the attic by my brother, where the book had lain since long before I was born. (Providence?).
