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What was Christ System of Thought?

March 9th, 2010 admin

What was Christ System of Thought?


2/14/10


Anyone who claims to be a Christian must on pain of contradiction hold to the same system of thought that their Lord and Savior held. What was His system of thought? How was His mind structured? What did He consider to be fixed, absolute, objective, unalterable truth? What did He accept as the authority of His mind? What governed and guided His every thought, word and deed? What did He rely on as the arbiter that settled every dispute? What was the basis for all that He taught? What did He believe about Himself i.e. His identity, His purpose, His mission?


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Christ Alone: What happened at the Cross?

February 24th, 2010 admin

Christ Alone:

What happened at the Cross?

2/20/10

What happened at the cross of Jesus Christ is one of the most profound questions in all of human history. How you answer this question determines your understanding of the nature of God, your peace with God, and your growth in the doctrines of grace. There are many different theories set forth through out history concerning the cross/work of Christ. However, only God’s revelation in His Holy Word gives the truth of what happened at the cross of Christ. There are only two questions concerning the meaning of Christ cross/work. Did the cross/work of Christ in and of itself alone (Christ Alone) accomplish, secure and guarantee eternal salvation for those for whom it was intended? Or does the cross/work of Christ need something independent of itself in man i.e. man’s faith, works, obedience, or discipleship to make the cross/work effective. In other words, what is the saving factor? Christ cross/work plus man’s contribution or Christ cross/work alone?

Purpose: To learn from Scripture what God says about what happened at the cross. We will learn that God saves sinners all by Himself without the help of man. God the Father planned the sacrifice of His Son from eternity past to glorify Him, by satisfying His justice and holiness by means of Christ cross/work alone to demonstrate His wrath, righteousness, grace, love and mercy.

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Why Was Christ Born

December 22nd, 2009 admin

Audio For Why Was Christ Born – December 20, 2009

Why was Christ born?

Intro: Why would you say that Christ was born? Perhaps you might say that Christ was born to save sinners and you would be correct. However, that is the derivative reason and not the fundamental reason. The primary reason for the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ was for the glory of God.

Purpose: To learn from Scripture that the primary purpose for Christ being born was for the glory of God and that the salvation of His people is subsumed under that doctrine. In other words, doxology takes priority and preeminence over soteriology.

1. Why did God make you and all things?  For His own glory. We are so man-centered in our theology that we think that God made the world for mankind. We think that God is man-centered. The Scripture ,however, states that God is God-centered.

Pro 16:4 The LORD has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.

Rom 11:36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Isa 43:7 Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.” Psa 19:1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of  God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.

Psa 8:1 To the Chief Musician. On the Instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

2. God’s goal is His own glory. He seeks His glory in all that He does.

Joh 8:50 And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges.

Exo 14:17 And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

Exo 14:18 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

Isa 43:25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.

Isa 63:5 I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me.

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Four Great Certainties

October 22nd, 2009 admin

Four Great Certainties

John W. Robbins

Life is filled with uncertainty. Floods, fires, earthquakes, and hurricanes destroy our homes and cities; criminals take our lives, our property, our families, and our friends. The nightly news brings reports and rumors of war. We may lose our jobs, our homes, our health, or our businesses; people we trust may break their promises; friends may disappoint us. Things and people that we count on may let us down.

Everyone is trying to find something certain, someplace to stand. And there are some things that are certain. Here are four things that we should never doubt–four great certainties. In a world filled with uncertainty, there are some things that we can know for sure.

First Certainty: And as it is appointed for men to die once,

Second Certainty: but after this the judgment,

Third Certainty: so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.

Fourth Certainty: To those who eagerly wait for him he will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

–The Holy Bible

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The Logos by Gordon H Clark

October 12th, 2009 admin

The Logos

Gordon H. Clark

Editor’s note: Dr. Gordon Clark gave this lecture titled “The Logos” to the teachers at Chattanooga Christian School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1984, the same year that The Biblical Doctrine of Man was published.

By your gracious invitation I am here this morning to lecture, as it was suggested to me, on the first verse of John’s Gospel, where Christ is called the Logos. I published a small book on The Johannine Logos, and if anything in this short lecture interests you, you will find more complete exposition in that book.

Statistics may not provide the most interesting type of introduction, but it does not burden the brain nor injure the intellect to know that John’s Gospel uses the term Logos forty times. What is more surprising, indeed disconcerting, is that the Greek term logos can be translated by forty different English words. Liddell and Scott’s great lexicon has more than five columns, each ninety lines long, of its various meanings. The word word is hardly ever the correct translation. Liddell and Scott say explicitly that it “rarely means a single word” (page 1058, column 2).

The reason our Bibles translate logos as word is that Jerome, a monk of the early fifth century, mistranslated it as verbum. Jerome’s Vulgate, as it is called, became the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, and the texts Jerome used have become the mainstay of contemporary liberal versions. The Latin term Verbum became Word in English, though I do not know why it did not become verb, as it actually is in a new Catholic French version, La Bible de Jerusalem. At any rate, Logos hardly ever means a single word. But it has forty or more other meanings.

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A Systematic Theology

October 9th, 2009 admin

We study theology systematically. This helps us to understand complete doctrines. It helps us to see scripture as a comprehensive text and not disjointed verses. God gave us scripture to understand who He is and to understand who we are. There are many ways to systematically study the bible. We look at all the verses of the bible that touch on the doctrine and study them all together.

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