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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
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Saturday, December 28, 2019
Pharaoh's Hardened Heart by A. B. Simpson
A. B. Simpson's fuller teaching:
"Men can become so controlled by Satanic influence, that they cannot resist profanity, blasphemy and every sin. This is what is meant by the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart (Exodus 10:1). God did not do it until he had refused to be guided by God; but when he made his choice, God let him have it to the full."
Albert B. Simpson, Christ in the Bible Commentary (Vol. 5), p. 23
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas from CVBTC
“That is why the Son of God came into our world: to destroy the plague of destruction inflicted on the world by the diabolical one.”
(1 John 3:8; the VOICE).
The most important, but seldom preached, Christmas message: Jesus came into the world to release you from all of Satan's works of poverty, sickness, and spiritual death. Merry Christ-mas.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Sin is Lawlessness by Charles Cuthbert Hall
“Sin is lawlessness; wrong adjustment to right laws; wrong uses of right things. And this accounts for all the physical and material sorrow, sickness, misery, poverty, bitterness, violence, death in the world.”
Charles Cuthbert Hall, Does God Send Trouble?, p. 25
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
Jehovah-Victor
“For that name ‘Jesus’ means ‘Victor,’ literally, Jehovah-Victor.’ It is a word taken bodily over from the old language of the Hebrews into the Greek or Aramaic of our Lord’s time; and thence it has gone into every language where it is found today. There is the shout of victory in the very name.”
Samuel D. Gordon, Quiet Talks about the Tempter, p. 26
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Saturday, December 14, 2019
Did God Predestine Wicked Men to Kill Jesus?
Calvinist Proof-Texts
Answered
“For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast
anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people
of Israel, were gathered together, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy
counsel determined before to be done. (Acts 4:27-28)
Did God
Predestine Wicked Men to Kill Jesus?
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” (Acts 10:38)
“For truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations
and the peoples of Israel, were assembled against Your Holy Son Yahshua, whom
You anointed, to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel before-determined to be
done.” (Acts 4:27-28; Hebraic Roots Bible)
Commentary: “The things determined by God to be done,
were what Christ was anointed to do, and not what his enemies were gathered
together to do. They were gathered against him, and not to do what the counsel
of God had determined. There is then, no proof here that God decreed any of the
wicked actions of men.” (Luther Lee, Elements of Theology; or, an Exposition
of the divine origin, doctrines, morals, and Institutions of Christianity,
p. 160). Arranging the words differently in Acts 4:27-28 will lead us to this
exact conclusion as is evidenced by the Hebraic Roots Bible above.
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Satan and Judas
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
Did God Predestine Jesus to be Killed?
Calvinist Proof-Texts
Answered
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” (Acts 2:23)
Did God
Predestine Jesus to be Killed?
“Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own
prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God” (1
Thessalonians 2:15)
“But now ye seek to kill me.... Ye do the deeds of your
father.... If God were your Father, ye would love me.... Ye are of your father
the devil.” (John 8:40, 41, 42, 44)
“....this One given to you by the
before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless
hands, having crucified Him, you put Him to death.” (Acts 2:23; Green's Literal
Translation)
Commentary: “For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son” (John 3:16). God gave the gift of His
Son. This was predetermined. The murder itself was not God’s predetermined
plan. Greek scholar, Christopher Wordsworth wrote, “God decreed the salvation
of the World by Christ, but He did not command or approve the means by which
that consummation was brought about.”(The New Testament of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ: in the Original Greek, with Notes and Introductions,
Volume 2, p. 57). Thankfully, God was able to make Satan’s act of hatred
work against him.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Christ's Death Defeated Satan
God did not orchestrate the Lord's death. This was Satan's doing. However, God used it to crush Satan as He promised in Genesis 3.
Here is a fuller quote for those interested:
"His Death, which Satan and the Jews contrived as the undermining of his Kingdom; that death pulled up the Pillars of Satan’s Kingdom. While they thought they were destroying Him, God was in and by Him destroying them and their Power. The great Gospel Promise was accomplished; while they were bruising his Heal, He broke Satan’s Head. Thus Peter acquaints us, his Death was the Death of Sin and Satan’s Power."
A Funeral Sermon Preached October 2, 1722. p. 34
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