Just and the Justifer

From Tabletalk, Sep 4:

 

"... Those who serve the Lord in faith do not do so because they possess a righteous status in themselves before God.  Instead, as with those who remain outside of the kingdom, we who love the one, true Creator are children of wrath apart from our Father's sovereign initiative (Eph. 2:1-3).  

 

But God sent His Son to endure the day of the Lord in our behalf, to bear the punishment we deserve as the enemies of God, thereby showing Himself to be just and the Justifier (Acts 2:14-41; Rom. 3:21-26).  

 

Christ's work on Calvary manifested the day of the Lord for His elect, which was granted by our holy God in His grace that His people would not have to be counted as His enemies on the day when Jesus returns to consummate His kingdom.  

 

Because God has judged us in Christ and imputed His righteousness to us, the final day of the Lord for us will not be the day of wrath it will be for those who do not know Jesus (1 Thess. 1:10).

 

...One day, we shall rule over the whole earth, the Holy Land included."

And with that in mind, we can say with the Psalmist (from my daily Bible reading this morning from M'Cheyne's Bible reading plan):

"My heart overflows with a pleasant theme."

-Psalm 45:1

Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

This is powerful, and I pray, helpful. Carve out 20 minutes... grab a notebook, a pencil, and some tissue... and click on the link below:

Suffering and the Sovereignty of God: An Interview with R.C. Sproul Jr.

The Liberty Amendments

"There is a path forward but it requires an enlightened look back at our founding."
- Mark Levin, The Liberty Amendments

May the restoration of our constitutional republic begin!

Interview on Hannity
(H/T The Right Scoop)

	The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin Link: http://amzn.com/1451606273

Bill Whittle: The Wretched Lynching of George Zimmerman

This is a must-watch for anyone interested at all in the Zimmerman case.

According to The Right Scoop...

Bill Whittle’s latest Afterburner is off the hook, the best one I’ve seen in a long time. He totally nails it as he tells the truth about Trayvon Martin and what he calls the ‘wretched lynching’ of George Zimmerman.

It’s fantastic and a must watch:

Charles Spurgeon - July 14 - Morning...

There is treasure of truth and encouragement from Morning & Evening, by Charles Spurgoen.  If you have never explored his rich devotional, I would commend it to you.  There is even a good app for it.

This morning, July 14th, I found the devotional particularly meaningful and timely, given the prevalent beliefs of many, and the tendency of my own heart to lift itself above the humbling truths found in the Holy Writ. 

I hope you find it edifying.  The enlarged texts are my doing...

Exodus 20:25

If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

God's altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own Word are defilements and pollutions. The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; preparations for Christ are dreamed of, humblings and repentings are trusted in, good works are cried up, natural ability is much vaunted, and by all means the attempt is made to lift up human tools upon the divine altar. It were well if sinners would remember that so far from perfecting the Saviour's work, their carnal confidences only pollute and dishonour it. The Lord alone must be exalted in the work of atonement, and not a single mark of man's chisel or hammer will be endured. There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished, or to improve that in which the Lord Jehovah finds perfect satisfaction. Trembling sinner, away with thy tools, and fall upon thy knees in humble supplication; and accept the Lord Jesus to be the altar of thine atonement, and rest in Him alone.

Many professors may take warning from this morning's text as to the doctrines which they believe. There is among Christians far too much inclination to square and reconcile the truths of revelation; this is a form of irreverence and unbelief, let us strive against it, and receive truth as we find it; rejoicing that the doctrines of the Word are unhewn stones, and so are all the more fit to build an altar for the Lord.

Bill Whittle: Dependence Day

Barack Obama's Past & America's Future

Here is a lecture from Trevor Loudon that should wake up every American!

Don't wait for those in the media to inform you of this, because I don't believe they will.

If what he shares is true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't, we are in for some dark days ahead.

But I pray that the LORD will raise up another generation of patriots who will be willing to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, for His glory and for our good.

For that to happen, I believe we should first be praying that God would mercifully grant another "great awakening."  If He fights our battles, we cannot lose.

May we saints all be about the kingdom business of telling others about sin, righteousness, and judgment... and the good news of Jesus Christ!  For how can they know, unless someone tells them?

In the meantime, be informed, that there are wolves among us.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation..."