salvation – Standing Before God, This We Are and No More

Fixed on Christ for the New Year

If Christ had prioritized His own things, where would our salvation be? Christ was content to leave heaven, and to take our nature upon Him, to be Emmanuel, God with us, that we might be with God for ever in heaven. He was content, not only to leave heaven, but to be born in theContinue reading “Fixed on Christ for the New Year”

The Five Ways God Invites Us to Come to Jesus – Richard Sibbes

The following has been taken and edited from The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 7, pages 462-464, in the sermon The Witness of Salvation. Italicised words are my edits and are not found directly in the words of Richard Sibbes. The words that remain un-italicised are Sibbes words. According to God’s way of salvation,Continue reading “The Five Ways God Invites Us to Come to Jesus – Richard Sibbes”

Enjoy the Sound of Singing, Charlie

The LORD your God is among you,a warrior who saves.He will rejoice over you with gladness.He will be quiet in his love.He will delight in you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 A gladiator stands in the arena over his fallen antagonist. He waits for the signal to spar or end with lethal violence the life of his poor victim. Thousands look on, seeing this barbarous sport, withContinue reading “Enjoy the Sound of Singing, Charlie”

Three Unions – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Church, written in the 1800s. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ Let us ever with adoring hearts believe in the three unions which the Church of Christ has confessed in all ages. First, we behold Jesus, God and man, two natures in one Person; theContinue reading “Three Unions – Adolph Saphir”

The Three Unions

or the relation between God and salvation God is the Gospel.[1] There is no salvation without God, and no knowing God without salvation. For God has revealed Himself such that we cannot know Him truly without knowing Him as God our Savior (Isaiah 43:3; Titus 1:3, 2:10, 2:13, 3:4). This essay sets out to showContinue reading “The Three Unions”

God’s Glory in Wrath and Hell

God’s Flaming Glory – Post 16 – God’s Glory in Wrath and Hell, According to Jonathan Edwards So far in this series, we have covered Edwards’ understanding of God’s glory as His Triune goodness communicated to His church. We saw him write in wonderful terms about God’s Triune glory before creation, in creation, inContinue reading “God’s Glory in Wrath and Hell”

God’s Flaming Glory – Post 13 – God’s Glory in Redemption, According to Jonathan Edwards

You can read post 12 here, or find the series overview page here. Redemption was God’s end in creating the universe through the communication of His goodness. Redemption and the new creation are the end (or the goal) of the old creation “as the use of a house is the end of… building it.”[1]Continue reading “God’s Flaming Glory – Post 13 – God’s Glory in Redemption, According to Jonathan Edwards”