Great Illustration!
Boettner’s The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination is so very good. I’m truly enjoying it. The following illustration was so helpful that it simply must be shared.
Predestination Is Not Fatalism
Loraine Boettner aptly points out in his book, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, that predestination is most certainly not fatalism. This is an audio clip from Chapter 15, which begins the section of the objections commonly brought against the doctrine of Predestination.
New work in progress
It has been a little while since the last update, but I’ve not been idle. I’m working on producing The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Loraine Boettner. For those not familiar with it, it was originally published in 1932. It has 431 pages of explanation of, and arguments for, the often misunderstood but certainly Biblical […]
Being Astonished Is Not Enough
The crowd was astonished both at the matter and manner of His preaching, for He spoke with weight, a majesty, an earnestness which carried conviction. They were filled with a temporary wonderment: yet it is not said that they repented or believed on Him or became His disciples. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, […]
His House Fell
Sometimes God exposes those who have made an eminent profession by sending them such anguish of conscience and foretastes of hell that at the end they are exposed to all around them. A notable example of this was Francis Spira in the seventeenth century. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 63
A House Built Upon Sand
A mere intellectual assent to the Gospel or a belief in the historical Christ is worthless, for it brings forth no spiritual fruits. To hear and acquiesce and then perform not is a mocking of God. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 62
Obedience
From all that has been before us on the different points it will be seen that everything goes back to and turns upon the word “doeth”: that strikes the keynote of the verse, and therefore its dominant theme is our practical compliance with the Divine will. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 61
Sobering
No wonder there is now so much dishonesty among those in the pew when there has been such dishonesty in the pulpit. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 60, “Profession Tested”
Depart From Me
Here then is the awful verdict: “I never knew you”; no, not even when you were preaching and working in My name. You may have deceived yourselves and those to whom you ministered, but it was impossible to impose upon Me. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 59
Give Diligence!
Yet again, A.W. Pink uses the sharp word of God to pierce through the formalism that we, by nature, love. We must have clear teaching so that we will not be deceived about our own case. How cautiously and conscientiously should we examine ourselves, testing the grounds of our hope, determining whether or not there […]