Sermon Jam

Heres one more for today. Preached by Paul Washer.  By the same guys: http://sermonjams.com/

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Sermon Jam

Listen to this. From a sermon preached by John Piper

Its a Sermon Jam made by Relevent Revolution here’s a link to there site for more: http://sermonjams.com/

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About the Video Blog, Sermon and Quick Quotes Pages

Yes I know, they are empty. That’s becuase I’m having some problems with my design stuff. I’m not all that good with this blogging thing, being kinda new to it so…..

What I’ll do is just post the video blogs, sermons and Quick Quotes on the home page.

So that’s that. They will be up soon now that I’ve decided what to do.

In Christ,

Scotty

The Glorious Doctrine of Justification

 

Justification is one of the major truths of Christian truths. Without a proper view of this doctrine, salvation is not possible. Justification can be interpreted as our standing with God, no longer being the objects of His wrath and curse but now being objects of His love and grace. Justification is an instantaneous action, it is not progressive. Not one believer is more justified than another. A truth that insepperable from justification is that of sanctification. From the moment we are justified we begin to be sanctified, that is set apart, made holy, or conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.

One point I’d like to add is this: The people of God have always been justified the same way. There is no difference in justification between the Old Covenent and the New Covenent, it as always been by grace through faith. The Jews who were under the Law were justified by their faith in the coming Messiah and his future work and we who are no longer under the Law are saved by faith in the Messiah who has come and has completed his work. We, as New Covenant believers, are no better or more justified than the regenerate who were under the Old covenant.

Justification is a legal act. God is the judge and we are the guilty party deserving punishment. Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin is death, and we are sinners who are worthy of our just wage or pay, which is death. As much as a laborer is worthy is his wages (1 Tim. 5:18), sinners are worhty of death. If we were righteous, our due payment would be life, but so that no man may boast (Eph. 2:9) we are justified (or made to be righteous) by God’s grace and Christ’s blood. It was decreed in God’s sovereign plan that Adam would fall and bring sin into the world, corrupting human nature and necessitating a Saviour. God’s plan for humanity is the most magnificant and the most revealing of God’s nature and glory, it is the best plan. It is plan A. Though some may say that God is cruel and unjust for allowing man to fall and become sinful, it is in fact, the most just and most glorious thing imaginable.

A distortion of this doctrine is a distortion of Christianity as a whole. Justification by grace through faith alone is the only way to salvation, but not only is this act necessary, but also a belief and trust in this act. Without faith, man cannot be justified, without grace, a man cannot have faith. That is why it is necessary to believe and hold to this doctrine. If a person does not believe this doctrine, the rest of their beliefs will be twisted and unbiblical.

Christianity has seen many attacks on the doctrine of justification, but it has prevailed victorious over the opposition becuase of it is grounded in the Scriptures alone. We must know that we ill be met with more opposition, the fight is not over yet, and we cannot be discouraged or frustrated by this fact. By God’s grace we will perservere.

 

Soli Deo Gloria,

Scotty

Video Blog- Coming Soon!

Hey all,

I hope to be starting a video blog soon. They’ll be 5-10 minute videos on a bunch of topics and i’ll have some friends on with me every once and a while.

I’m not sure wether I’ll make a new blog specifically for videos or if I’ll just add them here, but they for sure will be on youtube.
So just keep checking in because they should start coming soon.

In Christ, by His Grace,
Scotty

The Vision of Our Founding Fathers

Today we see that our government keeps growing larger while our rights as Christians and Americans diminish. This was not the original intent of our Founding Fathers. Just read the Constitution and you’ll see that the Federal government is meant to be smaller, protecting us as a nation and dealing with foreign relations, wihle State governments are left to be basically independant. But unfortunately, with socialistic and communistic ideas being pumped into our nations people, we are seeing an ideology that says, “Government is God and they should take care of us.”

And what are Christians doing during this time? The word “nothing” comes to mind. The masses of evangelical Christians are ignorant of the way our country was meant to be governed. And not only are they ignorant, they are buying into the lies that our pagan culture is propagating. Matthew 5:13-16 says that we are to be a salt and a light, so that God may be glorified. But walk into the average church and you’ll see people that look just like the world. Take it up another level and go into a seeker-sensitive, mega-church and you’ll find that they are actually trying to get unbelievers into their churches just to grow in numbers and not to show the love of Christ and wrath of God through the Gospel.

This all goes to say that we as Christians, who know the truth, should be more active and more knowledgeable than the average American. We must reawaken the vision our Founding Fathers had for this country, to be nation that propogated he Gospel to the nations, to proclaim Justice, to stand for Righteousness and to defend our God-given rights.

God Bless America and to Him be the Glory!

In Christ,
Scotty