Ds. L. Vroegindeweij schreef:Indien het Woord recht gesneden wordt, is dat voor lichte mensen te zwaar en voor zware mensen te licht.

J.C. Philpot schreef:

Ds. L. Vroegindeweij schreef:Indien het Woord recht gesneden wordt, is dat voor lichte mensen te zwaar en voor zware mensen te licht.

J.C. Philpot schreef:

Ds. L. Vroegindeweij schreef:Indien het Woord recht gesneden wordt, is dat voor lichte mensen te zwaar en voor zware mensen te licht.

Ds. J. Flavel schreef:Christus zit als Koning op de troon in de harten, gewetens en affecties van Zijn gewillige volk.

Ds. J. Calvijn schreef:Whatever poison Satan produces, God turns into medicine for his elect,

Ds. C. Trueman schreef:St. Paul was certainly well aware of the failings of Christians, even of the wickedness that they could perpetrate in the church’s name, as his blunt letters to various congregations indicate. But he never ceased to present the church—flawed, divided, morally compromised as she was—as the meaning and hope of history.

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The church’s exile from mainstream culture is going to be hard, but the Bible makes it clear that she wins in the end.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against her. That is the source of our hope at this time, and so it is pastorally cruel and theologically irresponsible for Christians to obscure this truth with endless complaints about “the church’s” past behavior and present inadequacies.

By all means, call out the moral failings of Christians, congregations and denominations, left and right; but be specific, do so without slander and vitriol, and make a clear distinction between the church and the specific failings to which you allude in order to promote clear thinking.

And remember—if your critique of Christians is not balanced by a Pauline emphasis on the church, the body of Christ, as the answer to the world’s problems, you ultimately offer no true Christian commentary on the contemporary scene. For as soon as you see the church herself as part of the problem, you have lost the gospel and deprived yourself and your audience of hope.

Prof. Herman C. Hanko schreef: Why are the great and grand truths of the sovereignty of God, of eternal predestination, and of particular and sovereign grace so infrequently maintained throughout the history of the church, and when they are, why are they maintained only for very short periods of time? I can come to only one conclusion: Their unpopularity is due to the fact that these doctrines are thoroughly and completely God-centered and God-glorifying. Men, even in the church, will not have it that way. They want glory for themselves. They do not want God alone to receive glory.

Ds. J. Newton schreef:Savior, if of Zion's city
I, thro' grace, a member am,
let the world deride or pity,
I will glory in thy name;
fading is the worldling's pleasure,
all his boasted pomp and show;
solid joys and lasting treasure
none but Zion's children know.

J.C. Philpot schreef:

Prof. Herman C. Hanko schreef: Why are the great and grand truths of the sovereignty of God, of eternal predestination, and of particular and sovereign grace so infrequently maintained throughout the history of the church, and when they are, why are they maintained only for very short periods of time? I can come to only one conclusion: Their unpopularity is due to the fact that these doctrines are thoroughly and completely God-centered and God-glorifying. Men, even in the church, will not have it that way. They want glory for themselves. They do not want God alone to receive glory.

Vertaling:
Waarom worden de grote waarheden van de soevereiniteit van God, van de eeuwige uitverkiezing en van de bijzondere en soevereine genade zo weinig gehandhaafd in de geschiedenis van de kerk, en wanneer dat wel het geval is, waarom worden zij dan slechts voor zeer korte perioden gehandhaafd? Ik kan maar tot één conclusie komen: Hun impopulariteit is te wijten aan het feit dat deze doctrines grondig en volledig op God gericht zijn en God verheerlijken. De mens, zelfs in de kerk, wil het niet op die manier. Zij willen glorie voor zichzelf. Zij willen niet dat God alleen de eer krijgt.