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Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)

The Christian reads as did the prophets, by the Spirt and in search of Jesus Christ
The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with the Exodus. Pentecost was, accordingly, an annual Jewish festival; but this particular Pentecost found a unique situation and expression because it succeeded Jesus’ recent resurrection.
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Holiness does not consist in mystical speculations, enthusiastic fervors, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.


John Brown, Expository Discourses on 1 Peter

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2020-04-27T17:15:32+05:45

John Brown, Expository Discourses on 1 Peter

Holiness does not consist in mystical speculations, enthusiastic fervors, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

See the heinousness of sin by this, that Christ was made a curse...
...if thou wouldst know what sin is, go to mount Calvary.


Thomas Goodwin, Christ our Mediator

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2020-04-27T17:17:59+05:45

Thomas Goodwin, Christ our Mediator

See the heinousness of sin by this, that Christ was made a curse... ...if thou wouldst know what sin is, go to mount Calvary.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.


Robert Louis Stevenson

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2020-05-12T17:57:29+05:45

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Grace knows no jealousies except for the honor of God.


Geerhardus Vos, Seeking and Saving the Lost

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2020-10-24T15:18:03+05:45

Geerhardus Vos, Seeking and Saving the Lost

Grace knows no jealousies except for the honor of God.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.


The Holy Bible, 2 Thessalonians 3:5

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2022-02-08T07:20:05+05:45

The Holy Bible, 2 Thessalonians 3:5

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.


C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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2020-04-27T17:11:26+05:45

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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A Prelude to Eternity

Eschatology: Eden & the Millennium
From the moment that Adam sinned in time, salvation would be mediated through covenants, all of which were inaugurated in time. Those same covenants are now the record of history, and yet some of us are persuaded that their fullest expression is yet to come. The Lord Jesus is the seed, subject, and fulfillment of those covenants, but some of them find their complete expression in the Millennium.
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