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Plainly stated, “Reformed Theology” is the theology of the Protestant Reformers and Reformed Theology, including the Doctrines of Grace, is the heart of historical evangelicalism. To quote the Baptist preacher and evangelist, C.H. Spurgeon, “there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is ...
The Covenant of Works. Paragraph 1 confesses a prelapsarian covenant of works. Though the phrase “covenant of works” is located in 7:1 of the Westminster Confession, but is missing in 7:1 of the 1689, it is not because the 1689 denies that God’s pre-fall arrangement with Adam was a covenant of works. This is made clear in 20:1, where the ...
Oct 27, 2021 · Ultimately, the five solas are not merely a summary of Reformed theology. They guard and clarify the gospel, mounting a friendly offensive attack on an unbelieving world, transforming Christ’s enemies into His friends. The word alone is important in the solas. Alone secures the God-centered character of the gospel and of the Christian life.
Oct 9, 2019 · And this question probably more than any other is what defines the essence of reformed theology. If there’s one phrase that captures the essence of reformed theology, it is the little phrase, regeneration precedes faith. That is the power of faith, the power of believing, is a result not of an act of our will independently, but it is the ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Repentance and faith are necessary responses to the promises of God and the message of the gospel. Faith is trusting in the God of promise and embracing the Lord Jesus Christ as He is freely offered to sinners in the gospel. From the earliest record of God’s work in redemptive history, we discover that faith is central to the life of God’s ...
May 28, 1992 · We are declared just in God's courtroom because Jesus lived an obedient life and paid the penalty for our sins. We receive this justification by faith alone, because there are no good deeds we can do to earn it. Because justification is wholly by faith, apart from any good works of ours, we are simultaneously just and yet sinners.
Nov 10, 2020 · Spiritual gifts are also tools that we, as human beings, need to work on God’s spiritual and supernatural building project— the Kingdom of God. All of the spiritual gifts are necessary for the building of the Church of Jesus Christ. These spiritual gifts also help in the fulfillment of the Great Commission on earth in the “between the ...
