This psalm contains one of the great Old Testament portrayals of the Gospel. Along with Isaiah 53, we learn here that the death of Christ for the sins of the world was no afterthought. The Lamb of God was indeed slain from before the foundations of the world. “My God, my God, why hast thou …
Never Alone
Our Father and God, You are never alone, never lonely, never solitary. Your dwelling place is no distant wilderness retreat; You have no hermitage, no mountain fortress. Before the heavens and earth were made, there was no lack of fullness in You. All creation is the surplus of a glorious infinitude, a surplus of gratuitous …
For All the Saints
The Lord’s Supper was instituted by the Lord Jesus Himself the night He was betrayed. The next example of it being observed was over a month later, on the day of Pentecost, when the disciples broke bread together. In the first, Jesus was alive and physically present with His disciples. In the second, He had …
Peace
When God is at work, let the arm of flesh rest. When God speaks, let all the creatures of the earth be silent. But this is not something we can do in our own strength. Jesus Christ quieted the winds and the waves with a word. If you have come here this morning with a …
Souls Into Barns
Our Father in heaven, we thank You for weekly Pentecost, the ancient Jewish festival of harvest, and our festival of the evangelistic harvest — the time when You began bringing into your barns the countless souls that have been saved since that first Pentecost Sunday. We thank You for establishing Your new covenant Church on …
Auburn Avenue Hubbub (AAH) Cool Quote #11
In the original creation of the world God made us perfect with the perfection of nature, which consists in our having everything due to our nature. But over and above what is due to our nature there were later added to the human race certain perfections that were solely owing to divine grace. Among these …
Can We Play Too?
I finished listening to the White Horse covenant confusion series. Covenant confusion is right. We have a lot of knots to untie. The center of the problem concerns the use of the word grace in speaking of God’s relationship to Adam before the Fall. Because the word grace is linked in their minds to the …
Thunderhead Holiness/Psalm 29
INTRODUCTION There is little doubt that the inspiration for this glorious psalm was a monumental thunderstorm. In this inspired account we find a true and biblical description of glory, beauty, and holiness. THE TEXT Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due …
Raising Eyebrows At My Windshield
I am continuing to listen to the White Horse Inn series on covenant confusion, and was duly astonished by something Michael Horton said. By registering this astonishment, I am not saying that I differ with him on this necessarily, but just that I was surprised to hear him talking this way. He said that Jesus …
Distinctions Within the Covenant
God makes distinctions between particular congregations. He does not divide the world into two great categories, the baptized and unbaptized, and treat them all accordingly. But neither does He treat everyone according to their individual status alone. It is true that everyone stands or falls at the Last Day one at a time, and God …