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 As we grow in our understanding of the Scriptures, we recognize that God uses dual typology in the Old Testament to foreshadow events or persons in the New Testament. If we pray for the Spirit-enhanced eyes to see it, these dual typologies are pretty common in the Scriptures. Cain and Abel. David and Goliath. The tabernacle and the temple. The list could go on. These paired personalities or figures all teach us in tandem what the Lord has done for us. Like a double rainbow, they magnify His glory. by Barry York https://gentlereformation.com/2021/03/01/double-typology/ size 28807 bytes indexed 3/23/25 Hits: 1 Angus Finlayson attributed the nineteenth century infiltration of Liberalism into a confessional Church to wrong priorities by the leaders. He wrote, 'not content with opening three colleges, in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, they added a postgraduate course of one or more years in one of the more famous Colleges in Germany. From that folly, as Germany then was the nursery of Liberal theology spreading like prairie fire through the Protestant Churches of Europe. by Martin Downes https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2008/liberalism-a-warnin g-from-history/ size 90864 bytes indexed 3/23/25 Hits: 2 In the parable of the Talents we hear the master speak, "Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over, a few things, I will place thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy master." What then is meant by the "talents" in the parable recorded in Matthew 25? They are bestowed, in different proportions. The reference is to the excellent gifts which the Master bestows on the children of men and with which they must be active in the service of their Lord. by R. Veldman https://sb.rfpa.org/the-pounds-and-the-talents-in-the-parables/ size 229870 bytes indexed 3/21/25 Hits: 5 Mark how the text describes their fall. It is impossible to renew them again unto repentance, seeing that they are crucifying the Son of God afresh, and exposing Him to public shame. Not, you understand, on the cross once more; for Christ suffered on the cross once for all; He cannot be crucified again. by Rev. Marinus Schipper https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/the-falling-away-of-unbel ievers.html size 15069 bytes indexed 3/18/25 Hits: 6 Typology is a treasure trove, but only if we keep our imagination in check. Scripture itself is not only full of types; its whole structure is a single drama divided into Old Testament promise and New Testament fulfillment. In Scripture, types are historical events, people, places, and institutions that are intended by God to direct faith to something greater’namely, the reality to which the type pointed. by Michael S. Horton https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/essays/typology size 114991 bytes indexed 3/18/25 Hits: 6 We have here the parable of the talents committed to three servants; this implies that we are in a state of work and business, as the former implies that we are in a state of expectancy. That showed the necessity of habitual preparation, this of actual diligence in our present work and service. In that we were stirred up to do well for our own souls; in this to lay out ourselves for the glory of God and the good of others. by Matthew Henry https://www.monergism.com/parable-talents-0 size 236204 bytes indexed 3/18/25 Hits: 7 The Parable of the Talents - We are not told that the unprofitable servant was a murderer or a thief or even a waster of his lord’s money, but that he did nothing and that was his ruin. Let us be ware of a "do nothing Christianity." Such Christianity does not come from the spirit of God. Maybe you’ll display your heart towards the kingdom in the way you treat the possession that the Lord has given you. Do you see them as something to be used for ministry to others? by Dr. Ligon Duncan https://rts.edu/resources/be-faithful-the-talents/ size 155516 bytes indexed 3/16/25 Hits: 9 The Apostle Peter makes a similar point that will serve as my conclusion today. (1 Peter 4:10-11). As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. by Keith Throop https://reformedbaptistblog.com/2014/04/04/parable-of-the-talents-matthe w-2514-30-teaching-outline/ size 146943 bytes indexed 3/15/25 Hits: 8 Why in the world would I take a Sunday morning and talk about what I have called in the title to this message, "The Jezebel Spirit"? There are two reasons. First, there are people alive and well in the professing evangelical church today who are guilty of the same perverted behavior as was this woman named Jezebel back in the church in Thyatira in the first century. Second, I love the spiritual gift of prophecy. I hold it in extremely high regard. It plays an important role. by Sam Storms https://www.samstorms.org/all-articles/post/what-is-the--jezebel-spirit- --revelation-218-29 size 16473 bytes indexed 3/14/25 Hits: 11 Jesus gives His Disciples a very important teaching. This teaching occurs right before He is ushered to the cross. So how does Jesus illustrate this teaching to His 12 Disciples and what does Jesus say? Jesus likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a man who is going on a journey and entrusts His property to His servants. In this parable of the talents, Jesus is the master and the Disciples/people are the servants. Let us examine the Charge, the Actions, and the Responses in this parable. by Aaron Koen https://www.reformconfess.com/blog/sermon-manuscript-parable-of-talents size 138037 bytes indexed 3/14/25 Hits: 11 There is a variety of opinions about a Jezebel spirit, from sexual looseness to teaching of false doctrines. The Bible does not mention a Jezebel spirit, but has plenty to say about Jezebel herself. Two incidents stand out in the life of Jezebel. She had an obsessive passion for domineering and controlling others. The second is she taunted and ridiculed an innocent man and then have him framed and stoned to death. https://www.gotquestions.org/Jezebel-spirit.html size 15970 bytes indexed 3/14/25 Hits: 6 The Counter Attack: The Response to the Enlightenment by Edwards, Warfield and Paley - To understand the apologists of this period we need to understand the intellectual climate of their day. They arrived on the stage of the history of apologetics as children of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment brought on what is often referred to as the "age of reason" where human reason became the test for all truth and human ingenuity the solution to every problem. by Brandon Robbins https://arcapologetics.org/the-counter-attack-the-response-to-the-enligh tenment-by-edwards-warfield-and-paley/ size 60953 bytes indexed 3/9/25 Hits: 10 Some Christians are either ignorant of or ignores what God says about believers marrying unbelievers in I Corinthians 7:39 and other passages. Space does not permit further discussion on this point. Suffice it to say that parents must teach their children not to marry or date unbelievers. If a child does begin a relationship with an unbeliever there is no room for "muddling through in love." The word of God to that child is, break up now! by Clayton Spronk https://sb.rfpa.org/a-modern-day-jezebel/ size 233054 bytes indexed 3/7/25 Hits: 10 Commentaries are there to help you dive into the Word, so why not use them? But let me challenge you. You don’t need one. Here’s why. The problem with commentaries is that people often turn to them first when they start a Bible study. That significantly affects and taints (for better or worse) your insight and conclusions of the text. It has been often stated: the Bible is its own best commentary. And it’s true. https://deeperchristian.com/no-commentary/ size 199006 bytes indexed 3/6/25 Hits: 10 The doctrine of God's gracious adoption of elect sinners has received inadequate treatment in the Church. In the early centuries Christ's Deity and eternal sonship were the vital issues the fathers faced, rather than our adoptive sonship.2 The Middle Ages made no significant development in adoption. However, even then the comfort of this doctrine was never completely lost, for, after all, the Church has always prayed, 'Our Father who art in heaven.' by Rev. Angus Stewart https://www.cprf.co.uk/articles/adoption.htm size 86803 bytes indexed 3/5/25 Hits: 10 The eighteenth century is sometimes called the 'Enlightenment' or the 'Age of Reason' and described as a secular era. However, research of the last half century has demonstrated that more vital Christianity flourished within that century than commonly supposed. Nonetheless, the rise of biblical criticism did contribute a secular strand of thinking impacting the religious beliefs of many contemporaries. by John Woodbridge https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/essay/the-rise-of-biblical-criticism- in-the-enlightenment/ size 124799 bytes indexed 2/26/25 Hits: 15 Expressions such as 'Reason tells us' and 'according to reason' are mostly unhelpful as they assume a universal consensus about a faculty that is individual. There may indeed be consensus here or there, but to call that 'reason' is a fine way to stifle reason implying that in order to be rational everyone ought to conform to the present majority opinion. The same verbal mischief can take on an even more triumphalist note, as it did in the Enlightenment’s persistent declaration that 'X is an offense to reason' or even in the pretentious title 'the Age of Reason.' by Matt Marino https://www.reformedclassicalist.com/home/the-meaning-of-reason size 138394 bytes indexed 2/25/25 Hits: 15  Audio FilesThere were many responses to conflicting religious stream of the past, including the Holy conflict in France, evangelism under John Calvin (1509-1564), and the exodus of French Protestants by the late 17th century. There alkso arose humanists and Influencers of the 17th century like Francis Bacon (1526-1626), Rene Descartes (1596-1650), and Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Then came human reason without heavenly revelation in the age of reason (Enlightenment). by Jon Cardwell https://api.sermonaudio.com/media/audio/high/1019212029134620.mp3 size 32169121 bytes indexed 2/25/25 Hits: 14 Christians have played a part in our collective forgetting of these figures for understandable, though not excusable, reasons. First, the "Age of Reason" and its promoters did make grandiose claims for the utility of reason that sometimes seemed to soar high above the intended station of human beings. by Scott Culpepper https://reformedjournal.com/2020/05/20/whos-afraid-of-the-enlightenment/ size 140118 bytes indexed 2/24/25 Hits: 17 The incentive for those whom God loves to separate from the apostasy of a false church is given in verses 20 and 21: 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.' Christ was no longer in the church of Laodicea. He stood outside of this church. by Wilbur G. Bruinsma https://sb.rfpa.org/laodicea-the-spiritually-dead-church/ size 229491 bytes indexed 1/30/25 Hits: 22 | ||
