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 Scripture grounds monogamy in the created order, ordained by God himself as a picture of Christ and the church. Depictions of polygamy and concubinage in Scripture don’t overturn that fact. Instead, they reveal the ugliness and heartbreak that accompany sexual activity outside God’s established boundaries. Far from commending polygamy, narratives of polygamous patriarchs and kings in Israel reveal the spiritual and familial devastation inextricably linked to this sin. by Sam Emadi https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/why-did-god-allow-polygamy size 73908 bytes indexed 12/13/24 Hits: 1 Polygamy became a sin by definition when God instituted marriage in Genesis 2 as a covenantal union between one man and one woman. The New Testament confirms this reading in how it speaks of marriage, and of course God is not polygamous. Marriage is a picture of Christ’s love for the church and Christ as only one bride. And we as his image bearers are to reflect that faithful monogamy in our own marriages. by Aaron Ventura https://localchristendom.com/when-did-polygamy-become-a-sin/ size 115219 bytes indexed 12/13/24 Hits: 3 That is a picture of the child of God, distressed, weak, and vulnerable, finding protection and safety in the Lord, even as Boaz spread his skirt over his handmaid Ruth's feet, for she is a near kinsman. As in Psalm 91:4, 'He shall cover thee with his feathers; and under his wings shalt thou trust.' When it says that Ruth is come to trust under Jehovah’s wings, it means that, by faith, she believed in the protection of God, the protection in the provision of Christ. by Rev Rodney Kleyn https://reformedwitnesshour.org/broadcast/the-first-meeting-of-boaz-and- ruth/ size 40493 bytes indexed 12/11/24 Hits: 3 Interest in events that will occur at the end of time have always held the attention of religious people. This interest has spawned a variety of fanciful theories about what will happen at the end of time. One such theory on this subject is the false doctrine of premillenialism. Basically this doctrine (and there are variations of its teachings) argues that since the Jews rejected Christ as their king He had to take an alternate route and set up the church until such time that people would accept Him as king! by Glenn B. Ramsey https://www.tn-biblecollege.edu/the-false-doctrine-of-premillennialism/ size 150339 bytes indexed 12/10/24 Hits: 3 It seems there’s some kind of lively debate going on about the morality and modesty of yoga pants and leggings among American Evangelicals. To forget about modesty for the sake of acts of mercy is not the redemptive work of Christ; it merely trades one "list of do’s and don’ts" for a different "list of do’s and don’ts"—a trade Christ never authorized us to make. If we think our identity as Christians is founded in our mercy rather than our modesty, then we are as wrong as those who find it in our modesty rather than in our mercy. by Matthew E. Cochran https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/apologetics/on-yoga-pants-and-priorit ies.html size 13407 bytes indexed 12/8/24 Hits: 2 Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect. . . . You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. The true significance of that sacrifice is Jesus Christ. Jesus was exiled outside the camp so that we who once were far off could be brought near (Eph. 2:13; Heb. 10:22). Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach that he endured (Hebrews 13:13). by Shane Rosenthal https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/essays/the-significance-of-g olgotha size 200004 bytes indexed 12/3/24 Hits: 5 I can hardly think of anything more blasphemous than for persons claiming to be Christians to be raising red heifers or helping rebuild the Temple. To do so is to go backwards in redemptive history. The book of Hebrews is about Jesus Christ and his superiority to Angels, to Moses and to the ritual Levitical Sacrifice. These are warnings toward those Jewish Christians who were tempted to go back to the shadows of the levitical sacrifices instead of trusting in Christ alone, who the sacrifices pointed to. https://www.monergism.com/evangelical-zionism-hastening-apocalypse size 228915 bytes indexed 12/3/24 Hits: 7 Salvation must be of God. Men cannot save themselves. The basic cause of trouble in our world is the spiritual enslavement of men to sin: '.... destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes.' Romans. 3:16-18. The doctrines of total depravity and total inability are designed to drive us to cry to the Lord for deliverance. by William Sasser https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/articles/the-effect-of-sin-total-depr avity.html size 21987 bytes indexed 12/3/24 Hits: 4 It is fair to say that the teachings of the Plymouth Brethren have transformed Christianity and corrupted the Protestant faith in many areas relating to prophecy and the gospel. The Schofield Reference Bible which represents the thinking of the Plymouth Brethren and which is a primary source for the distribution of last day delusion could well be renamed "The Abomination That Maketh Desolate". by Victor and Pastor Doyle Dewberry https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/the-plymouth-brethren-her esy.html size 23335 bytes indexed 12/3/24 Hits: 5 One can easily see how crucial the teaching regarding foreknowledge is to the scheme of salvation. To a great extent, the doctrines of election and predestination hinge upon foreknowledge. Is foreknowledge merely a knowing before? Does God choose on the basis of what He sees? Does the choice of man determine the choice of God? by Pastor William Sasser https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/articles/gods-foreknowledg-act-or-att ribute.html size 27536 bytes indexed 12/1/24 Hits: 7  [PDF - Adobe Acrobat]This verse is taken by virtually every church and every elder to mean that we should not stop attending church; that we should be in church every Sunday. Some even take the latter part of the verse to mean that, the closer we get in each week to Sunday, the more we should be exhorting one another to attend church. by Peter Ditzel https://www.wordofhisgrace.org/hebrews1025.pdf size 106265 bytes indexed 11/24/24 Hits: 8 I’m old enough to remember when democracy didn’t need to be defended, and certainly not defended as compatible with Christianity. But here we are. Democracy is not the only form of government Christians could endorse, and Christians haven’t always been at the forefront of democratic efforts. Often they’ve worked against them. But we contend that the riches of the Christian tradition and our own faith commitments compel us to speak out in defense of our democratic system. by Kristin Du Mez https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/apologetics/christian-faith-and-democ racy.html size 16600 bytes indexed 11/21/24 Hits: 9 The passage of Genesis 6:2 before us tells us what the descendants of Adam did in the time before the flood. In the words of our text, '...they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose." In other words, they married whomever they chose. We see in those days when believers were called "sons of God," would intermarry with "the daughters of men," and that resulted in the birth of children of disobedience, which brought about the flood of Noah's day. by Rev C Bouwman https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/sermons/no-christian-can-survive-inde pendently-of-god.html size 27867 bytes indexed 11/20/24 Hits: 9 Ephesians 2:4-5 is a passage of scripture that speaks of every Christian's condition before salvation. We were dead. In fact, this descibes every man's spiritual condition. Now this death is not physical death, and since it speaks of the need of quickening, a work of the Holy Spirit, it must mean we were dead to spiritual things. by Pastor Doyle Dewberry https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/sermons/total-depravity.html size 19201 bytes indexed 11/18/24 Hits: 11 Are we patient and persistent when praying and working for the furtherance of God’s Kingdom? Or are we often in a great rush in our witnessing to the lost? If we don’t see a response of faith in the first few weeks, or months, or years, we become impatient, we despair, and we wonder if it is all a waste of time. Are we caught up in the frustration of witnessing? If it isn’t working, just move on, right? By Brian Zegers and Peter Vogel https://reformedperspective.ca/when-it-comes-to-witnessing-are-we-just-t oo-impatient/ size 121107 bytes indexed 10/20/24 Hits: 31 In Scripture we read that Jesus Christ was crucified along with two other men. But only in Luke’s Gospel do we learn about the dialogue that took place between Jesus and the two condemned criminals. The conversation is packed with spiritual significance. Even in his final moments Jesus has a profound impact on the thief on the cross. One criminal repents and returns to God while the other continues to reject God and ends his life unrepentant. by Robert Arakaki https://orthodoxbridge.com/2019/04/23/remembering-the-good-thief/ size 89129 bytes indexed 10/7/24 Hits: 46 There are many acts of extraordinary faith in the Bible. The one that has impressed me the most concerns the thief on the cross. We could take the approach that he had nothing to lose, so he decided to cast his lot with Jesus. But this makes absolutely no sense of the text and the context. In this conversion we have a specific fulfillment of Christ's first words on the cross. No sooner had Christ spoken the words, 'Father, forgive them,' had the Father answered that prayer by turning a once-reviling criminal into a Christ-glorifying saint. by Mark Jones https://www.reformation21.org/blogs/the-dying-thief-what-was-so-gr.php size 35385 bytes indexed 10/7/24 Hits: 63 Judges is one of those books of the Bible that we tend to read at a distance. We don’t want to identify too closely with the people of God of old who "did what was right in their own eyes" (Judges 17:6). Nor do we feel very comfortable seeing the church underage looking more like Sodom and Gomorrah than God’s representatives on earth (Judges 19). by Keith Evans https://gentlereformation.com/2021/07/22/the-comfort-of-samson/ size 29751 bytes indexed 10/2/24 Hits: 51 It is important to consider the basic eschatological framework provided for us by the New Testament writers' two-age model, who speak of eschatological matters with one voice when they depict God’s sovereign control of history as the out-working of two qualitatively distinct and successive eschatological ages, known variously as 'this age" and the "age to come.' This age being present course of human history, and the age to come of redemption promised throughout the Old Testament. by Kim Riddlebarger http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/the-latest-post/2008/4/23/the-two -age-model-as-interpretive-grid-amillennialism-101.html size 95433 bytes indexed 9/25/24 Hits: 77 The revival that impacted Particular Baptist life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provided a solid foundation for the globalization of the gospel by what had once been a marginalized Christian denomination. Since Fuller’s day, Baptists have been shaped by a passion to evangelize and take the gospel to the ends of the earth. They are certain that the gospel inevitably entails an activist mindset to 'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.' by Michael A. G. Haykin https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/essays/what-is-the-gospel-a- baptist-perspective size 173499 bytes indexed 9/25/24 Hits: 29 | ||
