This is the question asked by John Piper: “if you could have everything about Heaven — forgiveness, fellowship, absence of sin and pain and death, etc. — but God is not there, would you still want it?” The question is addressing the heart of the gospel. Do we want the gospel for our own self-exalting […]
Read More Why do you want to go to Heaven?The gospel has always been controversial and attacked. This afternoon I began listening to Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ sermon “Christianity — the Only Hope” preached a generation ago. And his lament in that day was largely the same as today — a concern over a declining interest in the truth, the power of the Word of God […]
Read More The importance of the GospelEvery word in Scripture counts. Every word is used by God to reveal Himself and His purposes (which is why Jesus makes statements like “truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished,” Mt. 5:18). Which is why […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (4/1/07)John Owen (called by John Piper “the greatest Puritan Theologian”) writes the following concerning the good role of guilt in mortifying sin: Bring thy lust to the gospel, not for relief, but for further conviction of its guilt: look on him whom thou has pierced, and be in bitterness. Say to thy soul, ‘What have […]
Read More The Gospel and the Good Value of GuiltThe gospel is not a “one-time” truth, but an everyday truth, as Jerry Bridges has articulated: To preach the gospel to yourself, then, means that you continually face up to your own sinfulness and then flee to Jesus through faith in His shed blood and righteous life. It means that you appropriate, again by faith, […]
Read More Jerry Bridges on the importance of the gospel
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