“Since baptism and circumcision signify the same spiritual reality, as Paul insists in Colossians 2:11-12, and since the children of Old Testament believers were always included in the covenant community and bore the circumcision-sign of that inclusion, it follows that the children of New Testament believers be received as members in the covenant community, the […]
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“Specifically, baptism is a sign and seal of the benefit of forgiveness (Acts 2:38; 22:16) and of regeneration (Titus 3:5), a being incorporated into the fellowship with Christ and His Church (Rom. 6:4). Therefore baptism is ministered not only to such adults as have been won for Christ through the work of missions, but to
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I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. John 6:47 “One could preach a hundred thousand years about these words and emphasize them again and again. Yes, one can’t speak enough about these words. Here Christ explicitly promises eternal life to the believer. He doesn’t say that if we believe in him
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“In theology, we speak of the perspicuity of Scripture. The word perspicuity, simply put, means ‘clarity.’ Oddly enough, the word perspicuity is one of the more unclear words we could use to speak of clarity. What’s more, when we say we believe in the perspicuity of Scripture, people sometimes get the wrong impression that we
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“When the black flag was hoisted in warfare, it indicated no quarter would be given to the enemy. This is the sort of war we must make against our own sin, because sin seeks only to dominate us until it destroys us. Far too often, we make agreements with sin, we negotiate with sin, we
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