“Dear Lord, I confess and do repent of my ingrained sinfulness and these and ALL my sins – my grievous, constant, willful, and habitual sins; and whenever I fear, love, and trust in created things – for salvation and comfort – rather than You, my good, generous, and merciful Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer. I prove […]
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“My favorite question and answer in the Westminster Shorter Catechism (WSC) is hands down number 87: “What is repentance unto life? Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his
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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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We believe that this true faith, being wrought in man by the hearing of the Word of God and the operation of the Holy Ghost, doth regenerate and make him a new man, causing him to live a new life and freeing him from the bondage of sin. Therefore it is so far from being
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What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
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