Tis the season. Yes it is the time that I will not be posting for the next couple of weeks. Not in any protest but I will simply be out of town for the next week and will return next year. I pray that God may bless these words and strip away any ignorance and press in our hearts His truths. I pray that it pleased Him to eliminate the darkness that we may know and see the light and believeth on Him. May we have a portion of grace to understand and believe.
Extra credit: I suppose I can not ignore, though I may have tried on occasion, that it is Christmas. Not that I abhor the holiday or refuse any celebration but to mix religion and the world is a problem. To demonstrate my stance I will repeat the 4 commentaries from last year.
Superstitions by C.H. Spurgeon
Christmas is coming by A.W. Pink
Any Season by Don Fortner
More Palatable Christmas by me
Jhn 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
Jhn 12:45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
Jhn 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness
- How can a just God justify a sinner?
When Adam sinned we were cursed. Generations past, present, and future live by the nature of fallen man and willing exist in spiritual darkness. A just and righteous God cannot accept us in this condition. All sins must be punished. He cannot and will not reckon them to be satisfied or justify the transgressions of His elect without the penalty being fulfilled. The penalty being fulfilled not to appease the punishment of the devil but rather to satisfy the righteousness and holiness of God. Until and unless these sins are paid in full we continue to abide in darkness and live in guilt.
But, Jesus came as a light into the world. Christ came to end the law and that those who are called and believeth on Him would not abide in darkness. (For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound) Rom 5:19-20. Christ came that there might be light. Christ came not to condemn but to satisfy the sins of His elect. It is because of the act of a sovereign God alone that those who are chosen of God do not perish in their sins. Christ coming into this world and completing the redemption of His people is the only hope and the sole reason Gods elect, those called according to His purpose and grace, believe and abide not in darkness.
John 5:24, 8:19, 10:38
