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our salvation does not depend on ...
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How, then, can it matter, or make any difference to anything, whether we keep th...
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why should we be concerned whether we sin or not?
Does it not show an imperfect grasp of justification when a Christian makes an issue of his daily sins,
and spends time mourning over them and seeking forg...
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The Puritans had to face
these “antinomian” ideas, and sometimes made heavy weather of answering them.
If one allows it to be assumed that justification is the be-all and end-all of the gift of salvation, one will always make heavy ...
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The truth is that these ideas must be answered in terms not of justification but of adoption—a reality which the Purita...
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Once the distinction is drawn between these two elements in the gift of salva...
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becomes ...
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that, while it is certainly true that justification frees one forever from the need to keep the law, or try to, as the means of earning life, it is equally...
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obligation to keep the law, as the means of pleasing one’...
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Adoption puts law-keeping on a new footing:
The sins of God’s children do not destroy their justification or nullify their adoption, but they mar the children’s fellowship with their Father.
God, the King, wants his royal children to live lives worthy of their paternity and position.
Fifth, our adoption gives
the clue we need to see
our way through the problem o...
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This topic has been in constant dispute in the church ever si...
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L...
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used to distinguish between ...
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faith...
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belief of the Christian facts without response or commitment—an...
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“Faith,” declared Luther, “is a living deliberate confidence in the grace of God, so certain that for it one could die a thousand
deaths,
And he attacked “that pernicious doctrine of the Papists, which taught that no man knows certainly whether he be in the favour of God or not;
the Reformers recognized that fiducia, the assurance
of faith, could exist in a person who under temptation felt sure that it did not exist in him, and that he had no hope in God. (If this sounds paradoxical to you, be thankful that you have never been exposed to the kind of temptation that makes this the actual
state of your soul, as it was on occasion the actual state of Luther’s, and of...
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Cath...
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In answer to the Reformers they reaffirmed the standard medieval v...
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hopes for heaven, it can have no certainty of arriving there, and that to claim such ...
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The Puritans of the next century made a point of teaching that what is essential in faith is ...
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whether present or future, but vital repentance and commitme...
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Wesley in the eighteenth century echoed Luther’s insistence that the witness of the Spirit, with the resulting assurance, is of the essence of faith, though he later qualified this by distinguishing between the faith of a servant, of which assurance is no part,
and the faith of a son, of which it is.
Wesley held
that there can be no present assurance of persevering.
the
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debate continues, and continues to ...
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The tangle is formidable, but the
truth of adoption can help us unravel it.
If God in love has made Christians his children, and if he is perfect as a Father, two th...
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First, the family relationship must ...
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one, lasting ...
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Christians may act the prodigal, but God will not cease to act th...
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Second, God will go out of his way to make his children feel his love for them ...
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and security as members of ...
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Paul confirms both inferences. First, he tells us that those
