Fellowship with the Father, and with the Son, and with the Holy Spirit. . . Nothing in the universe is better!

John the Baptist's Dad said this. The Bible is telling one story. God spoke in the past. God promised mercy. God remembers what he said. He keeps his oaths. God is merciful. I dare you to read LUKE 1.

“Modern atheism boasts about putting God on trial. God does not measure up to their standards. A triune God does not measure up to their standards of rationality: How can three be one? A God who expresses jealous wrath against His enemies and His people, or a God who orders the slaughter of the Canaanites, does not measure up to their standards of morality. Atheists think they are being daring, cutting edge, innovative, creative, when they subject God to their own standards, and find that He does not measure up. Hardly. Modern atheists are simply repeating the gestures that we find in the gospel story itself.” Leithart

And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said [SAYS] to him, “You have said so.” Matthew writes the praesens historicum “says” (not “said”) because what Jesus says here is of permanent significance—he is still saying it. (Dale Bruner)

“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. —Jude

'Without Scripture, the whole world would be plunged into the obscurity of deep-shadowed darkness." Henri de Lubac

And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. Revelation 21:6 “There is no God except the God who freely gives living water to the thirsty.” (Leithart)

sinful men want to play god. They want to impose and legislate their fantasies onto the world. When other people resist his totalitarian designs, the sinner resorts to violence to get his way.

Christ is: the image of God, the first-born of every creature, the head of the Church, the beginning and first-born from the dead that in all things he might have the pre-eminence His name should be proclaimed to the whole world, that he is the Lord of all creatures, and placed above all things which are either in heaven or in earth

Scripture “contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains everything we need God to tell us for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obeying him perfectly.” The Bible is perfect.

Nine reasons why people do not believe in God: 1. Satan 2. The perversity of the human heart 3. Foolishness 4. Ignorance of God, of Christ, and of his promises and benefits 5. Love and desire for sin 6. Fear of persecution 7. Self-love 8. Excessive faintheartedness 9. Contempt of grace

Westminster Shorter Catechism: Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.

They crown your head with thorns, they smite, they scourge you; with cruel mockings to the cross they urge you; they give you gall to drink, they still decry you; they crucify you. Whence come these sorrows, whence this mortal anguish? It is my sins for which you, Lord, must languish; yes, all the wrath, the woe that you inherit, this I do merit. What punishment so strange is suffered yonder! The Shepherd dies for sheep that loved to wander; the Master pays the debt his servants owe him, who would not know him. The sinless Son of God must die in sadness, the sinful child of man may live in gladness; we forfeited our lives, yet are acquitted; God is committed. I’ll think upon your mercy without ceasing, that earth’s vain joys to me no more be pleasing; to do your will shall be my sole endeavor henceforth forever. And when, dear Lord, before your throne in heaven to me the crown of joy at last is given, where sweetest hymns your saints forever raise you, I too shall praise you.

O dearest Jesus, what law have you broken that such sharp sentence should on you be spoken? Of what great crime have you to make confession, what dark transgression?

“That which the thrust of the spear ascertained as a fact, the burial colored and characterized, and thus made public.” Klaas Schilder

Adam’s sin was a failure to make war on the serpent.

"Religious liberty was a development that grew up out of the Protestant West. It is our baby. We invented it. So people shouldn’t talk as though a decided Protestant culture is the enemy of such liberty . . . it is the historic foundation for it."

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