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Ever increasingly we hear from the modern world “Live your truth.” or “Be your authentic self, find your own identity.” while the gospel tells us who our Savior is. It tells us what our identity is in our natural state, but more importantly it tells us what our identity can be in Christ.
We cannot save ourselves, we cannot live out unnatural lives contrary to God’s design while demanding justification. Cling to the Cross, seek first the kingdom of God and lean on Him rather than yourself.
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“We need not fear that the smallness of our number will put us out of the list of Churches, for the Holy Spirit has here enrolled a family-church in the inspired book of remembrance.”
Today is Reformation Day. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther challenged the sale of indulgences with his Ninety-five Theses, testing the church’s practice by God’s Word.
What’s one teaching you once accepted that Scripture later corrected?
#ReformationDay
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“He owned thee, O my soul, in thy poverty and shame—never be so treacherous as to be ashamed of him.”
Peters doesn’t stop at exposing error. In the same article he urges believers to pray that false teachers repent and come to know the truth (2 Timothy 2:24–26). Guard the flock firmly, and pray for the wolf’s repentance.
#Discernment
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“Let not the doctrine that you, unaided, can do nothing, make you sleep; but let it be a goad in your side to drive you with an awful earnestness to Israel’s strong Helper.”
Your spouse is a man, pretending that he’s a woman.
You’re actively condoning both mental illness and enmity against God’s natural order for men and women.
You’re not a Christian.
At the cross, God’s justice and mercy met: sin fully punished, sinners fully forgiven.
When you consider what Christ endured there in your place, which truth about the cross moves you most, and why?
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“Thou hast opened mine eye to see thee, and the sight has saved me.”
Pink wrote this on Christ’s cry from the cross, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” The Son was forsaken as the sin-bearer in His people’s place. That is why God can promise every believer, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“To forget to praise God is to refuse to benefit ourselves; for praise, like prayer, is one great means of promoting the growth of the spiritual life.”
Church history isn’t a hall of flawless heroes. God kept His church through weak, flawed men, and He still does.
Which saint from the past, whether an apostle, Reformer, Puritan, or someone later, has most shaped how you follow Christ, and what did you learn from them?
From “Morning & Evening” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
“We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect his image, and yet how possible it is for us to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved!”
Luther, Calvin, and Knox are still household names, but MacArthur’s point is that the Reformation wasn’t their achievement. As ordinary people got the Scriptures in their own language, the Spirit used His Word to convert souls. That Word hasn’t lost its power.
Luther dated his Ninety-five Theses October 31, 1517, as a call to debate the sale of indulgences. Rome claimed a treasury of merits the pope could draw from. Luther pointed the church back to the treasure it already had: the gospel itself.
#Reformation
