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@iamrjknight Did Paul shape you or the HolySpirit shape you? Was it Peter or was it God's Spirit? Was it the female donkey that shaped Balaam (Num22:28) or was it God? ✴️Isa42:8 "I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols"

A Soldier Has Gone Home There are men who shape you without ever knowing your name. Albert N. Martin (He went to be with the Lord last evening). was that kind of man for more people than he ever knew, and I am one of them. I never sat in a pew at Trinity Baptist Church in Montville. I never shook his hand or looked him in the eye or told him what his ministry meant to a self taught believer sitting alone in Madurai, India trying to understand what it meant to preach the whole counsel of God without apology and without flinching. But through the sermons that found their way across the ocean and into my ears in the early 2015, he walked beside me through some of the most formative years of my theological life and left marks that are still visible in everything I write and everything I believe about what faithful ministry looks like. He was not a man who preached for comfort. Anyone who spent time under his ministry knows that. He preached for eternity. He carried the weight of the pulpit the way a man carries something he knows will outlast him, with both hands, with his full strength, with the kind of seriousness that communicated to everyone listening that what was being handled was not his opinion but the living Word of the living God. There was a generation of preachers who treated the pulpit as a platform for their personality and Albert Martin was not among them. He stood under the text. He stayed under it. He drove his people into it with the tenacity of a man who believed that the Word of God was the only thing sufficient for the souls in front of him and that anything less than its full and honest proclamation was a betrayal of the trust placed in him. Hebrews 13:7 says to remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you, and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith. That verse was written for moments like this one. Albert Martin spoke the Word of God. He spoke it clearly, faithfully, without the softening that would have made it more palatable and less powerful. And the result of his conduct across nine decades of life and decades of ministry is visible in the men he trained, the church he shepherded, the sermons that travelled far beyond New Jersey and found people in places he never visited and changed them in ways he never knew about. I am one of those people and I know I am not alone. He made it to ninety one years and a handful of days. That is a long life by any measure but it is a short life when you consider what it was filled with. Decades of preaching. Decades of shepherding. Decades of pouring the Word of God into people who needed it and refusing to pour anything else when something easier would have been more convenient. He ran a long race and he ran it well and he finished it in the only way that matters, with the faith he started with still intact and the Christ he preached still the foundation of everything he was. "I have fought the good fight I have finished the course I have kept the faith" 2 Timothy 4:7. Those words belonged to Paul but they fit Albert Martin today with the kind of precision that only a life fully given can earn. The solider has gone home and the King he served was waiting at the finish line. Well done good and faithful servant. Well done. Rest now, Albert. You have earned it.

@Truth_matters20 Because you are not part of the CalvinisticReformed (s)elect.

God HATES abortion.

@RealBrysonGray You are one of the biblically illiterate, who has no idea about the GOSPEL: the Good News of the freegift of Salvation in Christ Jesus.

I’m so tired of seeing biblically illiterate people make claims about the Bible

@MichaelNix1068 @iamrjknight @johnmacarthur @RCSproul If a pastor takes tithes then he will be more wealthier.

@HisLifeNMe @iamrjknight @johnmacarthur @RCSproul If your pastor sells bestselling books, he is most likely going to be wealthier than you.

Something to ponder on.

@sola_chad Yes, but after man has been found by God, he has to prove he has been found by God by evidence showing that he is now seeking God after God has found him‼️ Faith without works⁉️🤷🏻‍♂️ #LordshipSalvationHeresy

@RealBrysonGray Why aren't you considered, at the bare minimum, a "church father"? Aren't you a 💯 scripture-knowing perfect law-keeper? What is the negative that keeps you from being recognised atleast as a "church father"?

The scriptures say do not think of men above what is written. If you know more about church fathers than you do the scriptures…then you’re doomed.

@oliverburdick But salvation is in my work of repentance from my sins right❓ Or have you found out what true New Covenant repentance is⁉️🤷🏻‍♂️ 👇🏻

Christ and Christ alone.

@HomemakingLady Why then do these folks keep listening to @RCSproul's psychological drivel⁉️

When a Christian starts quoting psychology—like it’s legit

@taco_talks Probably 1% of what you are saying is correct. If the Old Covenant "repentance" based on God's Law could've saved man there'd have been no need for Jesus' death. Today repentance is to change our mind from repenting of trusting the Law (OT) towards trust in Christ (NT). 👇🏻

Eternal Security Is Biblical. Those who deny it are typically not Christians to begin with.

@JCRyle Hey @paulwasher do you think that writer of Psalms 119, had hidden God's Word in his heart when he lusted, raped, lied & murdered?

How do we guard our heart? -Paul Washer

@RealBrysonGray How about idolatry of the Law (the Torah), which is passing away?

Mocking idolatry is biblical, actually.

@CovenantReform2 @5Solas2 Does Jesus call for human choice or prove divine predestined (before creation) fate in Mat 10:32-33?

@HisLifeNMe @5Solas2 If you believe salvation depends on human choice, then you believe in works, not grace. You also contradict Romans 9:16.

I talked to a Mormon who said they don't believe in multiple gods. Was he being honest?

@iamrjknight So basically in your REFORMED THEORY 👇🏻

We do not “unlearn” truth by our own effort and then arrive at God. Left to ourselves, we do not move toward truth, we suppress it. “There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God” (Romans 3:11). The issue is not just wrong ideas; it is a heart that prefers them. What actually happens is this. God confronts us by His Word and Spirit. He exposes what we have believed. He does not wait for us to clean our minds first. He brings light, and that light exposes darkness. “The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:5). Yes, people cling to lies and resist truth. That part is accurate. “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie” (Romans 1:25). And when someone lives long enough in error, truth can feel offensive or even false. “The natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God… he cannot understand them” (1 Corinthians 2:14). But here is the correction. We are not saved by unlearning. We are saved by God opening our eyes. “Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law” (Psalm 119:18). When He does that, falsehood begins to fall away, not because we mastered it, but because truth has taken hold of us. So the core idea stands, but the order matters. Truth does not wait for us to clear space. Truth breaks in, exposes, and then renews.

@TodAshby The Law is the ministry of death (2Cor3:7). The Law is the power of sin (1Cor15:56). The Law stands against man (Col2:14). Jesus removed the Law on the Cross (Col2:14). That's why the believer has been delivered from the Law (Rom 7:6).

Romans 7 - The Law is good. I am not. The Law is holy, righteous, and good (Rom. 7:12) so the problem is sin, not the law The commandment reveals sin and even provokes it (Rom. 7:8). Not because the Law is flawed or bad, but because the heart is. “I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate” (Rom. 7:15). This is the ongoing conflict in the Christian’s life. The mind delights in the law of God, yet another law wages war within (Rom. 7:22–23). So the issue is not information. It is inability. Nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh (Rom. 7:18). The Law can expose sin, but It cannot free from it. It can command righteousness, but cannot produce it. Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death? (Rom. 7:24) If the Law cannot save, where does deliverance come from?

@David_wthebeard No, the fool is the one who wrote Proverbs. 👇🏻

@CovenantReform2 True conversion 👇🏻

@CovenantReform2 @5Solas2 God's grace is grace. Undeserved favor for both Jews & Gentiles alike (as per Rom9) who acknowledge the Savior. CalvinisticReformed luck is different it's roll of the dice performed before creation by the CalvinisticReformed Theory god. It's the exact opposite of grace.

@HisLifeNMe @5Solas2 That you consider God's grace "luck" shows that you don't know what grace is or who God is.