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Matthew Pearson☩🌲

Matthew Pearson☩🌲

@_matthewpearson

Presbyterian

Florida, USA Katılım Kasım 2016
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Matthew Pearson☩🌲
Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
“In the Covenant of Nature, obedience and works were commanded as the cause of life and justification. In the Covenant of Grace, faith is required as the instrumental cause of remission and salvation, obedience as the qualification of the party justified, and the way leading to everlasting blessedness.” -John Ball, 𝐴 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒, ch. 3
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Some notes on WLC 32: -In order for interest in the Mediator, faith is required as the condition. -This faith is worked by the Spirit alongside other saving graces. -Holy obedience is enabled by the Spirit to serve as evidence of true faith and as the way appointed for salvation.

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Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
@RHB_Books I don’t like it because my financial circumstances don’t allow me to indulge in my base consumerist desires and throw absurd amounts of money at your material…
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Reformation Heritage Books
Reformation Heritage Books@RHB_Books·
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Ryan Rudolph@GRudolphRyan

I appreciate RHBs response and working at their current messaging practices. Difficult line to walk to want to get good quality resources out to people, without also spamming folks. Thank you RHB! @RHB_Books

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Jon Harris 🌲
Jon Harris 🌲@jonharris1989·
What some people don't get is that if you are looking for the exit because the writing is on the wall, or you've been a failure at previous endeavors, or the people who really know you don't trust you- the internet today, more than ever, provides a lifeline where you can position yourself as a success and take advantage of gullible people who want to believe it.
0HOUR1@0hour1

James Fishback's attorney quits after he refuses to pay the bill. 😂😂😂

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Jonathan Ramont@jonathanramont·
Make a covenant with your thumbs not to post about works you haven't read.
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Matthew Pearson☩🌲
Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
“Actual good works of all sorts (though not perfect in degree) are necessary to the continuance of actual justification, because faith can no longer lay faithful claim to the promises of life, then it doth virtually or actually lead us forward in the way to Heaven. For if we say, we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, 1 Joh. 1:6,7. This walking in the light, as he is in the light, is that qualification, whereby we become immediately capable of Christ's righteousness, or actual participants of his propitiation, which is the sole immediate cause of our justification, taken for remission of sins, or actual approbation with God.” -John Ball, 𝐴 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒, ch. 3
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D. Patrick Ramsey
D. Patrick Ramsey@dprmsy·
Everyone should read John Ball on the covenant of grace. In case you don't know who he was, here is a brief article I wrote about him: placefortruth.org/why-bother-wit…
Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson

“Actual good works of all sorts (though not perfect in degree) are necessary to the continuance of actual justification, because faith can no longer lay faithful claim to the promises of life, then it doth virtually or actually lead us forward in the way to Heaven. For if we say, we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, 1 Joh. 1:6,7. This walking in the light, as he is in the light, is that qualification, whereby we become immediately capable of Christ's righteousness, or actual participants of his propitiation, which is the sole immediate cause of our justification, taken for remission of sins, or actual approbation with God.” -John Ball, 𝐴 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒, ch. 3

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Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
Thomas Watson doesn’t directly answer this question, but he has an interesting note related to it: “Some of the learned are of the opinion, that we shall know our friends in heaven. This seem very probable to me; for surely our knowledge there shall not be eclipsed or diminished, but increased. And that which Anselm asserts, that we shall have a knowledge of the patriarchs, and prophets, and apostles, all that were before us, and shall be after us, our predecessors and successors, to me seems very rational. For society without acquaintance is not comfortable, and I think the scripture does hint this much. If Peter and James, having but a glimpse of glory, (when our Lord was transfigured on the mount), were able to know Moses and Elijah, whom they had never seen before, how much more shall we, being infinitely irradiated and enlightened with the Sun of Righteousness, know all the saints, though we were never acquainted with them before! This will be very comfortable. Certainly there will be nothing lacking; which may complete the saints’ happiness!”
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Kevin Fernandez
Kevin Fernandez@sincead33·
Do any commentators speculate on how the apostles knew it was Moses and Elijah talking to Jesus at the Transfiguration? Internal illumination?
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Matthew Pearson☩🌲
Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
“Do not think that you are saved if you are a drunken pig day and night. This is a great sin, and everybody should know that this is such a great iniquity, that it makes you guilty and excludes you from eternal life. Everybody should know that such a sin is contrary to his baptism and hinders his faith and his salvation. Therefore, if you wish to be a Christian, take care that you control yourself. If you do not wish to be saved, go ahead and steal, rob, profiteer as long as you can… But if you do want to be saved, then listen to this: just as adultery and idolatry close up heaven, so does gluttony... Therefore be watchful and sober. That is what is preached to us, who want to be Christians... A drunkard is not dissuaded from his drinking by reason any more than a murderer, an adulterer, whoremonger, or usurer...What should move you is that God forbids it on pain of damnation and loss of the kingdom of heaven." -Martin Luther, Sermon on Soberness and Moderation against Gluttony and Drunkenness 1 Pet. 4:7-11, May 18, 1539
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Bob Cook ☧
Bob Cook ☧@Catholic_Bob·
1. Luther said a man could commit fornication and murder 1000 times a day and not lose his justification This is substantially true in wording, though the phrasing varies slightly across sources, and the intent is often misunderstood. • The statement comes from a personal letter Luther wrote to his close collaborator Philipp Melanchthon on August 1, 1521. The full relevant excerpt (from Luther’s Works, American Edition, vol. 48, p. 282) reads:
“Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly… No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.”
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𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝙶𝙴𝙽 ☦️ 🏵
𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝙶𝙴𝙽 ☦️ 🏵@Degenwillape·
I'm convinced Brandon is a Lutheran in disguise. If he's not, it's gotta be some kind of sin to be this stupid. Thanks for the easy dubs and converts from lies like these!
Brandon 🦂@exRhenum

Martin Luther: - said a man could commit fornication and murder 1000 times a day and not lose his justification - came up with justification by faith alone on the toilet - admitted to having many interactions with the devil Yet thousands of heretics still follow him. Unreal.

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Jonathan J. McKenzie
Jonathan J. McKenzie@JonMcK1647·
It’s made concrete my basic feeling about content creation the last year. Namely, that if i have nothing original to say or a particularly helpful angle to contribute, it’s probably best I keep my mouth shut. Anyway, in other news, I posted an article defending Sola Fide, which no one has ever done before.
Jonathan J. McKenzie@JonMcK1647

I’m enjoying the old Twitter-ish-ness of Substack, but the feed it’s giving me is kind of awful. A million “Why TULIP is NOT Enough” and “Anglicanism as Mystical Third Way” and “CS Lewis as Modern Aragorn” etc etc for every one phenomenal or helpful article worth my time.

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Jonathan J. McKenzie@JonMcK1647·
@_matthewpearson In some sense I want block you, in another sense I want to give you a firm “well done” handshake, in yet another I want I have you and all those you love deported to Canada to sit in timeout until we annex it.
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Jonathan J. McKenzie
Jonathan J. McKenzie@JonMcK1647·
If the phrase "in some sense" is in your writing, do not post it, publish it, or turn it in unless you specify the sense. I am especially looking at you Biblical Theology guys. Not requiring basic logic and categories to be memorized and learned in contemporary Biblical and Theological academia has lead to poor communication and muddied thinking. Ridderbos on union with Christ is a great example of this.
Jonathan J. McKenzie@JonMcK1647

"In some sense" should also be immediately met with "in what sense." Friends don't let friends not specify their sense.

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Matthew Pearson☩🌲
Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
Some notes on WLC 32: -In order for interest in the Mediator, faith is required as the condition. -This faith is worked by the Spirit alongside other saving graces. -Holy obedience is enabled by the Spirit to serve as evidence of true faith and as the way appointed for salvation.
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Q. 32. How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant? A. The grace of God is manifested in the second covenant, in that he freely provideth and offereth to sinners a Mediator, and life and salvation by him; and, requiring faith as the condition to interest them in him, promiseth and giveth his Holy Spirit to all his elect, to work in them that faith, with all other saving graces; and to enable them unto all holy obedience, as the evidence of the truth of their faith and thankfulness to God, and as the way which he hath appointed them to salvation.

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Matthew Pearson☩🌲@_matthewpearson·
John Ball on whether a lack of perfect obedience makes one a covenant [of grace] breaker, per scriptural commands to keep God’s law: “Which must not so be understood, as if he that did of frailty and infirmity offend in any one jot or tittle, should be held a Covenant breaker: for then no man should be innocent, but the promise must be interpreted according as the Law or rule of obedience is given, which calleth for perfection but accepteth sincerity. In the Covenant of mercy we bind ourselves to believe and rest upon God with the whole heart, so as doubting or distrust of weakness and infirmity, must be acknowledged a sin, but every such frailty doth not argue the person to be a transgressor of the Covenant. And the same holds true of obedience.” -John Ball, 𝐴 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒, ch. 3
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