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“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.” —Nahum 1:7

Why read your Bible this week? John 15:11 - "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full."

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A newborn melts hearts by kissing his mother right after birth

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BREAKING🚨: PETER JACKSON announces NEW Lord of the Rings movie!!! Focusing on Chapters 3-8 of The Fellowship of the Ring!!

“Satan cannot hold you, sin cannot enchain you, even despair cannot bind you.” — Charles Spurgeon

Tesla engineers on the next-gen Optimus V3 hand: "As we go into gen-3 and into mass production, we are getting very close to human functionality and form factor. It won't even look like a robot. It will look like a human in a superhero suit. It will be something revolutionary."

The righteous judgement of God. Listen to Geoff Thomas explain God's righteousness, our unrighteousness, and the ONLY solution. 'And the Lord laid on him the wickedness of us all.' (Isa. 53:6)

@JoelHalcomb @TomHicks2LCF Loyalty is not Faith Loyalty is a fruit of faith Loyalty is imperfect Christ is perfect. We trust Him Faith is Believing or Trusting Christ Faith & Grace go together Faith receives Gods free gift of salvation which He gives not to the loyal but to the undeserving.

@TomHicks2LCF Faith is loyalty or allegiance to Jesus the Messiah, Gods anointed king It requires human decision & action

Faith is part of the salvation we receive. Faith is itself one of Christ’s merits. This should not be controversial among the Reformed.

@rootcausesleuth @RefRetrieval @_DHDS Psalm 24:3–4 “Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in His holy place? Hebrews 9:24 “Christ has entered… into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” Only He was righteous & worthy of entering Gods presence. He did that “for us”

@RefRetrieval @_DHDS What are “Christ’s merits”?

Faith is the condition to receive salvation and all of Christ’s merits. This should not be controversial.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. —Colossians 4:6

The last words of John Owen (1616-1683) - “I am going to Him whom my soul loveth, or rather who has loved me with an everlasting love, which is the sole ground of all my consolation.”

It is extremely important to distinguish between faith as the ground of our justification (wrong) versus faith as instrument of our justification (right). Justification is grounded upon the obedience and satisfaction of Christ; that is the “stuff” of the righteousness we receive from Him. Faith is merely the (sole) instrument—the empty hand—by which we lay hold of His righteousness. If you construe faith as the ground rather than the mere instrument of justification—if the stuff of our righteousness is our believing—then you make faith into a work and the Gospel into a new law. This excerpt from Horatius Bonar explains this distinction well. the-highway.com/Faith_Bonar.ht… “Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing, the Saviour is another. Faith is one thing, and the cross is another. Let us not confound them, nor ascribe to a poor, imperfect act of man, that which belongs exclusively to the Son of the Living God.”

@XFreeze Optimus 3 is in the same league as Raptor 3

Just as our acceptance with God must come through the righteousness of Christ, so our power to live the Christian life must come from Christ as well. As Jesus indicated in John 15:5, we have no ability within ourselves to grow. All of the ability must come from Him.

Scripture refuses to let “covenant” be reduced to a mere promise with an attached obligation. At Sinai, Israel does not simply receive a relationship; they enter an oath (Deut 29:12), swear to its terms (Exod 24:7), bind themselves under curse (Deut 29:14–21), and stand before witnesses who will prosecute them when they break it (Deut 31:26–29). The Song of Moses is not a narrative reflection but a formal covenant lawsuit (Deut 32), complete with indictment, witnesses, verdict, and sentence. Leviticus 26 escalates sanctions exactly like ANE suzerain‑vassal treaties, and Jeremiah 31:32 explicitly says the covenant was broken, something only a bilateral, legal covenant can be. These texts don’t describe providential consequences or storyline developments; they describe a courtroom. And if Sinai is a courtroom, then covenant cannot be flattened into “promise + obligation,” and the New Covenant cannot be reduced to fulfillment language alone — it must be legally, structurally, covenantally new.#MGKline #ProgressiveCovenantalist

Don’t just try to read the Bible more. Become the kind of person who wouldn’t go a day without hearing from God.

Luther: “The rich and divine bridegroom, Christ, marries this poor, wicked harlot, redeems her from all her evil, and adorns her with all his goodness. Her sins cannot now destroy her, since they are laid upon Christ and swallowed up by him.”