What if you already have Christ and enjoy Him but you aren’t content in other things?

Love so much of what brother Mike Kruger says here as with all of his lectures both included, guys. Reformed Theology'll always make the most sense to me. In order for us to grow in grace, we must extend grace to whomever we encounter otherwise we deceive ourselves. Don't underpin the petty legalism of the world's rudiments. God always unites, the world's finiteness divides. It's not just about the individual, God wants everyone to know him and to have Jesus' perfect love abiding in them, the fruits of the Spirit as Paul mentions all throughout the Galatian epistle. That's 'part of our great commission even to fill ourselves with the characteristics of Jesus and the edification that only comes from knowing him. That's what the Church is as God's spiritual or fulfilled Israel from one perspective of being one big family consisting of all Christians everywhere. We have endless labels or categories we always place on ourselves whereas God's only class in some respects is that he says, "You're Christian and I love you completely." I believe the very text from what Paul records in Romans twelve, doctrinally the very basis for being winsome. It's the only consistent way that we'll ever reform the planet for the better. "Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what's honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil WITH GOOD." -Romans 12: 17-18 and 21, ESV. Thanks so much for everything that RTS' faculty's done for so many people. God bless and take care.

Can you see how stupid this statement is? "The Quran is true because the Quran says it's true."

Praise God being my all when I had nothing, praise God for being my all when I have everything! I therefore bind to hell every desire to be too easily impressed about the things the world offers while binding one to be in awe with the presence of God only in my life, the lives of my family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquitances, opponents, the children I teach and the body of Christ, binding to hell every unequal yoke and common share with anyone lacking desire to be in awe with the presence of God only while desiring being too easily impressed by the things the world has to offer, in accordance with this word and 1 john 2:16, psalm 33:8, 2 corinthians 6:14-18 in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah, glory to God ❤.

Whoever told you to read the teleprompter was pranking you... the new perspective is right and the teleprompter is wrong.

Looking forward to the interview with DeYoung and Mathison.

Go clearly you do not know biblical Doctrine.

you are clueless, jews and gentile are not the same... ashamed you know about dispensationalism yet dont understand the truth

I must want to, plan to, & then do as best as I realistically can by the Spirit's help. Amen! You cannot deepen in something you do not intentionally practice. There is no magical how-to formula nor silver bullet answer. Thank you Prof!

This explanation seems to reduce "my devotional life" to regular, programmatic Bible reading. I think there's probably more to "growing" or "deepening" our devotional lives than that.

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Great listen here. The Christian worldview truly is the biggest, most all-encompassing one in existence. And that's because the God Who has revealed Himself IS. These are 2 of my favorite seminary professors at RTS Charlotte. May our Lord bless their respective academic work & ministries to serve our Lord's church for many years to come.

Fascinating

Well done great explanation of the two views.

While the explanation is pretty fair, I see NO way to argue against dispensationalism. When we come to any given text, we're to find out, not just who God is speaking TO, but who God is speaking ABOUT. In o/words, the historical-grammatical approach is not only the most LOGICAL, but I don't think it can be argued against, convincingly.

In short- not by a long shot. It changes the definitions of what words mean, but in different ways depending on what is needed to try to keep Reformed philosophy semi coherent. In some ways; it's an exact inversion of the real gospel (the L in the TULIP); in other ways- it can be accurate depending on how it's understood.

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Theonomy is actually anti-Christian.

As soon as you mentioned the Nestle text, you lost me....

Your view is what the late Pastor Rosenberger introduced to me a couple decades ago. It is this realization that led him to the RPCNA and exclusive psalmody. Once you find Christ in the Psalms, you cannot unsee it, either when they bring glory to his works described in them or the mercy we find in him as we cry out with the psalmist. As he said, “It is necessary to fulfill all the things written in the Law of Moses and the prophets and Psalms concerning me.”

Excellent. Thank you for this overview.

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Not sure I understood anything. This video sounds like an intentional attempt to obfuscate the NP ...

When I think of how many times I’ve seen parents ask for prayer for children to come back after walking away from the Lord. I would of course but I think the majority as my own have shown they were never true believers. They just knew it made me happy and went along until high school and professed their atheism. I pray for their salvation not to “come back.” Great message here Dr Kruger👍

How sad, that young man didn’t drift away he hopped in a rocket and blasted away😳

True. We began as one in the beginning but there's always a setting apart or separation from evil. Noah and Abraham in Genesis. Moses and Israel set apart in Exodus and beyond. God is still preserving Israel for their final promises in the End Times. In the history of the Reformation we still have a ways to go on hammering out eschatology.

What if this has happened to me but now I want to come?

I need to read more Bavinck ! Great teaching skills , think I’d like to watch more .

dispensationalists are heathens by definition

Calvinism is definitely not Christian; it's demonic. Don't be fooled by familiar terminology, as Calvinism is a seducing spirit and a doctrine of demons. You didn't expand the Bible, you lying narrator. It's the Word of God. To all Calvinists -- you're in a demonic cult, and if you were to die now, you would go to Hell, so yes, you'd better accept Christ.

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Thank you. This is excellent as always. However, what you fail you mention is the literal kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. We have the microcosm of the heavenly kingdom on earth through the church. Membership, baptism of believers, and repentance and faith, are all tied to this kingdom come. To pray his kingdom come is to pray for his believers to come to the fold. Why would we have a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH? The new earth is obvious, but a new heaven is a bit obscure. It hints at even the heavens are bound to be recreated.

Praise The LORD !!!

Amen!

I feel like God left me But i have faith I think God left me

To say that Arminius had a different view of the Trinity might be misleading. To deny that Christ is autotheos is well within classical trinitarianism, just not reformed orthodoxy. But even then, some reformed orthodox theologians went along with Arminius on that point.

When you mention Arminius’ motivating factors being assurance and free will, you aren’t wrong. But you should also mention, along with free will, God’s justice. That was huge too.

"he spent the whole of his life preaching through the books of the bible" is not true...He was schooled in philosophy and law and turned to theology later

Sounds like reading the Trinity into the Bible. Jesus is absolutely subordinate to the Father. "Thy will be done". They can share glory and spirit as that is the will of the Father. Jesus submits to one. The Father submits to none.

"Reformation theology" ......lol

God will keep his promises to the Jewish people. I think dispensational and covenant thinkers agree on that. The difference is, some dispensational thinkers in Schofield’s time believed that the promises to the Jews were purely earthly, whereas Christians had a spiritual destiny. This belief is not common now. I’m glad. Some Christians spiritualize the Old Testament promises. They consider them only metaphorical or rhetorical. I believe that to be an error, too. If you take the Bible to be the word of God, both the Old and New Testaments, you have to believe that God keeps his promises.

It was a deformation. The newly man made invention of sola scriptura decapitated scripture from the faith from which it came. Its fruit was, is, and shall ever be: doctrinal chaos, confusion and division. It too made Jesus out to be undependable and a liar. He utterly failed to lead his church to ALL TRJTH as he promised.

Amen!

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Thank you for sharing this message. A very powerful reminder.

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Thank you for this excellent, succinct, easy to understand explanation.

With all due respect, Dr Waters explained 1 Cor 9 just like a theonomist would. No theonomist is claiming we should copy and paste the civil law but rather see the civil law as applying principles, even the moral law, to everyday life. Pay workers what they're due is an example of theonomy. Each case might be different but the principle which is applied to each case is the same

I haven't seen many infants getting drunk and excluding others from the Lord's Supper, so I'm pretty sure they're good.