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Live as You Were Called (1 Cor 7:10-24)
What is the secret to being happy? If you are unhappy, the problem is either (1) your circumstances or (2) you. We have a lot of ground to cover today, so I’ll cut to the chase: Paul doesn’t think the problem with our lack of contentment is our circumstances.
10 To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, she should…
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The Power of Sex (1 Cor 7:1-9)
The Bible is God’s inspired, infallible, and inerrant word. “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work,” (2 Tim 3:16-17).
One test of whether or not we believe that verse is what we do when we encounter teachings in the Bible that strikes us…
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The Power of Sex (1 Cor 6:15-20)
Sex and marriage have often been a place where the world and the church divide. Our cultural morays around sex have long since left the idea of sex being restricted to marriage. So, today people are getting married later and later in life, having fewer and fewer children, or foregoing marriage and children entirely. Roman culture in Late Antiquity had a very high view of marriage. Marriage was a…
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God, the Body, and Sex (1 Cor 6:12-20)
How many times a day do you blink? 100? 500? A thousand? You blink 14,000 times a day, so much that your eyes are shut for 23 minutes every day. Yet, you don’t even think about it, even though if you stopped blinking you would irreparably damage your eyeball in short order. Our body is able to do all kinds of critical life-saving care, all without our conscious thought. For instance, from the…
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Such Were Some of You (1 Cor 6:9-11)
What should we think about the tragedy going on in the Middle-East? The only other event in modern history where more Jews died was the Holocaust. But, equally tragic, even more Palestinians—many of whom do not support Hamas, and some of whom are our brothers and sisters in Christ—have died in Israel’s retaliatory strikes. Six thousand bombs have been dropped on an area only slightly larger than…
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When Do Tongues and Prophecy Cease?
(In my second article on “The Best Arguments for Cessationism” I mentioned that I would address the argument for the continuation of the gifts based on 1 Corinthians 13:8-13. I addressed this matter directly in a sermon I recently preached, Heaven Is a World of Love. The following is an excerpt from that sermon.)
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will…
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#1 Corinthians 13:8-13#cessationism#continuationism#Holy Spirit#Prophecy#spiritual gifts#the bible#The church#Tongues
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The Best Arguments for Cessationism (Pt. 3)
This is part three of a summary of the best arguments for cessationism. You can read part one and part two, and the best arguments for continuationism here.
Experiential Arguments
Experiential arguments are not terribly persuasive since they are limited to the experiences of the individual, and those experiences themselves must be interpreted. Yet, while lacking deductive power, they may be the…
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The following is a lengthy excerpt from Robert L. Saucy’s chapter “An Open But Cautious View” in Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Four Views. Although Saucy is not defending the Cessationist perspective (Richard B. Gaffin Jr.), his chapter leans fairly strongly in that direction, particularly when he addresses the issue of church history.
The conclusion that the era of Christ and the early…
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The Best Arguments for Cessationism (Pt. 2)
This is part two of The Best Cessationist Arguments
(See The Best Arguments for Continuationism)
(More) Biblical Arguments
First, when considering whether or not we should expect miracles, healings, and exorcisms to be performed today in the same way it was performed in the time of Jesus and the apostles, we should realize (1) how rare these kinds of miracles are in Scripture and (2) what…
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The Best Arguments for Cessationism (Part 1)
In my previous article I attempted to provide what I thought were the best arguments for continuationism—a view that states that all or most of the spiritual gifts practiced in the New Testament continue today. While I am not finally persuaded by those arguments, I admit they are very strong. This is a difficult subject to be dogmatic about and all Christians should treat each other charitably in…
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Our church has been going through the book of 1 Corinthians for some time now and we are just rounding the corner on 1 Corinthians 12, leading us into a lengthy discussion of spiritual gifts (charismata). Anyone who reads these passages (and other similar ones in the NT) are left with many questions. Should we expect to experience gifts of prophecy, tongues, and healings too?
There are basically…
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#1 Cor 12-14#Andrew Wilson#Bible#cessationism#Charles Spurgeon#Christianity#continuationism#God#Holy Spirit#Jesus#Jesus Christ#spiritual gifts
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Why Not Rather Suffer Wrong? (1 Cor 6:1-8)
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do…
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What Is the "Head Covering" of 1 Cor 11?
1 Corinthians 11:2-16 is complex for many reasons. One of the most bedeviling difficulties for interpreters is discerning what Paul precisely means by “covering” in this section. Generally, there are two possible interpretations, each with serious merit. I will be preaching a sermon on this passage soon, but have found a number of complex issues to wade through that wouldn’t be helpful to include…
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Who Are You to Judge? (1 Cor 5:9-13)
No one likes a hypocrite. We are frustrated when someone claims to be for something, but their actions prove otherwise. If a politician vows to be pro-life when candidating, but then recoils from enacting legislation when in office, his constituency is frustrated. If a business claims to care for the environment, but then dumps toxic waste into the ocean, its customers are angry. When I tell my…
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Ought You Not Rather to Mourn? (1 Cor 5:1-8)
Ireland for a long time was the most thoroughly Christianized nations in Europe, retaining a much higher percentage of practicing Christians than any other European country. The authority of the Catholic church in particular was staggering, so much so that many assumed that to be Irish was to be Catholic. Yet, today, Ireland is now the most secular of all European countries. The country is…
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Humble Confidence (1 Cor 3:18-4:5)
Vincent Van Gogh, the renown Dutch painter, was one of the most prolific artists of all time. In only a short nine years of painting, Vincent created 860 oil paintings and 1,240 sketches, watercolors, and prints over his life, on top of his 900 letters he wrote. He averaged nearly a hundred paintings a year, whereas the other famed Dutch painter, Rembrandt, only 15. He became such a landmark…
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Purging Egypt Out of Israel
As Moses is writing the Exodus narrative down, he is doing so with a certain purpose: a theological purpose.
Remember: Israel had been in the land of Egypt for 430 years before the Exodus event. That is long enough to have the culture of Egypt seep into the Hebrews. Further, when the Israelites leave, we are told that a “mixed multitude” go up with them (Ex 12:38). This most clearly refers to…
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#Aaron#Egypt#exodus#Exodus 7:8-13#God#John Currid#Kenneth A. Kitchen#moses#pharaoh#Serpent#Staff of God#the bible
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