why we've grouped some questions around Obedience?
In the face of God’s sovereignty and His very real desire that all are saved, the reality that repentance could become impossible for anyone seems contradictory. And yet, that is exactly what the Hebrews writer states1. Is there really a [more]
Pastor Robert Morris says that your belief determines your behavior. From a sermon recorded in 2018:
“Your belief determines your behavior. So there are people that say they believe in Jesus, but they’ve never lived for him. Please [more]
Categories: Obedience, Reformed/CalvinismTags: calling on the Lord, faith, false teachers, heart, salvation
God’s irresistible grace, also referred to as the ‘effectual call’ in the Westminster Confession of Faith, is probably better known as “irresistible grace”. It represents the “I” in “TULIP” – a broader collection of doctrines ascribed [more]
Categories: God the Father, Obedience, Reformed/Calvinism, SalvationTags: doctrine, faith, false teaching, God, God's character, grace, providence, salvation, TULIP
Fear is a strong emotion with a fairly negative connotation. It’s generally not a good thing. Psychology Today gives advice about how to overcome fear. Therefore, “fear God” could leave the secular thinker with a negative [more]
Categories: ObedienceTags: definitions, faith, Greek words, heart, obey, Old Testament, proverbs, righteousness
It is such an important question. Can we lose our salvation? Or said another way: Can God’s grace be rejected? Can someone actually squander, neglect, or even return, as it were, their free gift from God?
There is a prevailing thought [more]
Categories: Obedience, Reformed/Calvinism, SalvationTags: faith, false teachers, false teaching, grace, salvation, TULIP
The act of baptism is well recorded in Scripture. Not only was it a tradition among the Hebrew people for centuries, but it is what at least one Bible character was know by (John the Baptist) and it was [more]
Categories: Obedience, SalvationTags: authority, baptism, doctrine, false teaching, grace, salvation, Scripture weighting, sin, sinners prayer, TULIP
