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Exalting  christ!

Why the Reformation Still Matters!

11/1/2017

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Every year, on October 31st, Halloween gets top billing.  Which is rather sad since there is nothing but darkness and death associated with it.

We in the church have a different reason for celebrating on October 31st and it is not simply an alternative to Halloween.  In fact, we are remembering a very special event when an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther, recently born-again through personal preparation and study in Romans and Galatians, when the Holy Spirit revealed to him and he realized that nobody is capable of attaining enough righteousness points with God to achieve salvation. 

Luther came to realize that only by Christ's work on the cross and the grace we don't deserve and the free gift of faith we are given can we be justified and forgiven.  By faith alone are we justified and thus, Christ's innocent sacrifice on the cross accomplished what no man could ever do.  An amazing and supernatural transaction takes place  as Jesus' righteousness is imputed to us (ie: credited to us).  Our guilt, through sin, is imputed on to Christ, even though He didn't deserve it.  He took the penalty in our place.  What an amazing gift of love God has done!  

This same message of love and hope is needed even now.  This message of justification by faith alone is desperately needed today.  God's Word and the message of justification by faith alone is still being used to transform hearts and lives, just as it was used by God to transform Luther into an obedient and faithful preacher who could write, "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it".  

The message of the Reformation still matters today...nothing has changed.  I invite you to click on the picture below and read the blog article from Ligonier Ministries to read more about this topic, "Why the Reformation Still Matters".  

Check back to this blog regularly for other posts focused upon how we might thrive as his servants!
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     ​This is the ministry blog of Robert Thomas Clark, It is designed to be a repository of inspiring, impactful & influential posts on biblical truth, themes and concepts, which brings insights and initiates inquisitiveness!. 

    I believe as the guys on "One-Minute Apologist" that we should be ready to provide "credible answers to curious questions".  

    ​I also believe in the inerrancy of God's Word as it is trustworthy and verifiable and tied to God's character of truthful.  Baucham has stated, "
    I choose to believe the Bible because it is a reliable collection of historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses.  They report supernatural events that took place in fulfillment of specific prophecies and they claim that their writings are divine rather than human in origin​"

    I desire nothing more than to exalt Christ and to lead and equip others for ministry in exegetical method and expository preaching and following hard after Christ, even as I serve alongside many of them!.

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    “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”  
    ​ --- Colossians 3:17


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    ​“There is no aspect of life but that the gospel has something to say about it.  The whole of life must come under its influence because it is all-inclusive; the gospel is meant to govern and control everything in our lives… We must realize the greatness of the gospel, its vast eternal span. We must dwell more on the riches, and in the riches, of these great doctrinal absolutes.”
    -- Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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