tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post8808107762735437900..comments2024-03-15T07:24:22.608+00:00Comments on Life on Wings - A Tribute to Dr Ern Baxter: Dr Lloyd-Jones on Imputed RighteousnessDan Bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-32256100103424138772008-12-21T20:35:00.000+00:002008-12-21T20:35:00.000+00:00I think the biggest leap forward that has been mad...I think the biggest leap forward that has been made this year...and one main strand has come out of Hong Kong is this....<BR/>If I sin...I don't try doubly hard not to sin...or even go through some religious ritual of confession ( I differ a bit from Rob in that I believe there is a place for a Holy Spirit type of facing up to the truth and I believe this is what the Bible means when it uses the phrase confession)<BR/>but the religious -type of processes we've gone through for 2000 years...don't work.<BR/>It's rather, something like riding a bike. If you're foolish enough to fall off...with sin it is being enticed by our own lusts...but if we do fall off...the answer is not to carry on pushing the bike to avoid more problems. This is like religion. It's doubly hard and absolutely useless. It's hard enough progressing on by walking...but walking and pushing a bike is positively exhausting and not what it's there for.<BR/><BR/><BR/>No ...like bike riding which is a skill of learning to balance...the walk of faith is a question of believing. When Abraham failed as he often did...he didn't grit his teeth and say a few hail Mary's or whatever was the equivalent...he carried on with believing his calling...though humanly impossible. And this believing was credited to him as righteousness.<BR/>In the same way, we don't look at ourselves...we don't reproach ourselves...we get back on the bike of faith and learn to balance again...saying " I believe I died 2000 years ago...it is not me that live...but Christ who lives in me...the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God. And I accept absolutely no condemnation."Chris Welch - 07000INTUNEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17932291173536070080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-24845074015607356082008-12-20T23:20:00.000+00:002008-12-20T23:20:00.000+00:00A note on the "Sanctification" quote from Dr Lloyd...A note on the "Sanctification" quote from Dr Lloyd-Jones. The Calvinistic doctrine of the "total depravity of man" has led some to believe that there is nothing good in man and inherently we want to do wrong. While Lloyd-Jones was indeed a Calvinist - he backed up the third quote I included from the Romans series from some sermons in Acts (again - a birthday present!) and said:<BR/><BR/>"Men and women have always known that there is something wrong. Indeed they have always known that they are wrong and that they are guilty. There is not a living being who has not at some time or another suffered remorse.<BR/><BR/>That means that they are aware that they have done something wrong and they are unhappy about it and say "I will never do that again".<BR/><BR/>(Authentic Christianity - Volume 5 - p119).Dan Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.com