Reformed Blogging

As the month ends I want to give on the point that part of me wants to forgive but the other side wants to persist in being unforgiving towards the false accusers. False accusations hurt and sometimes they need to be brought to court especially if the it could give me unwarranted punishment. While justice must be served but there's one duty that I must have is to pray for my false accusers. I could look at the account of the crucifixion where Jesus asked His Father to forgive His enemies (Luke 22:34).  Many times people think they know what they do but they don't. The fool tends to think that they know everything (Proverbs 12:15). It's because they spiritually blinded to the truth. There are even some people who think that the wickedness they do is for the glory of God (John 16:2). They have their high attitude of pride. It really tempts me to be hateful towards them. If that's so I would be no better than the Pharisees with my pride stuck in my head. Instead, shoul...

Some Roman Catholics are using the fact that some Evangelicals are becoming Roman Catholics as "proof" that they are the truth. I would like to talk about the reality to why some Evangelicals are becoming Roman Catholics. Are these Evangelicals who are converting to Roman Catholicism now "awakened"? On the contrary, this is what the Bible says: 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. If you were truly saved you would not depart from the Church. But many Evangelicals today are only Evangelicals by name but they were not truly born again Christians. If you're truly born again your spiritual rebirth can't be undone and there would be the mark of the perseverance of the saints. The truth of the matter is that Judas Iscariot was not saved and he lost it or that was saved. John 17:12 ...

As a former Roman Catholic, I'm told that I'm just "misinformed". They tell me that I should start attending masses all over again and let the priest help me in spiritual matters. Okay, there's nothing wrong with letting the pastor help the person but is the person even helpful? Some Roman Catholics even tell me that I've been misinformed and misled by anti-Catholic Bible believing pastors. What's so disturbing is that they use the terms "Bible-believing" and "born again" to describe misled people. It could also be funny that while they consider themselves Christians but some of them even ask me, "Are you still a Christian or are you a Catholic?" But the question that I should raise for my former comrades to answer is, "Why do you use the term Bible-believing and born again to describe the deceived? We born again believe that we have to be born from above. We study the Greek and take it into context. If you ask where...

Here's a beautiful song by Steve Green called "I Want to Know You More". I can't help but feel the lyrics of this song is what I wish I only knew in my Christian life. I wish I could only desire to know God more and more and hate more of the evil within me. I want to work out my salvation with fear and trembling by God's grace (Philippians 2:12-13).  There's no such thing as salvation without resulting in sanctification. If you're going to get saved then you're saved from sin. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Ephesians 2:8-10 and Titus 2:11-14 tell us that God's grace brings forth good works. Romans 3:31 says that the Law is not made void by faith but it's fulfilled by faith. James 2:14-26 says that faith without works is good as dead. A real faith produces good works as a result of salvation. Matthew 7:14-20 warns that people are known by their fruits. Why am I obsessed with good works and Bible study? It's because God is an infinite being a...

As I look back in my Christian life and look forward I recalled how much I had some problems with Calvinism. I could agree with the problem of Total Depravity where people can't save themselves because of sin. I soon learned that you can't lose your salvation because of the truth called the Perseverance of the Saints. The true saints of God can't stop believing in Christ and I once thought it's possible to renounce Christ and be damned again until I did more Bible study. But there's one thing that I could say that I have a problem with the ULI of TULIP and why's that? I thought it's cruel to believe in Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement and Irresistible Grace. David W. Cloud of Way of Life Literature admitted he could embrace a Calvinist brother or sister in Christ but he's still convinced that election is serious error. The difference between the Calvinist Christian and the non-Calvinist Christian lies in their view of true conversion. Non-C...

I remembered how often I enjoyed taking passages and desiring to expound them. I thought about John F. MacArthur's sermons and books. I remembered picking the book "Fool's Gold" and I started drinking whole ocean of truth in the second chapter called "Plexiglas Preachign: The Devastating Consequences of a Watered Down Message". I can't forget how angry that chapter made me when it stated the truth that watered down preaching is becoming more and more popular. I was further irritated at the prevalence of watered down preaching and I'm seeing the consequences unveil before my very eyes. I'm seeing how watered down messages are really more popular with a crazy world. I thought about how I used to berate MacArthur without any investigation. Many charges were like he supposedly doesn't believe in the blood or that many people miss the point. Another controversial issue is whether or not MacArthur thought that receiving the mark of the Beast a...

I still can't over the words in Malachi 1:2-3 which says: I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. I did't give too much consideration until I started rereading Genesis. I thought of the number of times that God actually beat Jacob. There's no instance that God disciplined Esau. Instead, we see that God was disciplining Jacob. You can see that Jacob wasn't going to get away with sin and Esau was prospering much even without Isaac's blessing. When Jacob and Esau met the latter had so much riches that he didn't need the former's peace offering. But why was Jacob so broken and limping? It's because God loves Jacob. Hebrews 12:5-7 says that God disciplines those He loves. He doesn't leave them alone to enjoy their sin. Instead, He does everything to m...