A More Sure Word
One of the greatest blessings from the Reformation we have today is the Reformers’ focus on “scripture alone.” Of the five so-called solas of the Reformation, sola Scriptura forms the foundation of Reformed theology. None of the others would exist had they not been revealed in the Holy Word of God. Along with this return to the authority of the Scriptures came a turning away from unbiblical tradition, papal supremacy, and mancentered mysticism. This would be expected since the Bible itself stresses that it alone “is able to make (us) wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 3:15).
The apostle Peter emphasizes this, too, in his second letter. As you read the latter part of the first chapter (vs. 12-21), you find Peter expounding the basis of true knowledge. He is reminding his readers before he dies what the Lord Jesus Christ has shown him. He says that what he writes is not fables, but that he is making known the “coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (v. 16). Peter explains that he and others were eyewitnesses of Jesus’ majesty. [more…]
Go To Jesus
What is the one specific cry of a truly spiritually regenerated and awakened soul? Is it not for JESUS, the bread of life? Most assuredly! Go to the sinner bowed beneath the weight of the law, to the man awakened to a conviction of his sinful and lost condition, who has been brought to know the nothingness of his own righteousness, and ask him, ‘What will make you happy?’ Bid him go to his religious duties, to his sacraments, to his church, to his minister. Oh, how bitter will be his reproof—“I asked you, as a starving man, for bread, and you give me husks. I need Christ—I need to know that my sins are pardoned—that my transgressions are blotted out—that I am an accepted, forgiven child of God. And nothing short of this will meet my case. [more…]
From The Fullness of Christ by Octavius Winslow
