The doctrine of Lordship Salvation views saving faith neither as passive nor fruitless. The faith that is the product of regeneration, the faith that embraces the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross energizes a life of love and obedience and worship. The controversy is not a dispute about whether salvation is by faith only or by faith plus works. All agree that we are saved by grace through faith, apart from works (Eph. 2:8-10). But the controversy is about the nature of the faith that saves. According to Lordship Salvation, Sola fides iustificat (faith alone justifies), sed non fides quae est sola (but not the faith which is alone).
Sam Storms

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Issue No.038 February 28, 2007 Divine Perspective

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#1 · February 28, 2007, 4:21 am

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In this issue

  • Perspective:  Divine Perspective
  • Study Note:  THE GOLDEN ALTAR
  • Outline:      Sowing
  • Anecdote:  Wrong Pilot

 
Perspective
Divine Perspective
NTK
 
One of the most important characteristics of true faith is the ability to see in God’s point of view. Men of faith see what normal man never see. Faith looks beyond and that is in the way God would look at.
 
Noah by faith saw the great flood coming that no man could ever imagine. Abraham saw a better city by faith and left the homeland. Joseph saw the day of deliverance so instructed the brethren to carry his bones to Canaan. Moses’ parents saw the divine plan for him at his birth and risked to keep him. All of those great men are characterized by one thing: they all had a telescoping vision. They saw their life’s various situations through the eyes of God.
 
It is such a viewpoint that helps us to be cool and calm in the most complicated situation.  It takes away all fears and helps us to face life’s challenges with boldness.  Then, the steps that we take also are in accordance with God’s plan and assure blessings and success. Yes, the outcome of having a divine perspective is numerous.
 
Of course, the general public will not be supportive to the person who perceives life in God’s standpoint. None of the saints in the past got the applause of the people. They never even cared about that. On the contrary they were misunderstood, mocked at and even persecuted, just because they were not willing to see life as natural man would see.
 
That is the cost godly men and women will have pay always. But God will never abandon them. At the end of the day it will be proved beyond doubt that the spiritual insight of the men of God was right. Who will ever say that Abraham made a mistake by leaving Ur, or Moses made a blunder by rejecting the throne of Egypt?
 
Let it be our prayer that “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”  Psa.19:8 . Let us have a divine outlook—seeing everything in God’s angle.
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Study Note
THE GOLDEN ALTAR
Charles E. Wigg
 
The Rim:
Exodus chapter 30; 3, tells us that the altar had a rim, or crown around its top. As with the golden table, its purpose was to prevent the censer in which was the fire, upon which the incense was placed, from falling. This connects with the verse already quoted in Heb, 7; 25, where we are told that He is able to save to the uttermost, (completely), those who come unto God by Him...
 
The Horns:
As with the brazen altar there were four horns, showing us that wherever we may be, or may come from, no matter what point of the compass, we may come there and cling to those horns, and there plead the promises of God, which He has made to us in His word, and when we do so, God is both pleased and honoured, because when we expect Him to keep His promises, we set to our seal that God is true, and thus please and honour Him, John, 3;33.
 
The Rings and Staves:
 The purpose of these was for the carrying of the altar, it was never to be carried on a cart or wagon, but carried on the shoulders of the Kohathites. It would teach us that all that the altar represents, we are to carry with us wherever we go on our wilderness journey, we are to carry ever in our hearts a deep and flowing appreciation of the matchless worth of the One through whom we approach to God, and by whom we we are to offer continually the sacrifice of praise, the incense of adoration and worship.
 
Aaron: was to burn incense on it morning and evening, reminding us once more of the service of our Great High Priest. We have an example of this in John chapter 17, where we are privileged to hear our blessed Saviour praying for us. There He reveals His hearts deepest longings for us, He does not pray about our health, about our financial, or temporal needs, but asks for things so much more wonderful than those things. Things that relate to the Father's pleasure and glory. He does not ask for us to be taken out of the world that was about to crucify Him, but He does pray for us to kept from the evil that abounds. He prays that we might be one, thus expressing in our personal and collective testimony, the very nature of God. He asks that we may each enjoy a sweet sense of nearness to Himself, to enjoy the bliss of His company in the glory of the Fathers presence.

 
Outline
                                               Sowing

 
 
                             What to sow – Precious Seed.   Psa. 126:6
                             How to sow –   In tears. Psa.126:6
                             Where to sow – Beside all waters. Isa.32:20
                             When to sow – Morning, evening and always. Eccl.11:6

 
Anecdote
 Wrong Pilot
 
What could have caused Aeroflot Flight 593 to drop headlong out of the sky on March 22nd, 1994, killing all 75 passengers onboard? For nearly a fortnight, international aviation officials asked themselves that question. Was it a technical failure?  A terrorist bomb? A stray bird?

All they knew was that the Hong Kong bound Airbus A-310 disappeared from radar and exploded deep in Siberia until the plane’s flight recorder finally yielded a haunting clue: the voice of a child.
Somewhere over the Altai Mountains, experts now believe, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinski was giving his two children lessons on how to fly. His 15 –year – old son and his sister, inexplicably disengaged the plane’s auto pilot, stalling the craft and sending it into dive.
In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded: flight 593 crashed with it’s nose slightly up as well as its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control. But it was too late. Flight 593 was a journey to doom, for at the controls was the wrong pilot, a child!
 
In this journey of life too make sure you have right pilot in control.

 

 
 

Worthy Quote
Credit
                 “It is amazing what you can accomplish, 
                   if you don’t care who gets the credit” 

                                                                                                                                            ---Harry S. Truman
 

 
To ponder over
Heb.11:13

 
"“These all died in faith, not having received the promises but having seen afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims of the earth.” 
             









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