By Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Any of God's humans may cash in on a studying of the 1st volumes of this set. i discovered myself highlighting web page after web page and telling family and friends approximately each perception I encountered at each chance. What distinguishes this therapy of theology from others i've got tried to learn is the truth that the writer provides his fabric as a pastor to a congregation instead of as a textbook to a seminary classification. 5 stars for the 1st volumes.
I am completely optimistic quantity 3 is every piece nearly as good because the first , until you're a dispensationalist. now not that he does not make a few telling issues. i used to be struck demanding by way of the truth that the doctrine of the rapture of the church had no longer existed earlier than 1830 and got here into being now not because the results of cautious religious study and exegesis yet because the results of a 'revelation' at a prophecy convention. i used to be considering there rather should be whatever to his college of eschatology until eventually he begun a presentation of the booklet of Revelation. it is not that i feel Dr. Lloyd-Jones is useless fallacious; i used to be so stressed through the spiritualizing of completely every little thing that I simply gave up all wish of realizing any prophecy less than his system.
Having stated that, i'm comfortable i purchased the books; i'll continue them and confer with them usually and suggest them to others each likelihood i am getting.
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Here is my only source, my only authority. If my mind were able to apprehend and to span the truth about God, then it would mean that my mind is equal to the mind of God, and that, of course, is altogether wrong. Our reason takes us so far and then we enter into the realm of revelation, where God is graciously pleased to manifest Himself to us. I am not sure but that the best definition of faith we can ever arrive at is this: faith means that men and women decide quite deliberately to be content only with what they have in the Bible, and that they stop asking questions.
This is another most important point in view of the constant tendency of philosophy to creep in by the back door. It presumes it. This is what the fathers meant by the perspicuity of the Scriptures. No, we say that these documents were written to people like ourselves, and we and they were meant to understand them. We can trust to the plain teaching, we believe in the perspicuity of scriptural doctrine. ’ That is deduction—you draw out the meaning. So you arrive at your doctrine by the two processes of deduction and induction.
If we once take as literal what is meant to be symbolic, we are bound to be in trouble. So we must beware of this in every area. So let us pray to be delivered from the party spirit and the prejudices that are always characteristic of such a spirit. At the moment we see and understand in part, only ‘through a glass, darkly’ (1 Cor. Let us be content with the revelation that is given. This is final; this is absolute. Let us admit our inability to prove, and let us together enjoy the great salvation in which we 38 all participate, and look forward to the day when the hidden things shall be made plain, and we shall know even as we are already known.