… Preaching to his startled congregation at the time of a devastating 18th century eruption of Mount Aetna which buried great cities, Ryland proclaimed:
“Some high Calvinists neglect the unconverted; but Paul left no case untouched. He spoke properly and suitably to Felix, as well as to Timothy. Some neglect to preach the law, and tell their hearers to accept Christ. O sinners, beware! If Christ says, “Depart,” ‘tis all over. Depart into a thousand Aetnas, bursting up …
Posts Tagged Mount Aetna
… on a cut down version of the Ten Commandments which he finds in part of the Sermon on the Mount. He has now clearly fallen even deeper into the NCT pit.
Ransacking the Law in the search for righteousness
Chantry argues, like the Aristotelian Scholastics, that the Mosaic Law must be broken into its moral, ceremonial and civil parts. For him, the ceremonial law is ‘that set of institutions and commandments whose purpose was to point attention and faith to the Person …
… will to save all and the will to damn most. Fifty-three years ago the BOT pointed us to Christ on Mount Zion. Twenty-five years ago they began to point us to Moses on Mount Sinai. Today, they point us to a gaggle of gods on Mount Olympia. In dropping their Triune God, they have dropped all. We teach people how to drop in and not become drop-outs.
6. Institutionalism
Evangelical religion is often institutionalised and party-minded, formed around externals, discipline, …
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
… is of different minds. Regarding the Godhead, Olyott and his BOT colleagues take us neither to Mount Sinai, nor to Mount Sion but to Mount Olympia. Olyott’s position is that God works individually and directly to gain a sinner’s salvation so that no mediation through God’s Word is necessary. Olyott is accusing Luther of believing the Word of God works magically on its own bat. Those sympathetic to Olyott’s position say he is thinking of the salvation of infants dying before an age …
… ‘rendered obsolete’, ‘fully abrogated’ and ‘done away with’ in the Sermon on the Mount. Christ’s death was thus after the New Law was inaugurated and the Old abolished. If Christ died merely to place new laws in new men he did not die for old transgressions in our old Adam. However, when Christ said that not one jot or tittle should pass away from the Law, He was talking about the Mosaic Law under which he placed Himself and not a hitherto unknown New Law which was under …
… for a covenant that cannot save him, and in heart he hates the covenant that can. His head is at Mount Calvary, his heart and soul at Mount Sinai. he is a Pharisee at Horeb, and a hypocrite in Zion. He is a transgressor of the law of works, and a rebel to the law of faith; a sinner by the ministry of the letter, and an unbeliever by the ministry of the Spirit. As a wicked servant, he is cursed by the eternal law; and, as an infidel, he is damned by the everlasting gospel. And this is a real …
… God-forgetting methods of the scribes as we read in the concluding verse of this ‘Sermon on the Mount’.
Outside and inside application
The self-righteous man looks only at his own outside appearance, but God searches his heart. The same law that condemns adultery, also condemns the letter-keeper here because it also condemns the one who commits adultery in his heart and covets another man’s wife. We know from the sad example of David that the very best of men are not …
