Independence Day?
Is it really the fact that “both sides are right” on the whole Sovereignty question?
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“There is another and worse evil which springs from this basic failure to grasp the radical difference between the natures of the two worlds. It is the habit of languidly “accepting” salvation as if it were a small matter and one wholly in our hands. Men are exhorted to think things over and “decide” for Christ, and in some places one day each year is set aside as “Decision Day,” at which time people are expected to condescend to grant Christ the right to save them, a right which they have obviously refused Him up to that time. Christ is thus made to stand again before men’s judgment seat; He is made to wait upon the pleasure of the individual, and after long and humble waiting is either turned away or patronizingly admitted. By a complete misunderstanding of the noble and true doctrine of the freedom of the human will salvation is made to depend perilously upon the will of man instead of upon the will of God. ” – A.W. Tozer
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Redemption’s Song
I’m mostly a listener of the older hymns, but the lyrics of this song by Israel Houghton have grown on me…it’s like my life in a verse…everything from depravity to God’s Sovereign grace…I attempted to add scriptures to the parts of the verse…may God be glorified in the Redeeming work of Jesus Christ…
- I was lost.
- (Isaiah 53:6; Isaiah 6:5; Luke 15:24; Ezekiel 34:6; Romans 3:12,23)
- I was desperate and broken.
- (Genesis 8:21; Jeremiah 2:13; Psalms 51:5; John 3:19; Ephesians 2:1-2)
- Wounded heart.
- (Jeremiah 17:1,9-10; Ezekiel 36:26; Psalms 51:10,17; Mark 7:21)
- And the wounds were still open.
- (Ephesians 2:4-6; Romans 5:8, 7:5)
- That’s the way You found me.
- (Colossians 1:12-13; Romans 5:8; Luke 19:10; Matthew 9:13; John 10:16)
- Turn the page. By Your hand.
- (Romans 9:15-16; John 1:13; Ephesians 2:8; Ephesians 1:4-5; John 15:16)
- Yesterday washed away as You write in the sand.
- ( John 8:1-11; Isaiah 53:4-5; Ezekiel 36:25; Romans 4:24-25; Hebrews 10:22
- My accusers.
- (Job 1:9-10; Luke 22:31-32; 1 Peter 5:8-9; Romans 8:1)
- Where are they?
- ( Romans 8:1-2; 31,33,34,35-39)
- One by one in the silence they all walk away. ..
- (Isaiah 54:17)
- And I will worship You
