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Clear searchTwo failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…A Tale of Two Sorrows Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance Few experiences are more painful than awakening to the seriousness of our own sin. The excuses fall away, the damage becomes clear, and conscience begins to speak. We may feel gui…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…mains "beloved for the fathers' sakes", because "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Romans 11:28-29). The phrase does not excuse unbelief. It explains why unbelief will not have the last word. God acts for His own name's sake The prophets make the ground of res…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…al; reincarnation is true; human beings are sparks of an impersonal divine consciousness; repentance and the cross are unnecessary. Whatever psychological comfort such claims provide, Christians cannot accept them merely because they arrived clothed in radiance. God has spoken de…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…righteousness. The final phase brings the addressed people and city through judgement and repentance into the public enjoyment of what His finished work alone has made possible. This avoids two opposite errors. Futurists must not speak as though Daniel leaves atonement unfinished…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…present hardening as partial and temporary. The gifts and calling of God remain “without repentance” (Romans 11:25–29). The Church is God's eternally purposed people in Christ. Israel's future mercy is also part of God's purpose. Affirming one does not require cancelling the oth…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…LORD their God." —Leviticus 26:44 Deuteronomy likewise moves from curse and dispersion to repentance, regathering, possession of the land, and circumcision of the heart (Deuteronomy 30:1-6). Judgement was not the cancellation of the revealed programme. It was part of it. The Mosa…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…gave. After Pentecost, Peter still addressed "ye men of Israel" and called the nation to repentance. He spoke of "the times of refreshing," the return of Jesus Christ, and "the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…11:28). Then comes the covenantal verdict: "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." —Romans 11:29 God has not abandoned Israel. He has disciplined the nation, broken off unbelieving branches, and opened the riches of the gospel to the Gentiles. Yet the same cov…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ic ministers because ministerial authority stands beneath the apostolic word. If personal repentance is classified as individualism, biblical examination as private judgment, assurance as elitism, doctrinal hunger as esotericism, and rejection of baptismal regeneration as contemp…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…on, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” —Romans 11:28–29 Romans 11 does not restate the geographical boundaries of the land promise. That is not Paul’s immediate subject. It does, however, confirm the continuing ident…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…ntile believers against boasting concludes: "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." —Romans 11:29 Israel's disobedience therefore creates a profound problem for every interpretation, but it does not give us permission to supply Paul's answer for him. He speaks…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…e not simply possession followed by permanent forfeiture. It is disobedience, discipline, repentance or divine renewal, regathering, and restored enjoyment. In some passages repentance precedes return. In others God acts to produce the necessary spiritual transformation. Deuteron…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…disobedience brought real judgement, yet even the covenant curses anticipated scattering, repentance, regathering, and restored blessing. David did not receive a vague assurance that godly government would exist somewhere. God promised him a house, kingdom, throne, and Son. David…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…red. The result was a clear proclamation of Christ’s death and resurrection and a call to repentance. The Holy Spirit did not bypass truth. He illuminated and proclaimed it. Paul likewise refused to treat disorder and loss of control as proof of spiritual power: “And the spirits…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…teach and patient, correcting opponents in meekness while hoping that God will grant them repentance. Purity does not make a person harsh. The vessel prepared for the Master's use begins to resemble the Master's character. Usefulness is an outcome, not the foundation The original…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations" (Luke 24:46-47). Paul's summary does not invent another gospel. It announces the completed saving event: "C…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ance. Ezekiel distinguishes reassembly from breath, and the prophets place Israel's final repentance within a future crisis. A nation can exist in the land before it becomes the nation of changed hearts promised by the new covenant. The modern state may therefore be understood as…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…s mercy. Nevertheless, the scales remain a central image. Deeds are recorded and weighed; repentance, belief, obedience, and divine mercy all belong to the final account. Islamic traditions offer hope in Allah's forgiveness, but they do not point the believer to a completed subst…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…reconciliation rests upon Christ’s finished sacrifice. Islam calls people to submission, repentance, good works and hope in divine mercy without that atoning ground. These are not different accents within one faith. They are contradictory claims. Respect for Muslims cannot requi…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…bolish election. Paul immediately explains: "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." —Romans 11:29 Israel's blindness is real, but it is partial and has an appointed limit: "Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in."…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…anity be reduced to the sentimental claim that God approves everyone regardless of truth, repentance or holiness. The deeper question is not whether the word love appears in both religions. It is this: What does each revelation show divine love doing for the guilty, the unthankfu…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…That is grammatically possible in isolation. Within the prophetic expectation of Israel's repentance, however, the saying naturally reads as judgement with a terminus rather than permanent abandonment. The Son of man will return and sit upon His throne Jesus next foretold the pub…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…' sakes" (Romans 11:26-28). Paul concludes: "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." —Romans 11:29 Romans 9:6 and Romans 11:29 cannot be enemies. The first denies that ancestry guarantees individual salvation; the second denies that Israel's present unbelief can…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…2 Corinthians 5:10). The Bride is prepared before appearing with the Bridegroom. Israel's repentance develops through the final crisis. Tribulation witnesses serve, die, and are vindicated. Mortal survivors remain to enter and populate the earthly kingdom. These facts do not crea…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…They were sent through Israel as heralds of Israel's King, calling the covenant people to repentance and faith. Their appointment was therefore both hopeful and judicial. It announced renewal to those who received Messiah and exposed the unbelief of those who rejected Him. The ex…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…for the judgement seat of Christ, the preparation of the Bride, Israel's final crisis and repentance, the witness and martyrdom of Tribulation saints, and the preservation of mortal believers who enter the kingdom. Those events do not independently prove that the interval is Dani…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…olence, false accusation and greed, and to be content with their wages (Luke 3:14). Their repentance was to become visible within the pressures of daily work. Paul gave similar instruction to believers occupying the lowest and most vulnerable position in the Roman household: "And…
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