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Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by the covenant (of works), was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein He offereth to sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in Him that they may be saved, promised to give unto all those who are ordained unto eternal life His Spirit, to make thm willing and able to
believe. WCF chap. 7 God's Covenant with man, point 3

I would advise a sober reflection on the history of the WCF, and the notable and noble gospel pastors and teachers who penned it who placed themselves under solemn vows to God and one another to be faithful to what the Scripture teaches. These were knowledgable of whom it qualifies to do such, as we should be. It would be to start looking at what Scripture teaches here before digressing and looking to men whose only qualification is a virtual or computer self profession of faith


News Item11/28/11 4:05 PM
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Jim Lincoln wrote:
RP, Satan is the god of this world,
What was accomplished then when Christ ascended his Mediatorial Throne as the exalted Prophet, Priest and King over Zion? What does Ephesians 4 teach contrary to what you assert? Satan is the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. But he is a defeated foe by the power of the resurrection. I expect the Jews to be converted to Christ, the fullness of the Gentiles to be brought in, the true gospel preached, gospel officers raised up, and gospel ordinances cleansed from corruption, as the Lord's prayer instructs us to pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. If we ask anything according to his will he hears us. It seems I expect to see more of Christ's glory on earth before the second coming. I expect a Mediatorial reign of Christ on earth from heaven through the person of his Bride, the Church responding with more comeliness to her exalted Head/ Husband in the future, as the prophetic Scripture indicates.

News Item11/24/11 8:10 AM
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No, I am not. Nor have I ever claimed to be a teacher of anyone. That is God's role.
When I hear: "You are not listening" that is what a teacher says to a student. Thus my response. You cannot hear my tone, it was not heated. I was trying to understand and to follow, but what I hear 'is' related to what I have been taught by God. Those here who claim the miraculous gift of discernment via computer have no problem either attempting to evangelize me nor forth rightly proclaiming the Arminian OS, then asserting because I am reformed, I am not an experiential Christian like themselves. I need humble myself under God's mighty hand and cast my cares on Him for He careth for me. You are more of the same mind with the others. You're right I should have left long ago.

News Item11/23/11 10:05 PM
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Lurker wrote:
Then you have not been paying attention.
You are not my teacher.
The Spirit of God has given His little born ones unction 1 John 2:18-21
Yes, I'd trust the Westminster General Assembly before you to teach me doctrine. I have the same systematic theology and speak the same language from the same system of belief in the truth, though I may lack in the ability to articulate what I believe. WCF 7/3 disagrees with your exegesis of Scripture that you are not qualified to give. I notice you left out the beginning of what WCF 7/3 states that disagrees with your personal twist. I have stated I believe the Holy Spirit gives an inward irresistible call in time to the Word preached and quickens the spiritually dead to repent and believe the gospel. I sincerely doubt you and Matthew Henry agree on this point from the one isolated reference. He was not a semi-Pelagian as you are. "Although the marvelous works of the Holy Spirit on behalf of the elect take place in such rapid sequence that they seem to be instantaneous, still it is clear that regeneration-which is entirely the work of God and God alone-is the first initiatory act. Repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ immediately follow." D.Spencer To me unbeliever meant 2 Cor.6:14-

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Psalm 110:3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Psalm 22:22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 25My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. 26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations. 29All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. 30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31...


News Item11/23/11 5:13 PM
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Lurker wrote:
...Too much evidence to believe the Holy Spirit enters unbelievers.
I don't under stand why you made this statement. I have not understood any that have participated in this dialog to make that assertion. Can you explain why you state this after quoting Scripture and Matthew Henry an English Presbyterian?

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Zachariah 7: 8And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, 9Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Psalm 84

Divine Judgement vindicates the righteous and offers the gospel of peace to offenders as well as punishing the wicked. Abraham said in Genesis 18:25 "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
see also Hebrews 12


News Item11/23/11 3:29 PM
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Jim Lincoln wrote:
RP, ... I don't think we can bring the Kingdom of God as a functioning government. Only Christ can do that. This is how it is stated in the Book of Revelation.
Agreed. But Christ has promised to do just that in both the Old and New Testaments. If Jesus Christ is the Head of His kingdom on earth, the Church and He is; then the Scripture has given the rules for her functioning governance under His headship. If Jesus Christ is Lord and as such Creator God and He is; then He is already reigning Sovereign and Mediator seated at the Father's right hand who will put all things under his feet or make his enemies his foot stool, before he his final return as Judge. God promised Abraham that in him (as the father of those with the faith of Abraham in Christ the promised seed) all nations (as nations) of the earth, like Israel of old, shall be blessed. Blessed as commonwealths under David's son and David's Lord. See Psalm 2 in that light for that is what it says and where it warns all opposers of Christ's rule; whether donative over the Church or as Creator over the nations as nations, that subjection to Christ is not optional but wise in God's view.

News Item11/23/11 3:08 PM
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A few thoughts. Endless details confuse the chain of command. When an incident of such magnitude involves church members there needs be a starting point to establish the facts as distinguished from the emotional response to a serious sin. As I understand it, in the best case scenario, if both these persons were Church members then something of this magnitude would leave the local session's plurality of elders, for a Presbyterial court in that city, where the offense took place. Once this plurality of men, some with a first hand knowledge of the individuals & others removed from emotional involvement would quietly establish the facts. If there was a civil crime involved these facts would be taken to the city in civil jurisdiction. In the best case scenario, this civil court would also have some knowledge of the moral law and the Church's necessary involvement regarding Christ's members. That would best be determined by their response to Church discipline in their souls greatest interest. Good considerations given here that elders should know. The fewer members of the congregation directly involved, the less concern for wild fire gossip to confuse & harm. We are far from the best case scenario in either Church or state. This is a picture of Divine judgment.

News Item11/23/11 2:28 PM
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Presby wrote:
Only two "births" are referred to by Jesus. 1. Born of the flesh. 2. Born of the Spirit. (Jn 3:6)
There is no intermediate stage, for faith/repentance to "appear". Also The Holy Spirit is the person in the Trinity who works grace in man. Therefore the idea that faith/repent emerge from a fourth dimension to the exclusion of the regenerating Spirit of God is not Biblical.
I too, am grateful for your response, it is not always easy to understand in this context, what some one is and is not saying. Are we agreed, that there is a necessity for anyone who is a member of the 'invisible Church'(elect, predestined, outwardly called by the gospel preached)to be irresistibly called by the Holy Spirit, who through the ordinary means of the Word preached are regenerated, or enabled to be convinced of sin, that their misery is justly due their own sins, to be enlightened in their minds in the knowledge of Christ, to will to do His will and embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to them in the gospel? I understand that regeneration is the response to an irresistible call of the Spirit. Just as Jesus' call: Come forth to the body of his friend, Lazarus; the Spirit calls those given to Christ of the Father, Come forth. Gal.2:20-21 Do we agree so far?

News Item11/22/11 10:45 PM
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Mike wrote:
Basically I think you're saying the indwelled Holy Spirit convicts the sinner, enabling him to repent of his sin and embrace Christ. To what end this embracing?
No, I explained in detail and it disappeared from the Android and I was left with a blank space after laboring with this frustrating touch pad and its lack of percission. D.V. I'll try tomorrow, the street lights are on, so to speak (none in this part of the woods) and my dexterity is waning.

News Item11/22/11 6:55 PM
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John UK wrote:
Well obviously RP you did not follow it very closely. Observe:
Acts 2:38 KJV
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Or expanded version:
...and ye [Jews also] shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost [which is the baptism with the Spirit, just like we have received it].
Any complaints about my post now?
Maybe it was "Note, you [ALSO] shall receive the gift of [and be baptised with] the Holy Ghost, just like we have. :thumbs up: - that confused me. It appeared you were speaking for yourself and not for Peter, who I can't picture using that gesture to explain himself to his hearers. Peter said 'everyone of you'. It might have been more helpful to say: Note, Peter said everyone of you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. So, what it would appear Peter was saying is: just as the apostles themselves were enabled to preach with utterance, all God's children would be given the Spirit for unction to understand the Scripture for the mutual edification of their brethren in their places, calling and station. Then I would have understood what you were saying. Do you see?

News Item11/22/11 5:57 PM
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John UK wrote:
Note, you [ALSO] shall receive the gift of [and be baptised with] the Holy Ghost, just like we have.
A bit arrogant wouldn't you say? Do you claim the miraculous gift of discernment of spirits, via computer?
It's one thing to question someone's understanding of doctrine and quite another to think you can know men's hearts. We all embrace error the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things ye would. Gal. 5:14-17. That is an altogether different assertion then what you appear to be implying.

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
RP, part of the summary for the sermon, [URL=http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10120711555910]]]How the Church Relates to the Kingdom[/URL].
Jim, the kingdom of God is within us. If that is so, then our lives should be a demonstration of that in many ways; the way we worship God and relate to our brethren and neighbors for example.

I hold a different eschatological view and have a different soteriology. We will not hold the same men in esteem, as 'faithful and true' gospel ministers. This is confusion that is not necessary, but it is so, at this time, as is evidenced daily right here on SA. In 1 Corinthians there were divisions among brethren i.e. one preferred that Paul was able to get across profound truth simply, Apollos was known to be an eloquent speaker, some preferred his style or Peter's, not different foundations. These were all teachers under apostolic authority, for quick resolve. Men would hear the 'same message' from various speakers and conclude differently. These hearers then in the church would cause the division & resulting schism.

It is so much more broken in our day. Yet it is possible to determine where the Church was in a reformation and start there. That is what needs to happen.


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When I asked someone with a farm background, questions about this story they praised the good of socialism and others praise capitalism. It seems to be we should praise the power of God in the gospel to change lives and then the fog would clear enough to humbly learn from the Scripture what would be best in God's eyes as regards business. The world will not be full cleansed sin until Christ returns, there will still be sin in it until them. But Psalm 67&68 indicated better days are coming. When a greater number of men fear God and those that lead are not chosen from the vile, so that the wicked walk freely on every side. But leadership is chosen from amongst their brethren because the majority of the nation believes the gospel and not just a handful, as it is at the present time. Leaders would then uphold the true reformed religion from error like a parent protects his won dear child for their good (kings shall be our nursing fathers and THEIR queens our nursing mothers Isa. 49:22-23)and the good of the Church and nation will be one and the same. For when God's Church flourishes in grace, mercy and peace the nation flourishes in provision.

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Mike wrote:
I know I repeat myself, but to what end this repentance?
It seems to me, that it must break in upon those dead in their trespasses and sins in which they used to walk after the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience, by the same resurrection power that raised Christ from the dead. That must take place for them to be crucified with Christ and nevertheless live. It is then men that they have offended a Holy God, who has convicted them of their sin and misery due to their own sin, and its high-handed offense to God and enlightened their minds in the knowledge of Christ and renewed their wills enabling them to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to them in the gospel. Without a knowledge of God's righteousness and our unrighteousness there is nothing to repent of. It happens like John 3:8 says. We are trying to under stand spiritual realities theologically which is necessary I agree, but cannot be done apart from faith in the truth.

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2 Tim. 1: 8-10 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:" By the next text, I'm NOT suggesting miraculous gifts, post Canon but is there explanation in this to the present, as regards the gifts and calling of God Rom.11:13-22, 29. It would appear some remain and are given to all Christ's members. 1 Cor.12:4-7 "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal."

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First paragraph is clearly at minimum a violation of the 3rd commandment. The second person of the Blessed Trinity doesn't require men who are confused, to endorse His right to reign as Creator/Redeemer since He already does. It is impossible that God is confused!!! So EP, the moniker borrower must be.

Psalm 2: 1-7 "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."

The Holy Spirit is the unifier of the Body of Christ under His Headship, faith in the promises of God is key, as well as not forgetting what is commanded; God's people are instructed to pray "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." If we ask anything according to his will he hears us.


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Lurker wrote:
The reformed order of salvation does not take these biblical truths into account.
God's word is Truth, our understanding of it is dependent on the merits of Christ through the unction of the Holy Spirit. He has ordained means. All the elect will heed Deut. 29:29 and study to know what is necessary for their salvation. To my knowledge you are not a pastor/teacher of God's appointment, but a sincere student of the Word in the judgment of charity. Why is it what we believe is in conflict to what the authoritative Scripture teaches? I do not claim the miraculous gift of discernment, but clearly we have listened to different teachers. It 'seems' you claim to be your own, which is contrary to the Word of God.

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According to Hebrews 11 the Old Testament saints by faith in God's promises,prophecies,sacrfices, cicumcision, the paschal lamb and other types and ordinances all fore-signifyingChrist who wasto come, did works from the heart that evidenced it. Obedience to the revealed will of God is always a demonstration of a work of God upon the heart of man, since by fallen nature man is not capable being spiritually dead. Romans 9 speaks of OT election does it not? Your point?
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