R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
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For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
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The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.
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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.
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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.