Week 12 Assignments: Read pages 345-373 in MacArthur and Eph 6:14-17 . Read Parts 4-7 and comment on them. This week we continue with Paul’s instructions on how to resist the Devil. I think it was Andrew Bonar who first imagined a situation in which a Christian dies and goes to heaven and there meets [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Week 12: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: How to Resist the Devil, Part 4
Posted: January 31, 2010 in Ephesians ClassTags: Andrew Bonar, Armor of God, Belt of Truth, James Montgomery Boice, Spiritual Warfare, The Hermeneutic of Humility
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How to Resist the Devil, Part 3
Posted: January 29, 2010 in Ephesians ClassTags: Charles Spurgeon, Ian Murray's The Forgotten Spurgeon, John MacArthur
Charles Spurgeon, the great British Baptist Defender of the Faith, said, “The Devil never beats a dead horse.” He knew whereof he spoke. Spurgeon was embroiled in three great battles in London at Metropolitan Tabernacle. Ian Murray in The Forgotten Spurgeon, records the three famous conflicts Spurgeon fought as England’s leading pastor. The three confrontations were with preachers of Arminianism (works for salvation), preachers of baptismal regeneration (works for salvation by water baptism) and the Downgrade Controversy (Liberalism in Spurgeon’s denomination, the Baptist Union). Spurgeon earnestly contended for the faith and probably went to an early grave as a consequence.
If you and your church preach and defend doctrine, the emphasis of Ephesians 1-3, and practice what you believe, the point of Ephesians 4-6, you can expect “to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Paul in the final section of Ephesians equips us to “resist the Devil” (James 4:7).
How to Resist the Devil, Part 2, “Be made strong in the Lord”
Posted: January 22, 2010 in Ephesians ClassTags: Brit Hume, Resist the Devil
The battle is real and urgent as described by Paul in Ephesians 6:10-20. Paul begins this final section in Ephesians on spiritual warfare with “finally brethren.” This signals not so much the conclusion of the letter as the climax. In Ephesians 1-3, Paul defined doctrines that teach the unity love can bring to a church: The [...]
Week 11: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: How to Resist the Devil, Part 1
Posted: January 18, 2010 in Ephesians ClassTags: Earthquake in Haiti, Frank Hammond's Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance, Jimmy Swaggart, Jr., Kenneth D. Boa, Mark Driscoll, Pat Robertson on Haiti, Robert M. Bowman, Sense & Nonsense About Angels & Demons, Wayne Grudem
Week 11 Assignment: Read pages 331-344 in MacArthur and Ephesians 6:10-13. Read and comment on the three posts (Parts 1-3) for week eleven. A pastor tells an amusing story about a man who was on his way to attend a costume party one Sunday evening. He was wearing a red suit with a tail and a skintight mask [...]
Pat Robertson’s Quote about the Devil and Haiti
Posted: January 16, 2010 in NewsTags: CBN, Haiti earthquake, Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson’s statement about Haiti’s earthquake being the result of a “pack with the devil” was ill advised as well as unbiblical. Robertson said this pact between the Haitian slaves and the Devil was a “true story.” How does Dr. Robertson know this historical fact? I already have some friends who said that the unsaved [...]
Does “The husband of one wife” disqualify all divorced men from pastoring?
Posted: January 14, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: A. Duane Litfin, D. Edmond Hiebert, Homer Kent, Robert C. Anderson's The Effective Pastor, Wayne Grudem
Robert C. Anderson writes, “For centuries it has been debated whether or not the biblical injunction that an elder or overseer be the ‘husband of one wife’ means that a divorced person may never have any place within the professional ministry” (The Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry. Chicago: Moody, 1985, 5). The [...]
Baptist Minister Criticizes Brit Hume’s Witness to Tiger Woods
Posted: January 8, 2010 in NewsTags: Brit Hume, Buddhism, Christopher Hitchens, Fox News Sunday, God is Not Great, Interfaith Alliance and Air America, Jon Stward, Keith Olberman, Reuters, Special Report, Tiger Woods, Welton Gaddy
Here I agree with Michael Gerson at The Washington Post when wrote, “after urging Tiger Woods to accept the ‘forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith‘ — and comparing Buddhism unfavorably to that hope — journalist Brit Hume insisted he was not proselytizing. In this, he is wrong. His words exemplify proselytization. [...]
Week 10: The Bible Institute on Ephesians: Slaves and Slave Owners, Part 4
Posted: January 4, 2010 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Christian employers, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, Sir Christopher Wren
To review, Paul has instructed concerning the 1. Christian Employee’s Attitude of Submission in Ephesians 6:5-8 First, as with the first two life-relationships, the subordinate partner is addressed first and then the one who is responsible for leadership (wives/husbands; children/parents; employees/employers. Next, the command is stated: “Employees obey.” True to form, Paul amplifies this command. [...]
Week 10: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Slaves and Slave Owners, Part 3
Posted: January 2, 2010 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Anglican Priest Tim Jones, Harold W. Hoehner, Work place ethics
Do you agree or disagree with the Priest’s argument? Paul includes in his development of the theme of Ephesians, The Unity Love can Bring, his discussion of workplace ethics and harmony which will address the Anglican’s logic. Remember the overall outline and development of the theme: Ephesians 1-3 Theological Unity. Paul provides two perfect doctrinal models [...]
