Monthly Archives: February 2015

BOOKS AGAIN!

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking,” says Haruki Murakami. (Reader’s Digest, July 2013)

Books I am reading:

1. The Bible

The Bible is called “THE BOOK OF BOOKS,” but how many people are reading “THE BOOK OF BOOKS?”

"LIBRARY"

“LIBRARY”

For most people the Bible is like any other book on the bookshelf, because they do not have a relationship with God.

2. Devotional Books

There are quite a good number of Devotional books, but let me just mention two:

The first is called UNTO THE HILLS and the author is Billy Graham and that book is really a “devotional treasury”.

MORNING AND EVENING – Daily Readings – is a book written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon. It is a “devotional classic”.

3. Sermons

I am just about to finish reading the book  THE FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS  – ROMANS – by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. It is the exposition of chapter 8:17-39 of ROMANS.

The next books on my reading list are: GOD’S ULTIMATE PURPOSE, an exposition of Ephesians one, and GOD’S WAY OF RECONCILIATION,  Studies in Ephesians 2, both written by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

In his Preface to GOD’S WAY OF RECONCILIATION he says, “In other words this is not a commentary as such but, as every sermon should be, it is EXEGESIS plus HOMILETICS and APPLICATION.”

I think above you find books that not everyone else is reading!

“SHEET ANCHOR”

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THE DOCTRINE OF THE FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

The Church has known many great and noble souls, and the doctrine of “the final perseverance of the saints” has been the “sheet anchor” of those souls, writes D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in his book THE FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS. 

From the time I became a Christian I have believed in the doctrine of final perseverance, because I read in the Bible in First John 5:13:

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”

That was in September 1958 and since that time I have known that I have eternal life. Praise the Lord!

Here are the names of some of the noble and great souls the Church has ever known and who believed the doctrine of the final perseverance.

St. Augustine believed the doctrine of the final perseverance. Martin Luther believed the doctrine and John Calvin as well. John Knox believed it and taught it.

Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge, the great hymn-writers, believed the doctrine and so did George Whitefield, the greatest english evangelist and preacher.

The doctrine of “the final perseverance of the saints” has been the “sheet anchor” of Charles Haddon Spurgeon and D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes:

“He went as far as to say that he really doubted whether a man who did not believe the doctrine was a Christian at all!”