SI NO OS ARREPENTÍS TODOS PERECERÉIS: El Arrepentimiento en Lucas 13:1-5
Is Assurance Possible Without Perseverance
This article, which has been slightly modified, was printed originally in The Reign of the Servant Kings: A Study of Eternal Security and the Final Significance of Man (Hayesville, NC: Schoettle Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 258–60, and is used by permission. by Jody Dillow According to the Reformed Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints, […]
Absolutely Free—or Not?
By Curt Nelson I couldn’t believe it—I was sitting in my very first class at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary and the professor was teaching some strange doctrine I had never heard before. He was telling us that the only condition for salvation is belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I knew immediately what I […]
The Self-Righteous Older Brother: Repentance in Luke 15:25-32
As we have seen in our last two articles in Grace in Focus, Luke 15 is not at all about the repentance of unsaved people. On the contrary, the chapter is about the repentance and restoration of Christians who have wandered away from their Shepherd and His flock (15:4-7), from their place and role in […]
Do This and You Will Live – Luke 10:28
There are two ways to be saved: believe in Christ or keep the commandments. Yes, I mean what I just said. A person could be saved by keeping God’s commandments. The passage we look at today makes this crystal clear. An expert in the Law of Moses came to Jesus to test Him (Luke 10:25) […]
EL HERMANO MAYOR JUSTO EN SÍ MISMO: El Arrepentimiento en Lucas 15:25-32
Lost Son, Not Lost Sonship: Repentance in Luke 15:11-24
Luke 15 is the classic NT chapter on repentance. Here, if anywhere, we should meet the fundamental teaching on NT repentance. As we saw in our study of Luke 15:1-10 (last issue), the first two parables of the chapter—The Lost Sheep and The Lost Coin—very clearly refer to the repentance of a born-again person who […]
Church Discipline: A Necessary Partner to the Grace Gospel
By Charlie Bing When President Clinton admitted immorality in the White House, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention and a seminary president called for Clinton’s home church in Arkansas to exercise “biblical church discipline.” The Associated Press article that reported this added, “The practice is seldom used in the modern church.”1 That is unfortunate […]
HIJO PERDIDO, NO LA CONDICIÓN DE HIJO: Arrepentimiento en Lucas 15:11-24
The Ninety-nine Righteous Sheep: Repentance in Luke 15:1-10
In the first article of this series, we maintained that the silence of John in his Gospel on the subject of repentance is a powerful argument that he did not regard repentance as necessary for eternal life. In the second article, we showed that John’s frequent reference to repentance in the book of Revelation reveals […]