Year: 2005

But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life,
purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions,
which happened to me at Antioch, at
Iconium, at Lystra–what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord
delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer
persecution.
(2 Timothy 3:10-12)

At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook
me. May it not be charged against them. But the Lord stood with me and
strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and
that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the
lion. And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His
heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!
(2 Timothy 4:16-18)

We might ask, "What are you talking about Paul? How can you
have been delivered, if you have suffered? What’s the point? Why bother to be
godly if in the end, you’ll be promised more persecution?"

Joe of the Evangelical Outpost has launched ?The ?Jesus the
Logician? Project?. Basically it will be a (God willing) comprehensive list of
Jesus? superior logic or, to use Jeremy?s clarification ?reasoning?.

Joe quotes an excellent article by Doug Wilson which may
give you some direction to the purpose of the project. Check out Doug?s article
and read Joe?s requirements to get started.

Raised Glass: Jeremy the Parableman

-r-

I have to figure out a way to make long posts in such a way
that the end-reader can decide to read the thing. It?s almost an epidemic in
the Believer?s Blogosphere to write long theological posts (which many actually
read, praise the Lord!) And yet, I want to figure offer a way to make it a bit
more interactive with study as a goal.

With this goal, I?ll post a short concept or thought on what
I?m studying and then post an actual article about the short summary.

Thus the short of it is this: persecution and suffering in
the Scriptures, particularly the New Testament, is put in a good light. Why and
is there any connection with the Old Testament in this regard?

Sorry, I had to drop this quick note when I saw this. Bloggers were complaining saying it wasn’t real, Macusers were in an uproar that this was yet another PC’er hoax. PC users laughed saying that Apple will never make a dent in the PC market as they blogged smugly about their superiority.

All ye naysayers: Welcome the Mini Mac to your home.

Oh yeah, also a new Ipod for 99 beans.

I just realized something from reading several
more
anti-dispensationalist essays: these guys do not get it. "Completely
disrespectin' what we're sayin', man!" Now mind you, I am simply
commenting on what I've
noticed.

Some of the wackiness I've seen dispensationalists accused
of:

Two different ways to be saved (Friends, we, like you, know that we're saved by grace alone
through faith effective by what Christ did on the cross. Salvation is by no other.)

Not preaching to Jews (Strange being that my uncle is a Jew
who is saved by means of dispensationalists preaching to him.)

Followers of LaHaye (Please accuse dispensationalists of
following Ryrie, or Walvoord or Pentacost or Darby even but not LaHaye or Jenkins or
their fictional writing.)

Prone to antinomianism (Paul's letter to the Romans pre-empts this question which is bound to arise in any
believer who knows that he has been saved from the penalty of the Law. "Shall
we now sin so that grace may abound?" Thank God that Paul immediately answers
that thought with a "God forbid". That's right, dispensationalists don't like that kind of wanton living either.)

Ah well, we all look through a glass darkly and one day we'll
be in the presence of the Lord chuckling over the fact that none of us really
got it right. Praise be to God that we're not qualified for His presence by our
understanding of what He has done or how He works?but by what He has done on
the cross of calvary.