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Peter and Paul — leadership for greater unity

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Peter and Paul. Two men from radically different backgrounds. Two people whom the Lord Jesus called to the same most noble and most difficult ministry. We know their sermons. We know their martyrdoms. We know their letters, copied and re-copied for two thousand years, sitting in the same Bible, side by side, world without end. But there is a small, easily-missed sentence buried in one of those letters — a sentence that tells us something almost nobody preaches on. Paul writes, almost in passing, that three years after his conversion, three years after the beginning of his devoted services he went up to Jerusalem, and he stayed with Peter for fifteen days. Fifteen days. Two men. One place, one house, in one city, for two full weeks. And Scripture tells us almost nothing about what happened in that time... the full booklet can be read HERE
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treasures — provided

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I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble. 1 Chron 29:2
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The Covenant of Grace in the Old Testament

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A sermon by Martyn Lloyd-Jones Now, we continue this evening... with our consideration of the biblical doctrine of Redemption, (or the biblical doctrine of Salvation). We reminded one another last week that man, having failed to keep God's Law and Commandment, had fallen and had become the slave of Satan, and dead in trespasses and in sins. And that had he been left to himself, his condition would have been entirely hopeless. But God, in his infinite grace and love and mercy, had looked upon man in pity, and had informed him of this great plan and purpose of salvation and of redemption. And last Friday evening, we considered the characters and characteristics of this great plan of redemption in general. I ended by saying that God had revealed this plan of redemption and of salvation to men, in the form of a covenant that he had made with men. And this is commonly called the Covenant of Redemption, or the Covenant of Salvation. And that is to be our special theme th...
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A Kegyelem Szövetsége az Ószövetségben

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones prédikációja Ma este... folytatjuk a megváltás bibliai tanának (vagyis az üdvösség bibliai tanának) vizsgálatát. A múlt héten emlékeztettük egymást arra, hogy az ember, mivel nem tartotta be Isten törvényét és parancsolatait, elbukott, a Sátán rabszolgájává vált, és bűneiben és vétkeiben halottá vált. És ha magára lett volna hagyva, helyzete teljesen reménytelen lett volna. De Isten, végtelen kegyelmében, szeretetében és irgalmában, szánalommal tekintett az emberre, és tájékoztatta őt az üdvösség és a megváltás e nagy tervéről és céljáról. Múlt péntek este pedig általánosságban áttekintettük e nagy megváltási terv jellemzőit és tulajdonságait. Azzal zártam, hogy Isten ezt a megváltási és üdvösségi tervet az embereknek egy velük kötött szövetség formájában tárta fel. Ezt általában a Megváltás Szövetségének vagy az Üdvösség Szövetségének nevezik. És ez lesz ma este a különleges témánk. Az a mód, ahogyan Isten az embereknek tudtára adta és kinyilatkozta...
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The Abrahamic Base of Christianity

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Two Covenants, One Promise A methodical construction supporting a seven-point teaching [Outline] I. The Root: Promise, Not Ethnicity Central Claim Christianity did not grow out of Judaism as its institutional predecessor. This popular assumption ( "Woozle effect" ) is contra­dicted by apostolic teaching. Key Argument The promises were given to Abraham and to his seed (Gal 3:16) — referring to Christ, not to a nation. The heir did not come by human effort (Ishmael / flesh) but by divine promise: Isaac. "We are children of promise, not children of flesh." (Gal 4:28) The Abrahamic line leads to the Messiah — not merely to Israel's national identity. Transition The human, family line is mainly Israelite, yes — but the covenant source and "logic" is Messianic, far before / far beyond the Mosaic period and that is what matters for what follows. II. The Two Covenants: Their Order and Purpose Central Claim Apostolic th...
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