The following series was a paper submitted for the course ST 711 at Reformed Baptist Seminary. It has been adapted into blog posts. Appendix I: The Blessings of Salvation in Christ This table was adapted from Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 3: Sin and Salvation in Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006), 594-595. Bavinck does…
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Making Use of Christ: Christ’s Relations with His People (3 of 4)
2.0 Christ’s Relations with His People: Union with Christ Miller’s exhortation for us is to “make use of Christ’s offices, titles, and relations.” That relation to believers is union with Christ, apprehended by the gift of faith. There is no benefit from Christ unless there is union with Christ; his threefold office would mean nothing…
Making Use of Christ: The Offices and Titles of Jesus Christ (2 of 4)
The following series was a paper submitted for the course ST 711 at Reformed Baptist Seminary. It has been adapted into blog posts. 1.0 The Offices and Titles of Jesus Christ Christ, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah, meaning anointed one, has been since Pentecost the church’s way of expressing Jesus’ Spirit-given authority…
Making Use of Christ: Introduction (1 of 4)
The following series was a paper submitted for the course ST 711 at Reformed Baptist Seminary. It has been adapted into blog posts. Introduction: The Cure for Deadness in Religion In 1761, the minutes of the Philadelphia Association contained a pastoral letter, as it did every year, written to its member churches. In this brief…