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How do you define a false teacher?
SPROUL: When is a false teacher a false teacher? It’s when he teaches falsehood. MOHLER: Amen. I would just add that I think there is in the New Testament a clear reservation of that title not just for one who …Read More
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What are the essential qualities of a Christian?
Think for example about what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13. Here is a church where certain gifts are being held up before the people as indications of a kind of super-spirituality. And basically what Paul says in 1 Corinthians …Read More
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Which comes first in the ordo salutis (order of salvation)—faith or regeneration?
I think first of all of what Jesus said in John chapter 3, when he said to Nicodemus that unless you’re born from above—which is regeneration—you’ll neither be able to see or enter the kingdom of God (John 3:3-5). And …Read More
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Why should we pray if God has planned all things?
In a way that’s a form of a bigger question that sometimes people who ask that question don’t ask, which is, “If God has planned all things, why should we do anything?” And we understand that what we do as …Read More
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Why did Jesus speak in parables?
He actually answers that question Himself, or gives one answer to it, when He tells the parable of the sower and the soils and His disciples don’t get it. They come to Him and say, “What was that all about?” …Read More
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How should I preach the doctrines of grace?
I think, pastorally, one must always recognize that in some of these areas people do not have the paradigms to be able immediately to take in what scripture teaches. Sometimes they have been taught in a way that is contrary …Read More
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Did the Holy Spirit indwell or regenerate Old Testament saints before the resurrection?
GODFREY: He regenerated people in the Old Testament just the same as in the New. MOHLER: As the writer of the book of Hebrews ends chapter eleven, it was meant by God that they not be saved apart from us …Read More
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How do I know that I am elect? How do I know my faith is genuine?
The way in which we come to know our election is through faith in Christ. So we must never try to bypass Jesus Christ, because, for example, as Paul says in Ephesians 1, we are chosen in Christ before the …Read More
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How do you know if God has called you to be a pastor?
When Paul is reflecting on young Timothy who has been called to the ministry, he says to him in 2 Timothy 1:6, “Fan into flame the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.” …Read More
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Is it biblical to say God “loves you” to believers and nonbelievers alike?
Historically and theologically, we distinguish among three types of divine love. There is God’s love of benevolence, where God has a kind spirit to the whole world. His benevolent will and love fall on everybody. There is also the sense …Read More
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Is there a point where we can go too far in confessing our sins to one another?
NICHOLS: If it’s a particular sin against a brother or a sister, sometimes we think, “Well, I’ve confessed that to God. I’m now forgiven of that sin.” But I think we do have another obligation if it was a particular …Read More
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Since God is sovereign, what is the purpose of intercessory prayer?
Since God is sovereign, why should we pray? In this “Questions and Answers” session from Ligonier’s 2015 National Conference, Sinclair Ferguson explains that we pray because God sovereignly commands us to. Just ask Ligonier to get clear and trustworthy answers …Read More
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What did the Lord do in your life to help you embrace your calling as a battlefield theologian?
Mainly it was the influence of my studies in seminary as a young man and looking at what God did in the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The magisterial Reformers were world-class academicians, people like Luther and Calvin and so …Read More
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Does the Bible preclude the existence of life elsewhere in the universe?
MOHLER: The answer is no; that’s speculative. What it does make very clear is that the entire cosmos was created for the drama of redemption, as Calvin said. The cosmos is a theater of God’s redemption, of what would take …Read More
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What do we say to a mother who has lost her child in infancy when she asks, “Is my child in heaven?”
What happens to infants who die? Do they all go to heaven? From Ligonier’s 2015 National Conference, Kevin DeYoung, W. Robert Godfrey, and R.C. Sproul explain that Christian parents can hope to be reunited with their children who die in …Read More
