Comments on: Weekly Update 35 – Anyone for some Marrow? http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/ Exploring the views of James Durham on the Free Offer of the Gospel Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:39:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Steven Carr http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/#comment-618 Steven Carr Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:41:38 +0000 http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/#comment-618 My wife and I will be attending the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Grand Rapids, pastored by the Rev. Ray Lanning. On 2 Feb., we will be having a conference on Biblical Evangelism. The main speaker is your fellow countryman, Dr. David Murray. I am looking forward to it. My wife and I will be attending the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Grand Rapids, pastored by the Rev. Ray Lanning. On 2 Feb., we will be having a conference on Biblical Evangelism. The main speaker is your fellow countryman, Dr. David Murray. I am looking forward to it.

]]> By: Donald John MacLean http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/#comment-612 Donald John MacLean Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:44:34 +0000 http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/#comment-612 Hi Steve Calvin is very helpful on John 3:16, as I think are the Marrowmen. I enjoyed your post on Luke 2:14 a while back - very Marrow like! Glad the move to GR went well. What church will you be attending there? I'm guessing you are spoilt for choice there! Every blessing Donald John Hi Steve

Calvin is very helpful on John 3:16, as I think are the Marrowmen. I enjoyed your post on Luke 2:14 a while back – very Marrow like!

Glad the move to GR went well. What church will you be attending there? I’m guessing you are spoilt for choice there!

Every blessing
Donald John

]]> By: Steven Carr http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/#comment-610 Steven Carr Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:05:01 +0000 http://jamesdurham.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/weekly-update-34-anyone-for-some-marrow/#comment-610 This is definitely in line with what Calvin said in his commentary on John 3:16, "He gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him may not perish. This, he says, is the proper look of faith, to be fixed on Christ, in whom it beholds the breast of God filled with love: this is a firm and enduring support, to rely on the death of Christ as the only pledge of that love. The word only-begotten is emphatic, to magnify the fervor of the love of God towards us. For as men are not easily convinced that God loves them, in order to remove all doubt, he has expressly stated that we are so very dear to God that, on our account, he did not even spare his only-begotten Son. Since, therefore, God has most abundantly testified his love towards us, whoever is not satisfied with this testimony, and still remains in doubt, offers a high insult to Christ, as if he had been an ordinary man given up at random to death. But we ought rather to consider that, in proportion to the estimation in which God holds his only-begotten Son, so much the more precious did our salvation appear to him, for the ransom of which he chose that his only-begotten Son should die. To this name Christ has a right, because he is by nature the only Son of God; and he communicates this honor to us by adoption, when we are engrafted into his body." This is definitely in line with what Calvin said in his commentary on John 3:16, “He gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him may not perish. This, he says, is the proper look of faith, to be fixed on Christ, in whom it beholds the breast of God filled with love: this is a firm and enduring support, to rely on the death of Christ as the only pledge of that love. The word only-begotten is emphatic, to magnify the fervor of the love of God towards us. For as men are not easily convinced that God loves them, in order to remove all doubt, he has expressly stated that we are so very dear to God that, on our account, he did not even spare his only-begotten Son. Since, therefore, God has most abundantly testified his love towards us, whoever is not satisfied with this testimony, and still remains in doubt, offers a high insult to Christ, as if he had been an ordinary man given up at random to death. But we ought rather to consider that, in proportion to the estimation in which God holds his only-begotten Son, so much the more precious did our salvation appear to him, for the ransom of which he chose that his only-begotten Son should die. To this name Christ has a right, because he is by nature the only Son of God; and he communicates this honor to us by adoption, when we are engrafted into his body.”

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