All Articles For Colossians

“The Infallibility of Scripture Denied.” 

Rev. Terpstra is pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. This Meditation is the text of the pre-synodical sermon preached by Rev. Terpstra on June 10, 2002. Introduction Esteemed delegates to the 2002 Synod of the PRC and beloved saints of the church of Jesus Christ, our text this evening (Col. 2:1-4) directs us to a truth of utmost importance for the faith and life of the church in our day, and for the work of the synod in this week. That truth is that in Christ all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid. Hid not...

Article V. Who teach: That all men have been accepted unto the state of reconciliation and unto the grace of the covenant, so that no one is worthy of condemnation on account of original sin, and that no one shall be condemned because of it, but that all are free from the guilt of original sin. For this opinion is repugnant to Scripture which teaches that we are by nature children of wrath. Eph. 2:3.

Rev. VanOverloop is pastor of Georgetown Protestant Reformed Church in Hudsonville, Michigan. “Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.” II Thessalonians 2:15 Paul had just said that he knew the people in the Christian church in Thessalonica to be elect! And he knew that they were loved of God (II Thess. 2:13, 14)! They stood in sharp contrast to those who belong to the kingdom of Antichrist (II Thess. 2:11, 12). Paul also knew that these Thessalonian saints would, like all the other of God’s elected loved ones,...

“. . . . and have not charity, I am nothing.” I Cor. 13:2 “. . . . give Me mine heart . . . .”

REJECTION OF ERRORS 

Rev. Connors is pastor of the Launceston congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. Adam … “who is the figure of him that was to come” (Rom. 5:14). “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (I Cor. 15:22). Federal headship! It is a glorious reality. In its light we have true knowledge of ourselves and our fellow men. First, we know ourselves to be dead in Adam, for “the [first, cjc] covenant being made with Adam as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, all mankind descending...

Rev. Koole is pastor of Grandville Protestant Reformed Church in Grandville, Michigan. Many were the areas in which the Reformers cleared away the stifling undergrowth of Romish, scholastic error and opened up and clarified the church’s understanding of biblical truths. One of these vital areas was the truth of the image of God in man. What Berkof says in his Reformed Dogmatics is certainly true: “The doctrine of the image of God is of greatest importance in theology, for that image is the expression of that which is most distinctive in man and in his relation to God” (Vol. I,...

Rev. Terpstra is pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. “For our salvation was a matter of concern to God in such a way that, not forgetful of himself, he kept his glory primarily in view, and therefore created the whole world for this end, that it may be a theater of his glory”—Consensus Genevensis, as quoted in The Theater of His Glory: Nature and Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin, Susan E. Schreiner, Labyrinth Press, 1991 (cf. Institutes of the Christian Religion, J.T. McNeill, Ed.; F.L. Battles, Transl., Westminster, 1960, 2 vols., I. v. 8,...

This passage in Matthew 25:31-46 is not simply a lastsection in Jesus’ eschatological discourse; it is really the consummation of his discourse, giving the final answer to the question of his disciples concerning the time of his Parousia. The Lord Jesus, when he utters these words, is on the mount of Olives. Yet two days and he will hang upon the accursed tree.