TheosGuy

Following an explanation of John Piper’s acronymn APTAT. The excerpt is from an article at Desiring God.

• A – I acknowledge that without Christ I can do nothing (John 15:5; Romans 7:18).
• P – I pray that God would make me love as Jesus loves, and work in me all that is pleasing to him (1 Thessalonians 2:12; Romans 5:21; Hebrews 13:21).
• T – I trust the promise of God’s help and strength and guidance (Isaiah 41:10; James 1:5-6).
• A – I act in obedience to God’s word. Doug Heil asked me last Sunday if Philippians 2:12 fit my acronym: “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”? I said yes, because look at the ground clause which follows: “for it is God who works in you to will and to do his good pleasure.” Yes! Yes! We act. We obey! But what keeps this action from being a “work of law” is that we have acknowledged our helplessness, prayed for enablement, and trusted that precisely in and under our working and willing it is God who does the work! Therefore our act is a fruit of the Spirit not a work of the flesh.
• T – I thank God for whatever good comes. I give him the glory (1 Peter 4:11).

Tags: Living, Prayer

Four times we are told in scripture that “the just shall live by faith.” Faith on the finished work of Jesus Christ as our one and only true sacrifice.

Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. (Hab 2:4 NKJV)

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith. (Rom 1:17 NKJV)

But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith. (Gal 3:11 NKJV)

Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him. (Heb 10:38 NKJV)

Tags: Assurance, Faith, Living

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