God talk

  I want to begin by quoting from the book of Romans and I will use this as an introduction to what Herman Bavinck is going to say.  Although in this section of his writing he does not quote these verses, I believe the Holy Logic can be seen: " 5 For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. 6 But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), 7 or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” 8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9  that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting

  The Relationship of Faith, Trust, Grace and the Christian Life in the World Today;  Part 1 Faith has always been a universal value We have travelled a long way in Herman Bavincks Reformed Ethics.   We are now in the last part of Chapter 7.     The Christian man lives by Faith in Christ, his Lord; Complete trust in the Word of God (in the person of Jesus Christ); found in the word of God (A historical revelation of the person and work of Christ found in Holy Scripture).     So, todays lesson will encompass the following found at the end of chapter 7: “God’s Word has to be meditated upon before it becomes our thought, and therefore also Christ and his merits, accepted by faith, must be processed in struggle and pain and assimilated before they become ours. Thus, the new man, who does not live by bread but by the Word of Christ, grows. And this is a new, complete person, not just in part, because in regeneration the entire man with all his faculties and abilities is re-created in pr