"Let
Your faithful love come to me, Lord, Your salvation ... " (Psalm
119:41). God's faithful love comes to us as His salvation. God's
salvation is revealed to us in His Word (Psalm 119:42), His Word of
"truth" (Psalm 119:43), the Word of His "forever and ever" love (Psalm
119:44). His Word changes us. It creates in us "love" (Psalm 119:47-48)
for the Lord and His Word. It empowers our walk with the Lord and our
witness for Him (Psalm 119:45-46).
A response to a comment by G. R. Osborne on Berkouwer’s understanding of the doctrine of final perseverance
In his contribution to Clark Pinnock (editor), Grace Unlimited (1975), G. R. Osborne states that Berkouwer, in Faith and Perseverance, pp. 9-10, “speaks of the time less ness of the doctrine of final perseverance, founded on ‘the richness and abidingness of salvation” (p. 188, emphasis mine). This single-sentence comment on Berkouwer’s view hardly gives a fair indication of the type of thinking found in Chapter 1 of Berkouwer’s Faith and Perseverance - “Time li ness and Relevance” (pp. 9-14, emphasis mine). Berkouwer insists that “the living preaching of the Scriptures, which offer no metaphysical and theoretical views about … ‘permanency’ as an independent theme in itself, does nothing to encourage ‘a continuity which is … opposed in any way to the living nature of faith” (p. 13). Berkouwer stresses that “The perseverance of the saints is not primarily a theoretical problem but a confession of faith” (p. 14) and that “The perseverance of the saints is unbreakably connected wi...
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