God’s Word speaks against us so that we might learn not to speak against
God’s Word. God calls us to holiness – “Run away from Babylon! Run for
your lives!” (Jeremiah 51:6). The final outcome is described in Jeremiah
51:8 – “Babylon will suddenly fall and be shattered.” God is warning
us. It is folly to live the world’s way rather than the Lord’s way. In
the light of the Lord’s Word, preached so faithfully by Jeremiah, we
must learn to pray, “Your will be done, Lord.”
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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