" ... so will I seek out My sheep ... on a cloudy and dark day" (Ezekiel 34:12).
Our life on earth is " a cloudy and dark day." Left to ourselves, we
always lose our way. We cannot find our way back on to the way of the
Lord without the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus does not leave us
to stumble around on a "cloudy and dark day." He has come "to seek and
to save the lost" (Luke 19:10). He is "the Light of the world" (John 8:12). His Light is still shining brightly. The darkness can't put it out (John 1:5).
We look to Jesus, and we see beyond "the cloudy and dark day." We look
to Him, and we say, "The Lord is my light and my salvation" (Psalm 27:1).
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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