tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post3603736256737736035..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The journey homeRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-25506970480451809292009-11-25T22:29:53.204-05:002009-11-25T22:29:53.204-05:00What an encouragement.
Thank you.What an encouragement.<br /><br />Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-55740314724367396232009-11-25T22:14:29.031-05:002009-11-25T22:14:29.031-05:00I think it was RC Sproul who said: "Today man...I think it was RC Sproul who said: "Today many believe we are justified by death." (paraphrased)<br /><br />A very good post as usual.<br /><br />Have a blessed and joyous Thanksgiving day with your family, and with our Savior.donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-81794950296667114682009-11-25T20:21:58.864-05:002009-11-25T20:21:58.864-05:00Cyprian, shortly before his own martyrdom (unknown...Cyprian, shortly before his own martyrdom (unknown to him at the time), wrote the following to some Christians imprisoned in the mines of the Roman empire:<br /><br />"But what wonder if, as golden and silver vessels, you have been committed to the mine that is the home of gold and silver, except that now the nature of the mines is changed, and the places which previously had been accustomed to yield gold and silver have begun to receive them? Moreover, they have put fetters on your feet, and have bound your blessed limbs, and the temples of God with disgraceful chains, as if the spirit also could be bound with the body, or your gold could be stained by the contact of iron. To men who are dedicated to God, and attesting their faith with religious courage, such things are ornaments, not chains; nor do they bind the feet of the Christians for infamy, but glorify them for a crown. Oh feet blessedly bound, which are loosed, not by the smith but by the Lord! Oh feet blessedly bound, which are guided to paradise in the way of salvation! Oh feet bound for the present time in the world, that they may be always free with the Lord! Oh feet, lingering for a while among the fetters and cross-bars, but to run quickly to Christ on a glorious road!...What now must be the vigour, beloved brethren, of your victorious consciousness, what the loftiness of your mind, what exultation in feeling, what triumph in your breast, that every one of you stands near to the promised reward of God, are secure from the judgment of God, walk in the mines with a body captive indeed, but with a heart reigning, that you know Christ is present with you, rejoicing in the endurance of His servants, who are ascending by His footsteps and in His paths to the eternal kingdoms! You daily expect with joy the saving day of your departure; and already about to withdraw from the world, you are hastening to the rewards of martyrdom, and to the divine homes, to behold after this darkness of the world the purest light, and to receive a glory greater than all sufferings and conflicts, as the apostle witnesses, and says, 'The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.' And because now your word is more effectual in prayers, and supplication is more quick to obtain what is sought for in afflictions, seek more eagerly, and ask that the divine condescension would consummate the confession of all of us; that from this darkness and these snares of the world God would set us also free with you, sound and glorious; that we who here are united in the bond of charity and peace, and have stood together against the wrongs of heretics and the oppressions of the heathens, may rejoice together in the heavenly kingdom. I bid you, most blessed and most beloved brethren, ever farewell in the Lord, and always and everywhere remember me." (Letter 76:2, 76:7)Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.com