Rutherford: A Tyrannical Power Does NotFit the Definition of a Power From God ‎”Tyranny being a work of Satan, is not from God, because sin, either habitual or actual, is not from God: the power that is, must be from God; the magistrate, as magistrate, is good in nature of office, and the intrinsic end … Read more

Charnock on Men Putting Themselves In Place ofGod by Enacting Laws Against God’s Commands “So foolishly fond are men to put themselves in the place of God, and usurp a jurisdiction over men’s consciences: and to presume that laws made against the interest and command of God, must be of more force than the laws … Read more

Murray: Civil Government Is Obligated to ConductIts Affairs in Accordance with God’s Will “[It is an error] if it is thought that the Christian revelation, the Bible, does not come to the civil authority with a demand for obedience to its direction and precept as stringent and inescapable as it does to the individual, to … Read more

Pink on the Truths That Need To Be Published Today “What is needed today is a scriptural setting forth of the condition of the natural man — his total depravity, his spiritual insensibility, his inveterate hostility to God, the fact that he is “condemned already” (John 3:18) and that the wrath of a sin-hating God … Read more

Theodoretus on the Comfort Given byScripture to Those Who Suffer False Accusation “To them that suffer under false accusation the greatest comfort is given by the words of Scripture. When such a sufferer is wounded by the lying words of an unbridled tongue, and feels the sharp stings of distress, he remembers the story of … Read more

The Defective Worldview of the Pessimillennialist by Stuart DiNenno There’s something defective about our so-called Christian worldview if we believe that the best the church can ever hope for in this world is to be a tiny, downtrodden minority that will never be able to rightly practice Christianity because it is destined to be forever … Read more

It Is Not True that We CannotForcibly Christianize a Society by Stuart DiNenno “You can never Christianize society. It is folly to attempt to do so. I would even suggest that it is heresy to do so. Man must be born again. How can they live the Christian life if they have not become Christians? … Read more

Various Bible Commentaries on WomenBeing Called the Weaker Vessel (1 Peter 3:7) “as unto the weaker vessel” Weaker than the husbands, and that both in body and mind, as women usually are. In Scripture any instrument is called a vessel, and the wife is here called so, as being not only an ornament, but a … Read more

Bavinck on a False Conservatism That Preserves Evil “There is, however, also a false conservatism that takes pleasure in leaving the existing situation untouched simply because it exists and—in accordance with Calvin’s familiar saying—not to attempt to change a well-positioned evil (malum bene positum non movere). At the proper time, everywhere and in every sphere … Read more

Bavinck on a False Peace That Must Be Broken “There is therefore a true, but also a false, unreal and counterfeit love. Likewise there is a good peace for which we must strive and seek to maintain with all men, but there is also a false, sinful peace which should be broken. If with lies … Read more