Comments on: Warfield on the Joyfully Exultant Tone of Miserable Sinner Christianity http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/ Crossroads Church Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: AmeliaJo http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-9332 AmeliaJo Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:34:27 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-9332 Has been a week for feeling less than. My oldest turns 40 on the 6th of June my youngest graduates high school. My oldest says I am too different from her to be her mother and denies our youngest an adopted niece from birth as her "real sister". So, her family is her father. After 40 years of raising children and 20 years of helping my father to die and now a wife to an ill husband. I am at a loss, I am tired and God has, has what...I remember being a little girl and believing God would supply my needs, a husband, children grandchildren and a white picket fence. There are no white picket fences. We are never good enough or strong enough or wise enough and answers to prayer is quiet, why because we pray wrongly, because we sin we do. Because joy and love and happiness is not the truth and the life that everyone gets in the end is not what we thought it to be. And little girl dreams are only a fantasy. Husbands will be too sick to love, our children wont always love us back and parents need us to help them die. And by then there is nothing left no strength, no widom and prayers are quiet. Has been a week for feeling less than. My oldest turns 40 on the 6th of June my youngest graduates high school. My oldest says I am too different from her to be her mother and denies our youngest an adopted niece from birth as her “real sister”. So, her family is her father. After 40 years of raising children and 20 years of helping my father to die and now a wife to an ill husband. I am at a loss, I am tired and God has, has what…I remember being a little girl and believing God would supply my needs, a husband, children grandchildren and a white picket fence. There are no white picket fences. We are never good enough or strong enough or wise enough and answers to prayer is quiet, why because we pray wrongly, because we sin we do. Because joy and love and happiness is not the truth and the life that everyone gets in the end is not what we thought it to be. And little girl dreams are only a fantasy. Husbands will be too sick to love, our children wont always love us back and parents need us to help them die. And by then there is nothing left no strength, no widom and prayers are quiet.

]]> By: Crabby Magnolia http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8649 Crabby Magnolia Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:05:33 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8649 Thank you for the definition! Thank you for the definition!

]]> By: Cody Reeves http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8641 Cody Reeves Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:09:16 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8641 "T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear. And Grace, my fears relieved." “T’was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.”

]]> By: Perry McKinnon http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8633 Perry McKinnon Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:34:37 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8633 “...a tone of joy which swells in exact proportion to the sense we have of our ill-desert; for it is he to whom much is forgiven who loves much, and who, loving, rejoices much.” And how do we come to understand the extent of our "ill-desert"? Not by looking inward but by seeing and understanding our Lord more fully. The Christian life is a daily exploration of God through His Word and the person of Jesus Christ. As Paul prayed: Ephesians 1:16-19 (ESV) I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV) For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. “…a tone of joy which swells in exact proportion to the sense we have of our ill-desert; for it is he to whom much is forgiven who loves much, and who, loving, rejoices much.”

And how do we come to understand the extent of our “ill-desert”? Not by looking inward but by seeing and understanding our Lord more fully. The Christian life is a daily exploration of God through His Word and the person of Jesus Christ.

As Paul prayed:

Ephesians 1:16-19 (ESV)
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might

Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV)
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

]]> By: Todd Johnson http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8589 Todd Johnson Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:17:40 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8589 Overcoming; conquering. Overcoming; conquering.

]]> By: Crabby Magnolia http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8577 Crabby Magnolia Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:08:12 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8577 What does "overmastering" mean? What does “overmastering” mean?

]]> By: Mikey McD http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8503 Mikey McD Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:39:23 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8503 "Overmastering exultation" and "exultant joy" Paul was a great example regarding overmastering exultation/exultant joy. After his conversion from enemy to hero, sinner to saint he mentions joy (in Christ) constantly... Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with ALL JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. “Overmastering exultation” and “exultant joy”

Paul was a great example regarding overmastering exultation/exultant joy. After his conversion from enemy to hero, sinner to saint he mentions joy (in Christ) constantly…
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with ALL JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

]]> By: Mike Smith http://www.crossroadslive.com/2010/03/10/warfield-on-the-joyfully-exultant-tone-of-miserable-sinner-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-8475 Mike Smith Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:07:03 +0000 http://www.crossroadslive.com/?p=5594#comment-8475 The people who are still depressed or down troden over their sin rather then being filled with joy over their salvation are ones still in the process of dying to self. We all have a long way to go and our sin is always going to depress us to a point. How "quickly" we raise our eyes to Jesus is the measure of how far we have come in our sanctification. The people who are still depressed or down troden over their sin rather then being filled with joy over their salvation are ones still in the process of dying to self. We all have a long way to go and our sin is always going to depress us to a point. How “quickly” we raise our eyes to Jesus is the measure of how far we have come in our sanctification.

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