QUYỀN NĂNG CAO CẢ CỦA ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI Ở VIỆT NAM (Ê-phê 1:4-5)

Tìm kiếm Phúc Âm Thật: Thịnh vượng chăng?

‘Ngay cả thiên sứ mà rao giảng một phúc âm ngược lại lời Đức Chúa Trời, cũng vẫn bị nguyền rủa. Trên đời nầy không hề có Cơ Đốc nhân nào không cần nghiêm túc suy ngẫm lời của Phao lô viết cho người Ga-la-ti.’

-J. Piper, W. Grudem, M. Conrad, etc.

Mua đây

(GSiV: ElliffPiperIs “Being Slain in the Spirit” biblical?Prosperity Gospel?)

If the saved need God to will for them, how much more the lost

If the believing Psalmist asked God to “incline his heart,” and Paul in the NT looked to the Lord to “grant” what the Christians at Rome needed, and trusted that God would “empower” the Corinthians, and he confessed to other believers that it was “God who works in you, both to will and to work,” and acknowledged that it was God who would “fulfill every work of faith by his power,” and Peter said that prophecy itself came not by the will of the prophets but that they “spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit,” then it should be easy to accept that non-Christians, who live in darkness, need God to regenerate them so they can repent and believe. The saved were born not “of the will of man, but of God,” for the natural man “is not able to understand” spiritual things. The Lord’s mercies are undeserved; praise be to him for showing anyone mercy.

Psalm 119:36 (ESV) — 36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!

Romans 15:5 (ESV) — 5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 12:6 (ESV) — 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.

Philippians 2:13 (ESV) — 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

2 Thessalonians 1:11 (ESV) — 11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,

2 Peter 1:21 (ESV) — 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

John 1:13 (ESV) — 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (ESV) — 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 9:15 (ESV) — 15 For [God] says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

-GSiV

(GSiV: No Free Will: BondageThe human will in bondage to sinTraditionalism/Provisionism;

ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI VÀ SỰ CỨU RỖI: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền NăngHow do we stop loving the darkness?How the gospel works–election ; A God who can’t be stopped)

Phúc Âm cho Cơ Đốc nhân–part 1

  • Chương 1: Ai Cần Đến Phúc Âm? 
  • Chương 2: Đời Sống Cơ Đốc Nhân 
  • Chương 3: Được Xưng Công Chính Là Gì? 
  • Chương 4: Được Nên Thánh Là Gì? 
  • Chương 5: Đời Sống Cơ Đốc Trọn Vẹn: Sự Cứu Rỗi 
  • Chương 6: Hội Thánh — Nơi An Toàn Của Ân Điển

-Ken Hanks

Buy e-book here

(or buy paper copy at your local Christian bookstore in Vietnam)

(GSiV: Key materials on gospel grace GSiV Resource Page)

A God who can’t be stopped

Deuteronomy 32:39 (ESV) — 39 “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.’”

Job 42 (ESV) — 1 Then Job answered the LORD and said: 2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’”

Psalm 33 (ESV) —9 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. 10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. 

Psalm 115:3 (ESV) — 3 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Isaiah 46:9–10 (ESV) — 9 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Lamentations 3:37–38 (ESV) — 37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? 

-GSiV

(GSiV: No Free Will: BondageThe human will in bondage to sinTraditionalism/Provisionism;

Đức Chúa Trời và Sự Cứu Rỗi: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền NăngHow do we stop loving the darkness?How the gospel works–electionSovereignty verses)

How the gospel works–election

‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him….’ (Ephesians 1:3-4)

Note, God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Ponder that: God. Chose. Us.

Why do some people choose to trust Christ while others die in their sins? Is it because some people just make better decisions? Unfortunately, some teachers would say this. But according to the Bible, key concepts like predestination, election, choosing, foreordaining are there in Scripture to show how big God is. They also show who God is; he has a plan and is making it happen. These doctrines (predestination, election, choosing, foreordaining) assure our hearts of how sovereign God is and how much he loves his elect. If he hadn’t loved us first by choosing us (people), we’d never have chosen him. 

  • John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
  • John 17:9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
  • Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation…”
  • Revelation 13:8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
  • Revelation 17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

If we get nervous when we hear predestination, election, choosing, foreordaining, we must ask our hearts why. Is it because we don’t like conflict and we know that Christians often fight over these concepts? OK, that’s legitimate. We shouldn’t like conflict. But God wants to teach us something wonderful and reassuring about himself through these doctrines. He is sovereign–and he is going to make sure his plans come to pass. Even sin and depravity won’t stand in his way. 

  • Job 42:1-2 Then Job answered the LORD and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
  • Isaiah 45:7 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.
  • Exodus 4:11 Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?”
  • Lamentations 3:37-38 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
  • Deuteronomy 32:39 “ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand….’ ”
  • Isaiah 46:9-10 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
  • Psalm 115:3 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
  • Psalm 33:10-11 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

So, in one real sense, election is not the gospel. But it’s connected to it. It’s tells us why we believe–and why others don’t. It emphasizes how great God is.

(GSiV: Sovereignty verses;

ElectionAtonementPiperEternal securitySalvationHow do we stop loving the darkness?😉

Ba Ngôi Đức Chúa Trời (ôn lại) / Trinity (reviewed)–part 13

Chỉ có một Thiên Chúa, đó là Đức Chúa Trời 

Phục Truyền 6:4, “Hỡi Y-sơ-ra-ên! hãy nghe: Giê-hô-va Đức Chúa Trời chúng ta là Giê-hô-va có một không hai.”

Đức Chúa Cha là Đức Chúa Trời 

Ê-phê-sô 1:3, “Ngợi-khen Đức Chúa Trời, Cha Đức Chúa Jêsus-Christ chúng ta, Ngài đã xuống phước cho chúng ta trong Đấng Christ đủ mọi thứ phước thiêng-liêng ở các nơi trên trời,”

Đức Chúa Con là Đức Chúa Trời 

Cô-lô-se 2:9, “Vì sự đầy-dẫy của bổn-tánh Đức Chúa Trời thảy đều ở trong Đấng ấy như có hình.”

Đức Chúa Thánh Linh là Đức Chúa Trời 

Công Vụ 5:3-4, “Phi-e-rơ bèn nói với người rằng: Hỡi A-na-nia, sao quỉ Sa-tan đã đầy-dẫy lòng ngươi, đến nỗi ngươi nói dối cùng Đức Thánh-Linh . . . ? chẳng phải ngươi nói dối loài người, bèn là nói dối Đức Chúa Trời.”

Đức Chúa Cha không phải là Đức Chúa Con 

Giăng 3:16, “Vì Đức Chúa Trời yêu-thương thế-gian, đến nỗi đã ban Con một của Ngài, hầu cho hễ ai tin Con ấy không bị hư-mất mà được sự sống đời đời.”

Đức Chúa Con không phải là Đức Chúa Thánh Linh 

Giăng 14:16, “Ta lại sẽ nài-xin Cha, Ngài sẽ ban cho các ngươi một Đấng Yên-ủi khác, để ở với các ngươi đời đời,”

Đức Chúa Thánh Linh không phải là Đức Chúa Cha 

Giăng 14:26, “Nhưng Đấng Yên-ủi, tức là Đức Thánh-Linh mà Cha sẽ nhân danh ta sai xuống . . . .” 

Đức Chúa Cha là một ngôi 

Lu-ca 22:42, “Lạy Cha, nếu Cha muốn, xin cất chén nầy khỏi tôi! Dầu vậy, xin ý Cha được nên, chớ không theo ý tôi!…”

Đức Chúa Con là một ngôi 

Ê-phê-sô 5:25, “Hỡi người làm chồng, hãy yêu vợ mình, như Đấng Christ đã yêu Hội-thánh. . . .”  

Đức Chúa Thánh Linh là một ngôi 

Ê-phê-sô 4:30, “Anh em chớ làm buồn cho Đức Thánh-Linh của Đức Chúa Trời, vì nhờ Ngài anh em được ấn-chứng đến ngày cứu-chuộc.”

(GSiV: A Few Confessions of Faith in VietnameseTrinity outline (Việt và Anh)Trinity chart/diagram (Việt và Anh)Ba Ngôi Đức Chúa Trời: Trinity (Ông Erickson)–Part 11;

Ba Ngôi Đức Chúa Trời: Trinity (Resources))

Rich resources (Tiếng Việt và Tiếng Anh)

Lãnh đạo bằng tình yêu, Ông Strauch–part 2

Our Lord Receives Sinners: Spurgeon

Cut Satan’s throat with his own sword

Năm Luận Điểm: Ông John Piper–part 12

God is in control: Find it here (Việt and Eng)

More posts of interest–part 11

Tin Lành Là Gì? của Ông Gilbert–part 9

None of us grows through pressure

Leadership: Alexander Strauch bằng tiếng Việt–part 1

Dane Ortlund’s “Gentle and Lowly” in Vietnamese

What is repentance? Ăn Năn Là Gì?

More posts of interest–part 10

Tin Lành không chỉ đơn thuần là “bảo hiểm thiên đàng”

Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper (Vietnamese)

Sovereign Grace Materials in Vietnamese

E-book of Piper’s, Năm Luận Điểm, now available

Được Thánh Linh Dẫn Dắt của ông Elliff–part 5

More posts of interest–part 9

Handling our differences biblically–part 2

Tin Lành Là Gì? của Ông Gilbert–part 8

Taking our miseries to the Lord

Được Thánh Linh Dẫn Dắt của ông Elliff–part 4

Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith–part 17

More posts of interest–part 8

Modesty: Non-sensual clothing and holiness

Replacing our assumptions with God’s love

Tin Lành Là Gì? của Ông Gilbert–part 7

‘Giáo Luật của Dordt (Dort)’ Là Gì?–part 17

Garments of grace

More posts of interest–part 7

Hopeful in Christ

‘Giáo Luật của Dordt (Dort)’ Là Gì?–part 15

Peace

Resources in Vietnamese

Sự Nên Thánh Động Lực Bởi Phúc Âm (3rd edition)–Part 3

More posts of interest–part 6

Just how Sovereign is our God?

 ‘Giáo Luật của Dordt (Dort)’ Là Gì?–part 13

Objections to Unconditional Election & Romans 9

Weak Missionaries?

Một Người Tên Là Martin: Video

More posts of interest–part 5

Sanctification (Sự nên thánh): Erickson–part 1

We often don’t make the gospel ‘good enough’

“Thế Nào Là Một Hội Thánh Khỏe Mạnh?” 9Marks–Part 7

Hope of the coming kingdom

Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith–part 11

More posts of interest–part 4

A lifetime message: the gospel for believers

Ân Điển của Chúa: Sự chọn lựa, Sự tiền định, và Sự biết trước

The Cambridge Declaration: Scripture alone and Inerrancy

Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith–part 2

The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978)

More posts of interest–part 3

Gospel Grace Versus Dead Religion–part 6 (Mục sư phạm tội ngoại tình)

Doctrine of the Church for Calvinists

Gospel Grace Versus Dead Religion–part 5

Gospel Grace Versus Dead Religion–part 4

Suffering in vocational ministry

More posts of interest–part 2

“New City Catechism” bằng Tiếng Việt–part 1

Nhưng nhờ chính Chúa, chứ không bởi làm việc lành

Sách Giáo Lý Có Câu Hỏi Vấn Đáp Westminster: #2

Success: My flesh demanded growth that could be seen

Man’s chief end: Mục đích tối thượng của loài người là gì?

More posts of interest–part 1 

(GSiV Resource PageA Few Confessions of Faith in Vietnamese)

Peace in conflict: Tada

If we’re right with God, we will still have conflict. But we’ll have peace.

  • ‘Paul was talking about a peace that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. Such quietness of heart has nothing to do with prison bars, wheelchairs, or confining situations. Instead, it bears up under any suffering in a satisfied and agreeable way.’
  • ‘Paul learned how to live this way. “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation” (Phil. 4:12 NIV).’
  • ‘Peace is only understood when conflicts are raging all around.’

-Joni Erickson Tada

Read the rest here to see what she says could be her ruin.

(GSiV: HumilityheavensufferingPeaceTada)

Năm Luận Điểm: Ông John Piper–part 13

‘1. Sự phản nghịch của chúng ta chống lại Đức Chúa Trời là triệt để

‘Nếu không có ân điển của Đức Chúa Trời thì không có thỏa thích gì trong sự thánh khiết của Ngài, và không còn sự đầu phục tình nguyện dưới thẩm quyền tể trị của Chúa. 

‘Tất nhiên, những người bại hoại hoàn toàn vẫn có thể rất mộ đạo và vô cùng nhân ái. Họ có thể cầu nguyện, bố thí và kiêng ăn như Chúa Jê-sus đã nói (Ma-thi-ơ 6:1-18).’

-John Piper, Năm Luận Điểm: Hướng Đến Một Trải Nghiệm Sâu Nhiệm Hơn về Ân Điển của Đức Chúa Trời, Việt 2020, (Five Points, 2013), tr. 19.

E-book of Piper’s, Năm Luận Điểm, now available

(GSiV: The human will in bondage to sinMọi sự đều tùy thuộc vào ý chỉ của Chúa: LutherElectionAtonementPiperEternal security;Salvation)

How do we stop loving the darkness?

Many of us know John 3:16, but how many of us know what it says after that? 

  • ‘Whoever believes in him [God the Father or the Son] is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.’ (John 3:18–21)

This passage shows that man is born loving the darkness; he delights in it. That means, man naturally loves lostness and darkness–that is, he loves his sin. Our hearts are bent that way; we are tainted all the way through. 

But how do we ever get from being a person who, deep down inside, loves darkness and hates God, to someone who loves light, who loves God? If our theology doesn’t answer this question clearly from Scripture, we need to change our theology. The answer isn’t free will; it’s not prevenient grace; it’s not some people make better choices than others. The answer is–God

The Lord is so kind that he actually gives us what we need. In John 3 after the Apostle John records Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus, the Apostle also records John the Baptist speaking plainly: ‘A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven’ (John 3:27). How kind of our Lord to give us what we need–grace, gospel, faith, salvation. 

He loved us enough to cause our new birth. ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…’ (1 Peter 1:3). Truly, what good thing do we have that God has not given us? (See 1 Cor 4:7; Phil 1:29; 2 Tim 2:25.)

The simple fact is, if the Lord hadn’t made sure we would come to his family out of the darkness, we never would have come.

  • John 1:5 ‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’
  • John 6:37 ‘All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.’
  • 2 Corinthians 4:6 ‘For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’
  • Colossians 1:12–13 ‘giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,’
  • Romans 5:5 ‘and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.’

We shouldn’t run from these doctrines because they make some people uncomfortable. We rejoice. They bring our hearts comfort; they should cause all Christians to rejoice in God’s kindness and sovereignty. These verses show that God can’t be stopped. They provoke us to praise him.

-GSiV

(GSiV: No Free Will: BondageThe human will in bondage to sinTraditionalism/Provisionism;

ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI VÀ SỰ CỨU RỖI: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng)

Recent posts of interest–part 11

Lãnh đạo bằng tình yêu, Ông Strauch–part 2

Our Lord Receives Sinners: Spurgeon

Cut Satan’s throat with his own sword

Năm Luận Điểm: Ông John Piper–part 12

God is in control: Find it here (Việt and Eng)

How not to have critical spirit

Less talent: rewarded for faithfulness

What guarantees the success of evangelism?

Nhu mì và Khiêm nhường, Ông D. Ortlund—Part 5

You can top it [your sin vs sins of others]

Bible verses that highlight God’s supremacy 

The crushing obligation to do more

Needy debtors to mercy and grace

Heidelberg Catechism (Viet and Eng)–part 2

Nhu mì và Khiêm nhường, Ông D. Ortlund—Part 4

Heidelberg Catechism (Viet and Eng)

The CPMCritic Site

What does it mean that the Bible is infallible? (Tiếng Việt)

Nhu mì và Khiêm nhường, Ông D. Ortlund—Part 3

Reformation Day 2022

On Christians being ready to die

‘Chúa Thật Như Lời’ của Ông DeYoung

Clarity on the gospel: Why Jesus came 

Trở về từ Xứ Xa, Ông Yuan–part 3

Vietnamese materials rich with God’s grace

Trở về từ Xứ Xa, Ông Yuan–part 2

Nhu mì và Khiêm nhường, Ông D. Ortlund—Part 2

Trở về từ Xứ Xa, Ông Yuan–part 1

Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith (1742)

Năm Luận Điểm: Ông John Piper–part 11

Baptist Catechism (1689) (Tiếng Việt)–part 2

(GSiV: Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 7Part 8Part 10Grace)