{"id":1420,"date":"2009-08-16T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/08\/16\/an-outline-worth-stealing\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T23:48:10","slug":"an-outline-worth-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/08\/16\/an-outline-worth-stealing\/","title":{"rendered":"an outline worth stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My morning sermon this Sunday (8\/14) was based on an outline I found in a footnote to William R. Newell\u2019s commentary on Romans 4.14. The footnote was so profound that I thought it shouldn\u2019t lie dormant in the commentary but be fleshed out in a whole sermon.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I\u2019d share the entire footnote with you as well. I\u2019d encourage the preachers in the audience to steal it too. It is well worth preaching.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Here is Newell:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The reason God hates your trust in your &#8216;good works&#8217; is, that you offer them to Him instead of resting on the all-glorious work of His Son for you at the cross. <\/p>\n<p>Reflect: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What it cost God to give Christ.<\/li>\n<li>What it cost Christ to put away sin \u2014 your sin, at the cross.<\/li>\n<li>What honor God has given Him &#8216;because of the suffering of death.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>What plans for the future God has arranged through Christ having made peace by the blood of His cross, to reconcile &#8216;things upon the earth and things in the heavens, unto Himself.&#8217; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, when that uneasiness of conscience on account of which you keep doing &#8216;dead works,&#8217; you neglect all God is, has done, and desires, for you, and substitute your own uncertain, fearful, trifling notions of &#8216;works that shall please God.&#8217; You would make God come to your terms, instead of gladly accepting his great salvation and resting in the finished work of Christ. <\/p>\n<p>It is ominously bold presumption, when God is calling all to behold His Lamb, to be found asking God to behold your goodness, your works!&#160; ((William R. Newell, <i>Romans: verse by verse<\/i>, p. 143, footnote.))<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You are saved by works, but not your works! The Works of our Lord Jesus Christ are the saving works.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/don_sig28.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My morning sermon this Sunday (8\/14) was based on an outline I found in a footnote to William R. Newell\u2019s commentary on Romans 4.14. The footnote was so profound that I thought it shouldn\u2019t lie dormant in the commentary but be fleshed out in a whole sermon. I thought I\u2019d share the entire footnote with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[42,43,70],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-mU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}