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When Jesus Said "Blessed are the Poor in Spirit," Did He Simply Mean "Blessed are the Humble"?

January 18, 2012 by mattperman

No. The reason is that spiritual poverty, in a certain sense, is not a good thing at all. To be spiritually poor, in the first dimension of the word, is to be a sinner. This is not a good thing. Jesus isn’t talking merely about humble people here; he is talking about sinners. But we […]

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The Difference Between Historical Faith and Saving Faith

August 2, 2010 by mattperman

From Rod Rosenbladt’s chapter “Christ Died for the Sins of Christians, Too” in Christ the Lord: The Reformation and Lordship Salvation: I hear the reader asking, “Well then, is saving faith just a matter of knowing facts?” Hardly, and the Reformers knew that. They distinguished between historical faith and saving faith. Historical faith has human […]

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