It is the duty of Christians to be settled in the doctrine of faith. It is the apostle’s prayer, I Peter 5:10, “The God of all grace establish, strengthen, settle you.” That is, that they might not be meteors in the air, but fixed stars. The apostle Jude speaks of “wandering stars”, in verse 13. They are called wandering stars, because, as Aristotle says, “They do leap up and down, and wander into several parts of the heaven; and being but dry exhalations, not made of that pure celestial matter as the fixed stars are, they often fall to the earth.” Now, such as are not settled in religion, will, at one time or other, prove wandering stars; they will lose their former steadfastness, and wander from one opinion to another.
Thomas Watson (1620 – 1686)
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I am a Particular Baptist who affirms the absolute sovereignty of the triune Godhead in all things. The fullness of the Godhead dwells in the God-man Jesus Christ. He is the Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, Disposer and Judge of all that ever was, is now or ever shall be. Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and men. He was made to be sin for his people and saved them from their sins by his substitutionary, sacrificial death on the cross thereby satisfying the justice and wrath of God against them. The sufficiency of his death to the satisfaction of God’s justice is proven by his physical resurrection from the dead and enthronement in glory at the right hand of the Father. Jesus Christ is coming again to judge the living and the dead. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
It is the duty of Christians to be settled in the doctrine of faith. It is the apostle’s prayer, I Peter 5:10, “The God of all grace establish, strengthen, settle you.” That is, that they might not be meteors in the air, but fixed stars. The apostle Jude speaks of “wandering stars”, in verse 13. They are called wandering stars, because, as Aristotle says, “They do leap up and down, and wander into several parts of the heaven; and being but dry exhalations, not made of that pure celestial matter as the fixed stars are, they often fall to the earth.” Now, such as are not settled in religion, will, at one time or other, prove wandering stars; they will lose their former steadfastness, and wander from one opinion to another.
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