In past blog posts I mentioned the Biblical Resource Group for Ethnos360. We consist of 7 members and are currently updating some old doctrinal papers which were written a number of years ago for New Tribes Mission. We have completed 14 of the 22 original papers. In the last few weeks, we took a break from working on old papers in order to write a new paper on Progressive Dispensationalism. That subject was actually a chapter in the textbook that I wrote on Bible interpretation. Did you know that textbook is available online in PDF format for free? You can download each chapter from the Sanford Bible Church website. The web address is:
http://sanfordbiblechurch.org/articles_issues.html
Here’s the contents of that book:
Navigating the Minefields of Bible Interpretation
1 How to Obtain Objectivity in Interpretation
2 The Dangers of Allegorical Interpretation Part 1
3 The Dangers of Allegorical Interpretation Part 2
4 The Hermeneutics of Augustine
5 Replacement Theology – Part 1
6 Replacement Theology – Part 2
7 The Hermeneutics of Covenant Theology
8 Going Beyond the Allegorical Debate
9 Paul’s Use of Allegory in Galatians
10 The Biblical Meaning of Fulfillment
11 Matthew’s Use of Hosea 11:1
12 Progressive Dispensationalism
13 When Did the Church Begin?
14 The Church as a Mystery
15 The New Perspective on Paul—Part 1
16 The New Perspective on Paul—Part 2
17 The Hyper-Grace Controversy Part 1
18 The Hyper-Grace Controversy Part 2
19 The Hermeneutics of The New Apostolic Reformation
Blessings,
Bob
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“He Delights In Me”
Song of Solomon 7:10 “I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me.” This, we may truly say, is the highest note in the Song of Songs; and yet, we may as truly say it is the lowest. Now the soul is done with itself, and entirely occupied with Christ. It expresses, we believe, the highest apprehension of Christ. “His desire is toward me”–He delights in me. Consequently, self is lost sight of. Grace has done its perfect work–the soul is established in grace. This is the perfection of beauty in the people of the Lord; and always that in which He delights…The bride is all beauty and perfection in His sight; she is clothed in the comeliness of grace. She knows this, and this is the perfect rest of her heart.
“His desire is toward me.” Higher than this the soul never can rise… It is finding all in the love, the changeless love, of Christ. This must ever, and only, be the heart’s deepest joy and sweetest peace. Oh! Happy state for a poor sinner saved by grace to be in, and to be in now! To find all its fresh springs in the love of Jesus!
To be able to say, “He knows me thoroughly; He knows what I am in myself, what I am in Him, yet nevertheless, He not only loves me, but delights in me.” There is nothing beyond this…This ought to be the key-note of all our praise.
And should the song of His love ever become feeble on our lips? Surely it should become stronger and stronger as we near the bright realms of Glory, where the same Jesus, and the same love, shall be our happy song forever.
-A. Miller
