men reject the truth. You’ve done it multiple times tonight.
Pray He will ordain your deliverance from idolatry and error.
REJECT the teachings of Calvin and ACCEPT THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.
Of course men reject the truth. You’ve done it multiple times tonight.
And somehow, through the great mystery that is God’s universe, He ordains all of it, for His glory and the welfare of His saints.
Pray He will ordain your deliverance from idolatry and error.
The city-state of Geneva was in effect, a police state, ruled by a Consistory of five pastors and twelve lay elders, with the bloodless figure of the dictator looming over all, John Calvin....
Frail, thin, short, and lightly bearded, with ruthless, penetrating eyes, he was humorless and short-tempered. The slightest criticism enraged him. Those who questioned his theology he called “pigs,” “asses,” “riffraff,” “dogs,” “idiots,” and “stinking beasts.” One morning he found a poster on his pulpit accusing him of “Gross Hypocrisy.” A suspect was arrested. No evidence was produced, but he was tortured day and night for a month till he confessed. Screaming with pain, he was lashed to a wooden stake. Penultimately, his feet were nailed to the wood; ultimately he was decapitated.