Sword & Trowel 2018: Issue 2
with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fi tted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory?’ We must think of the revealing and demonstrating of God’s attributes and glory, especially his justice, mercy, and love. We must think of God as truth, and of how all of his attributes need to be seen and known. We must think of his intrinsic liberty, and how this must be refl ected in the experience of all his redeemed people through the everlasting ages.
The sense of it all is that the Fall ultimately reveals God’s full glory, manifests all his infi nite attributes, enlightens and inspires the redeemed for ever, clothes them with true freedom, shows that there is no alternative to the King of kings, and that outside him lies only opposite values and disaster.
These thoughts do not provide the whole answer to the question of why God allowed sin, but they assist our trust, and may help us to accept that there are ‘secret things’ that ‘belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever’ (Deuteronomy 29.29). ‘What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.’
Bible study messages in this series ‘The Dissolving of Doubts’ can be
downloaded free of charge from the Tabernacle website:
www.MetropolitanTabernacle.org page 34 Church Planting in Chile
CHURCH PLANTING IN CHILE
News from Pablo Huircapán, Temuco Reformed Baptist Church
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T is nearly three years since by God’s
grace the new church was started in Temuco, a south-central city in Chile with a population of about 400,000.
Temuco is considered by many to
be the most evangelised city of South America; seventy or eighty per cent of churches are Pentecostal (mostly old style – evangelical and conservative). The rest have adopted liberal theology or contemporary worship. Reformed doctrines came initially through Angli- can churches many years ago, but their infl uence was mainly in countryside areas.
Our church started with three people in a private fl at on 13th January 2016. After two months there were fi ve of us. In March 2016 we started services in a more accessible location in the city centre. We were blessed there, even though we had to wait months to see answers to our prayers. In May 2018 we had to change loca- tion and we moved to a nearby place
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