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    Calvin and Courage: Under the cross
    Calvin and Courage: Under the cross
    Calvin and Courage: Under the cross
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    Calvin and Courage: Under the cross

    By Hazlett Lynch

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    Book shows how Calvin, in 1553, displayed courage in the face of Servetus's heresy, the poor behaviour of the Libertines, and all while ministering to five young student ministers facing martyrdom. Establishes his credentials as a loving, caring pastor who refused to provide simplistic answers to life's most perplexing challenges.
    His letters to the young martyrs reveal a warm-hearted pastor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazlett Lynch
    Release dateJan 18, 2012
    ISBN9781465817297
    Calvin and Courage: Under the cross
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    Hazlett Lynch

    Northern Ireland man, Dr J. E. Hazlett Lynch, is happily married to Margaret (in 1973), and they have two sons together, David and Stephen. Dr Lynch has a wide range of experience, expertise and abilities, having university qualifications in Building, Theology, Education, Reconciliation Dynamics, Terrorism, Victimhood, and Workplace Bullying. This explains why he has written and published books with wide-ranging subject matter. He is keen to share this information with the wider reading public.

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      Calvin and Courage - Hazlett Lynch

      Calvin and Courage - Under The cross

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      J. E. Hazlett Lynch

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      CALVIN and COURAGE: Under the Cross

      by

      J. E. Hazlett Lynch

      [This book is the substance of a lecture delivered by Dr Lynch at the Amyraldian Association's Annual Conference at Attleborough, Norfolk, in which the 500th anniversary of the birth of Genevan Reformer, John Calvin (1509-1564) was marked by a series of lectures on various aspect of Calvin's thought.]

      For this final session, there’s one thing I want you to believe and experience, and that is the wonderful goodness and kindness of God to His children. I want you to leave this conference so encouraged that you will believe in your hearts that with Christ you can face anything. I want you to be encouraged by the truth of God, which tells us that whatever we may be called upon to go through for His Name’s sake, He will enable us to do it. I want the very thought of God to fill your entire being, so that as you leave this conference, you will dare to be a Daniel and to stand alone for the truth of the Gospel, to suffer for it, and even to die for it. I want you to leave with your hearts and minds filled to overflowing with love for our great Saviour. We’ve been thinking about Calvin throughout this conference, and that’s good; but I don’t just want you to think of Calvin, but of Calvin’s glorious Saviour.

      So, I'd like turn your attention initially to 1st Peter 1, written by the apostle Peter to the persecuted believers scattered throughout Asia Minor. Peter’s letter is written to the ‘strangers,’ ‘sojourners,’ ‘pilgrims,’ in Asia Minor, believers who had been forced to leave their homeland and go elsewhere because of intense persecution for their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. They were in the world, but they did not belong to it. They were aliens, foreigners, displaced people, suspects, people who did not belong. They were different, they did not fit in, they stood out like a sore thumb; and they were hated because they were different. They did not belong to this world, but they belonged to Christ - Christians.

      The wise apostolic pastor was acutely aware of the urgent need of persecuted believers - the multiplication of grace, v.2, etc. He seems to be saying that in these dire situations, grace simplicitor is insufficient. The greater the suffering, the more grace is needed. Persecution demands grace and persecution unto death requires enormous supplies of grace, and abundant mercy. Indeed persecution does something to God – it gives Him the opportunity to display the magnificence and splendour of His grace. The greater the need, the greater the grace that is shown. And God gives grace in that proportion.

      In 1 Peter 1, the apostle, for the comfort and encouragement of the pilgrims, takes them back to first principles - back to the sovereign God, Whose purposes of salvation for them are being carried out despite their unfavourable circumstances, back to the redemption purchased by Christ for them, vs.18,19, back to the precious blood of Christ which bought that redemption, v.19. He takes them to real time history, to things that really happened, to historical events that Peter and others witnessed. God had acted in history for the salvation of His people – it was not a figment of their imaginations; this really did happen, this is real. Christ died for them, v.19. He died, shedding His precious blood, died as a lamb without blemish and without spot, the perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, Jn.1:29. Therefore they were being assured by Peter that they were included in that death, and having trusted in the crucified Christ, they had nothing but shadows to fear. Christ died for them – an historical reality and verity. He takes them back to the Cross.

      But further, Christ was raised again for them and He received glory from this same God, v.21. And having trusted in the risen Christ, their faith and hope are in God, v.21. ‘What

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