Charles Town

Sport Compendium Room

The McDermott Pond Creek Division

A room 25'by 25' filled with Sports

Sports cards, Hot Wheels, NASCAR,

Starting Lineup, Magazines, M2 Machine Cars.

Three tables of Trains

C.E Whisnant, Owner,

 

CHARLES TOWN SPORTS COMPENDIUM R00M

4324 D  McDermott Pond Creek Division

 

DISPLAYING STEAM & DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES RAILWAY

1. Hot Wheels Cars      2. How Wheels "Character Cars.

3. Matchbox Cars       4. Wheaties Boxs

 

5. 1/64 M²Machine        6. 1/24 M2Machine Cars

 

7. 1/24 American Clasic, Fast & Fuprious, Bigtime Muscle, CC

8. 1/24 NASCAR cars        9. 1/64 NASCAR cars

 

10. Sports Cards: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Golf

11. Sport Magazines:
        11. Train Magazines

 

13. Starting Lineups Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey

 

14. Headliners Baseball, Football, Baskebetball, Hockey

 

 

15. 1/64 NASCAR Figures of drivers & cars

 

 

16. Open 1/64 cars      17. Train Posters

 

 

18. Trains Jigsaw Puzzles       19. Framed Pictures Trains

 

20. Pictures of Old Cars      21. Display of 1/18 G Trains

 

22. DVD and VHS's of Trains, Amtrak. model displays

The Wrath of God

THE WRATH OF GOD - John MacArthur

Now, sometimes when you talk about God being a God of wrath, certain people get disturbed. And they don't understand how God can be a God of anger and God can be a God of wrath and God can be a God of fury, a God of terror. But that's because they don't understand God.

 

 

Let's see if we can't help ourselves to a deeper understanding of His wrath in perspective with all of His other attributes.

 

God's attributes are balanced in His divine perfection. And they are perfectly balanced. If God did not have wrath and God did not have anger then He would not be God.

God is perfect in love, on the one hand, and He is equally perfect in hate, on the other hand.

 

Just as totally as He loves, so totally does He hate. As His love is unmixed, so is His hate unmixed.

 

Of Christ, it says in Hebrews 1:9, "Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity." And there is that perfect balance in the nature of God. One of the tragedies of Christianity in our time is a failure to preach the hatred of God, the judgment of God. We're so sweet We're so sentimental.

 

 We're so kind of mushy in our Christianity. When is the last time you heard a new song on the wrath of God? Heard one lately? I haven't.

Does God hate anyone?

by Matt Slick

The universalists repeatedly say things like, "God loves us all so much that He will save us all"; or "He hates the sin, but loves the sinner"; or "God is love, and will not send anyone to hell."

 

Universalists teach that God is so full of love, that He simply cannot send anyone to eternal hell fire. It is against His infinite love. They want God to forgive all, even those who openly reject Him and die cursing God.

 

I must admit, it is nice to think of God's love being so infinitely great that all will ultimately be saved. Hell is a terrible place and I don't want anyone to go there. But it does not matter what I think. It matters what the Bible says.

God is love (1 John 4:8), but God also punishes the sinner and hates all who do iniquity. God is not one sided. He is not simply an infinitely loving God. He is also infinitely just. He must deal with sin. He must punish the sinner.

 

In the truth of God's word, we find that the Lord has provided one way by which we may be saved. That single way is through Jesus' sacrifice. For all who trust in Him, salvation will come. But to those who turn away, God's wrath abides upon them: "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him," (John 3:36).

Does God hate anyone?

Does God hate anyone? The answer is yes.

Psalm 5:5, "The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity,"

 

Psalm 11:5, "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates."

 

Lev. 20:23, "Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them."

 

Prov. 6:16-19, "There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers."

 

Hosea 9:15, "All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels."

 

Are these verses hard to read? Do they make you feel uncomfortable? They should. God hates sin. But, He does not punish sin. He punishes the sinner. Sin cannot be tied up and thrown into a fire. It cannot be put in a box or glued to a stick. It is rebellion. It is rebellion in the heart. It is breaking God's Law. Sin occurs inside the heart and mind of people.

 

Therefore, God must punish the sinner. Why? Because He is both Holy and Just and the person who sins offends God. God's Holy and Just character will not allow Him to ignore this offense. Why?....

The couplet ascribed to Luther is one of his best known
‘Love God and sin boldly’.
 
 For some, this is a call to a radical understanding of the Gospel. 

For others, it’s a symptom of the excessive language of grace that can lead to Antinomianism. This slogan has served as the central feature of Catholic criticism of Protestantism and of 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angelical criticism of neo-Lutheranism. It’s an important quote to get right.
 
When did Luther say ‘Love God and Sin Boldly’?
 
When Luther wrote ‘love God and sin boldly’, it was 1521 and it had only been several months since he stood trial for his reformation.

 The quote occurs in a letter from Luther to Melanchthon, which Luther wrote in the Wartburg castle, hiding out to avoid execution. 

Obviously, he had not worked out every issue of the divide between the old faith and the Reformation. And if it was hard for Luther, it was doubly hard for his advocates back in Wittenberg without their leader.
 
The letter in question is actually only a fragment. There is no salutation or much context, and so it drops into a conversation midstream. Melanchthon is the formal cause of Luther’s comments, as he was agitated about the radicalized ideas of some in Wittenberg, who wanted to burn all traces of Catholicism out of the church. The majority of church activities before Luther were now being said, not only to be misguided and wrong, but sinful for all who had participated. Melanchthon was, by nature, a man of weaker constitution and this language gave him heartburn.
 
So Melanchthon wrote a letter, now lost, asking Luther to comment on the sinfulness of Catholic practices: things such as celibacy, fasting, communion in one kind. Melanchthon seems to wonder if these things, though misguided in Catholicism, were themselves sinful. Couldn’t these practices be done faithfully for the Gospel?
The letter fragment from Luther, then, drops right into these subjects. In other words, the subject is not fundamentally about 

Luther’s view of sanctification, but how the Gospel works its fingers into the traditional piety of former Catholics. Paragraph after paragraph deals with celibacy, monasticism, communion, and what Luther calls the ‘fictitious works’ of the pope. Luther also challenges the hardliners in Wittenberg for assuming they are achieving purity. So the message is not to ‘sin boldly’ in sanctification but to grasp the basic grammar of justification by faith: works contribute nothing to justification, so stop trying to add them.
 
Luther’s comment
 

• If you wish to read the letter fragment in an English translation, you can here. I will quote only the crucial paragraph in question:

•    If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners

• . Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong [or sin boldly], but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God’s glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.

A few things stand out in this paragraph. First, the slogan itself is placed in a wider reflection where Luther stressed to Melanchthon his sinfulness in order to grasp the cross. The statement is not: ‘Love God’ (justification) and ‘sin boldly’ (anti-sanctification). 

Rather it is the same point Luther defended at the trial at Worms: the Law shows us our inability to contribute anything to justification.
 
The rest of the paragraph drives to this same conclusion. Of course, the hyperbole towards the end about sin being covered in Christ ‘even if we were to kill or commit adultery’ is arresting. But it should also be said that Melanchthon was not a murderer or an adulterer. He was an older brother, not a prodigal son. Luther’s point is that, even in the most inconceivable example of ongoing sin, Christ’s atonement covers the sinner. This is hyperbole about the old man who hangs on and still tempts us, not about how justified sinners will actually commit adultery and murder each day.
Lastly, the last line of the paragraph is a real gem, and gives us the final clue as to Luther’s pastoral concern for brother Melanchthon: you’re a sinner, man, get used to it. And the more you get used to it, the more the cross will make sense as the ground of your entire life.
 
Conclusion
 
So should we repeat the slogan ‘Love God and sin boldly’? My instincts are to be extremely cautious about this phrase, as we are not saying this in the same situation as Luther. \

In my experience, I have never heard this slogan where the meaning isn’t pressing folks to ignore the Christian life. (Your experience with this slogan may be different, of course.) The times I’ve heard this idiom quoted, the intention always seems to drive towards a justification-only view of salvation—no union with Christ, no Holy Spirit renewal, but rather easing us into the lukewarm water of cheap grace.

It is helpful, too, to notice that Luther never speaks in this hyperbole to layfolks in his preaching. Nothing comes close, though he is always clear to stress the inability of sinners to save 
themselves.
 
When discussing the Christian life Luther never instructs someone to ‘sin boldly’, but instead tells them to focus on the cross and let the Spirit do the real work in us. He abhors those who think he is advocating active sin and rebukes Antinomianism. As a pastor, 

Luther would never tell anyone to ‘sin boldly’.

Now to a former Catholic, like Melanchthon, he will hammer on them to stop hanging on to the cycle of penance of his youth. Be a sinner! Own it. Understand that even those who are not struggling with serious sins are still covenant breakers in need of the cross.

• So the boldness of sin is the boldness that takes us to the cross. It’s the boldness to admit were really do need Jesus.

Ryan Reeve
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Let Your Sins Be Strong:
                     A Letter From Luther to Melanchthon
               Letter no. 99, 1 August 1521, From the Wartburg
_                        Dr, Johannes GeorgWalch,                                        

    Of course, you can only know and absolve those sins which have been     confessed to you; sins which have not been confessed to you, you      neither need to know nor can you absolve them. That is reaching too     high, dear gentlemen."

        You cannot convince me that the same is true for the vows made by     priests and monks.  For I am very concerned about the fact that the     order of priesthood was instituted by God as a free one. Not so that     of the monks who chose their position voluntarily, even though I have     almost come to the conclusion that those who have entered into that     state at an age prior to their manhood, or are currently at that     stage, may secede with a clear conscience. I am hesitant, however,     with a judgment about those who have been in this state for a long     time and have grown old in it.