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Satisfaction is a term that expresses one of the main themes of Holy Scripture. The word denotes the same idea as the Dutch "voldoening", or, better still, "genoegdoening''. It means "to do enough", "to make sufficient", to comply with a certain demand, particularly with respect to a debt accumulate
Is there anything now that can be done? The main subject of the Lord's day that we consider this morning is satisfaction. Catechism gives this answer. God's justice needs to be satisfied. Something needs to be done with his justice. Who makes that satisfaction? What that satisfaction is, we con
Since both they, that is the accomplishments, and I are rather transient sort of things, any satisfaction resulting from my accomplishments are doomed to be hollow and of no lasting value. But what then was worth pursuing? What sort of activity or life or goal would produce a more durable satisfacti
And there are two things that we have to notice about the approach of the catechism here, and one of them is that it introduces at this point the idea of the satisfaction of God's justice, and it will carry through that idea in the Lord's day. But in the second place, regarding the approach of
In their hearts they curse God’s dispensations with them. Neither is contentment mere and all satisfaction. There is a type of satisfaction that is nothing but carnal joy in temporal goods, that has its sole explanation in the fact that the flesh has all it desires, that is nothing more than the con
Hence, the act of satisfaction is the payment of the love-debt to God as He reveals Himself to the sinner in the depth and darkness and unspeakable misery of hell! If there were a sinner that could perform this act of love, that could pass through the woes of eternal desolation, through the darkness
Since then, by the righteous judgment of God, we deserve temporal and eternal punishment Is there no way by which we may escape that punishment and be again received into favor? God will have his justice satisfied, and therefore we must make this full satisfaction either by ourselves or by anot
We must not confuse contentment with carnal satisfaction. There are many unbelievers who are able to adjust to certain circumstances in life and remain satisfied. This satisfaction, however, is always superficial; and in their inmost beings they know it, and have no real peace. When things go bad fo
Literally, Why God Man? Or, Why did God have to become man? That was the question that Anselm put forth in that book. Why did God have to become incarnate into our flesh? What was the reason? What was the purpose? And what was the necessity of that? The answer to which he came in that book was
Contentment is a free gift of God. It is a fruit of the peace He makes with sinners. That the wicked have not contentment and not peace is exactly because they have no peace with God. But God has established peace with us. We are satisfied because Gods justice is satisfied and atonement made by our