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Jerry Johnson discusses the vision of victory that was common among the Puritans, most of whom were Postmillennialists (cf. The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy by Iain Murray, published by Banner of Truth Trust), the place of the law of God in the Christian life, and the sovereignty of God over the sovereignty of man in every sphere of life. 'If you search the Internet for Reformed and Puritan works you will inevitably see a banner for a product called the Puritan Hard Drive. I often thought, 'why would I want to purchase a hard drive when so much of the information (probably) contained on it could be easily found with a free search on the Internet?' Was I ever wrong! The Puritan Hard Drive is the best resource money can buy. It is easy, simple to use and the search feature cut down my time searching web pages that had absolutely nothing to do with the query I typed into the search engine. Not to mention a lot of the material is not accessible on the Internet. To have so many books and articles at my fingers-tips is both truly amazing and a blessing. The Puritan Hard Drive just added thousands of volumes that I never could afford, nor store, to my library. If you, like me, love the Puritans and Reformed theology, then the Puritan Hard Drive is simply a resource that you cannot live without.' - Jerry Johnson (President of Nicene Council, Seminary Professor, Author, Video Producer, etc. http://www.NiceneCouncil.com 'If you want to understand Reformed theology the Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself.' - Pastor Greg Price (Author, Theologian, Covenanter) http://ow.ly/gAu3F.

When Martin Luther defended salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone at the Diet of Worms he was not inventing anything new, he was recovering something very old. Even so, the thing our generation needs most is to recover the old paths that our Protestant forefathers knew so very well. We do not need new doctrines and new worship, but as Iain Murray says, we need "old truths for a new awakening"!

As Christians who are convinced of the doctrines of free and sovereign grace we believe that there is a particular love of God which He has only for His elect. "Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated". This love cheers the hearts of all who believe as it is very warm and intensely personal. But because we are convinced of this Biblical truth, do we hesitate to affirm to lost sinners that God loves them as we share the gospel with them, somehow fearing that we are telling them a non-truth if they are not one of His elect? While it is certainly true that there is a particular love of God in which only particular men are included, there is also a general love of God from which no man is excluded. Lost sinners must be shown their need for a Savior by exposing them to the Holy Law of God, but they will be drawn to Christ only as they are persuaded of God the Father's love for them, which must be proclaimed without hesitation. To wit, we must not interpret John 3:16 to mean "For God so loved [the elect]...", but rather "For God so loved [sinners]" This sermon was inspired by Iain Murray's paper "The Cross: The Pulpit of God's Love", found in chapter 4 of his book "The Old Evangelicalism".