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Calvin's Institutes: June 8
Podcast SummaryIn this reading from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 18, Sections 4–7, Calvin continues answering the claim that rewards promised in Scripture prove that believers merit salvation through their works. He argues that God speaks of rewards, wages, and recompense not because our works deserve eternal life, but because He graciously encourages His people as they endure suffering, self-denial, and the discipline of the Christian life. Eternal life is a recompense in the sense that God exchanges the trials of this present age for the blessings of…
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