The Minister’s Submission to God’s Word: Advice from Calvin on Joshua 1
I recently preached on Joshua 1:1-9, and though I didn’t mention Calvin’s admonition to pastors to submit to Scripture in the sermon, I thought his words fitting to quote at length on the blog:
John Calvin
“Many, while possessed of right intention, sometimes imagine themselves to be wiser than they ought, and hence either overlook many things through carelessness, or mix up their own counsels with the divine commands. The general prohibition, there, contained in the Law, forbidding all men to add to it or detract from it, God now specially enforces on Johsua. For if private individuals in forming their plan of life behove to submit themselves to God, much more necessary must this be for those who hold rule among the people. But if this great man needed this club of modesty that he might not overstep his limits, how intolerable the audacity if we, who fall so far short of him, arroage to ourselves greater license?”
