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Sermons by Jack Miller
Hard to find many out there, but here are three, available at the Westminster Seminary website, from chapel services thirty years ago. Gold.
Grumblers Surprised by Christ (Exod 17)HT: Drew Hunter
The Celebration Song of Moses (Exod 14)
Opportunity: Church with the Open Door (Rev 3:7-13)
I Am Going to Him
On August 23, 1683--the day before he died--John Owen dictated a final letter to his friend Charles Fleetwood. Part of it reads:I am going to Him whom my soul hath loved, or rather who hath loved me with an everlasting love; which is the whole ground of all my consolation. The passage is very irksome and wearysome through strong pains of various sorts which are all issued in an intermitting fever . . . I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm, but whilst the great Pilot is in it the loss of a poor under-rower will be inconsiderable.--quoted in Sinclair Ferguson, John Owen on the Christian Life (Banner of Truth, 1987), 18
Goldsworthy: 'Macro-typology'
The macro-typology I propose is a way of showing the comprehensive nature of the fulfillment of God's promises in Christ. . . .
When we allow the Old Testament categories to expand to their full potential, antitype is shown to be broader than the mere fulfillment of certain explicit types and promises. Biblical theological study of the events, people and institutions provides us with a comprehensive view of reality and God's part in it. On this view, typology has regard for the full scope of God's redemptive work in that salvation means that he restores everything that was lost or marred by the Fall. According to Paul's take on Genesis 3, this involves the entire creation (Rom. 8:18-23). It was also Paul who declared the resurrection to be the locus of fulfillment of all God's promises (Acts 13:32-33). Paul's cosmic Christology, especially in Colossians 1:15-20 and in Ephesians 1:10, would appear to present a view that God has drawn all things together in Christ, through whom and for whom all things were created.--Graeme Goldsworthy, Christ-Centered Biblical Theology: Hermeneutical Foundations and Principles (IVP, 2012), 184
Christ's Professional Business
Christ has undertaken to save all such from what they fear, if they come to him. It is his professional business; the work in which he engaged before the foundation of the world. It is what he always had in his thoughts and intentions; he undertook from everlasting to be the refuge of those that are afraid of God's wrath.--Jonathan Edwards, 'Safety, Fulness, and Sweet Refreshment, to Be Found in Christ,' in The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 volume Hickman ed.), 2:930