Barcelona's contract negotiations with star Lionel Messi have stalled. According to Marca, talks have hit a wall despite Barcelona planning to renew his deal by March
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner is currently on vacation back home in Argentina for the holidays.
The report says there has been no official meeting between the player and the club to address the situation, with Messi's deal set to expire in June 2018.
There is still plenty of time to come to terms on a deal. The team resigned Luis Suarez recently and has Neymar under contract until 2021. There really doesn't seem to be any doubt that a deal will get done, but the longer it takes, the more it fuels the speculation of Messi possibly leaving.
The privilege of assurance, which is secured by the work of Christ for His own and which is properly undergirded in the Reformed faith, is damaged or even destroyed in certain other theological structures.
I. When justification by faith alone is not duly proclaimed and the good works of the believer are presented as participating in the ground on the basis of which salvation is secured, the assurance of faith receives a fatal blow. The prime example of this distortion is found in the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church as prevalent in the time of the Reformation and codified at the Council of Trent (1546-1562)
In this view it is not denied that Christ has accomplished a saving work for humanity, but justification is envisioned as the total process by which the redeemed are brought to perfection by the Holy Spirit. To say, then, “I am justified” is equivalent to a claim of having achieved perfection. Who can realistically make such a claim! Nobody! Those who venture to do it are adjudged to be arrogant and presumptuous. The best that can be said is: “I am in the process of being saved; I hope that at the end of my life I may be in a state of grace and therefore not cast into hell; I am diligently seeking to take advantage of the means of grace (sacraments) and to refrain from sinning, but God only knows whether I am going to make it
It is this uncertainty that drove Martin Luther almost out of his mind before he came to understand the great truth of justification by faith alone. At last he perceived that salvation is not secured by dint of good works, fastings, alms, and other disciplines, but that it has been purchased in full by the saving work of Jesus Christ with whom we are united through faith alone. The fact of this union brings with it assurance just as an authentic receipt brings complete release from the burden of a debt
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