https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pYqBYN6YUbGnTHelawztG?si=suF8O04_Rsap8rhx-Aq04w When it comes to our own eternal destinations, there is no question that is more important than this one. Of course, many previous questions are more foundational than this one, and it cannot properly be understood without them. Yet when it comes to each persons immortal soul and future resurrection to either life everlasting …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hRCAxXkkZlMCXSGyna21r?si=7_iGsLchReye1iT6_k1Mww Having previously clarified that not all who are lost through Adam will be saved through Christ, we must now address what will become of those who are not united to Christ by faith. Although God will continuously display His common grace to those who reject His Son in this life, that grace will not …
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At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/03pIi4rYQBySIPcu7nZsnz?si=IjtELoQVTMWna48t5khVUg Since Christ's atoning sacrifice is entirely sufficient to forgive all the sins of all people and since Christ will surely redeem the entire cosmos, this question is a necessary one to ask: Are all people, just as they were lost in Adam, saved through Christ? The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1G5Hg7b4JXHLQUjbBNhd8h?si=FjFwkJ8vQeq6ExKykyA6ng Although the Fall was the great tragedy of the cosmos, God did not fail to show grace even then. After giving us the account of the Fall, Genesis 3 quickly moves into Yahweh's pronouncement of judgment upon the man, woman, and serpent. He first curses the serpent with eating dust and a life of …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ctSMlNIWZs8IJpQshCJ6l?si=ye1YZ0AJS9CrWFF0lNx-Sw Having addressed the necessity of Christ’s death in the previous question, our present question now considers the sufficiency of Christ’s sacrificial and atoning death. Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven? The answer to this question is what makes the gospel good news. Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cIpqS2UXw0wXk04MRnORg?si=jlzwEp4rR9WKZASlc4tTYw Was the cross really necessary? Behind this question lies the necessity of atonement, which is the idea of repairing or satisfying a wrong that has been committed. While church history has produced numerous theories for how Christ’s suffering and death atoned for our sins, all Christians must agree that Jesus did atone for our …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/10ixCt2aXnH8iECb8n5SyN?si=X9jPa16qRP67WwheSw_jYA After expressing that our Redeemer must be both truly God and truly human, Question 22 addressed why the Redeemer must be truly human. Our present question brings us to the second part of that blessed truth: Why must the Redeemer be truly God? Since Jesus revealed Himself to be the eternal Son of the …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0j3bGOn2BZvGGXXuNrGT2V?si=9pDFDn4tRf2hEMgWcJg6LA Questions 21-23 are particularly bound together. In Question 21, we confessed the truth that Christ’s hypostatic union, His true humanity and divinity, makes Him uniquely capable of being our Redeemer. He alone is able to mediate between the Holy One and sinful men because He is both God and man. Questions 22-23 now address …
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Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. Proverbs 10:2 ESV All people must wrestle to understand the perennial question of why the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. Thankfully, God does not leave us to grapple with that question alone. The Book of Job is the most obvious example. …
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