For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even …
Continue reading You Have Come to Mount Zion | Hebrews 12:18-24
Few books of the Bible puzzle Christians as much as Revelation. Max Doner's two volume collection of sermons aims to help believers make sense of Revelation so that it can be read for the book of encouragement and comfort that it is (Doner is also offering it free to pastors!). While I am only about …
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no …
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises …
Continue reading God Is Treating You as Sons | Hebrews 12:4-11
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 …
Continue reading Question 23: Why Must the Redeemer Be Truly God?
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set …
Continue reading The Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith | Hebrews 12:1-3
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, …
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 …
Continue reading Question 22: Why Must the Redeemer Be Truly Human?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5envUKev3Ayr9b60O79BpG?si=nF4_KAWnQ3m_mO3tdsYXNw In the garden, Adam and Eve needed neither redeemer nor mediator. They were free to bathe in the presence of God and to enjoy the world that He given them to steward. But they rejected their communion with God in a feeble attempt to seize even more power than God had already granted them. …
Continue reading Question 21: What Sort of Redeemer Is Needed to Bring Us Back to God?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KsMAyIAiPhbYwS6NApizi?si=yAGRzZ36QHi7VdD90uUKFw Although much of the New City Catechism so far has been establishing the reality of our sin and condemnation that makes the gospel necessary, we finally arrived at that good news in the previous question, where we confessed that there is indeed a way for us "to escape punishment and be brought back into …
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