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 …
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by …
Continue reading Let Us Go to Him Outside the Camp | Hebrews 13:7-14
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 …
Continue reading Question 26: What Else Does Christ’s Death Redeem?
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage …
Continue reading Let Brotherly Love Continue | Hebrews 13:1-6
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 …
Continue reading Question 25: Does Christ’s Death Mean All Our Sins Can Be Forgiven?
See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I …
Continue reading A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken | Hebrews 12:25-29
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 …
Continue reading Question 24: Why Was It Necessary for Christ the Redeemer to Die?
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 …
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