As we should remember by now, the context for our present chapter is that Moses is at the summit of Mount Sinai in the presence of Yahweh, who is giving to the prophet instructions and showing him the patterns for the building of the tabernacle. The tabernacle would also be called the tent of meeting …
Continue reading Incense, Taxes, Oils, & the Bronze Basin | Exodus 30
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mfNMf87iWhAAQ6lza43Qi?si=Okc1BO8jSFyc0rGD9-Dakw Throughout the Scriptures, we find our salvation being described to us on three fronts: past, present, and future. We have been saved, we are being saved, and we will be saved. These aspects of salvation are what the terms justification, sanctification, and glorification are naming. Romans 8:30’s golden chain of salvation (“And those whom …
Continue reading Question 32: What Do Justification and Sanctification Mean?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rq3FY30fLqEkFPibk41oJ?si=936c0641dfba439c Study Guide This sermon was originally preached in 2018. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and …
Continue reading Think About These Things | Philippians 4:8-9
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4l6IaUGaLaPryJKKNQxblY?si=K45SPwW7RCuPZTYSPT8PzQ Moving on from Owen’s description of what mortification is and is not in the previous two chapters, he now proceeds into two “general rules and principles, without which no sin will be mortified” (69). Our present chapter will deal with the first, and chapter 8 will discuss the second. This first general principle is …
Welcome to our next Reading Together series! This time we will be reading through the book The Mortification of Sin by John Owen. Below is an audio introduction to Owen and the book. Beginning in May, we will read and discuss this short book chapter by chapter, as you will find in the reading plan …
Continue reading Let’s Read The Mortification of Sin Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZOpcoCeUM For by grace you have been saved through faith.And this is not your own doing;it is the gift of God,not a result of works,so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV Word came to Jesus that His friend, Lazarus, was ill, but Jesus did nothing. He did not immediately race to Lazarus’ side; …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/65RHRztuRcBciR7Jr9CceK?si=dCX4dxecT8aJy-Z13zaYIw who also do no wrong,but who walk in his ways! Psalm 119:3 ESV The word also reminds us that we are continuing the thought of verse 2: Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart. To keep the LORD’s testimonies, to hold onto them with all one’s might, …
John Owen's treatise on spiritual-mindedness, from which I have already cited a quotation, is a painfully beneficial read. Worldly thinking runs so deeply within us and is ultimately both deadly and damning. Throughout the book, his aim is simply to exhort us toward spiritual-mindedness, to think about the things of God and be further sanctified …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/49mb19ctHZ3qaEuUtogXNp?si=5db9bee61251454a Study Guide Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Philippians 2:12-13 ESV …
Continue reading Work Out Your Own Salvation | Philippians 2:12-13
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction; do …
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