As we noted in our discussion of Question 6, glorifying God must always entail more than obedience alone, but it is certainly never less than obedience. As the King of kings and Creator of all things, the Lord is worthy of our obedience, and we learn what He would have us do within His law. …
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About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives …
Continue reading Let Us Leave the Elementary Doctrine of Christ | Hebrews 5:11-6:3
My decision to preach Hebrews 4:12-13 within the same sermon as verses 1-11 obviously meant leaving much upon the cutting room floor, yet this sermon from the Prince of Preachers on Hebrews 4:12 will hopefully be a sufficient supplement. Whether you listen to my reading or read the text yourself below, I pray that you …
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https://youtu.be/vPvYVelbUM4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who …
https://youtu.be/qoK_PupL7b8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.Therefore I was provoked with that generation,and said, ‘They always go astray in …
Continue reading Today, If You Hear His Voice, Do Not Harden Your Heart | Hebrews 3:7-19
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wFauW5r9jlr0pNWp868Z6?si=Gt2tArHNT7K0-0CPcqFfSw Although this is the second question, it is perhaps the most important question that we could ever seek to answer. The reasons are many, but perhaps the most important is given to us by Jesus whenever He was praying to the Father in John 17:3, which says: "And this is eternal life, that they …
I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous,and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Psalm 119:75 ESV The psalmist is speaking with a Job-like spirit in this verse. Of course, the premise of the book of Job is set up in the first two chapters. Satan appears with all the heavenly hosts before …
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Author Verse 1 blatantly identifies Nahum as the author. Only modern, anti-supernatural scholars argue for a post-exilic author, but this theory has no grounding outside of secularist biases. Theme God will bring judgment upon Nineveh (and the Assyrian Empire) because of the wickedness that they have committed. Background Nothing is known of Nahum outside of …
Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,because I have hoped in your word. Psalm 119:74 ESV I recently wrote a reflection on the first question of the New City Catechism, which asks, “What is our only hope in life and death?” The answer is a thoroughly biblical statement: “That we are not our …
Continue reading Those Who Fear You Shall See Me & Rejoice | Psalm 119:74
https://youtu.be/O5nsAB__A68 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God …
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