Confessing the Faith

In this episode we continue to consider Chapter 15 of the Confession which takes up the important subject “Of Repentance unto Life.” Paragraph 3 provides a wonderful definition of repentance which can be illustrated by means of the analogy of a tree with soil, roots, trunk and branches, and finally fruit. Today, let’s consider the fruit that grows on this tree of repentance. For more information v...

In this episode we continue to consider Chapter 15 of the Confession which takes up the important subject “Of Repentance unto Life.” Paragraph 3 provides a wonderful definition of repentance which can be illustrated by means of the analogy of a tree with soil, roots, trunk and branches, and finally fruit. Today, let’s consider the trunk and branches of this tree of repentance. For more information...

Paragraph 3 provides a wonderful definition of repentance which can beillustrated by means of the analogy of a tree with soil, roots, trunk andbranches, and finally, fruit. Today, let’s consider the roots of this tree of repentance.

In this episode, we continue to consider Chapter 15 of the Confession which takes up the important subject “Of Repentance unto Life.” Paragraph 3 provides a wonderful definition of repentance unto life. “This saving repentance is an evangelical grace, whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, doth, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godl...

Today we come to consider Chapter 15 of the Confession which takes up the important subject “Of Repentance unto Life.” The first two paragraphs distinguish two distinct groups who receive repentance unto life. For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

In this episode, Dr. Waldron discusses distinctions between false faith and saving faith. For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

We have been considering Chapter 14 of the Confession which opens up the subject, Of Saving Faith. We have worked our way through its three paragraphs. In this talk I need to say something about the nature of saving faith. Reformed theology traditionally speaks of saving faith as consisting of three things. The Reformed taught that faith consisted of notitia (knowledge), assensus (assent), and fid...

We have been thinking about the great teaching of the Confession on saving faith found in Chapter 14 of the Confession. Having considered its source and its acts, we come to paragraph 3 and think about the distinctiveness of saving faith. For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

We are considering Chapter 14 of the Confession which deals with the great and crucial subject of saving faith. Paragraph 2 speaks of the acts of saving faith, that is, its various responses to the Scriptures. This lengthy paragraph says three things about the responses of saving faith to Scripture. For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

Today we begin to consider Chapter 14 of the Confession which takes up the important subject “Of Saving Faith.” The first paragraph speaks of the very important and (in our day) misunderstanding of the Source of Saving Faith. For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"In this conversation about Chapter 13 of the Confession, I want to continue to pursue the question of how the Christian is to prosecute or engage in the work of sanctification. How does one go about prosecuting the task of becoming holy? What does one do to that end? Some teach that involves no more than the passive activities of reckoning and yielding. Is that correct?"   For more informati...

In this conversation about Chapter 13 of the Confession, I want to continue to pursue the question of how the Christian is to prosecute or engage in the work of sanctification. How does one go about prosecuting the task of becoming holy? What does one do to that end? Some teach that involves no more than the passive activities of reckoning and yielding. Is that correct?   For more information...

In this conversation about Chapter 13 of the Confession, I want to speak of how the Christian is to prosecute or engage in the work of sanctification. How does one go about prosecuting the task of becoming holy? What does one do to that end?   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

This episode addresses the following questions: How do we die to sin? What does it mean to die to sin? When do we die to sin? What is the result of dying to sin? What is our practical duty as a result of dying to sin?   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"Definitive sanctification is simply another way of referring to that basic and radical change that takes place in a sinner’s moral and ethical condition when he is united to Christ in effectual calling and regeneration. It reminds us of the fact that progressive sanctification does not take place in a vacuum. It presupposes effectual calling, regeneration, union with Christ and even justification...

In this devotional walk of the 2LCF, Sam Waldron covers 1689 13:3 "Of Sanctification."   The distinctives of genuine sanctification must be balanced with the other distinctive of progressive sanctification. It is described in paragraph 3. That distinctive is progress in grace.   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

In this devotional walk of the 2LCF, Sam Waldron covers 1689 13:2-3 "Of Sanctification."   We saw last time that paragraph provides a summary description of sanctification. Paragraphs 2 and 3 which conclude this chapter take up the peculiar distinctives of progressive sanctification.   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

In this devotional walk of the 2LCF, Sam Waldron covers 1689 13:1 "Of Sanctification."   "We come today to consider chapter 13 of the confession which takes up the important subject "Of Sanctification." This is an important subject but one in which many errors abound in our day. In this time together my goal is to simply read, explain, and briefly apply its first paragraph."   For more i...

While the corporate adoption of the church, the New Covenant Israel, is implied in Romans 8:15, 23 and Ephesians 1:5, it is the reference of Galatians 4:5 to adoption which most clearly refers to the corporate adoption of the church as a redemptive-historical event. The entire context of Gal. 4:5 supports this assertion.

One of the five biblical occurrences of adoption explicitly describes the national adoption of Israel (Rom. 9:4). Paul in listing the great privileges which the physical nation of Israel had enjoyed speaks first of ‘the adoption’. The presence of the article manifests that this adoption was a definite, well-known fact. Israel is frequently described as God’s son in the Old Testament (Exod. 4:22; D...

 We come today to continue our study of Chapter 12 of the Confession and the important subject “of Adoption.” Last time I asserted the need to distinguish between adoption in the history of redemption and adoption in the application of salvation. In this podcast I want to survey adoption in the history of redemption. Remember this has to do with the people of God corporately in the history of...

We come today to consider Chapter 12 of the Confession which takes up the important subject “of Adoption.” This is a wonderful and comforting biblical subject which well warrants our meditation after our study of justification in the previous chapter of the Confession. The text of this chapter of the Confession is almost verbatim with that of the Westminster Confession. This fact underscores the c...

In our study of Chapter 11, entitled, Of Justification, we have seen the necessity, agent, meaning, and basis of justification. Now we turn to its instrument. Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith with host Sam Waldron, Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Owensboro, KY and President of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Co...

The active and passive obedience of Christ are not two separate parts of Christ’s work, but His one work looked at in two ways. Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith with host Sam Waldron, Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Owensboro, KY and President of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Semi...

God declares us righteous. But on what basis does He do this? What is the righteousness which he takes into account when He says we are righteous? Some have understood Rom 4:3-5 to teach that God looks at our faith or our evangelical obedience as the basis for His verdict that we are righteous. The truth is that such an interpretation is a radical betrayal of the biblical doctrine of justification...