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Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Christmas Morning Service

It is often hard for us to trust God in the silence. Days, weeks, and sometimes even years pass without a significant breakthrough. The prophet Daniel explains a prophecy that is going to unfold over 400 years of silence. Though the God of heaven is not speaking in this time, He is most certainly at work, preparing the world for the Uncut Stone who is about to make landfall and supplant the kingdo...

Do you want to share in the blood of the prophets? Do you want their blood coursing through your veins, and spilling out in self-sacrifice? Every man, woman, and child must somehow partake in this martyr's blood, either as the sons of the prophets, or as the sons of their murderers. We will be implicated in the blood of the prophets one way or another. We either join as sons whose fathers shed the...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

C.S. Lewis has noted, in agreement with today's text, that "Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God. There seems no way out of this." The scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses, but neither understand nor love the law that God gave through him. They are blind guides, clenching tightly...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Mountain top sermons bookend the preaching ministry of Christ. Like Moses before Him, Jesus offers the way of blessing and the way of cursing; beatitudes and woes. The negative and parasitic nature of sin is set alongside the positive and life-giving nature of righteousness. In the case of the scribes and the Pharisees, time had run out. The Father sent His last messenger, His own Son, and He was...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

God gave His law to water the garden of Israel. The Pharisees turned this law into a blunt instrument with which to beat people, into a whip with which to scourge them, and into poison which turned the garden into a waterless desert. Moses came to bring Sabbath, to break the yoke of burden, and to let the slaves go free. Jesus likewise has come to the weary and heavy laden to offer rest, while the...

For true worship to happen, two things are required; revelation and response. God in his goodness has given everyone the gift of general revelation. The way we see order, beauty, and consistency in the world points to an intelligent and omnipotent Creator whose sovereign hand is orchestrating even the smallest details. Thus, all creation declares his glory and is constantly pointing towards its Ma...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

After several rounds of questioning, Christ now assumes the role of prosecutor. It is time for the Pharisees to dress for action and to give an answer. Their many attacks have been easily answered by Christ, and now He silences them with a single question. Their answer shows that there is a profound difference between being familiar with the content of the Bible and encountering God in the Bible....

A church building should never function like a retirement home for God's people. It should never be a country club or a member's only community center for people leading comfortable lives. A church building and sanctuary should be a point of heavenly attack in the world, a place where God's people are cleaned and fed and strengthened before flooding out into the world like the fulfillment of Ezeki...

The Pharisees were so consumed with arcane debates over the law that they lost focus of what the law is meant to show. Generation after generation had missed the point that Moses so clearly explained to them in the Shema (Deut. 6:4-9); that God is one and that we ought to obey Him with every part of our being. Rather than helping them obey God's law from the heart, their customs had become a thick...

In today's text, the Sadducees attempt to show that levirate marriage makes the idea of resurrection absurd. Christ's opposition to their argument is both abrupt and insightful. The very provision of levirate marriage points to the resurrection itself. If God gave a law which provided hope that life could indeed continue for a dying, childless man, hope that his name would live on, does that not i...

Matthew is committed to showing his readers the significance of Christ's final week in Jerusalem. Everything has come to a boiling point over who Jesus is. While the priests, elders, Pharisees and Herodians link arms in their opposition, Christ has set His face like flint on this city. Christ's claims to authority are total claims. He is not only Lord over Jerusalem; He is Lord over all. Christ is...

It is a great joy for a father to host a feast in honour of his son. The Father sent Jesus Christ to save the world. The reunification of heaven and earth should be cause for the most joyous banquet, yet the people who were to receive their Messiah were too busy with their trivial day-to-day affairs, too caught up in themselves, and too impressed with their self-sufficiency to show up. Others beca...