Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church

Today, we are continuing our hiatus from 2 Samuel to look at the resurrection of our glorious Lord, for that is on the minds of many as it ought to be every Lord's Day.

This week I want to focus on the second part of the answer to Q. 21 where it is emphasized that He is one person who is both God and man. Our scripture is John 1:1-18.

Last week, in view of our annual congregational meeting, we looked at how we may see good days as a congregation. We read from Proverbs 19:20-29 (which I already re-read today), where it tells us that we will see good days if we receive God's counsel and instruction—and I explained that the word translated instruction carries the idea of correction. Today, you might say that we are doing part two...

Last week, we also zeroed in on what God did and does to save us…He made a covenant of grace and promised to gather all things under a redeemer. Today, with question 21, we are going to look at who that redeemer is.

God gave David a covenant promise David that He would make David's house a forever dynasty with a forever thrown over a forever kingdom that would be forever be for God. Today we are going to look at David's response to this in 2 Sam 7:18-29.

The troubles we have in the world are on account of the fall. We did not have any of these miseries before we fell. It is God's punishment for sin to show us our wrong.

This week in the rest of the chapter, 2 Samuel 5:17-25, we will see how, though our enemies attack us, God enables His anointed King to lead us to victory.

I want to draw you in to today's question by asking you a personal question. A question for you to evaluate. Are you in Adam, or are you in Christ?

Today in 2 Samuel 5:6-16, we see how God establishes David's throne in Jerusalem which is also called Mount Zion. Now, Jesus is said to be on His throne in Mt. Zion above. Today in David we will see shadows that teach us about the reign of King Jesus, and not only teach us, but that unite our hearts to Him as our King!

In looking at this subject, we are going to do something a little different today. We are going to look at four scripture passages that are related to each other. We read two of them already: Gen 3:1-8 which shows the sin of eating the forbidden fruit; 1 John 2:15-17 which speaks of the lust of the flesh, of the eyes, and the pride of life. The other two are Luke 4:1-13, where we have the temptati...

Today, we will see how the tribes of Israel besides Judah, finally received David, God's anointed king, as their king. It was a glorious day for them—and also delightful to David. All of this is given to encourage us to see how good and how important it is for us to receive King Jesus as our King. He is the one that God provided for us to save us.

Our gracious God is doing a great work to save the world. He has the plan. In the grand scheme, He is always forming a people for Himself out of the ruins of the fall. In Samuel, we see how He gathers the people He redeems into a kingdom of righteousness. Presently, we are seeing particular things that God's anointed King will not tolerate. With Abner, we saw that clever policy and military muscle...

This week, we are looking at the fact that our first parents chose to sin against God. We will see that this was an act of their (our) free will as the one great human family.

David, who was very glad to see Israel finally coming to him, as God had promised, set the terms in a way that forced Abner to acknowledge that David, not Abner, was in charge. Almost everyone was glad to see this union under David, but David's nephew Joab, who was the commander of David's armies, although he certainly wanted to see David as king of all Israel, had a bitter grudge against Abner th...

He had made us and He told us that He was giving us the whole creation. He gave us clear terms. We read about those in Gen 1-2. We saw the overall arrangement and our purpose to fill the earth and use it to bless each other. Let's read from Genesis 1:26 – 2:25 again today, only, this time, we will focus on the covenant, the terms of life that He established with us to go on in life.