Rooted & Unwithered

Our sin is an act of cosmic treason against God. Therefore, each sin requires a just retribution by God. To do anything else would make God unjust. Jesus, however, gives Himself in substitution for us. This is what is meant by penal substitution. Jesus took the penalty of our sins upon Himself, satisfying the justice of God. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton...

The Son, through whom the world was made, entered the world as a man. His sinless life ended  on a cross , where He freely gave Himself to the grave in payment for our sins, since He alone was  able to bear the righteous anger of God .  For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

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Catechising is the best expedient for the grounding and settling of people. I fear one reason why there has been no more good done by preaching, has been because the chief heads and articles in religion have not been explained in a catechistical way. Catechising is laying the foundation. Visit ⁠bcnewton.co⁠ for more resources for knowing and loving God's Word.

Only one who is truly human and also truly God is able to bridge the chasm between the everlasting Holy One and sinful men. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

If our salvation was determined by our obedience, we would be undone. Yet we are not forsaken precisely because our hope is found in another. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

A discussion of chapter 5 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

No one can believe in Jesus Christ without also believing in Jesus as Christ. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

A discussion of chapter 4 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

A discussion of chapter 3 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

The great sorrow of our sin is not primarily the punishment that it earned but the communion with God that it severed. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

God demands our obedience for His glory ultimately, yet our good follows closely behind. Walking upright, therefore, is not merely a dictatorial edict from God; instead, it is an invitation to walk in His blessing, to cling to the promise of  Psalm 84:11 : “No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

A discussion of chapter 2 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

God’s anger, even wrath, against our sin is righteous. It is right that He is angry, and it would be wrong if He were not. Our sin is an injustice against God our King and Creator, and God’s burning wrath against our sin is good. Visit bcnewton.co for more resources for knowing and loving God's Word.

The psalmist, therefore, turns to  having my eyes fixed on all your commandments . Should his eyes focus upon his own sin and shame, a kind of negative feedback loop will form, creating more sin and shame. Our only hope of breaking this cycle is to lift our eyes upon God’s Word, which reveals to us God Himself.  Visit bcnewton.co for more resources for knowing and loving God's Word.

A discussion of chapter 1 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit  bcnewton.co

The refusal to love God entirely is not a small sin to be overlooked. This is the great sin, the sin from which all others flow. Idolatry is the giving of our love to lesser things in place of the one true and living God. It rejects the loving relationship with our Creator in favor of slavery to our own passions and desires. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton....

The introduction to my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

Whenever we reject or simply ignore God and His established order of creation, we are like a coffee mug that rebels against the potter by trying to be a frying pan. The whole situation would be laughable if the consequences were not so dire. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

Therefore, let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation. Let everyone fly out of Sodom: “Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.” Visit bcnewton.co for more resources for knowing and loving God's Word.

This sermon is not a repeat of our dissecting of the Secular Creed. Instead, I am aiming to focus on the actual text of 2 Timothy 3:5 through the particular focus of how it presently applies to secularism in our day. That is by no means the only application of that verse. In Paul’s own day, he was probably thinking about ascetics who thought they were godly through how rigorously they punished the...

Rather than the gospel being an abolition of the law, as many Christians seem to think, the gospel eliminates our debt for breaking God’s law and writes His law upon our hearts, giving to us the freedom to actually choose obedience. Since we no longer have any fear of the condemnation that the law brings, we are free to see the beauty of the law as it reveals the will of our Father. Thus, it is in...

Notice that these are not programs to be implemented but rather a lifestyle to be lived. This makes things both easier and harder. It is always easier to blame Christians as a whole than to become the ideal yourself. However, you do not need pastoral or committee approval to implement these changes; you just need to love your church, love your family, and guard your eyes and heart. For more resour...

We each deserve death because of our own sins. Sin brings death, and Adam’s sin brought sin to all of us as his descendants. Nevertheless, we still justly earn our own condemnation. For more resources for knowing and loving God's Word, visit bcnewton.co

Why indeed would the psalmist make this passionate cry if his keeping of God’s statutes were already steadfast? Within this plea of desire, we also find a lamentation. His life does not fully conform to his theology. He knows the  goodness  of God’s commands, yet he still wanders away from them. He yearns to be steadfast, but he ebbs and flows like the tides. For more resources for knowing and lov...