San Diego Reformed Church

Circumcision of the flesh was a type and shadow of the circumcision of the heart. Circumcision of the flesh as a covenant sign was not translated to baptism, rather baptism is a covenant sign that one has had heart circumcision as promised in the new covenant! A Christian family and good Christian church are the greatest means of grace unto hearing the Gospel and being saved. And on and on the pro...

Children born to Christians are not Christian at birth. ON the contrary, they are born sinners who must be born again of the Spirit, like everyone else who is born a sinner.  As for the Children, we know they do not need to be taught sin, biblically they need to be taught the instruction, Gospel, fear, and discipline of the Lord because they are born absent of all those virtues and beliefs. By bir...

God has communicated to everyone to ever live minimally through the creation his invisible attributes and divine nature according to Romans 1, but he continues to send forth his written word as well, and the Gospel of his Son found in his word! Let us not be those who resist or reject God’s word, but rather those who strive to enter the rest by faith in God’s word! 

Jesus is the better Moses, the better Joshua, and his Church receives the better promise land, which is the whole earth, Mathew 5:5, and a we receive a better rest, not one which perseveres perhaps for a generation, but one that lasts throughout all eternity, though all believers of the old covenant do share in this rest. We see here Joshua was a type of Christ, leading the people faithfully and v...

If it is not all of Christ for all of life, then we will spend all of life becoming far to comfortable with none of Christ, and when that hardening reaches its final point, we will enter into eternity where all of the goodness of life with Christ is gone. If the process of heart hardening continues unabated, a day will arrive when the Word of God loses all impact on the person. Whether he reads it...

We believe that God unconditionally elects us before the foundations of the world. We know that he atones for our sins with his precious blood. We believe that his grace then irresistibly draws us unto him for salvation. But if he was to leave us after doing all of this to persevere till the end by our own strength and our own might, this would be cruel. This wouldn’t be loving of him in any way....

Christ fulfills and unites the offices of Apostle and High Priest together in a perfect way, because man can only interact with God through an intermediary. Christ is both THE messenger of God to his people, and THE representative of the people to God. The author of Hebrews, having already proven that Christ is superior to the angels, now proves that Christ is worthy of much more glory than Moses...

We are sanctified, set apart, made holy, receiving special treatment now by a perfect and inexhaustible internal source, which conforms our external living to his own living. By the Spirit, through Jesus Christ, according to the plan of the Father, the people of God are now actually one people, because we all have one source of faith, one source of sanctification, and one source of eternal glorifi...

Everyone will end up limiting the atonement either on the front end or the back end, unless you are universalist, which is of course, false. So, the dilemma is not a limited atonement or a non-limited one, rather the question is does the bible teach God is sovereign over salvation, or man is the real, final decision maker or sovereign when it comes to salvation? God through Jesus Christ saves "eve...

The mystery of Psalm 8 has been explained to us today. It was already a great paradox that God considers man who is lower than all that is in heaven, but the paradox has grown to a great chasm as we see Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, is the man made lower than even all men by being lifted up on a cross, so that all men would be put in subjection under his feet, and he would be the founder of th...

Detaching warnings from the Christian life and new covenant actually destroys the very fabric of grace, the glory of the new covenant, and in doing so, diminishes Jesus of his title as Christ and Lord, making the purification of sins obsolete and keeping the hope of resurrection for this world 6 feet underground. To be a Christian is to be dead to the old self that was enslaved to sin, and not onl...

Everything that has happened must now be seen in the light that first shown at the dawn of the Creation, the light of our transfigured Lord Jesus, the light of our resurrected King, and the light that will replace the sun and the moon for all eternity. Everything must be reevaluated. We have to go back, and reread the whole thing. The Son would be exalted, the Son has been exalted, the Son will be...

Our text today speaks of Jesus as Creator and Jesus as ReCreator. That is the central point of the old testament quote the Father is speaking about his Son. In many ways, we are setting the foundations for the whole book of Hebrews in this first chapter, additionally, this chapter is in many ways, establishing the foundational elements of reality past, present, and future as now fully revealed in...

Jesus is recreating the world as he created it in Genesis 1 through the word and light going forth right now, as we gather to worship, as we speak, preach, pray and sing the word of God. He is currently still, through his spoken word, chiefly the word of the Gospel of the Son of God, separating light and darkness as he was in the beginning.

Whereas one man in a garden came to a tree and failed, damning all his posterity and the earth along with him, another came to a tree and succeeded, securing eternal life for innumerable offspring and the redemption of the whole world. Whereas one man was placed in a garden, but died in failure due to his sin. Jesus was betrayed in a garden unto death, yet was resurrected victoriously in a garden...

The Kingdom of God is only a physical place in the secondary, it is first and foremost a person. To be in the King, is to be in the Kingdom. To be in the Son, is to be in the Father. To be in the Father and Son, is to dwell in the house of the Lord, it is to have your physical room reserved and personally prepared by the Son. Jesus is the way. Jesus is not only the map to the Father, but as our He...

For eternity, we will sing with praise, honor and adoration to the one who was slain and whose blood, an open torrent pouring from his veins, washed away the sin of NOT all people, but people for God (he had a purpose for them) and from every tribe, tongue and nation (Revelation 5:1-10). If this is something that will occupy our praise for eternity in Heaven, why is it so hard to accept with wonde...

The war for authority is a war of words. When we come to the Scriptures, we are hearing God speak, once through the prophets, but now through his Son!  God has gone to great lengths to make clear that new revelation would cease to come, not because revelation has ceased, not at all, but rather because God established a living foundation of revelation that the church is built upon... the prophets,...