Second Street PCA

Romans 12: 1- 2 told us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Versus 3-8 tell us how we are to think about our spiritual gifts which are to be used building up of the church.

Pastor Rick Clayton. It's not the quality of our faith, but the object of our faith, Jesus Christ, which matters.

What does it take to not be confirmed to the pattern of this age?

The life of Christian belongs to Christ. Paul implores us to live lives of total submission. He does not call us to die for Him but to live for Him who has died for us.

Our theology should drive our doxology and our doxology should drive us to theology. The knowledge of God, in faith, drive us to praise. Knowledge without love is cold, dead religion. Love with our knowledge is idolatry. Both result in self-worship.

Anyone who is saved is saved by God's mercy alone. This should humble us and drive us to praise God.

The New Testament church is not a new creation out of nothing. The gentiles in the New Testament church, according to Romans 11:17, have been grafted into the Old Testament root. This Old Testament root (The Abrahamic promises) nourishes the New Testament church. Therefore, all the promises to spiritual Israel are either fulfilled in or still promised to the New Testament church. The warnings to f...

The privileges of being a Christian. Our close relationship to the Father. That it is possible for the believer to do works which are good in his sight.

Divine retributive justice and the grace of God.

The Christian is no longer under a covenant of works or law, but of grace in Jesus Christ. The law pointed to Jesus Christ. The law was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And now the law is written on the heart of the believer.

All have sinned and are fallen and yet all have grace available to them for whosoever shall call upon His name shall be saved. We must call upon Him with faith and know and trust that He is God.

A look at the sovereignty of God and the issue of election.

How the believer is to pursue righteousness without legalism and without pursuing in the flesh.

God's justice and mercy in the salvation of sinners and His justice in their condemnation.

God is sovereign over His mercy and yet He tells us where to go to get it.

Paul had great sorrow continual anguish of his heart over the lost over the Jews. We too should feel this great anguish over the lost. It should motivated us to greater worship and evangelism.

A brief explanation of paedobaptism. ("Abraham is not Moses" means that the Old Covenant is not the same thing as the Abrahamic Covenant and the Mosaic Covenant is different from the Abrahamic Covenant.)

God has loved His people and has predestined them to conformity to the likeness of Christ and to glorification. Once God has promised His love, nothing and no one can ever separate us from it. It is He who first loved us and will love us forever, and never will death do us part.

Paul continues to summarize what he has put forth in the first part of this letter, that man is falling but has a Savior in Jesus Christ. He puts forth four characteristics of Christ's work on the cross for the believer which should give us assurance of our salvation in Christ.

God did not spare His own Son for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Our salvation is secured by God in Christ.

Fore-loved to glorious conformity.

One of the most often quoted verses of the Bible. It teaches the omnipotence (all-powerfulness) of God over all things and His omnibenevolence (all-goodness) toward the believer. What is meant by "all things" and what is meant by "good"?

As finite creatures of God, even though regenerated by the Holy Spirit, we do not have infinite knowledge of God's purposes. Sometimes we don't know how to pray as we ought. It's during these times that the Holy Spirit is our helper in prayer.

The most important question of all, who was the baby in the manger? What was the incarnation?

The Bible does not sugarcoat suffering in this world. Christians are not excluded from the suffering. The entire creation groans waiting the future Redemption the sons of God, our glorification! How are we to deal with sufferings in this present time? By focusing on future glory!