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Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Jesus is beginning to lengthen the time horizon of His teaching. The fig tree is signaling that summer is near. A new day is dawning, which follows the patterns of the past. God is starting over with the righteous, after removing the unrighteous. Just like in past ages, Christ will return at the end of this age as well. The final "Day of the Lord" to come is like the "Days of the Lord" in the past...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

The fall of Jerusalem proves that Jesus is a true prophet, since His prophecy about the fall of the city came true. It demonstrates that He has power to avenge Himself against the powers that oppose Him. In Daniel the phrase "Son of Man" also has a corporate meaning (cf. Dan. 7:13-14, 18, 22). The Son of Man is identical to, or linked with, the saints of the most high, who also receive authority a...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Jeremiah closes his ministry by warning Jerusalem of her idolatry and abominable worship. Forty years later, the Babylonians came in and destroyed the city and the temple. The Greater Jeremiah closes His ministry by warning Jerusalem of her idolatry, abominable worship, and the way she spills the blood of God's holy messengers. Forty years later, the Romans came in and destroyed the city and the t...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Familiarity with Scripture reveals many rhythms and patterns. We see it when Christ retraces the steps of Israel. We see it when the prayers of the prophets go up to heaven, and heaven answers by throwing calamity back down to the earth. We see it when one world is destroyed, and another takes its place. We see it when empires rise up and are torn back down. We see it when God uses His enemies as...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Prophecy, history, and the heart of man are all in the hands of God's meticulous providence. We can see, together with many early Christians, how the redemptive history of Scripture, the decisions of the world's most powerful men, and the historical record are seamlessly woven together. Our Lord is in the heavens, and does all that He pleases (Psalm 115:3). Even when God vindicates the blood of th...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

There is a uniqueness to the time that Jesus Christ spent on earth. His life very literally the hinge of world history. As His earthly ministry draws to a close on Tuesday of Holy Week, the border between one age and another is becoming very thin. The generation that killed Jesus is going to continue carrying out their bloodlust on His messengers until their chalice is full. When their iniquity is...

One of the defining marks of the Christian is that they possess the Holy Spirit; that is, they participate in the fellowship that the Spirit creates. Because there is only one Spirit, true participation in Him will send us in the direction of sharing the same mind and the same love as other believers. Being of one mind does not mean unthinking conformity, nor does it allow for unthinking non-confo...

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