The Sacraments of the New Testament (WSC 93; FC 126-127)
/There are two sacraments tied to the covenant of grace in each testament—one received at the beginning of life and one repeated throughout the life of the believer.
There are two sacraments tied to the covenant of grace in each testament—one received at the beginning of life and one repeated throughout the life of the believer.
The sacraments are something that God uses to benefit his people when they receive them with humility and faith, but that they are dangerous when we take them in the wrong way.
God has instituted two signs that he applies to his word and to his people to identify them as belonging to him and bearing his authority.
There is appropriate way for us to respond to the ministry of the word, without which we should not expect it to be effectual in our lives.
The way to spiritual health, like the way to physical health, is actually quite boring and ordinary, it consists in feeding on God’s word and making regular use of the things he has told us benefit us.
God commands us to forgive one another, which is a decision to leave justice to the Lord in light of the reality of your own sin and the mercy you have received.
Repentance is a true turning from sin, because it understands how heinous sin is and hates it (especially in light of the mercy of Christ) and leads to the blessing of forgiveness.
Repentance is a true turning from sin, because it understands how heinous sin is and hates it (especially in light of the mercy of Christ) and leads to the blessing of forgiveness.
Biblical, saving faith includes a belief in Christ (as he is revealed in Scripture) and an absolute trust in him to save you apart from your own obedience.
As God calls the elect to salvation, he not only uses internal/invisible means, but external/visible means as well and requires an internal and an external response by man in return.
Sin deserve physical, spiritual and eternal death precisely because it is against the Creator, the God of goodness and righteousness, by which all justice is measured.
Don Poundstone is a retired minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He joined us and taught Sunday School.
No man since the fall, even after he becomes a Christian, can stop sinning until he gets to heaven.
Coveting is, ultimately a dissatisfaction with God as your chief possession and an attempt to find your happiness in something else.
The ninth commandment requires us to speak the truth to those to whom it is due, when it is appropriate.
The eighth commandment calls us to champion the needs of others above our own and not to take that which we have not earned or have not been given.
The seventh commandment requires internal and external faithfulness in the marriage relationship as well as all other relationships, but most importantly between God and man.
The sixth commandment is a command to guard God’s justice and the protect the lives of the innocent.
The Fifth Commandment forbids us to take any authority that is not rightfully ours and points us to Jesus the truly obedient Son who earned eternal life for us.
The Fifth Commandment requires you honor all legitimate forms of authority because they are given by God to reflect his authority to us.
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