Lifesaving Instruction [2024.12.18 Midweek Sermon in Proverbs 7]

To keep from self-destruction, we must internalize and apply biblical instruction

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Life-Saving Humility [2024.12.11 Midweek Sermon in Proverbs 6:20–35]

To live a holy, safe, blessed life, we urgently need humility!

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A Story of Sin and Grace [2024.10.20 Evening Sermon in Numbers 25]

God's grace isn't for those who are good, but for those whom He must save from wrath-deserving sin.

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A Climax of Sin, Wrath, and Grace [Family Worship lesson in Numbers 25]

What provokes and stops God’s wrath? Numbers 25 looks forward to the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these eighteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that sin provokes God’s wrath, but Christ turns it away.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Path and Pleasure that Divert from Death [2024.09.11 Midweek Sermon in Proverbs 2:10–22]

Apply your heart to wisdom, and come into the path and pleasure that God will use to deliver you from death

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Married for Life [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 5:15–20]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that marriage is like water for our spiritual life and must be kept pure.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Learning Purity from Marriage [Children's Catechism 96—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Children’s Catechism question 96—especially explaining how God’s greatest earthly gift shows us a great need for purity, which applies to all of His gifts.

Q96. What does the seventh commandment teach us? To be pure in heart, language, and conduct.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

A Deadly Serious Warning for Church Members [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 5:3–14]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these twelve verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the sin of sexual immorality easily ensnares church members, ruining their souls and generations of their household.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Married for the Lord (and Refusing to Divorce Against Him) [2024.01.28 Morning Sermon in Matthew 5:31–32]

Marriage is for Christ, so Christians mustn't end their marriages. A lesson in Jesus's hermeneutics, showing that God hates adultery and divorce because He loves godly marriage, godly seed, and the glory of His Son!

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Hearts and Hands in a Holy War for Heaven [2024.01.21 Morning Sermon in Matthew 5:27–30]

King Jesus requires our heart, eye, and hand. He is taking our whole self into the kingdom of heaven, and He enlists us in the war of preparing us to enter.

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Hearts, and Whole Self, for Heaven or Hell [Family Worship lesson in Matthew 5:27–30]

What does God want from us? Matthew 5:27–30 prepares us for the morning sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that believers owe the Lord their heart, their hand, and their everything, with which they hope to enter heaven.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Difference the Lord Makes [Family Worship lesson in Leviticus 18]

What is the first distinction between the people of the Lord and the people of the world? Leviticus 18 prepares us for the evening sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these thirty verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that one great difference between the people of the Lord and the people of the world is that the Lord’s people are committed to purity in nakedness and marriage.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained, WSC72—Guarding Against Undisciplined Desires or Pleasures, Especially Romance

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 72—especially explaining and applying how the seventh commandment forbids romantic thoughts or feelings that are not directed and disciplined by love for God and pleasure in God.

WSC72: What is forbidden in the seventh commandment? The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained, WSC71—Regulating and Renovating Pleasure by Pleasure in God

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 71—especially explaining and applying how finding our ultimate pleasure in God must limit, shape, and drive all of our other pleasures, especially our pleasure in the person of our spouse.

WSC71: Which is the seventh commandment? The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained, WSC70—Imaging and Enjoying God in Marriage and Pleasure

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 70—especially explaining and applying the progression from the guarding of the image of God in the sixth commandment to the imaging and enjoying of God in marriage in the seventh commandment.

WSC70: Which is the seventh commandment? The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Taking the Marriage Heart and the Marriage Bed Seriously like God Does [Family Worship lesson in Exodus 22:16–17]

How did God’s civil law for Israel emphasize the importance of keeping the seventh commandment? Exodus 22:16–17 looks forward to the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that God absolutely forbids sexual intercourse outside of marriage.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Honoring God's Creation, Honoring, and Blessing of Marriage (2022.06.19 Evening Sermon in Exodus 20:14)

The God Who created marriage has honored and blessed it, and so must we.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Honoring God's Creation, Honoring, and Blessing of Marriage (Family Worship lesson in Exodus 20:14)

What is the proper relationship of God’s provisions to the pleasures of those provisions? Exodus 20:14 looks forward to the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In this verse of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that God has made marriage, and other things, pleasurable in order that we might enjoy His goodness in what He has designed, and therefore forbids seeking the pleasure apart from or in contradiction to God’s design.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Four Benefits of a Wisdom-Penetrated Heart: Pleasure, Preservation, Protection, Prosperity (Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 2:10–22)

Pastor leads his family in a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these thirteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit persuades us to “install” wisdom into our hearts by laying before us four benefits of doing so: pleasure in knowing God that eviscerates the faux pleasures of sin, preservation of health and strength in the soul, protection against the enticements of sinners (and especially sexual sin, which assaults self and God), and prosperity of the infinite and eternal variety.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

(Family Worship in Ephesians 5:3–7) How Saints Battle Sexual Sin

What's the difference between believers and unbelievers, when it comes to sexual sin? What is an appropriate way to talk to your children about it? Pastor leads his family in tomorrow's "Hopewell @Home" passage. In these five verses, we learn that a believer's new nature is strengthened against sexual sin by thankfulness and weighty joy. A hearty keeping of the first and third commandments leads to a healthy keeping of the seventh.