Why We Need Another Adam [Family Worship lesson in Hosea 6:4–7:16]

What remedy is there for those who are like Adam? Hosea 6:4–7:16 looks forward to the hearing of God’s Word, publicly read, in the holy assembly on the coming Lord’s Day. In these twenty-four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that our own repenting is so riddled with sin like Adam, that our only hope is another Adam, the last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Law in the Covenant of Works [2024.09.01 Sabbath School in WCF19.1—Hopewell 101]

We continue to study the Scriptures behind the sound and sweet doctrine of our church's Confession of Faith. This week, we learned, from WCF 19.1, about how God gave the moral law in the covenant of works.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Demise of Our Chief End [Westminster Shorter Catechism 17—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 17—especially explaining how the sin and misery into which we fell is the opposite of glorifying God and enjoying God.

Q17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Fall as Covenant-Breaking [Westminster Shorter Catechism 15—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 15—especially explaining how complex were the sins involved in the fall, but that the fall itself came by the sin that broke the covenant of life.

Q15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The God Who Binds Himself to Creatures [Westminster Shorter Catechism 12—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 12—especially explaining how the Creator has stooped down, in infinite generosity, to covenant with creatures.

Q12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created? When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Holy Ever After [2023.05.31 Midweek Sermon in Romans 7:1–4]

Union with Christ releases us, by death, from being bound to sin and brings us to a forever-life of bearing fruit unto holiness for God.

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Holily (& Happily) Ever After [Family Worship lesson in Romans 7:1–4]

How can a man bear fruit unto God? Romans 7:1–4 looks forward to the sermon in the midweek meeting. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that for a sinner to be free to be married to the risen Christ, free to bear fruit unto God, he must die first to be released from his slave-marriage to sin; and, this can only happen through the body of Christ.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Three Ways the Last Adam's Benefits Are Infinitely Greater Than the First Adam's Detriments [Family Worship lesson in Romans 5:15–17]

How is the first Adam’s covenantal representation unlike the last Adam’s? Romans 5:15–17 looks forward to the sermon in this week’s midweek meeting. In these three verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the goodness, righteousness, and life of Jesus are infinitely greater for those who are in Him than the offense, condemnation, and death that were ours from the first Adam. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Assured by Sin and Death? [2023.02.08 Midweek Sermon in Romans 5:12–14]

One great reason that we sinned in Adam and died with Adam was so that we might learn about (and be sure of) our union with Christ, our actions in Him, and our benefits with/from Him.

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