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 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)

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)

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, 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)

Honoring the Betrothed Heart and the Marriage Bed [2022.08.21 Evening Sermon in Exodus 22:16–17]

God, Who forbids the marriage bed outside of the marriage covenant, warns His people off of the marriage heart outside of betrothal by making its common consequence costly.

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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)

(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.