Showing posts with label God's Decree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Decree. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2024

What 'Thy Will Be Done' Means [Children's Catechism 115—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Children’s Catechism question 115—especially explaining how submission to God’s will includes submission both to His providence and to His commandments.

Q115. What do we pray for in the third petition? That men on earth may serve God as the angels do in heaven.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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Monday, November 20, 2023

God Purposes All Things for His Glory [Theology Simply Explained: Westminster Shorter Catechism 7]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 7—especially explaining how God purposes from all eternity, in Himself, for His glory, everything comes to pass—and how this is especially for our good.

Q7. What are the decrees of God? The decrees of God are His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of His will, whereby, for His own glory, He hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023

All Things Together for Glory [2023.09.27 Midweek Sermon in Romans 8:28–30]


God works all things according to the counsel of His will, which is determined to make us know God like Jesus knows Him and love God like Jesus loves Him.

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Monday, January 23, 2023

The Presence, Providence, and Purpose by Which the Lord Reassured His Servant [2023.01.22 Morning sermon in Acts 18:9–10]


The Lord sustained His servant by reassuring his apprehensions and restraining his enemies. Let all believers seek these things from the Lord, that they may be sustained in their callings!

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Have You Missed God's Best?: the Persistence of His Promises (2020.10.25 Morning Sermon in Genesis 35:9–15)



God's forgiveness in Christ means that the repenting believer can be sure not only of that forgiveness, but also of ongoing blessing and purpose in his earthly life, and perfect blessing and service in his eternal life.

Wednesday, October 07, 2020

(Family Worship in 1Sam 19) God Sovereign over Our Destinies and Enemies

Are you sure of God's ultimate purpose for every moment of your life? What is God doing, when someone powerful and evil is trying to harm you? Pastor leads his family in today's "Hopewell @Home" devotional. In these twenty-four verses, we learn that God is ruling and overruling all things for Christ's glory and believers' good—even and especially the actions of our most powerful and wicked enemies.

Thursday, September 10, 2020

The Confidence That We Have in Him and His Will (1John 5:14 Prayer Devotional)

Christian prayer is an exercise of confidence in Him that increases confidence in Him, because the One to Whom we pray works all things according to the will in which He is determined to give us everything, and especially to give us Himself.
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