Examination For Assurance

Filter Resources:

Examination For Assurance

The Lord's Day March 28th, 2004 1 John 5:13-21 Examination for Assurance If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 5. Today we come to the end of our study of 1 John. This is the epilogue of the book, from the 13th verse of this chapter to the end: John's final words, his parting words, an afterword to us in which he sums up some of the great emphases of this book. Now we've focused much on what John has said about three tests of genuine Christianity: a doctrinal test (what we believe about Jesus), a moral test (how we respond in obedience to God's word), a social or a relational test (how we love one another as Christians). We've seen John focus on mostly the doctrinal and the relational tests in chapter 5. He's repeated several…

Lord’s of Misrule: The Christian Experience of…

If you have Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 58, as we continue to work our way through the Second Book of the Psalms. David is still on the run, and David is reflecting on the injustice of those who are leaders, judges, rulers, people who are elders amongst the people of God, people who were to be administrators of justice, people who were to see that God's law was established and was administered rightly in the land–these very people David is commenting upon were actively engaged in wrongdoing against him and against his friends in this time. And so David is reflecting on that in this Psalm. He complains about it in the first half of the Psalm. You’ll see that in the first five verses, David's complaint. And then in verses 6-11 you will see David's…

Lord, Help Me.

If you have Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 54. We are continuing through the Second Book of the Psalms now on Wednesday evenings. We started last autumn working through the Second Book of the Psalms at Psalm 42, and we made our way through to Psalm 51, and then we took a break. And then we began again in January on Sunday evenings, and now this past Lord’s Day evening Derek has done the second of his messages on the gospel of Mark. And, Lord willing, we’ll continue through the gospel of Mark for the rest of the spring and into, perhaps, part of the summer. And so our study of the Psalms will move to Wednesday night and we are in the 54th Psalm. Now the last time we were together in this book we were looking at Psalm 52. Now just keep that in the back of your…

A Mediator with a Heart

Exodus 33:12-23A Mediator with a Heart If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 33, as we continue our study in the Old Testament. In the first eleven verses of this chapter, especially verse 3, the Lord says to Moses, “to go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst.” This summarizes the emphasis of Exodus 33:1-11, that God is assuring Moses and His people that He will refrain from immediately destroying them, that He will…

Pray Always

The Lord's Day November 24, 2002 Call to Worship O give thanks unto the Lord for He is good. His steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let us worship God. Prayer of Adoration and Invocation Our Lord and our God, when we contemplate the sin of this world, and we contemplate Your mercy to us in Jesus Christ, our hearts cry out, may Jesus Christ be praised. When we contemplate our own sin and what it deserves and how we ought to have been cast out and judged and…

A Call to Prayer

Romans 15:30-33 “A Call to Prayer” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan We come to the end of this great chapter and this section of the book of Romans, and in verses 30-33, what we find is a prayer request from Paul to the Roman Christians. And, as you know, Paul very frequently requests prayers in his letters. For instance, in Ephesians chapter six, verses 19 and 20, he’ll say to the Ephesians, “Pray on my behalf that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness…

God Remembered His Covenant

God Remembered His CovenantExodus 2:23-25 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 2, to the end of the chapter, beginning in verse 23. In Exodus, chapter 2, verses 23 through 25 we continue a story that we’ve been looking at for a number of weeks now. As we have looked at God’s dealings in the book of Exodus we come tonight to a very important passage, a passage that reveals the wise timing of God’s plan. It reveals to us the continuing burden of…

Paul’s Prayer Report

Romans 1:8-10 Paul’s Prayer Report If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 1 and we’ll look at verses 8 through 10. We began our study of this great gospel of Romans last week together, and even in Paul’s words of greetings we found that they were chock full of the gospel and chock full of significance. We saw the authority of Paul’s gospel, even as he introduces himself as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. We saw how radical the gospel itself is.…

The Fears of Jacob

Genesis 32:1-23The Fears of Jacob If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 32. When we were last together in our study of the life of Jacob, we had come to the end of Genesis 31. And we said there are at least four great scenes in Genesis 31. First of all in those first three verses you remember Jacob overhearing the complaints of Laban's other son, and then God actually coming to him and instructing him to leave from Paddan-aram and to make his way back…

Search the Site

Subscribe for Updates